A folder of photos from a club outing usually needs to end up in two or three different sizes: a page in the printed newsletter, a smaller copy for an email round-robin, and perhaps a photo for the local paper. TinyPNG, Squoosh and iLoveIMG are the free websites most people reach for, and each one stops short in a different place.
Step by step: getting a folder of photos ready
- Gather every photo from the outing into a single folder, including any taken on an iPhone.
- Decide what size each version needs to be, such as small enough for an email.
- Open Jobbit's image resizer and attach the whole folder at once.
- Name the size or the job needed, such as under 200 KB, or HEIC converted to JPG.
- Sign up once with an email address; no bank card is needed on the free plan.
- Check two or three photos in the folder that comes back, at full size on screen.
- Use the resized copies for the newsletter or the email, and keep the originals safely.
How the well-known photo tools compare
| Tool | Free plan limit | Paid price |
|---|---|---|
| TinyPNG | 20 images a session, 5 MB each | Web Pro $39 a year |
| Squoosh | Unlimited, but one image at a time | Free |
| iLoveIMG | Task and size caps on the free tier | Premium about $4 a month |
| Canva | One design resized at a time | Pro £13 a month, or £100 a year plus VAT |
What it costs and what is free
Jobbit's image resizer runs on the free plan, which needs no bank card and gives 100 credits a day, with no counter on how many photos are in a folder. Jobbit's full comparison of TinyPNG, Squoosh and iLoveIMG covers Compressor.io too, for anyone curious.
A club example
The Pensioners' Club in Rajec once had eighty photos from a coach trip to sort through one at a time on a free website that only took twenty at once, which took most of an evening. Running the same folder through Jobbit took a few minutes, and the newsletter photos were chosen from the resized set the very next morning.
