# Image compression

**URL:** <https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879 "2019-05-23T08:56:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![samuel.helmner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@samuel.helmner](https://forum.litium.com/u/samuel.helmner)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879/1 "2019-05-23T08:56:25Z")

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How does the image compression work in Litium? I have a image in the media archive with a size of 3.2 MB but when I use it on a website it comes out with a size of 0.5 MB so there is some compression done somewhere. I have not been able to figure out where though. Is it possible manage how much compression is used in some way?

Litium version: 7.2

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**Author:** ![patric.forsgard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/patric.forsgard/32/10_2.png) [@patric.forsgard](https://forum.litium.com/u/patric.forsgard)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 9:24am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879/2 "2019-05-23T09:24:42Z")

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Litium is using inbuilt .Net classes to resize the image. You can switch out and replace the image resizer that exists in Litium, see [Custom image resizer](https://forum.litium.com/t/custom-image-resizer/181)

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**Author:** ![samuel.helmner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ea924/32.png) [@samuel.helmner](https://forum.litium.com/u/samuel.helmner)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 10:18am UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879/3 "2019-05-23T10:18:06Z")

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OK, thanks. But is there a way I can still use the inbuilt compression but make it compress less?

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**Author:** ![patric.forsgard](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.litium.com/patric.forsgard/32/10_2.png) [@patric.forsgard](https://forum.litium.com/u/patric.forsgard)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.litium.com/t/image-compression/879/4 "2019-05-23T18:39:53Z")

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It’s not possible to change the settings for the inbuilt resizer, you need to implement the own functionality.