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Compress JPEG to 1 MB
Enough room to keep the picture. Done on your device, not ours.
More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.Add to Chrome
How to convert Compress JPEG to 1 MB
- Drop the photo, or choose it from your device.
- Press Compress — the target is already 1 MB.
- Download the file, now under the limit.
What happens to your file
A megabyte is a generous budget for one photograph: most pictures reach it with a quality drop nobody can see, and keep every pixel of their resolution.
A JPG, PNG or WebP is decoded and re-encoded in your browser. The search stops at the first quality that fits, so nothing is thrown away that did not need to be.
Camera metadata — the model, the timestamp, the GPS coordinates — does not survive the re-encode. For an upload that is usually a feature.
HEIC, TIFF and AVIF take the cloud path on this same page, through the same search.
Questions
Will I see the difference at 1 MB?
On a normal photograph, almost never. A megabyte is roughly what a phone camera produces at high quality already, so most files only need a small step down.
My phone photo is 5 MB — is that normal?
Yes. Modern phone sensors produce 8 to 12 megapixels of detail per shot, and an unedited JPEG holds all of it. Most upload forms want a fraction of that.
Does the photo stay the same size on screen?
Yes, unless a megabyte turns out to be impossible at full resolution — then the dimensions step down and the result says by how much.
Do it once, not on every form
A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "image.convert",
"options": {
"target_bytes": 1048576
}
}'The same operation, image.convert — Re-encode to WebP, JPEG, PNG or AVIF at your quality. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.