Compress and convert images
A website demands under 500KB per image, email attachments top out at 20MB, a tender submission only accepts jpg — doing it one image at a time in an online tool is slow, and you never quite trust it with your originals.
How you probably do it today
Open a compressor site → upload → download → rename → next. Some want a login, some charge, some only take one file at a time.
Just say this
Compress every image in the "Photos" folder that's over 2MB down to under 500KB, and keep a copy of the originals.
Other common phrasings:
Convert every png in "Assets" to jpg at quality 85
Resize everything in "Product shots" to 1200 pixels wide, keeping the aspect ratio
Convert these images to webp into a new folder
What it will do
- Size up the job — how many images, roughly how much space they take
- Confirm the parameters — target size, format, where originals go
- Wait for your OK — nothing is processed until you approve
What you get
- Processed images in the folder you chose
- Originals kept by default, so you can compare or redo
- A summary: how many processed, and how each one shrank
Other things to ask for
- Scale by longest edge or width without distorting
- Convert to jpg / png / webp in bulk, or back again
- Only touch images above a certain size
- Sort results into subfolders by date or dimensions
What it cannot do
- It doesn't retouch. No watermark removal, skin smoothing, cut-outs or text overlays.
- It doesn't understand image content, so it can't pick by subject ("the ones with people").
- Compression costs some quality by definition — keep the originals for print work, don't use the compressed copies.