Handmade helps you pick the right image format, convert cleanly between them, and ship images that are small and sharp. It’s a practical, 2026 reference for developers, designers and photographers — not a brochure, and not a museum.
The site is named after Handmade Software Inc, the company behind Image Alchemy — a pioneering 1990s command-line tool that converted images between dozens of formats, used everywhere from government offices to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station. We’re independent and unaffiliated with that company; we simply admire what it did, and carry the craft forward with today’s tools.
There’s a short Origin page if you’d like the real story — and if we’ve got a format wrong or missed a tool, the contact page is open.