How to turn images into a PDF
Wrong page sizes, thick white borders and a forty megabyte document are not bad luck, they are decisions the converter made for you. Here is what PDF actually does...
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The Complete Website Image Asset Audit: Favicons, OG Cards, Heroes and Logos in One Pass
Speed audits look at pages. Nobody audits the set of images a site actually ships. Here is the seven-class checklist, a fifteen minute pass, and the six problems it...
Which image formats will still open in twenty years
Format longevity has almost nothing to do with quality and everything to do with how many decoders exist. That makes JPEG and TIFF the safest archival bets...
How to embed copyright and contact details in your photos
Photo metadata has a private half you should strip and a public half you should fill in on purpose. Here are the IPTC and XMP fields that carry your name, credit...
How to watermark photos without ruining them
Every watermark damages the photo it protects, so the job is minimising that damage while still getting something back. A practical guide to placement, opacity...
Animated GIF vs video: which one you actually want
GIF is a 1987 format with a 256-colour palette and no motion compression, which is why a short clip can weigh an order of magnitude more as a GIF than as a video...
Resize, Convert and Compress an Image in One Pass
One photo, three tools, three uploads: the workflow everyone suffers through. Here is how to crop, resize, convert and compress an image in a single pass, with the...
AI Action Figure and Chibi Prompts: 9 Templates for the Toy Trend
The toy-figure trend will not die, it just keeps mutating. Nine copy-paste prompt templates for boxed action figures, chibi desk figures, pet figures and couple...
The Pixel Stretch Trend: How to Do It Free, With or Without Photoshop
The 2008 Photoshop effect is viral again. Here is how pixel stretch works, the free browser way to do it in Photopea, and the aspect-ratio rescue trick designers...
The Anti-AI Photo Look: How to Add Film Grain in Your Browser
Feeds are full of flawless AI images, so the look everyone wants now is imperfection. Here is the exact fade-plus-grain recipe I use in the browser, with real file...
TikTok Image & Video Sizes Guide (2026): Complete Dimensions for Videos, Profile Pictures, Ads & Covers
Almost everything on TikTok lives on one 1080x1920 vertical canvas, and the interface is drawn right on top of it. Here is every TikTok image and video size for...
Facebook Image Sizes Guide (2026): Complete Dimensions for Posts, Cover Photos, Profile Pictures & Ads
Facebook has more image slots than any platform, and several of them crop differently on phones than on desktop. Here is every Facebook image size for 2026, from...