blaircox.com

Image prep

Drop in huge photos, get web ready sizes back. Nothing leaves your browser.

Drag photos here, or use the button. Up to ten at a time.

JPEG, PNG and WebP.

Sizes to make

Quality and formats

Sixty is small and soft, ninety is large and crisp.

Everything happens in your browser. Your photos never leave this page.

What this does

A photo straight off a phone or a camera is often four thousand pixels wide and several megabytes heavy. Put that on a web page and every visitor downloads all of it, then their browser shrinks it to fit. On a phone on cellular data that is the difference between a page that opens and a page that gets abandoned.

This tool reads your photo, turns it the right way up using the orientation the camera recorded, and writes it out at the widths a website actually uses. It never enlarges a photo, because enlarging cannot add detail that was never captured. The work happens on your own machine, so nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored.

Questions people ask

Is anything uploaded?
No. Your browser does the resizing and the compression on your own machine. Nothing is sent to a server, and the tool works with the network switched off.
Why WebP?
It is smaller at the same quality than JPEG, and every modern browser reads it. If you need a file for an older system, turn on the JPEG copies as well.
What sizes should I use?
The three presets cover hero images across the top of a page, photos inside the page, and thumbnails in a list. Most small business sites never need anything wider.

I do the full human version of this for a handful of businesses. Ask me.