Where Did 90% of My Photo Go? JPEG Compression, Explained Gently
Drag a 4 MB photo into a compressor, and a few seconds later you get a 400 KB file that looks… the same. Nine-tenths of the data is gone and your ey…
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How AI Background Removal Works: Image Segmentation and Alpha Masks
Removing the background from an image might look like a simple operation: identify the subject, delete everything else, and save the result as a tra…
I Built a Brush-Based AI Photo Eraser (People, Objects, Text, Watermarks)
I’m leony, an indie maker. I kept wanting a small, focused flow for cleaning a photo: paint over the distraction, let AI rebuild that patch from the…
Migrating off the remove.bg API: a field-by-field compatibility audit
TL;DR The remove.bg standalone site — and its self-serve API — retires on 1 December 2026, 9:00 CET . The official landing spot for API users, Leona…
Product Photo Background Removal Presets: Governance and Exceptions in 2026
Short answer: use transformation presets for repeatable product-photo background removal, and reserve direct processing for isolated exceptions that…
Image Quality Review: 3 Content-Aware Recipe Cases Against Centre Crop
TL;DR: for recipe-site avatars and dish cards, make content-aware cropping the default when a person can review exceptions; it preserves the subject…
How Fillable finds the blanks in a flat PDF form
Originally published at getnobody.org . A lot of forms still arrive as flat PDFs: an intake form, a volunteer application, an order sheet. Nothing o…
Course Thumbnail Pipelines — 3 Moderation Gates Before Content-Aware Crop
For an e-learning catalog, the crop decision is downstream of a more important constraint: an image that has not passed moderation must never become…
Hitting an image size ceiling with Rust and WebAssembly
Many image tools expose a quality slider. Forms and government portals usually expose a different requirement: “the file must be under 100 KB.” Thos…
The half of California's AB 723 that nobody implements
`California's AB 723 has been in force since January 1, 2026. It amends Business & Professions Code § 10140.8 and it applies to any real estate…
Deploying ImgProxy – Process, Resize, Convert Images on the Fly
ImgProxy is an open-source image-processing server — resize, convert, and transform images on the fly via URL parameters, ideal as a caching layer i…
Wardrobe: Revolutionizing Fashion Management with AI-Powered Image Extraction
The Wardrobe project, recently gaining traction on GitHub, presents an innovative approach to clothing organization using AI—specifically, image pro…
Document photos are a tiny image-processing problem with sharp edges
Disclosure: I work on Passlens, a browser-first passport and ID photo maker. This post is about the product decisions behind that workflow, not a ne…