Editorial policy
Our guides explain how to share, compress and protect images. This page explains how they are made, so you can judge how far to rely on them.
Who writes the articles
Articles are published by the PictureToLink team. We use AI writing tools to research and draft them. A draft is not published as it comes out: it is checked against the sources described below, and anything we cannot confirm is removed or clearly marked as unconfirmed.
Sources we use
- Official documentation first. Size limits, settings and policies come from the company’s own help pages, terms or developer documentation, and from standards bodies and browser vendors for technical topics. We link to the source in the article.
- Dates on facts that change. Prices, upload limits and policies change without notice. Where an article depends on them, it shows the date we last checked them against official sources, and prices are given as “as of” that date.
- No invented numbers. If a service does not publish a figure, we say so rather than guessing.
Figures about our own tools
When an article or tool page quotes compression results, they come from files we ran through our own tools, and the page names the test images and settings. We do not claim to have tested other companies’ products unless we did, and we say when we haven’t.
Independence
- PictureToLink is our own product. Comparison articles say so and list our limits as well as our strengths.
- We don’t accept payment for coverage or placement, and our articles contain no affiliate links.
- The site is funded by Google ads. Advertisers don’t see articles before publication and have no say in what we write. We never place ads on pages that show your uploaded images.
How we choose topics
We write about questions people actually search for when they share, shrink or protect images: what a format is, why an upload fails, which size a platform wants. We use search data to find those questions, then write the answer we would want ourselves — the direct answer first, then the detail. We don’t write about topics only to rank for them, and we don’t cover products we know nothing about.
What the “Facts checked” date means
Articles that depend on details other companies control — upload limits, prices, image sizes, policies — show a “Facts checked against official sources” date under the title. On that date we compared those details with the company’s own pages, which are linked in the article. Platforms change these numbers without notice, so treat the date as a snapshot and follow the source link if something matters to you. When we re-check an article, we update the date.
Publishing schedule
We write articles ahead of time and publish them on a schedule. The date at the top of an article is when it was published. If we change it in a meaningful way later, an “Updated” date appears next to it.
Corrections
If you find a mistake or something has changed, email Admin@picturetolink.com or use the contact form, with the article’s address and, if you can, a link to the official source. We check every report. When we correct a fact, we update the article and its “Updated” date.
More about us
Read about PictureToLink, including how the service is funded, or our privacy policy.