iLoveIMG alternative: batch edit images without uploading
iLoveIMG uploads your images to its servers; AstralBatch edits them in your browser tab. Tools, limits and pricing compared, including where iLoveIMG wins.
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Guides and comparisons
Written to be useful to someone deciding between two tools, which means saying where the other one is better.
Resizing images in bulk without uploading them
Bulk resizing in the browser: what upscaling cannot recover, why aspect ratio matters more than pixels, and where memory runs out.
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WebP, JPEG or PNG: which should you use?
Three formats, three different jobs. What each one is good at, where each one wastes bytes, and the one question that decides it in most cases.
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How to compress images without losing quality
Where the bytes in an image actually go, why re-saving a JPEG twice is worse than saving it once, and how far you can push compression before anyone notices.
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How to batch rename files safely
Sequence numbers, collisions and sort order. The rename patterns worth knowing and the two mistakes that make a batch rename impossible to reverse.
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What image upscaling can and cannot do
Upscaling invents plausible detail rather than recovering lost detail. Where that is genuinely useful, and where it quietly produces something untrue.
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How to batch convert image files without uploading them
Batch converting images means changing the format of many files in one pass. Which format to pick, what the conversion costs, and how to do it in your browser with no upload.
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How to batch upscale images at 2x or 4x without uploading them
To batch upscale images, drop a folder into an upscaler, pick 2x or 4x and download the results. What resampling does and does not add, and what to expect from the output.
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How to remove the background from multiple images at once
Batch background removal strips the background from every photo in a folder in your browser. The format you get back, and what still needs a touch-up.
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How to batch resize images to exact sizes, in your browser
Batch resizing sets one size for a whole folder. How to use the social and web presets, why a photo may not come out at exactly the preset size, and what each setting does.
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How to batch compress images and see what each file saved
Batch compressing re-encodes many images at a lower quality. What the Light, Balanced and Strong levels mean, why a PNG can come out larger, and why dimensions do not change.
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