EXIF Data: What Photos Leak and How to Strip It
Photos carry device, settings, timestamps and sometimes your address: the GPS risk, the platforms that strip, and the keep-on-originals policy.
Image Guides
Formats, compression, resizing, transparency and privacy for everyday image work. From picking between PNG, WebP and AVIF to stripping EXIF location data before a photo travels, with free tools that run entirely in your browser.
Duotone, Sepia and Filters: Stylize Photos in Browser
What duotone, sepia and overlays actually do to your pixels, when each earns its place, and the four craft rules that keep filters tasteful.
Blur Faces and Plates: Photo Privacy Before Posting
Light blur over text can be reversed; solid blocks cannot: the redaction ranking, the metadata step, and a checklist that takes two minutes.
Make a Transparent PNG or WebP (and When to Use It)
Alpha in one minute, the format table that explains the white-box accident, and the halo and jagged-edge failures with their fixes.
Resize vs Downscale: Shrink Images the Right Way
Three operations hide inside ‘make it smaller’, and only one direction is safe: the asymmetry, the quality details, and the order of operations.
PNG vs WebP vs AVIF: Which Format When
Three formats, one decision framework: where each wins, the honest fine print, and the conversions that capture the size savings in seconds.
HEIC to JPG: Open iPhone Photos Anywhere
Apple’s camera format is technically excellent and socially awkward: what HEIC is, why files refuse to open, and the clean thirty-second fix.
Crop Images for Instagram, YouTube and X (Exact Sizes)
Crop to the ratio or an algorithm crops for you: the sizes table, the YouTube safe-area trap, and the order of operations that keeps photos sharp.
Compress Images Without Visible Quality Loss
The quality slider has a sweet spot and resizing beats it anyway: how to shrink photos hard while keeping them indistinguishable on screen.
Convert Landscape to Portrait (and Portrait to Landscape)
To convert a landscape image to portrait, or a portrait image to landscape, you change which side of the picture is the long one. A landscape photo is wider than it is tall, a portrait photo is taller than it is wide, and many uses force one or the other. A phone wallpaper needs portrait, … Read more
Convert BMP to PNG, JPG, GIF or WebP
To convert BMP to PNG, JPG, GIF, or WebP, you re-save the image in a format that compresses it, because BMP itself does not. A BMP file stores every pixel in full with no compression, so the same picture that is six megabytes as a BMP can be a small fraction of that in almost … Read more
The GIF Format Explained: Animation, Limits, and When to Use It
The GIF format is the oldest image format still in everyday use, and it has survived for one reason: animation. A GIF can hold a short looping clip that plays anywhere, with no video player and no sound. That single trick kept GIF alive for more than thirty years. But the format also carries hard … Read more