Formats, file sizes, and settings worth knowing before you use a tool.
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MP3 size at 128, 192 and 320 kbps: about 0.96, 1.44 and 2.4 MB per minute, or 4.8, 7.2 and 12 MB for a 5-minute song. Plus how to choose a bitrate.
Turn sideways or upside-down scanned pages, remove blank pages and fix the order. Why rotating doesn't redraw pages, and why bookmarks may not carry over.
Open vs permissions passwords, how to remove a PDF password you know before you submit a file, and how to lock your own PDF with an AES-256 open password.
Not sure what quality number to use when compressing photos? See measured sizes at quality 75 and 60, when resizing beats lowering quality, and PNG tips.
Before posting photos to a marketplace or forum, strip EXIF GPS location and hide license plates, account numbers and shipping labels. Phone settings too.
Why a Fast video cut snaps to a keyframe and when to choose Accurate, plus how to trim recordings and ringtones, boost quiet audio safely and mute a video.
A checklist for combining PDFs before you submit them: the recipient's file rules, password-protected files, what merging drops, page order and file names.
Three ways to turn iPhone HEIC photos into JPG: switch the camera to Most Compatible, convert as you move photos to a computer, or convert in your browser.
No-upload tools run in your browser with WebAssembly, Web Workers and WebCodecs. See what the page loads, what it never sends, and how to check.
Compare JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF on compression, transparency and browser support, and see which format fits photos, logos, web images and iPhone photos.
MOV and MP4 are containers, and both can hold H.264 or HEVC video. See how they differ, when a MOV becomes MP4 without re-encoding, and when to re-encode.
Match a photo to an online form's pixel, file size and format rules: what to check in the instructions, when not to edit, and why to resize first.
Combine phone photos of receipts and paperwork into one PDF, one photo per page: shooting tips, paper size, orientation, margins, HEIC and file size.
Save only the pages you need from a PDF as a new file. Choose one file or one per range, write ranges like 1-3, 5, 8-, and see how the results are named.
Video too big to send? Check the attachment limit first, then lower the resolution and bitrate to save a smaller MP4. See what each quality level does.
A GIF's size grows with its frame count and the pixels in each frame. See how fps, width, clip length and dithering affect it, with measured examples.