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Image guides: compress, convert, resize and protect photos

Photos get stuck in awkward places: a form that accepts 200 KB, a laptop that cannot open an iPhone photo, a picture that still carries your home address in its hidden data. These guides solve those moments, and every tool they point to works inside your browser so your pictures never leave your device.

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The iPhone photo you emailed to yourself will not open? Here is the two minute fix

HEIC is the format iPhones save photos in, and Windows (without add-ons), Chrome and many websites cannot show it. Turn it into a JPG in your browser, one photo or a hundred, without uploading anything.

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Your thumbnail looked great in the editor, then the timestamp covered the best part

The size to export, the file limit to stay under, and the corners to keep clear. Then test it at the size viewers really see, which is much smaller than your editor.

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The upload says square, the site shows a circle, and your face is cut in half

Find out what the site does with your picture, then crop it to a ratio, to exact pixels or to a circle. Keep the face inside the frame and the file under its size limit.

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You want your name on your photos before you post them, and you have 200 of them

Set the mark once and every picture in the batch gets the same look. Choose text or a logo, a corner or a pattern, and keep your originals. Nothing is uploaded.

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The form says maximum 200 KB and your photo is 4 MB? Here is how to make it fit

Set the size you need and let your browser find the highest quality that fits. Then learn why the numbers work out the way they do, and where to stop.

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A photo taken at home can carry the coordinates of your front door

Find out what a photo gives away, strip the location and the rest of its hidden data, and learn what removal still does not fix. Everything happens in your browser.

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Choose the wrong image format and a logo gets blurry or a photo gets huge

Start with the table, find your picture, and use the format in the Use column. The rest of the page explains why, and how to switch formats without a second round of damage.

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One 3 MB hero photo can make a whole page feel slow. Here is how to fix it

Export each picture at the size it is shown, choose the right format, compress with a quality that is usually safe, and do the whole folder in one run.

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