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Practical writing about image and video formats — what compression actually does to your files, and how to make decisions you will not regret later.
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How to convert images without losing quality
What "losing quality" actually means, when it is unavoidable, and how to pick a format and a setting so the loss is invisible.
3 Aug 2026Read article
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JPG vs PNG: which format should you actually use?
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What is WebP, and should you switch to it?
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Why your phone videos play sideways, and how to fix it properly
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- Tutorials·8 min read
How image compression actually works, without the maths
Why a photo shrinks by 80% and a screenshot barely moves, why the second pass is always worse, and what "quality 85" is really doing.
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