Tutorial · Nov 8, 2026 · Animdock Team

How to compress and resize images for Instagram, YouTube and the web

Shrink images to a target size in KB and crop them to exact social media dimensions — Instagram portrait, Stories, YouTube thumbnails — in one batch.

Upload forms reject heavy files and every platform wants its own dimensions. The Image Compressor & Resizer handles both in one pass.

Phone screen showing a vertical image

Image: Animdock Stock — free to download.

1. Choose the size

Open Resize and pick:

For presets, Crop to fill fills the frame and trims the edges; Fit inside keeps the whole picture on the background colour.

2. Choose the compression

Pick a format (keep, JPG, WebP or PNG), then either a quality level or a target size such as 200 KB or 2 MB. With a target, the tool tries quality levels and keeps the best one that fits.

3. Process and compare

Press Compress: every row shows the old size, the new size and the percentage saved. Download one by one or all together as a ZIP.

Designer reviewing images on a tablet

Image: Animdock Stock — free to download.

Good starting points

Open Image Compressor & Resizer — free →