When we tried it there wasn’t any difference made to our images, but that may not be the case for you, look at the two images below that we used for our featured image on this post you cannot see the difference in quality or I can’t anyway.īut yet they size difference for each image is huge, and it only took seconds to decrease the file size. Reducing the image file size is basically compressing the image, so it is definitely worth making a backup of your pictures and images before doing the below method, just in case it does make a change to the picture quality that you don’t like. Or at least will save you time as if you attach a large file to an email it can take forever to upload! Will I lose image quality if decreasing file size? It is really frustrating when you try to attach your picture to an email and it says “ File size too large“, so this is a fast and easy way around that problem.ĭoing the below method can sometimes reduce the file size of a picture or image by up to half the original size if you are lucky! You may need to make your image file sizes smaller to save space if transferring over to a USB or if you are trying to attach them to an email. How to check image file size in Windows 10.How to change or reduce the file size of a picture and image.Will I lose image quality if decreasing file size?.

Windows 10 image file highly compressed