A camera roll of before-and-after treatment photos, all shot as HEIC on an iPhone, and a booking site or supplier form that will not accept the format: a studio hits this within the first week of taking client photos seriously, and most free resizers make you fix it one picture at a time, checking a quality slider on each until the file is small enough.
Three photo jobs every studio has
- Before-and-after treatment photos resized for Instagram and Facebook.
- A folder of HEIC iPhone photos converted to JPG for a website or a supplier form.
- Salon and product photos shrunk under a website's upload limit without losing sharpness.
The free options compared
| Tool | Free limit | HEIC in? | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| TinyPNG | 20 images a session, 5MB each | No | Up to 20 at once |
| Squoosh | Unlimited, but private | No | One image at a time |
| Canva | Free resizes one design; Magic Resize is Pro only | Yes | One at a time on the free plan |
| Jobbit | Free plan credits, no batch counter | Yes | A whole folder in one message |
A salon example
Willow Nail & Lash shot every set of nail art in HEIC on the owner's iPhone, and the salon's own booking site rejected every upload until someone converted each photo by hand, image by image, on a laptop after closing. Attaching the whole camera roll to the free resizer and asking for JPG under 200KB turned forty photos into a ready-to-upload gallery in one batch, with the file names kept sensible and the originals left untouched for print later.
Our pick and why
The batch is the whole point for a studio: nobody has time to convert forty photos one at a time between clients, and a set of before-and-after shots loses its usefulness if half of them are still in a phone-only format. Jobbit's image resizer takes a whole folder, handles HEIC in either direction, and lets you set a size target in kilobytes rather than guessing at a quality slider one photo at a time. Jobbit is the pick once a studio's camera roll outgrows a 20-image free tier, and the source guide has the full size cheat sheet for every platform, from Instagram squares to a UK passport photo.
