Google Drive gives away 15 GB free. A single uncompressed photo folder can eat half of that. Here's how to stop wasting cloud space on bloated images.
A typical phone photo is 3-5 MB as JPEG. A TIFF scan is 50-100 MB. Compress these before uploading and the same photos take 300-800 KB — an 80-90% reduction. On a 15 GB Google Drive, that's the difference between storing 3,000 photos and 30,000.
Google Photos offers "Storage saver" quality, but it compresses everything indiscriminately. Better approach: selectively compress images with Compress2PNG before uploading to Drive. Pick your quality per image or batch — full control, no black-box compression.
Dropbox doesn't compress images at all, so every MB counts. For shared folders with clients: convert deliverables to WebP (25-35% smaller than JPEG at same quality). For archives: convert to JPEG at 85% — visually identical, dramatically smaller.
Microsoft 365 includes 1 TB of OneDrive storage, but large image libraries still fill it over time. Batch-compress your photo library before syncing. Set quality to 80% — the visual difference is invisible, and you'll save hundreds of GB over a lifetime of photos.
iCloud automatically stores full-resolution images, quickly consuming the 5 GB free tier. Before enabling iCloud Photos, batch-compress your camera roll. HEIC photos from recent iPhones can be converted to JPEG at 85% — 50-70% smaller, still print-quality.
At 80-85% JPEG quality, you won't see a difference on any screen. For printing, use 92%+ for safety.
Yes. Drag multiple images onto a browser converter, set the same quality for all, and process them as a batch. The output will be consistently compressed.