Low Quality Image Maker
Make a picture worse on purpose — lower the quality, throw pixels away, save it over and over. The file is written as you drag, so what you see is what downloads. No upload, no watermark.
How it works
How to reduce image quality?
Open your picture
Drag in a JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, AVIF or BMP. It is read straight off your device — there is no upload bar and no file-size ceiling, and the photo never leaves your browser.
Pull the quality down
Move the quality slider and watch the picture change. Around 60 goes soft, 25 shows the blocking everyone recognises as a low-quality image, and under 10 it breaks into squares.
Throw pixels away too
The quality slider never changes the pixel grid. Drop the resolution to draw the photo small and blow it back up — blocky or blurred — for the properly low-res look, or leave it small for a smaller file.
Download the result
What is on screen is the finished file, with its real size shown next to the original. Download it as JPG or WebP at any moment — no watermark, no account, no queue.
Spec sheet
Features
A quality slider from 100 down to 1
The encoder setting itself, not a filter that imitates it. Every step is a real re-encode, so what you are looking at is the compression you are about to save.
A real low-res round trip
Draw the picture at 4–100% of its size and blow it back up to the original dimensions — hard blocky pixels, or the soft blur a re-uploaded photo comes back as.
Re-saves that actually stack
Up to ten passes, each nudged half a pixel off the encoder’s block grid first — which is why a screenshot of a screenshot falls apart, and why a plain re-save does not.
The deep-fried look
Saturation and contrast pushed up before the file is written, so the encoder has loud colours to mangle. One preset takes a photo all the way to meme.
Actual-pixels view
A picture shrunk to fit a screen hides its own artefacts. One tap shows it at one screen pixel per image pixel, which is where the blocking really lives.
The size, before and after
The real byte count of the written file against the original, with the percentage — so “under 200 KB” is something you can aim at rather than guess.
The numbers
What each quality setting looks like
The scale is the JPEG encoder’s own, and it is not linear — most of the file size goes in the first thirty points, and most of the visible damage arrives in the last twenty. These are the bands worth aiming at, and every one of them is a position on the slider above.
| Quality | What it looks like | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| 90 – 100 | Indistinguishable from the original at normal viewing size. | Not what this tool is for — use it as the reference point. |
| 70 – 85 | Slightly soft. Fine detail in hair, foliage and skin starts to smear. | A smaller file that still passes as a normal photo. |
| 50 – 65 | Visibly compressed. Halos appear around text and hard edges. | Getting under a modest upload limit without looking broken. |
| 25 – 45 | Obvious 8×8 blocking in flat areas like sky and skin. | The everyday “make this a low quality image”. |
| 10 – 20 | The picture is made of squares. Colours band and bleed across edges. | Memes, before-and-after comparisons, deliberately bad screenshots. |
| 1 – 9 | Barely legible. Whole regions collapse into single blocks of colour. | The deep-fried end. Pair it with re-saves and the deep-fry slider. |
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