Image guides and tutorials

Clear, practical explanations for everyday image jobs: making photos bigger without blur, choosing the right format, preparing files for print and the web, and cutting out backgrounds cleanly.

• How to Enlarge Old Family Photos Without Making Them Look Worse

  A practical workflow for scanning, cleaning and upscaling old prints and early digital photos so they can be printed larger or shared on modern screens.

  5 min read

• How AI Image Upscaling Works (and Why It Beats Normal Resizing)

  A clear explanation of interpolation, super-resolution neural networks and ESRGAN, including what AI upscaling can and cannot do for your photos.

  4 min read

• How Many Pixels Do I Need to Print a Photo? DPI, PPI and Print Size Explained

  Work out exactly how many pixels a photo needs for any print size, what 300 dpi really means, and when a lower resolution is perfectly fine.

  4 min read

• PNG vs JPG vs WebP: Which Image Format Should You Use?

  A plain-English comparison of PNG, JPG and WebP: how each one compresses images, when to use which, and the mistakes that quietly ruin quality.

  4 min read

• How to Remove Backgrounds from Product Photos for an Online Shop

  Shoot, cut out and export clean product photos with transparent or white backgrounds, plus the small details that make a store look professional.

  4 min read

• Upscale or Vectorize? How to Get a Small Logo Ready for Print and Signage

  Your logo only exists as a small PNG or JPG and the printer wants something bigger. Here is how to decide between AI upscaling and converting it to SVG.

  4 min read

• How to Make a Transparent PNG (and Why Your Background Keeps Turning White)

  Understand how transparency works in images, create a clean transparent PNG from any photo or logo, and fix white boxes and fringes around cut-outs.

  3 min read

• JPEG Compression Artefacts Explained: Blocks, Halos and Banding (and How to Reduce Them)

  Why JPG images get blocky squares, fuzzy halos and stripy skies, how to recognise each artefact, and practical ways to avoid or reduce them.

  4 min read

• Social Media Image Sizes: A Practical Guide for Sharp Posts

  Recommended pixel sizes and aspect ratios for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, X, LinkedIn and Pinterest, and how to stop platforms from blurring your images.

  3 min read

• How to Reduce Image File Size for a Faster Website (Without Visible Quality Loss)

  Images are usually the heaviest part of a web page. Learn how resizing, format choice and compression settings can cut file sizes by 70% or more.

  4 min read

• How to Make a Blurry Screenshot or Text Image Readable Again

  Why screenshots and photos of text go soft, the settings that sharpen them best, and when it is better to retake the image instead.

  3 min read

• Converting an Image to SVG: 9 Tips for Clean, Small Vector Files

  How image tracing works, which images convert well, and the settings that turn a messy, oversized SVG into a clean file you can actually use.

  4 min read

• Are Online Image Tools Safe? Why Browser-Based Processing Keeps Your Photos Private

  What really happens when you upload a photo to a free online editor, how on-device processing works, and how to check whether a tool uploads your files.

  4 min read