Image editing guides, explained simply
Practical guides by Ashish Kathiriya, each linked to a free tool that does the job in your browser.
How to Turn a Photo Into a Cartoon: AI Apps and Manual Methods
Ways to give your own photos a cartoon, comic or painted look, from AI cartoon apps to a manual posterize-and-outline method you can do in any free editor.
How to Create Transparent PNG Images: 4 Methods
Make a PNG with a see-through background using AI background removal, a free editor, a design tool or a colour key, then check the transparency actually worked.
How AI Background Removers Work, and When Free Is Enough
A plain-English look at how AI background removers find the subject, why hair and glass are hard, and how free browser tools compare with paid cloud services.
How to Compress Images Without Losing Quality (and Reduce Size in KB)
Resize to the size you need, pick the right format, use a moderate quality setting and compare. How to shrink JPG, PNG and WebP files, or hit an exact KB limit, without visible loss.
Mobile vs PC Photo Editing: Which Should You Use?
Phones are faster for quick fixes and one-off posts; a computer wins for precision, batches and long sessions. Here is how to split the work.
How Professional Designers Edit Images Faster
The habits that let designers get through large batches of images: templates, shortcuts, organised files, batch processing, export presets and working in passes.
How to Resize Images Without Losing Quality
Why resized images turn blurry or stretched, and a simple workflow to resize photos for websites, social media and phone or desktop screens while keeping them sharp.
10 Websites for Free Stock Images and How Their Licences Work
Ten sources of free stock photos, what their licences generally allow, and how to check each image before using it on a blog, business page or product.
Common Photo Editing Mistakes Beginners Make (and How to Fix Them)
Over-sharpening, neon saturation, crooked horizons, stretched images and over-compressed JPGs. The mistakes beginners make most, and the simple fix for each.
Why WebP Images Make Websites Faster
WebP stores the same picture in fewer bytes than JPG or PNG, so pages download less and render sooner. How it works, when not to use it, and how to switch your site.