Blog for content creators

Creator posts here cover the unglamorous half of making things: getting an image under a size limit without it looking chewed, pulling a subject off its background cleanly enough to use, cutting a clip to the length a platform will accept, and turning a video into a GIF that still reads at small sizes.

I care about the tradeoffs in this work, so the posts spend time on them. Quality settings, where the artefacts show up, which model handles hair badly and what to do about it. There is usually a before and after, at the real resolution, so you can judge the result rather than take my word for it.

If you are after the tools themselves, the creators shelf collects them. These posts are for the times when the default settings are not giving you what you want and you need to understand why.