Compress an image to 2 MB

Drop it here and the tool re-encodes it at progressively lower quality until it lands under 2048 KB, then stops. If your image is very large in pixel terms, reduce its dimensions first: quality alone cannot always reach a small target on a big image without visible damage.

JPEG and WebP compression is lossy, so yes, some detail is discarded. Between roughly 75 and 85 percent quality the loss is invisible at normal viewing size while the file is often a quarter of the original. Below 60 percent you start to see blocking around edges and in flat areas like skies. PNG compression is lossless and will not change a single pixel, but it will not shrink a photograph much either.

Set a target and the tool searches for the quality setting that lands just under it, re-encoding a handful of times until it fits. That is why a target takes a moment longer than a fixed quality. If the target is very small for the dimensions, reduce the pixel dimensions first: there is a floor below which no quality setting can go without the image falling apart.

WebP is typically 25 to 35 percent smaller than JPEG at matching quality and is supported everywhere that matters. AVIF is smaller again but slower to encode. Use JPEG when something old has to open the file, PNG only when you need transparency or pixel-exact graphics.

No. Image Compressor runs entirely inside your browser using the Canvas API. The file is read from your device, processed on your device, and the result is handed straight back to you. It never travels to a server, so there is nothing for us to store, log or leak.