Compress an image to 2 MB
For bringing very large camera or scanner files down to a manageable size.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
Download
Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP.
2 MB is usually only a concern for very high-resolution camera photos, large scans, or screenshots from high-DPI displays. This target keeps virtually all of the original quality while trimming off the excess that a huge file carries but a screen or printed page rarely needs.
If the photo came straight from a modern phone or camera, it may already be several times larger than 2 MB; this tool handles that automatically, searching for the best quality that still lands under the target without any manual guesswork.
Even a large original travels over an encrypted connection to our own servers; we do not keep it, and the compressed result is deleted within one hour. If your photo already looks fine and only needs trimming from, say, 8 MB down to 2 MB, a high quality setting such as 90 usually gets there with no visible change at all. Camera settings and location are removed along the way unless you ask to keep them, which is usually what you want before sharing a photo publicly.
Where a 2 MB cap usually comes from
Two megabytes is a popular default in software that accepts uploads. Content management systems, help-desk and ticketing tools, learning platforms, classified-ad sites and company intranets often ship with a limit of this order, and the administrator never changes it. The cap protects their storage, and it has nothing to do with how your picture looks. A file that arrives at 1.9 MB is treated exactly like one at 300 KB, so there is no reason to compress harder than the rule requires.
Full-resolution camera files under 2 MB
A 24-megapixel JPEG straight from a camera weighs 8 to 15 MB, mostly because cameras save at a very high quality to leave room for editing. Re-encoded for viewing, the same frame fits in 2 MB at a setting around 70 with every pixel still there. A 45- or 50-megapixel file is a different case: 2 MB leaves it about a third of a bit per pixel and fine texture starts to smear. Reduce such a file to 6000 pixels on the long side first. Nothing viewed on a screen will show the difference.
Large scans: resolution is the first thing to cut
An A4 page scanned at 600 dots per inch is 4960 by 7016 pixels, nearly 35 megapixels, and most of that is wasted on text that reads perfectly at half the resolution. Set Resize to 50 percent and the page becomes a 300 dpi scan with a quarter of the pixels, which fits in 2 MB as a crisp PNG or WebP.
One limit to know about: uploads stop at 50 megapixels. An A3 sheet at 600 dpi is larger than that and will be refused, so scan it at 300.
Frequently asked questions
Why would I need to go under 2 MB?
Many upload forms, galleries and chat apps cap attachments well below what modern cameras produce.
Will a 2 MB target lose much quality?
Usually very little; 2 MB is a generous size for almost any photo.
Does this work on scanned documents too?
Yes, though a text scan usually compresses smaller as PNG than JPEG.
What's the difference between quality mode and target mode here?
Quality mode lets you pick the compression level directly; target mode searches for the quality that reaches 2 MB.
Can I upload a file that is far bigger than 2 MB?
Yes, that is the point of the page. Without an account each file may be up to 20 MB. With Pro the ceiling is 200 MB a file.
How long does a very large photo take?
A target-size search encodes the picture several times, so a 20 MB photo needs a few seconds on our side plus the time your connection takes to upload it. The time spent processing is shown with the result.