OmegaPix Blog
Image compression, made readable.
Practical, no-fluff guides on WebP, AVIF, HEIC, PNG, JPG, and how compression affects what your visitors see.
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How-toThe Complete Image Privacy Toolkit: What to Strip Before Sharing
A photo carries more than the pixels you see. GPS coordinates, camera serials, faces, addresses in the background. Here is the full checklist for making any image safe to share publicly.
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How-toHow to Crop Images to Aspect Ratios: A 2026 Practical Guide
Aspect ratio matters more than crop size. Here is when each common ratio is the right choice, and how to crop without uploading the photo anywhere.
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How-toRedact PII Before Sharing: Screenshots, Documents, Photos
You are about to forward a screenshot, scan, or photo that contains personal information. Here is the practical, browser-only checklist for redacting it safely first.
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How-toBlack Bar vs Blur vs Brush: Choosing the Right Redaction Mode
Redaction tools give you three modes for a reason. Each one solves a different problem. And one of them has a security pitfall most users miss. Here is the practical decision tree.
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How-toHow to Redact Sensitive Information from Screenshots
You took a screenshot to demonstrate a bug or share a workflow, and now there is sensitive information you need to hide. Here is how to redact it in your browser without uploading the screenshot anywhere.
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Format GuidesWhen to Convert JPG to PNG (and When Not To)
Going from JPG to PNG sounds like an upgrade, but it does not undo compression. Here is when the conversion is genuinely useful, and the common cases where it just creates a larger file with the same artefacts.
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How-toWhy Watermark Photos Before Sharing, and When Not To
A watermark is a deterrent and an attribution device, not a shield. Understanding what it does, and does not, is the difference between using it well and wasting your time.
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How-toHow to Delete Pages From a PDF
Removing a single page from a 200-page PDF is the kind of small task that should take ten seconds and almost always involves uploading the document to a stranger. Here is how to do it locally.
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How-toWatermark Position Guide: Where to Place Yours and Why
Watermark placement is not one-size-fits-all. Bottom-right works for portfolios, centre works against image theft, and corner watermarks need a contrast tweak to survive Instagram. Here is the practical guide.
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