Guides

A guide here is a page that exists because something was measured against the tools themselves, or because an official source says something and we checked it on a stated date.

Each one opens with the finding, in a few sentences you can read on their own, and puts the method that produced it directly underneath — the sample, the machine, the date and the numbers the prose is built from, so you can see exactly what was measured and judge it for yourself.

Nothing goes up before its measurement exists. A guide with no working to show is a claim, and a claim is not worth a URL.

  • What happens when a large photo must reach 20 KB

    By Sucheet BoppanaPublished Updated

    A 1600×1067 synthetic test scene of 393,418 bytes came out of the 20 KB page at 20,111 bytes, and it got there by giving up pixels rather than quality: 524×350 at quality 68, in 1.85 s.

  • JPEG vs WebP at the same file size

    By Sucheet BoppanaPublished Updated

    On the photograph-like sample the two formats really did land on the same bytes, and WebP won: 41.22 dB PSNR and 0.9797 SSIM at the 100 KB ceiling against JPEG's 36.98 and 0.9568, and 36.92 and 0.9566 at 50 KB — within 0.06 dB of what the JPEG needed 96.97 KB to reach.

  • Passport photo size in pixels

    By Sucheet BoppanaPublished Updated

    There is no single passport photo size in pixels.

  • How to make an image 300 DPI

    By Sucheet BoppanaPublished Updated

    “300 DPI” names two different jobs, and only one of them changes the picture.

  • Does cropping reduce image quality?

    By Sucheet BoppanaPublished Updated

    It depends on the format the picture is saved in, and for a PNG on whether any of it is partly see-through.