Blog
The same articles as the guides index, ordered by publication date. Older posts that only repeated a tool page were merged into that tool rather than kept as separate pages.
Five things you can do with simple tools that look far more complicated
Combining basic operations in the right order produces results people assume require a design suite: a reflection from a flip and a fade, a backdrop from a heavy blur, a documentary look from luminance greyscale plus contrast.
Image formats explained: JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF
Pick JPG for photographs that must open anywhere, PNG for flat-colour graphics and transparency, WebP as the default for websites, AVIF when you can control the audience, and GIF only for legacy animation. The differences come down to whether the format throws information away and whether it can store transparency.
Ten image edits worth doing in a browser (and three that are not)
Browsers handle geometry and encoding — resize, crop, rotate, convert, compress, watermark — as well as any desktop application. They are a poor fit for detailed retouching, colour-managed print work and layered composition, which need pixel-level control and a colour profile pipeline.
Is online image editing safe? What actually happens to your file
Some browser tools process your image entirely on your device; others upload it to a server and simply do not say so. You can tell which is which by opening your browser's network panel and watching for an outgoing request when you press the process button. Everything else on the page is marketing.
What to expect from an online photo editor
A browser photo editor is limited by three things: the memory available to the tab, the codecs the browser ships, and the absence of a colour-managed pipeline. Within those limits it is fully capable; outside them it cannot compete, regardless of what a marketing page claims.
Fancy text generators: what they really produce, and where it breaks
A fancy text generator does not change your font. It substitutes each letter with a different Unicode character that happens to look similar — mathematical alphanumeric symbols, mostly. That is why the text survives copy and paste, and also why screen readers read it as gibberish.