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.
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.