Compression

Forty product photos should not meet a sign-up wall

A folder of product photos stays free: no account and no usage cap. Batch only the files that need the same treatment.

Forty product photos should not meet a sign-up wall on photo twelve. Image8K is a free toolbox: no account, no usage meter, and the folder stays in the browser. The promise is the absence of a counter, not a bigger editor.

What “free forever” has to mean here

A tool that is free until the third export is a meter with a friendly label. Image8K does not ask for an email, a phone number, or a card before the download. Compress, convert, resize, and watermark can take a stack. There is no mid-folder checkout.

That is the point of this page. If you only need one listing shot with a kitchen behind it, a single-photo cutout is a different job. This one is the folder.

A folder that all wants the same thing

  1. Put only the files that share one treatment in the selection. Mixed jobs — one HEIC, one screenshot to redact, one ID crop — do not belong in one batch.
  2. Compress toward the portal’s number when it named one. Quality and a target size are different levers.
  3. If the phone files are still HEIC, convert them before you send. Someone who cannot open HEIC is not “a slow computer.”
  4. Resize when the marketplace wants one pixel size, not when you merely wanted a smaller file. Those are different complaints.

Download per file or as a zip. The originals are not stored on an Image8K server. Keep each file at or under 20MB.

The workspace is a sidebar, not a meter

All fifteen tools also sit on one workspace page, with a sidebar to jump. Use that when the next photo needs a different tool and you do not want to hunt the home list. It does not add a quota. It does not create an account.

Cutout, crop, color pick, filters, and redact stay one image. Do not drop the forty-file folder on those and expect a zip to think.

What this is not

It is not a place that stores the shoot. Close the tab and the pixels are gone from the page; they were never ours. It is not a substitute for a studio color grade. Brightness, contrast, and a preset live on filters, one photo at a time, still with no sign-up.

If the portal still rejects file seven, change that file’s target. Do not create an account to “unlock” the rest. There is nothing to unlock.

FAQ

Do I need an account to batch more than a few photos?

No. Image8K does not put a usage meter or a checkout in the middle of a folder.

Are the originals stored?

No. Reading and export stay in the browser. Closing the tab drops the pixels from the page.

Can I batch a cutout, a redact, and a compress together?

No. Batch is for one shared treatment. Cutout, crop, and redact stay one image.