Visa photos: 200KB leaves a safe margin
The U.S. visa application asks for a digital photo that is a square JPEG of 600 × 600 pixels and no larger than 240 kB. Compressing to 200KB leaves a comfortable margin under that limit, and at 600 × 600 pixels a portrait fits easily at high quality.
Size the photo first: crop it to a square with the face centered and resize it to 600 × 600 with the image resizer, then compress it here. Check the current rules for your visa before uploading, because each country sets its own photo requirements and they change from time to time.
How to compress an image to 200KB
Drop one or more images on this page; the 200KB target is already selected. Photos are compressed as JPG at the highest quality that fits, PNG screenshots keep their format with fewer colors, and iPhone HEIC photos are converted to JPG along the way.
The result line shows the final size, plus the new width and height if the image had to be scaled down. Use Compare to check detail in faces and small text, then download each file or all of them together. To compress image to 200KB for a visa photo, resize it to 600 × 600 pixels first.
How much detail survives at 200KB
In our tests, a 2400 × 1602 landscape photo compressed to 200KB came out at 1936 × 1292 pixels and 194 KB, and a large portrait at 1659 × 2489 pixels. That is sharp on a laptop screen, fine for a full-width web image, and good enough for a small print.
Most phone photos shrink by 90 percent or more to reach this size. The biggest losses happen in fine texture, such as grass or hair, while faces, buildings and text keep their look.
Job and university portals
Application portals often accept photos and scanned documents up to 200KB, sometimes with a separate, smaller limit for signatures. Read the instructions for each field; a portal may ask for a photo under 200KB but a signature under 20KB or 50KB, which the other presets on this site handle.
For scanned certificates and marksheets, crop away empty margins and scan at 150 to 200 dpi. A clean A4 scan usually fits under 200KB as a JPG while its text stays readable, and Compare lets you confirm the small print before you submit.
Images for your website
On a web page, 200KB is a reasonable ceiling for a large hero image or a full-width photo, and smaller images should stay well below it. Heavy images slow down the first view of a page, particularly on mobile data, so compressing before you upload to a CMS or an online shop pays off on every visit.
If your site supports WebP, choose it under Save as: at the same 200KB, WebP keeps noticeably more pixels than JPG. Keep a full-quality original of every image, so you can export a new version later instead of compressing an already compressed file.
How large a 200KB photo prints
Printing needs pixels rather than kilobytes. The landscape from our test came out at 1936 × 1292 pixels, which is about 6.5 × 4.3 inches at 300 pixels per inch, the usual target for photos viewed up close, or roughly 9.7 × 6.5 inches at 200 pixels per inch.
For a larger print, send the original photo to the print shop instead of the compressed copy. Keep 200KB versions for uploads, sharing and the web, where they look just as sharp as the full-size file.
Screenshots and graphics under 200KB
Screenshots are often saved as PNG and can be several megabytes on large, high-resolution displays. Keep Same format and the compressor reduces a PNG to a palette of up to 256 colors, which keeps text crisp; in our tests a dashboard screenshot shrank from 236 KB to 37 KB that way.
Only when fewer colors are not enough does the tool scale a screenshot down, and the result line tells you the new size. For photos saved as PNG, switching to JPG usually keeps far more pixels within 200KB.
Compressing many images to 200KB
Drop up to 100 images at once and each is fitted under 200KB with the same settings. Files that are already smaller stay exactly as they were, so a mixed folder can go through in one pass without making anything worse.
Download the results one by one, or press Download all to save a single ZIP with the original file names, ready to upload to a portal or a website.
Choosing a different target
If a form sets a lower limit, pick a smaller preset such as 100KB or 50KB, or type any size in kilobytes. If you just want smaller files without a hard limit, switch to Quality mode instead and choose how much to compress.
When the result is smaller than a form’s minimum, the image has too few pixels; resize it larger first, then compress to the target again.
Private, free and without metadata
All compression happens in your browser, so passport photos, certificates and personal pictures are never uploaded. There is no account, no watermark and no limit on how often you use it.
Compressed copies are saved without EXIF data, so a visa or profile photo does not carry your phone model or the place where it was taken.