Prepare photos for a website
Phone and camera photos are far bigger than a web page needs. This tutorial shrinks a batch of photos for a website in two steps.
Shrink the batch
- Resize the batch. Open Resize, choose Longest side under Resize by, and enter a size such as 1600. This handles portrait and landscape photos alike. Add your photos and download the results as a ZIP, then unzip it. See Resize images.
- Convert to WebP. Open Convert, choose JPG to WebP, and add the resized photos. WebP stores a photo in less space than a JPG at similar quality. See Convert images between formats.
- Download the result. Click Download all (ZIP) and upload the files to your site.
Check the result
- Open a few of the final images at full size and look at faces and text.
- Keep your original photos somewhere safe. The processed files have less detail and no location data.
- Keep a JPG copy for email attachments and print shops, since some older programs cannot open WebP.
Note
Need several sizes of each photo, such as a thumbnail and a banner? Use Make several sizes from one image and give each row its own format.