Compress image to 300 KB

UPSC asks for a photo and signature between 20 and 300 KB; many corporate HR portals use a similar cap. At 300 KB the tool can usually keep a photo at 1600 px or more with high JPEG quality, so nothing looks compressed. Set Min (KB) to 20 under More options when a minimum applies.

At 300 KB you can expect about 1600 to 1800 px on the long side. The exact number depends on how much fine detail the image has: skies and plain walls compress well, foliage and fabric don't.

1. Drop or paste the image. Nothing is uploaded; the work happens in your browser, even offline.
2. The tool encodes the image as JPEG at several quality levels and keeps the one that lands just under 300 KB.
3. If even the lowest acceptable quality is too big, it reduces the pixels a little and tries again, so the result is the largest image that fits.
4. Download the file, or share it straight into WhatsApp or the form on a phone.

Every result shows the final size and pixel dimensions before you download. Need a fixed pixel size too? Set Resize to Exact size (crop) and type the width and height.

This limit is common for UPSC and other applications with a 20–300 KB range, company portals and press kits. If the portal also lists a minimum size (for example "20 KB to 50 KB"), open More options and fill in Min (KB): the tool pads the JPEG so it is never rejected for being too small, without touching the pixels.