A Practical Guide to Image Tools: Compress, Convert, Crop, and Clean Metadata

Every photo you take, screenshot you share, or logo you upload eventually runs into one of a handful of problems: the file's too big, it's the wrong format, it needs cropping, or it's quietly carrying more information than you meant to share. Here's the toolkit for each.

Shrinking file size without losing quality

Big images slow down web pages and blow past upload limits. Image Compressor reduces file size while keeping images visually indistinguishable from the original — the first thing to reach for before uploading anything to a website, CMS, or form with a size cap.

Resizing and cropping

Different platforms want different dimensions — a profile photo, a banner, a thumbnail. Image Resizer scales an image to exact dimensions while preserving aspect ratio so nothing looks stretched, and Crop Image cuts an image down to a specific region or aspect ratio when resizing alone won't fix an awkward composition.

If an image came out of a scanner or camera sideways, Rotate Image fixes the orientation without needing a full editor.

Converting between formats

Not every format works everywhere. Image Converter moves between JPG, PNG, WebP, and AVIF — useful when a site wants WebP for performance but your source photo is a JPG, or a print process wants PNG and you only have WebP. SVG Converter handles the vector side, turning an SVG icon or logo into a PNG, JPG, or WebP raster image when a tool doesn't accept vector formats.

If you're building out a website's icon set, Favicon Generator takes a single source image and produces every favicon size a browser or app manifest expects, bundled as a ready-to-use zip.

Getting images into and out of text

Sometimes an image needs to travel as text — embedded in CSS, JSON, or an email template rather than linked as a separate file. Image to Base64 encodes an image into a Base64 string for exactly that, and Base64 to Image decodes it back into a real image file when you're on the receiving end of one.

Working with color

Matching a color from a screenshot or a competitor's design is normally guesswork. Color Picker samples any pixel from an uploaded image and returns its exact HEX, RGB, and HSL values. Once you have a color, HEX to RGB and RGB to HEX convert it into whichever format your CSS, design tool, or codebase expects.

Protecting your privacy

Most phones and cameras embed EXIF metadata in every photo by default — camera model, exact timestamp, and often precise GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. Image Metadata Viewer shows you exactly what's embedded in a given file, which is worth checking before posting a photo publicly. Remove Image Metadata strips all of it out in one step, so a photo you share doesn't also share your location.

Generating scannable codes

Two more tools that live in this category because they're fundamentally image generation: QR Code Generator creates scannable codes for URLs, WiFi credentials, contact cards, and plain text, and Barcode Generator produces barcodes in EAN-13, Code 128, UPC, and other standard retail and inventory formats.

The short version

Too big → compress. Wrong size → resize or crop. Wrong format → convert. Need it as text → Base64. Need a color value → color picker or HEX/RGB converter. Worried about what a photo reveals → check and strip the metadata before you share it.