Compress Mobile Photos Before Uploading
How to prepare smartphone photos for blogs, stores, forms, and messages without installing a separate app.
Modern smartphone photos are often several megabytes each. Uploading originals directly to a blog, store, or form can slow the page and waste mobile data. Compressing before upload is a simple way to avoid that problem.
First decide what the image is for. Keep the original for personal storage, then create a separate web-ready copy for publishing. Many web images do not need the full camera resolution.
Start around quality 70 to 80. Use a higher value for food, portraits, and products where texture and color matter, and use a lower value for simple reference photos or temporary sharing.
Browser-based compression is convenient because it does not require an app install. Very large batches may still take time on older phones, so process the most important images first or split the batch into smaller groups.
- Keep original photos separate from upload copies.
- Resize images to the size they will actually be displayed.
- Start with quality 70 to 80.
- Split very large batches on older phones.
- Check the uploaded page on mobile.