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.

Privacy-first: every image is processed locally in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, stored or transmitted to any server.

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.

All image tools

Image Compressor — Shrink JPG, PNG & WebP without the quality loss you can see.
Image Converter — Convert between JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and BMP — HEIC input supported.
Image to PDF Converter — Turn images into a PDF — or PDF pages into images.
Image Resizer — Resize by pixels or percentage with ready-made presets.
Image Cropper — Crop to any ratio or shape — square, circle or rounded — with borders.
Background Remover — AI background removal & blur — right on your device.
Image to Text (OCR) — Extract text from images and screenshots — locally.
Image Rotator — Rotate and flip many images at once by any angle.
Image Editor — Crop, rotate, flip, annotate, add text and blur — in one editor.
Image Adjustments — Contrast, brightness, black & white, invert and filters.
Remove Image Metadata — View and strip EXIF, GPS and location data.
Privacy Blur — Blur, pixelate or black out sensitive info in seconds.
Image Watermark — Add text, logo or tiled repeating watermarks — single or batch.
Color & Image Analyzer — Dominant colors, palettes, histogram and contrast.
Favicon Generator — Turn any image into a favicon.ico + app icon set.
Photo Collage Maker — Arrange photos into layouts — drag to rearrange, scroll to reframe.
Passport Photo Maker — Crop a photo to passport & ID sizes — with a printable sheet.