How to compress image to 100 KB
- Tap Choose a photo and pick the image you need under the limit.
- The target is already 100 KB. Tap Compress to 100 KB.
- Compare the result against the original, then save it.
At 100 KB you should not be able to tell
For a single subject on a plain background — which is what almost every form wants — a hundred kilobytes is more than enough for the result to be indistinguishable from the original at the size anyone will view it. The tool aims high on purpose: it looks for the largest file that still fits rather than the smallest one it can produce, because you are not being rewarded for coming in at 40 KB.
The pictures that struggle are the ones with detail everywhere: a crowd, a landscape full of leaves, a scanned page of small print. Those may need their pixels reduced as well, and the tool says so rather than quietly doing it.
Uploading a document scan instead of a photograph
Scans of certificates and mark sheets behave differently from photographs. What matters is whether the text is still readable, not whether the paper looks smooth, and text survives compression badly — the letters get fringed before anything else does. If the words start to blur, reduce the pixel size a little rather than squeezing harder, and check the result at full zoom before you upload it.