WebP to JPG: when the newer format gets in the way
WebP is the format everyone told you to switch to. And for websites, they're right. But the moment you download that image and try to use it anywhere...
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WebP is the format everyone told you to switch to. And for websites, they're right. But the moment you download that image and try to use it anywhere...
Read moreI once watched a client complain their homepage took forever to load. The culprit was 14 JPG photos, each straight off a camera, each around 4 MB.
Read moreA PNG screenshot of my desktop runs about 2 MB. Convert it to JPG and it drops to maybe 300 KB. Same screen. Same words. One sixth of the size.
Read moreCompression has a bad reputation. People hear "compress" and picture a photo turned into mush.
Read moreThe short answer: WebP for almost everything. The longer answer is worth the two minutes.
Read moreiPhones shoot in HEIC by default. It's a good format, honestly. Smaller files, better quality. Apple did this one right.
Read moreBlurry profile pictures and pixelated banners have one cause: the image was too small and the platform stretched it.
Read moreThree formats, three jobs. The confusion comes from using the wrong one and then blaming the format.
Read moreReceipts. Contracts. Scanned forms. Portfolios. There are a hundred reasons a stack of images needs to become one PDF.
Read moreResolution is the most misunderstood word in digital images. People use it to mean three different things, and two of them don't matter.
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