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Compress Images on Your Mac

Compress Images reduces the file size of your photos so they are easier to email, upload or store. Pick a quality level, keep the original format or save as JPEG or HEIC, and process a whole batch at once. Everything runs on your Mac.

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The Images category in Toolbox for Mac, with Blur Faces, Beautify Screenshot, Remove Background, Convert Images, Compress Images, Resize Images, Rotate Images and Remove Metadata.The Images category in Toolbox for Mac, with Blur Faces, Beautify Screenshot, Remove Background, Convert Images, Compress Images, Resize Images, Rotate Images and Remove Metadata.

How to use Compress Images

  1. Open Compress Images and drop your photos.

  2. Choose a quality: Low, Medium or High.

  3. Pick Keep Format, JPEG or HEIC, and choose whether to keep metadata.

  4. Click Compress. Smaller copies are saved to a dated folder in Downloads.

Questions about Compress Images

How do I reduce the file size of a photo on Mac?

Drop the photo into Compress Images and click Compress. Medium is a good balance of size and quality; Low gives the smallest files for sharing and the web.

Will compressed photos look worse?

High is meant to look the same as the original with smaller savings. Low trades some detail for much smaller files.

Is HEIC smaller than JPEG?

Usually, at similar quality. Choose HEIC as the format if the photos will be viewed on Apple devices; choose JPEG if they need to open everywhere.

Can I also make the images smaller in pixels?

Compress Images keeps the dimensions. To change width and height, use Resize Images first.

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