Tips & Guides

Use a sharp image with strong contrast between the subject and background. Even lighting, a plain backdrop, and clear edges usually produce the cleanest result.

• Avoid heavy shadows touching the subject.
• Keep hair, fur, glass, and transparent objects against a contrasting background.
• Use the highest-quality original instead of a screenshot when possible.

Background removal separates a main subject from everything behind it. Object removal is better for small distractions inside an image—such as a blemish, bird, tiny watermark, baked-in button, or unwanted corner object.

JPG files cannot store transparency. Export as PNG or WebP with transparency enabled, and make sure the app or website displaying the file supports transparent backgrounds.

• PNG: transparency, logos, clip art, and crisp graphics.
• WebP: smaller website images with good quality and optional transparency.
• JPG: photographs where transparency is not needed.
• SVG: true vector artwork that must scale cleanly.

A PNG is made from pixels. An SVG is made from vector paths and shapes, so a properly built SVG can grow or shrink without becoming blurry.

Simple, high-contrast artwork with clean edges converts best. Photos, soft shadows, gradients, textures, and tiny details usually create many rough paths and a larger file.

• Fill: the color inside a shape.
• Stroke: the outline around a shape.
• Path: the instructions that draw a vector shape.
• viewBox: the SVG’s internal drawing area and coordinate system.

They may use different viewBox sizes, path structures, stroke widths, transforms, or grouped elements. Those hidden differences affect editing, animation, scaling, and how the SVG behaves inside other tools.

• Sound effect: a short action sound such as a click, pop, error, or swoosh.
• Loop: audio designed to repeat continuously.
• Soundscape: a longer atmospheric scene or mood that may also loop.

Trim at a natural musical or ambient boundary, match the beginning and ending energy, and use a short crossfade when appropriate. Repeated playback is the real test—listen through the transition several times.

• WAV: high-quality editing master with a larger file size.
• MP3: broadly compatible and convenient for sharing.
• OGG: efficient for websites, browser tools, and many games.

Lossy formats reduce data to make files smaller. Repeatedly converting a compressed file can add artifacts, so keep an original high-quality master and make new exports from that source.

File size, dimensions, encoding, browser memory, device power, and the complexity of the source all matter. A very large image, long video, or complicated SVG can take longer or exceed what a phone browser can comfortably process.

Use the original whenever possible. Screenshots may reduce resolution, flatten transparency, add compression, crop metadata, or change the color profile.

Every source file behaves differently. Previewing helps catch rough edges, incorrect transparency, unwanted cropping, distorted audio, missing metadata, or settings that need one more adjustment.

Save a copy of the original, close unnecessary browser tabs, use a desktop when available, and reduce oversized dimensions only when the project does not require them. Never overwrite your only master file.