diff --git a/README.MD b/README.MD
index c5f52f0..e9481b0 100644
--- a/README.MD
+++ b/README.MD
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ Join the EveryDream discord here: https://discord.gg/uheqxU6sXN
 
 [File renaming](./doc/FILE_RENAME.md) - Simple script for replacing generic pronouns that come out of clip in filenames with proper names (ex "a man" -> "john doe", "a person" -> "jane doe").
 
-See clip_rename.bat for an example to chain captioning and renaming together.
+*See clip_rename.bat for an example to chain captioning and renaming together.*
+
+[Compress images](./doc/COMPRESS_IMG.md) - Compresses images to WEBP with a given size (ex 1.5 megapixels) to reduce disk usage if you've downloaded some massive PNG data sets (ex. FFHQ) and wish to save some disk space.
 
 [Training](https://github.com/victorchall/EveryDream-trainer) (separate repo) - Fine tuning with captioned training and ground truth data (needs 24GB GPU).
 
diff --git a/scripts/compress_img.py b/scripts/compress_img.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1145bda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/compress_img.py
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+from PIL import Image, ImageOps
+import os
+import glob
+import argparse
+import sys
+
+def get_parser(**parser_kwargs):
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(**parser_kwargs)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--img_dir",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="?",
+        const=True,
+        default="input",
+        help="directory with images to be compressed",
+    ),
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--max_mp",
+        type=float,
+        nargs="?",
+        const=True,
+        default=1.5,
+        help="maximum megapixels to compress to",
+    ),
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--quality",
+        type=int,
+        nargs="?",
+        const=True,
+        default=95,
+        help="quality of compressed image, 0-100, suggest 90+",
+    ),
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--delete",
+        type=bool,
+        nargs="?",
+        const=True,
+        default=False,
+        help="delete original image after compression even if out_dir is different than img_dir",
+    ),
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--out_dir",
+        type=str,
+        nargs="?",
+        const=True,
+        default=None,
+        help="output folder, default is to overwrite original",
+    ),
+
+    return parser
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    parser = get_parser()
+    opt = parser.parse_args()
+
+    max_pixels = opt.max_mp * 1024000
+
+    if opt.out_dir == None:
+        opt.out_dir = opt.img_dir
+
+    print(f"scanning: {opt.img_dir}, max pixels: {opt.max_mp}, quality: {opt.quality}")
+    for infile in glob.glob(f"{opt.img_dir}/*"):
+        ext = os.path.splitext(infile)[1]
+        if ext in [".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".webp"]:
+            outfile = os.path.splitext(infile)[0] + ".webp"
+            try:
+                img = Image.open(infile)
+                exif = img.getexif()
+                
+                if infile.endswith("00002.png"):
+                    print(str(exif))
+
+                w, h = img.size
+                pixels = w * h
+
+                if pixels <= max_pixels:
+                    print(f"skipping {infile}, {pixels} already under max of {pixels}")
+                else:
+                    # calculate new size
+                    ratio = max_pixels / pixels
+                    new_w = int(w * pow(ratio, 0.5))
+                    new_h = int(h * pow(ratio, 0.5))
+                    new_size = (new_w, new_h)
+
+                    try:
+                        img = img.resize(new_size)
+                        img = ImageOps.exif_transpose(img)
+                        #img = ImageOps.fit(image = img, size = (1536,1536))
+                        print(f"compressing: {pixels} to {new_w*new_h} pixels, in: {infile}, out: {outfile}")
+
+                        if opt.delete:
+                            print(f"deleting: {infile}")
+                            os.remove(infile)
+
+                        img.save(outfile, "WEBP", quality=opt.quality, method=5)
+                    except Exception as ex:
+                        print(f"error in {infile}")
+                        raise ex
+
+            except IOError:
+                print("cannot convert", infile)