Images and product photos: guides

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• After converting my photos, they lost their date taken and my gallery sorts them wrongly. Why?Format conversion redraws the image, so the capture date stored in EXIF does not travel with it and galleries sort by file date. How to keep the order.
• Should screenshots full of text and tables become JPG, WebP, or stay PNG?Sharp text on flat colors suffers under JPEG. When a screenshot should stay PNG, when high-quality WebP is a good middle ground, and when JPG is unavoidable.
• My designer asked for a transparent PNG logo. Will converting my JPG to PNG remove the white background?PNG can hold transparency, but conversion does not create it. The white background of a JPG logo stays white as PNG. What to ask your designer for instead.
• The marketplace I sell on will not accept WebP images. How do I prepare mine?If your platform's upload page lists JPG and PNG only, convert WebP images to JPEG in one batch, with white behind cut-outs and file names kept.
• I cannot insert WebP images into a Word document or PowerPoint deck. What can I do?Some Office versions and desktop programs refuse WebP. Convert graphics to PNG and photos to JPEG before inserting, or put them in a PDF directly.
• What quality should I use when converting PNG to JPEG: keep 90 or go lower?The default of 90 is safe for a one-off conversion. When to drop to 75 or 85, why there is no quality slider for PNG, and when the compressor fits better.
• To get WebP images, should I use the format converter or the image compressor?Both save WebP at a quality you choose, but the converter changes format and leaves files already in it alone, while the compressor re-encodes every image to shrink it.
• If I convert JPG to WebP and back to JPG, do I lose quality?Yes. JPEG and WebP are both lossy, and each hop between them strips new detail. How to avoid the chain by converting from the original or a PNG working copy.
• I added a JPG and chose JPEG to make it smaller. Why did the converter leave it unchanged?The format converter leaves files already in the target format alone, since re-encoding would change nothing but quality. To shrink a JPG, use the image compressor.
• The print shop refused my images because they are WebP. Which format should I convert them to?Convert designs and text-heavy artwork to PNG with no extra loss, and photos to JPEG at quality 95. Remember conversion adds no pixels, which printers care about too.
• Will converted images keep their file names so I can match them to product SKUs?Yes. The full name stays and only the last extension changes, even when the name contains dots. Plus three cases worth checking before uploading to your store.
• What is the difference between JPG and JPEG, and do I need to convert between them?None: JPG and JPEG are two extensions for the same format, so there is nothing to convert. Why two names exist, when renaming is enough, and what the tool does with each.
• How do I put my Arabic shop name and my English Instagram handle in the same watermark line?Put your Arabic store name and English Instagram handle on one watermark line, and see why the @ can jump to the wrong end of your handle.
• Why does my white watermark disappear on product photos with a light background?White text on a white or beige background has almost no contrast. Turn on the outline or shadow: the tool picks black or white for it based on your text color.
• My corner watermark gets cut off in my Instagram profile grid, where should I place it instead?Profile grids and previews often show the middle of a photo, so a mark hugging a corner is lost. Move it inward with the margin or offset, or repeat it.
• How do I make a slanted watermark that repeats across the whole photo, like stock photo sites do?Switch on 'Repeat across the image', then set the rotation, the space between repeats and the opacity. How the pattern is laid out, and how spacing sets the count.
• Why did the watermark tool widen the gap between my repeated marks by itself?Repeat mode caps the pattern at 4000 marks. A tiny mark with zero spacing on a big photo goes over, so the tool widens the step and tells you so.
• Why is my JPEG bigger in KB after I added a watermark?The mark is drawn into the pixels, so the JPEG is saved again at quality 92. If the original was saved lower, the file can come out larger at the same dimensions.
• Does a watermarked photo still carry the GPS location from my phone?No. The tool redraws the photo to add the mark, so EXIF data is dropped, including GPS coordinates and phone model, after the orientation is applied first.
• Why does my logo show up with a white box around it when I use it as a watermark?The box is part of the logo file itself: JPEG cannot hold transparency, and some PNGs are saved on white. Upload a PNG or WebP that is really transparent.
• Why does my logo look blurry when I watermark large camera photos?Logo size is a share of the photo width, so at 25% on a 4000 px photo it is drawn 1000 px wide. A 300 px logo file gets stretched and goes soft.
• How do I nudge my watermark up a little so it does not cover the product detail near the bottom?You cannot drag the mark, but a negative vertical offset lifts it. Offsets are a share of the image width, so the nudge lands in the same spot on every photo.
• Should I watermark my photos before or after resizing and compressing them?The safe order is resize, then watermark, then compress. Why the order matters for cropping, for the quality 92 save and for how crisp the mark's letters look.
• How do I place one watermark tilted at 45 degrees right in the middle of the image?Pick the center of the grid and set the rotation to 45 or -45. The tilted box is bigger than the straight text, so a wide text needs a smaller size to fit.