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How to Edit Photos: Crop, Brightness, Colour and Export
Learn a simple photo editing workflow: straighten and crop, adjust brightness and colour, resize for the destination, then export and compress a copy.
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How to Make a Meme with Your Own Photo
Make a readable image meme with your own photo. Learn caption placement, outlines, export formats and how to keep the finished file small.
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How to Crop an Image: Exact Sizes, Ratios and Circles
Learn how to crop a photo to a square, a fixed aspect ratio or a circle. Understand crop dimensions, transparent corners and the difference from resizing.
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Why is my compressed image larger?
Learn why re-encoding or conversion can increase file size, when the original is kept and how to get a smaller result.
Read the guideJPG vs PNG vs WebP: which image format should you use?
Compare image quality, transparency and file size, with measured examples and tools to try each format.
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How to Remove Metadata from Photos and Files
Learn what metadata is, how EXIF and GPS can affect privacy, and how to remove metadata from photos, PDFs and Office files using the right tools.
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Resize an image or change canvas size: which should you use?
Scale a picture, add a border or crop its edges while understanding what happens to the original pixels.
Read the guideHow to fit an image to a screen without stretching
Prepare screen-sized images using fit, crop or padding, and understand why screen proportions matter.
Read the guideHow to resize an image to custom width and height
Set exact pixel dimensions, calculate one dimension automatically and choose fit, crop, stretch or padding.
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