Image formats editor
Elena spent eight years in photo-lab and prepress work before writing about files full time. She tests every compression and conversion claim on real camera files and screenshots, and cares most about what a portal or print shop will actually accept.
Writes about: image formats · JPEG and WebP compression · colour management
Save your own Instagram Stories and Highlights through the archive, get 1080 × 1920 JPGs and MP4s, re-share them at 9:16 without a bad crop and shrink a batch for a report.
Elena Vásquez · Oct 19, 2026 · 11 min read
JPG and JPEG are the same format with two spellings; PNG is lossless and keeps transparency. Compare file sizes, artifacts, what portals accept and how to convert.
Elena Vásquez · Oct 11, 2026 · 12 min read
Merge photos side by side, stacked, in a grid or as a carousel strip: match heights or widths first, pick PNG or JPG, keep width under 4000 px, and use the right app.
Elena Vásquez · Oct 6, 2026 · 11 min read
Crop a photo to 1:1, 4:5, 9:16 or 16:9 on iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac or in the browser: what a ratio is, which one each platform wants, and when to pad instead.
Elena Vásquez · Sep 15, 2026 · 11 min read
Shrink any photo to an exact KB limit: resize the pixels first, switch to JPG, then lower quality. Typical savings for each step, phone and desktop methods, and PNG fixes.
Elena Vásquez · Aug 31, 2026 · 11 min read
Turn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG with built-in tools on iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android, or batch-convert in a browser at quality 90. What you lose, what you keep, and how to stop HEIC.
Elena Vásquez · Aug 25, 2026 · 11 min read