Generate an Image from Text or Hex
Generating an image from text or hex turns plain characters into a real picture file, whether that is rendering a word as a graphic or painting raw hex by
Generating an image from text or hex turns plain characters into a real picture file, whether that is rendering a word as a graphic or painting raw hex by
Changing an image’s opacity makes the whole picture more or less see-through, from fully solid to faintly visible, which is how you create watermarks, ove
Adding text, a border, or a background to an image are three of the most common quick edits, useful for captions, watermarks, framing, and filling transpa
Converting an image to grayscale removes all color and keeps only brightness, turning every pixel into a shade of gray. Black and white goes a step furthe
Analyzing an image reads its real properties without opening an editor: the true format, the pixel dimensions, the file size, whether it has transparency,
Compressing a WebP shrinks the file by lowering its quality setting, and because WebP is efficient, you can often cut the size in half with no visible dif
The fastest way to tell PNG, JPG, WebP, and GIF apart is to read the first few bytes of the file, called its signature or magic number, not to trust the f
Converting WebP to base64 turns an image file into a text string you can paste straight into HTML, CSS, or JSON, with no separate file to host. The base64
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