Make a photo smaller without making it blurry
"Blurry after compression" almost always comes from two things: aggressive quality settings (below 70%) or a low-quality resize algorithm. Fix both and you can shrink a photo dramatically with no visible change on a normal screen.
For anyone who compressed a photo in the wrong tool, got mushy results, and wants to try again with settings that actually keep things sharp.
Uses high-quality bicubic resampling and a target-size mode that keeps quality as high as possible for the size you ask for.
Step-by-step
- Open the image compressor above.
- Drop your photo in.
- Choose a target size (e.g. 1 MB) or a target quality (85–90% is the sweet spot for photos).
- If you need smaller pixel dimensions, use the resize slider — it uses high-quality bicubic resampling which does not blur edges the way a screenshot or a phone screenshot would.
- Download and compare with the original. On any normal screen you shouldn't be able to tell them apart.
Common mistakes to avoid
- •Screenshotting a photo to shrink it. A screenshot forces the image through your display's resampler, which is usually low quality — that's where most "blurry" complaints start.
- •Setting quality to 50% or below on a JPG. That is real information loss and can't be undone.
- •Resizing up (2000×1500 → 3000×2250). That only adds fake pixels — it never makes a photo sharper.
- •Compressing twice. Every re-save of a JPG loses a little quality — start from the original when you can.
For sharpness, JPG at 85–90% or WEBP at 80–85% both produce photos that are indistinguishable from the original on screen. PNG doesn't lose quality but is usually much bigger.
All compression and resizing happens in your browser via the Canvas API. Your photo is never uploaded.