Images & conversion7 min read
Compressing images without visible loss
What a quality setting really controls, what chroma subsampling throws away, which SSIMULACRA 2 scores map to which settings, and why re-encoding hurts.
Images & conversion posts
Compression, resizing, format choice and measuring quality loss.
Images & conversion7 min read
Removing an AI watermark from an image
What removing an AI badge actually involves, when inpainting gives a clean result, and why erasing the visible mark leaves the embedded provenance intact.
Images & conversion6 min read
WebP vs AVIF: which format wins, and where
Measured compression figures with sources, WebP's 8-bit and 4:2:0 ceilings, AVIF's encode cost and missing progressive rendering, and how to choose per content type.