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Guides on image formats and photo conversion, plus write-ups of the engineering behind the tools

How to Get Your Signature Under 20 KB for an Online Application Form

Signature upload rejected? What the form is really checking, how to hit exact pixels without stretching, and why the minimum file size is the part that catches people out.

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Compressing a JPEG to an Exact File Size in Python

How to hit an exact byte target with Pillow — binary search on quality, when to shed pixels instead, and why one encoder flag helps least on exactly the photos you would expect it to help most.

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How to Choose the Right Image Format

The only image format guide you will ever need - explained simply, with no jargon. Learn exactly which format to use and when.

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