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Image Resizer

Shrink photos to the size they will actually be displayed at.

Every tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server.

Resizing changes an image’s pixel dimensions. It is the most effective way to reduce file size, because size scales with pixel count — halving the dimensions removes about three quarters of the data.

How to use Image Resizer

  1. Add your images. Drag in as many as you like; they are all resized to the same rule.
  2. Set the longest edge. 1600 px suits most web use; 2048 for anything that might be printed small.
  3. Resize and save. Aspect ratio is preserved automatically, so nothing is stretched.

About resizing images

Resizing is the single most effective thing you can do to an image, and it is consistently the step people skip because "compress" sounds like the operation that reduces size. File size scales roughly with the number of pixels, so an image at half the width and half the height contains a quarter of the data. A phone photograph is commonly 4,000 pixels wide and is very often displayed at 800, meaning around 96 percent of what was downloaded was discarded by the browser before anything appeared on screen. The rule worth remembering is to target about twice the display size. High-density screens address two physical pixels for each CSS pixel, so an image shown at 800 wide looks noticeably sharper at 1600 than at 800, and no better at all at 3200. Beyond that the extra data is pure waste. Enlarging is a separate matter and is genuinely not possible in any meaningful sense — upscaling interpolates between existing pixels, producing a larger, softer image with no additional detail, which is why the option is absent here rather than merely discouraged. Where an image is too small, the fix is a better original.

Frequently asked questions

Why resize instead of just compressing?
Because file size scales with pixel count, not with the quality slider. Halving the dimensions cuts about three quarters of the data with no visible loss at the displayed size, while dropping quality from 90 to 70 saves a third and introduces visible artefacts.
Will it stretch or crop my image?
Neither. The longest edge is set to your target and the other dimension follows proportionally, so the aspect ratio is preserved exactly. Nothing is cropped and nothing is distorted.
Can I make an image bigger?
No, deliberately. Enlarging cannot add detail that was never captured — it interpolates, producing a larger file that looks softer. If an image is too small for its purpose, the answer is a better source rather than a bigger copy of the same one.
What size should images be for a website?
Roughly twice the display size, to look sharp on a high-density screen. A photo shown at 800 pixels wide wants a 1600 pixel file. Anything beyond that is bytes the visitor downloads and never sees.

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