How To Decrease The Image Size Without Any Reduction In The Image Quality

Product photos are very essential for the brand as well as the consumers since they portray the quality and visuals of the product without any hands on experience. But what many website owners do not know is that even pictures have to be optimized for the best viewing experience on their own website, the search engine or on any third party service like Pinterest.

If the picture size is too large, then the load times for the consumer is greatly increased and the bouncer prices naturally shoot up. If the image size is too low, then the picture quality decreases which will result in the consumer losing interest in the product. That is why it is very essential in keeping the image size low while preserving the image quality.

So how do you do it?

First, there is Photoshop which will allow user to manipulate the quality to a great level. This is generally used by experts who care about the tiniest detail in their photograph. This ability can be learned from YouTube or by googling about image reduction in Photoshop.

Then, there is the easy way where the results are so impressive that even the professionals cannot identify if the photography has been edited by a human or an algorithm.

Cost free web tools have become popular these days for image editing as well as size reduction. These include pixlr and canva. Top quality results free of charge.

There are also web tools that offer automate image quality retention while reducing the file size. Tinyjpg, imageoptim and bulkweb resizer that can do the work for you. But these service will charge a monthly free of around $10 for optimizing 1000 images.

There are also tool that are a standalone application such as kraken and pngquant that will get the job done for that amateur photographer looking to reduce the size of the image.