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Compress JPEG to 50 KB
Small enough for a recruitment portal, big enough to still look like you.
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How to convert Compress JPEG to 50 KB
- Drop the photo, or choose it from your device.
- Press Compress — the target is already 50 KB.
- Download the file, now under the limit.
What happens to your file
Fifty kilobytes is the banking and insurance recruitment number: the portals that ask for a photograph a couple of hundred pixels wide tend to cap it here. It is tight, but it is not punishing in the way 20 KB is.
A JPG, PNG or WebP never leaves your device. The browser decodes it and a bounded search lowers the encoder quality — at most six probes — until the file fits.
For a headshot already cropped to portal dimensions, quality alone usually gets there and the pixels are left alone. For a full-resolution phone photograph the dimensions are stepped down too, and the result says so.
If you have both a photograph and a signature to upload, do the signature separately: ink on white paper compresses so well that it will reach a far smaller size without losing anything.
Questions
Will the photo still look sharp at 50 KB?
At the size these forms display it — a headshot a few hundred pixels across — yes. Compression shows first in flat areas like a plain background, which is exactly what these photographs are supposed to have.
Why 50 KB specifically?
It is the cap most Indian banking recruitment portals set for the candidate photograph, usually alongside a fixed pixel size such as 200 × 230 or 240 × 320. The two rules travel together.
Can I use this for a passport or visa photo?
Only if that is the size the portal asked for. Visa photographs usually have their own pixel rule as well — the US visa upload wants a square between 600 × 600 and 1200 × 1200 under 240 KB — so use the page for that document instead.
Is it really not uploaded?
For JPG, PNG and WebP, correct — the page works with your network unplugged. The privacy sweep in our test suite asserts that no host is contacted.
What if my photo is already under 50 KB?
You get it back unchanged, and the page says so. Compressing an already-small file again only throws away detail you still had.
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": 51200
}
}'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.