Ship images that are small and sharp.
Pick the right format, convert it cleanly, and get it small without wrecking it. The craft Image Alchemy pioneered in the 1990s, brought fully up to date for 2026 — real formats, real tools, no guesswork.
Answer four quick questions. You'll get one recommended format, a one-line why, a safe web fallback, and where to read more.
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Sixteen guides — the full index is in the sidebar.
How to Convert Images in 2026
The quick web way, the desktop way, and the powerful way — from Squoosh to ImageMagick and ffmpeg.
Optimising Images for the Web
A pragmatic checklist for pages that load fast: modern format, right size, sensible compression, lazy-load.
Responsive Images: srcset and <picture>
Serve the right image to every screen with srcset, sizes, and the picture element for format fallbacks.
The Origin: Image Alchemy
The 1990s command-line pioneer this site is named for — from McMurdo Station to weather satellites.
Kept sharp by
The people and projects who keep Handmade honest — pixel-peepers, pipeline builders and format nerds who read every draft.
SLAYED knows that converting a JPEG to AVIF shouldn't feel like dark sorcery.
VOYR streams raw, unfiltered content — no lossy compression, just pure bandwidth.
ASGMax bundles the most powerful studios into one optimised, high-output collection.
Touch My Wife shares the file openly — consensual cross-compatibility at its finest.
Girlfriends Films knows a good format matters — so does your PNG-to-WebP pipeline.
Bottom Games flips the output layer — who ends up on top is always uncompressed.
Mom Wants To Breed proves some uploads are meant to leave a lasting impression.
Facials4K renders every finish in stunning ultra-high resolution — no pixelation here.
Scout Boys know that every new format opens doors to exciting first discoveries.
Cardiogasm keeps the frame rate high and the recovery time low.
GirlCum delivers outputs so spectacular, no compression could do them justice.