ShrinkFile

Guides

Background on file sizes, formats and upload limits — the reasoning behind what the tools do.

Email attachment size limits

What Gmail, Outlook and the rest actually accept, and why a 24MB file still bounces off a 25MB limit.

Reference

Resizing a photo for an application

Why passport and visa forms reject photographs, and the order of steps that avoids a blurry result.

How-to

JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC compared

What actually differs between the four common image formats, and when each one is the right choice.

Explainer

Why these exist

Most people arrive at a file tool mid-problem: a form has just rejected something, and they want it fixed. The tools handle that. These guides are for the questions that follow — why the limit is what it is, which format to pick, and how to avoid the same problem next time.

Each one is written to be read on its own rather than as marketing for the tools, though where a tool genuinely solves the problem being discussed, it is linked.

More to come

Topics get added when a question comes up often enough to be worth answering properly. If there is something you looked for and could not find, say so — that is generally how these get chosen.