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Compress a photo to 2 MB online — free, in your browser

Bring a heavy camera or phone photo under 2 MB without changing how it looks. Free, and the file never leaves your browser.

No sign-up · no watermarks · your photo stays in your browser

01How it works

A heavy photo, under the portal’s limit

Compress a photo to 2 MB online. At this size lowering the JPEG quality is enough, so the picture keeps its pixels and simply gets lighter.

  1. 01

    Upload the photo straight from the camera or the phone.

  2. 02

    The tool lowers the JPEG quality until the file drops under 2 MB.

  3. 03

    Download the result — the picture looks the same, the file is lighter.

02Limit

Where a 2 MB limit comes from

We list a portal here only when its own published requirements state the size. None of the authorities we track sets 2 MB, so this page names none of them: it is a general-purpose target for forms that ask for it.

03Price

Compressing is free. A document photo — by the AI

Free, right here

  • 01Everything right in your browser
  • 02No watermarks
  • 03The photo stays on your device
  • 04As many times as you like

No sign-up, no card.

AI correction

When adjusting the file is not enough: fixes light, shadows, clothing and pose and makes the photo to the document’s rules. You see the result before paying.

€5.99per photo, one-off, no subscription

If it’s rejected, we refund you

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04Questions

Frequently asked questions about document photos

Who asks for a photo under 2 MB?

Two megabytes is a common ceiling on ordinary upload forms rather than a photo standard, so the wording differs from one form to the next. Take the number from the form in front of you — this page makes no claim about any particular authority.

Will the photo lose anything at 2 MB?

Very little. A photo straight out of a camera usually carries megabytes of JPEG headroom the eye never sees, and that is what goes first. The tool stops the moment the file fits.

Does the tool shrink the pixel size too?

Almost never at this target — lowering the quality alone reaches 2 MB for a normal photo. Very large images are first scaled to about 12 megapixels, because browsers cannot reliably process more than that on one canvas.