Compress a JPG to Fit the Maximum
Some uploads fail for the opposite reason: the picture is heavier than the ceiling the portal allows. Set the maximum here and the file is re-encoded until it lands just under it.
Drag & drop your image here
JPG, PNG or WebP — up to 20MB
Your images never leave your device
Why a modern phone photo is too heavy
A photo straight from a recent Android or iPhone camera lands somewhere between two and eight megabytes. An admit-card portal built to hold thousands of applicant records is often capped at a few hundred kilobytes per file. Nothing is wrong with the picture — it simply carries far more data than the system was designed to store.
Lowering the JPEG quality setting is what closes that gap. The pixel grid stays where it is and the encoder is told to describe it with fewer bytes. At the levels needed for a 200KB ceiling the difference is not visible on a printed admit card.
Read the error message carefully
Portals rarely say which direction the problem runs. "Invalid file size" can mean too big or too small, so check the notification against the figure your phone reports before choosing a direction. If yours is under the floor rather than over the roof, go back to the JPG size increaser instead, or work in kilobytes with the KB increaser.
Frequently asked questions
- How far under the limit should I aim?
- Aim a few kilobytes below the stated ceiling. Some portals count the encoded upload rather than the raw file, so a 200KB cap is safest met at around 190KB.
- Does compressing blur my face in the photo?
- Mild compression is invisible at normal viewing size. It only becomes obvious when a large photo is squeezed into a very small ceiling, such as a 3MB scan forced under 20KB.
- My file is above the maximum and below the minimum at once. What now?
- That means the range is narrow rather than impossible. Compress first to land inside the window, and if you overshoot downward, raise it again with the size increaser.
- Can I compress a PNG or WEBP here?
- Yes. Both are re-encoded as JPG on the way out, which is normally what an application portal wants and is also what makes the file small enough to pass.