The job every "free image compressor" wants your photos uploaded for. Drop in any number of pictures, choose a longest side, a format and a quality, and get them back smaller, one by one or as a zip. The browser does the decoding and the encoding itself, so the result carries no metadata at all: no location, no camera, no time. Nothing leaves this tab.
JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP. Drop them, choose them, or paste a screenshot from the clipboard.
It re-encodes the picture. The browser decodes the image and encodes a new one at the size and quality you chose. A photo typically comes out a third to a tenth of its size at 1920 pixels and 82% with no visible difference on a screen.
The output carries no metadata. A canvas has no location, camera, serial number or timestamp to write, so the result has none. This is the same effect CLOAK gives you, as a side effect of the resize.
Sideways photos come out upright. The orientation flag a phone writes is applied before the pixels are drawn, so the picture you see is the picture you get.
It cannot read HEIC, and it flattens animations. A browser cannot decode an iPhone's HEIC file; export it as JPEG from Photos first. A GIF or animated WebP becomes its first frame.
Nothing leaves this tab. Decoding, drawing and encoding all happen in browser memory. With a folder connected, the results are filed under Sovereign Suite/SHRINK.
For anything that will be looked at on a screen, 1920 on the longest side is plenty and 1280 is fine for a chat or a listing. For print at 300 dpi, keep the size and only change the quality. A page on a website rarely needs more than 1600.
82% is the point where a JPEG has lost almost nothing you can see and most of its bytes. Below 60% the loss starts to show on skies and skin. PNG has no quality setting: it is exact, which is right for screenshots and wrong for photos.
No. Open the network tab in your browser's developer tools and watch nothing go out while you shrink a hundred photos.
No. It can only take pixels away. A picture that is already small stays small, and enlarging it would only blur it, so it never enlarges.