Is this image too heavy? Windows 11 now lets you compress it in two clicks, without software, and without changing its resolution.
If you often open an image in Paint or Photos to reduce its resolution and thus lower its size, this new feature in Windows 11 might please you. Microsoft has integrated a compression tool to reduce the size of an image file without altering its definition.
When you try to share an image from File Explorer, a new button allows you to change the size of the image. The user can choose between three compression options: Low, Medium, and High. The stronger the compression, the smaller the file size will be, but the image quality will suffer.
Windows 11 compresses your images before sharing
Windows Latest had the opportunity to test the feature. The media explains that for a 3840 x 2160 pixel image, the height and width are never modified after compression. Windows 11 plays on the quality of JPEG encoding to reduce its size. An original image weighing 1009.1 KB shrank to 182.7 KB with the mildest compression, to 165.3 KB with intermediate compression, and to 147.8 KB with the most severe compression. While the size difference between the three is not very large, the quality gap is quite significant. Sacrificing sharpness to save a few KB will therefore not always be relevant.
Once you choose a compression level, Windows 11 creates a copy of the file, which is shared on the selected platform. The original file is still available on your PC, you can delete it manually if you don't need it.
Before sending the image, you also have the option to edit it by clicking on the Edit button. You can then crop it and make some simple adjustments (draw, annotate, adjust the contrast, etc.). Processes related to Microsoft Edge are running in the background during this step, which seems to indicate that we are actually dealing with a web interface behind all this, like with OneDrive.
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