You can compress your images, change your image resolution, or remove the metadata from your images to reduce the file size.
Compress the Image Size with Online Tools
There are several online tools that you can use to reduce the file size of your images. You don’t need to install anything on your PC to use these tools. They work on your web browser.
1. Use TinyPNG to Compress Images
TinyPNG (free) is one of the popular web-based tools to compress images. With this tool, you just need to upload your images and the tool compresses those images for you. You can compress a single as well as multiple images at once with this tool. Although the site name mentions PNG, the site works for JPG images, too.
2. Use Image Smaller to Reduce the Image File Size
Image Smaller (free) is another site that allows you to reduce the size of your images on the web. This site supports several image formats, including JPG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF. You can upload images up to 50MB in size. The download page shows your image’s original as well as compressed size. This way you know how much your image has been compressed.
3. Use Kraken to Reduce the Picture File Size
Most Kraken services are paid, but you can use its image resizer with certain settings for free. These free settings are good enough to reduce the size of your images without any issues. To use Kraken to compress images:
Change the Image Resolution to Reduce the Image Size
Another way to reduce your image’s size is to change the image’s resolution. This can have an impact on the quality of the image. On Windows 10, there are multiple ways to change an image’s resolution.
1. Use Paint to Change an Image’s Resolution
You can use Windows 10’s built-in Paint app to change the resolution of your images. This way, you don’t need to download or install any third-party apps on your PC.
2. Use Shutterstock to Reduce an Image’s Size
Shutterstock is known for its stock photos repository. Besides offering thousands of stock photos, the site offers an online image resizer (free), too. You can use this online tool to change the resolution of your images, making your images smaller in terms of file sizes.
Use Adobe Photoshop to Compress an Image
If you use Adobe Photoshop on your computer, there’s an option in this program that lets you selectively reduce the size of your images. You have multiple quality and file size options to choose from with Photoshop.
Remove Image’s Metadata to Reduce the File Size
Many of your images have certain information saved in them. This information is called metadata and this usually includes details like the name of the camera that was used to capture the image, various camera settings when the photo was captured, and so on. If you don’t intend to use this information, you can remove this information which will reduce the file size of your image. Note that you won’t see a significant difference in your image’s file size, as the metadata usually doesn’t use too much space. With various methods outlined above, you can quickly and easily reduce the file size of any of your images. You can either use web-based tools if you don’t like installing apps, or use installable programs to compress your images.
