Compress images for email

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Compress images for email

This page opens Pocketsize with the destination set to “email” — a plan sized for what email actually needs: pictures big enough to look right on any screen the message is read on, small enough that a few of them do not bounce off an attachment limit.

Drop the photos, and each one is compressed to that plan and measured against its original. Several at once become a zip, and the zip carries a written report of what happened to every file — sizes in and out, the measured score, and whether pixels were removed — which is worth keeping when the pictures matter.

Your pictures never leave your computer: the compression runs in your browser, on your own device, and you can verify that yourself in about a minute. After one visit it even works with no internet at all.

This page is Pocketsize with the plan pre-set for one job. Nothing is locked — change any control once it is open.

What size should photos be for email?

The email plan's answer is on screen in the plan panel — a pixel cap that reads well everywhere without carrying camera resolution nobody will see. You can change it before or after compressing.

My mail provider caps attachments at 25 MB — will this help?

Dramatically, in most cases: full-resolution photos are usually a few hundred kilobytes after compression. You can also set an exact per-file size cap under More choices.

Can I send the originals' quality proof along?

Yes — the zip's written report lists every file's before and after size and its measured visual-match score.

Pocketsize

Every picture is saved several ways, measured against the original, and the smallest one that still looks right is kept. Nothing ever leaves your computer — after one visit, it even works offline.

Spacehold to flick between before and after — the fastest way to spot a difference
Ddifference heatmap
Ffocus mode — just the comparison
Escleave focus mode
↑↓move through the pictures
Deleteremove the selected picture
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