Resizing images is many times a necessary operation. Why it’s important to use properly-sized photos? There are several reasons you should not skip this stage of the editing process. One of the main reasons is to optimize performance. Smaller image files load faster on websites and in apps and software, [...]
Cropping is a truly important operation in photo editing. Why is it so important? Well, because it serves a lot of purposes and can be used for a wide range of scenarios. The crop tool allows users to adjust the framing and composition of an image. By cutting away unnecessary [...]
Editing images doesn’t have to be a time- and energy-consuming task. Even if you’re dealing with dozens or hundreds of pictures, you can quickly retouch all of them with the aid of batch processing software. Let’s say you’re a real estate photographer and you’ve just finished a shooting. You’re currently [...]
By now you must’ve surely come across the .webp extension when you’ve tried to save a photo from a web page. WebP is an image format developed by tech giant Google particularly for web use. These files have the benefit of being considerably smaller in size than the classic JPG’s [...]
As a photographer, blogger, photojournalist, realtor or design artist, it’s important to be aware of the importance of adding a watermark to your original photographs. First of all, inserting a copyright text or logo is an effective method to discourage image theft. It’s true, it’s not bulletproof. Once you upload [...]
Note: You can find a new version of the article here. If you’re dealing with digital images on a regular basis, you probably know by now that image resizing is an important phase of the editing process. Reducing the size of our photos helps our websites and blogs load faster, [...]
Note: You can find a new version of this article here. Optimizing your photos before uploading them online is a truly important task for any visual content creator. In addition to resizing, rotating, watermarking or performing color corrections, in many cases you’ll also need to crop your photos. Cropping may [...]
Note: You can find a new version of this article here. When you’re dealing with a multitude of images that require the same adjustments, you can’t really afford to go through them one by one. It would be both time- and energy-consuming. In this case, the best option is [...]
Sometimes JPG is the optimal image format to choose, because it’s just easier to work with. Other times image quality prevails over size and, in this case, a lossless format like PNG or TIFF is the preferred alternative. There also may be situations when you need to compile multiple images [...]