Use these tips and guides to get more out of these tools for your photos, videos and documents. These original guides are written by us, and each one links to the tool it talks about.
- How to Send Large Photos Without Losing Quality — Why photos bounce back from email and messages, and the order of steps that shrinks them the most while keeping them sharp.
- Photo Sizes Explained: What to Use for Email, Social Media and Print — A guide to pixels, shapes and file size, with sensible starting points for messages, social posts, websites and prints.
- HEIC, JPG, PNG or WebP: Which Image Format Should You Use? — What each picture format is good at, where each one fails, and a simple way to choose for photos, screenshots, logos and the web.
- What Your Photos Reveal, and How to Share Them Safely — Photos can carry the place, the time and the device they came from. Here is what is hidden inside, when it matters, and how to remove it.
- How to Scan Documents With Your Phone and Make a Tidy PDF — Take clear photos of paper pages, put them in order and turn them into one PDF you can email, without any scanner or app.
- How to Make a Video Small Enough to Send — Why phone videos are huge, the two different ways to make them smaller, and what to expect so you choose the right one.
- How to Get a Clean Cut-Out When You Remove a Background — What makes an automatic background remover work well, how to prepare the photo, and how to check and finish the result.
- How to Get Accurate Text Out of a Picture — Tips for photographing pages and screenshots so character recognition reads them well, and how to check and tidy the result.
- How to Make a GIF That Is Small, Smooth and Worth Sharing — Choosing the moment, the length and the width so a GIF loops nicely and does not weigh a ton.
- How to Save the Sound From a Video as MP3 or M4A — Choosing between MP3 and M4A, picking a quality that suits speech or music, and what to check before you save.
- Why Browser-Only Tools Are Private, and How to Check for Yourself — What 'nothing is uploaded' really means, why it matters for photos and documents, and a simple test anyone can do.
- Converting Lots of Photos at Once: A Practical Guide — How to handle a big folder of pictures without slowing your computer or losing track, using zips, small groups and sensible checks.
- iPhone Photos and Videos on a Windows PC: Why They Will Not Open, and What to Do — HEIC photos that show blank, MOV videos with no picture: the reasons, quick fixes, and the iPhone setting that avoids the trouble.
- Ten Habits for a Photo Library You Can Actually Find Things In — Simple, free habits for naming, storing, backing up and trimming a photo collection so it stays useful.