Plain-language guides to image formats, compression, and photo technology, written by the people who build browser-based tools for them.
Why iPhones abandoned JPEG for half the file size, 10-bit HDR color, depth maps, and hardware encoding, and why the web never followed.
The royalty-free format that brought video-codec compression to the open web, and what it does better than the formats that came before it.
WebP is usually smaller, but PNG still wins in specific, predictable situations. A practical decision guide with the edge cases spelled out.
A technical deep dive into video-codec image formats: intra prediction, transforms, entropy coding, containers, and the licensing economics.
Three interactive pages that split a picture into a quadtree, send one number per node, and rebuild it coarse to fine on the other side. The demo behind the coding.with.indy video.
AI segmentation in the browser with ONNX Runtime.
Swin2SR super-resolution running locally in WebAssembly.
Why sinc-based resampling beats the browser's default scaling.
Native decoding with a WebAssembly fallback.
What your photos reveal and how stripping works.
The preset dimensions behind the social crop tool.
How ratio-locked cropping keeps your framing exact.