All Tools VerseMake 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.
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.
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
BMP Files: What They Are and How to Convert Them Free
BMP files have one defining trait: they are huge. A 1920 by 1080 image saved as a BMP weighs around 6 MB. The same picture as a JPG drops to roughly 300 KB, and as a WebP, closer to 150 KB. That single fact explains almost everything about BMP, where it came from, why it … Read more
How to Blur a License Plate or Face in a Photo (Free, No Upload)
Blurring a license plate before you post a photo takes about ten seconds, and it is the difference between a clean car listing and handing a stranger your registration details. The same applies to faces in street photos, dashcam clips, and real estate shots. This guide shows how to blur a license plate or a … Read more
WebP Format Explained: Why It Is the Best Image Format for the Web
WebP format is Google’s answer to a simple problem: images on the web are too heavy. A WebP file is usually 25 to 35 percent smaller than the same photo as JPG, and smaller than PNG for graphics, with no visible drop in quality. This article explains what the WebP format is, why Google built … Read more