Image Guides & How-tos
Practical, no-fluff guides to everyday image problems: choosing formats, shrinking files, cleaning metadata and hitting platform specs. Every guide links the free in-browser tool that does the job.
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- How to Remove Metadata from Photos (iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac) — Photos carry hidden EXIF metadata — GPS location, timestamps, device details. Here is what it reveals and how to remove it on every platform.
- JPG vs PNG vs WebP vs AVIF: Which Image Format Should You Use? — A practical guide to image formats: what JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG and HEIC are each good at, and simple rules for choosing between them.
- How to Reduce Photo File Size Without Losing Quality — Shrink photos from megabytes to kilobytes with no visible quality loss: resize to real dimensions, compress with intent, choose the right format.
- Social Media Image Sizes: the 2026 Cheat Sheet — Exact image dimensions for Instagram, Facebook, X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest and TikTok — and why uploading the right size matters.
- HEIC Photos Explained: How to Open and Convert iPhone Photos — Why iPhone photos are HEIC files, why they won’t open on Windows and Android, how to convert them to JPG, and how to make your iPhone shoot JPG.