Photo Blur

You have a photo — a cat curled up on a sofa, an anime character you love, a Valorant agent screenshot, or just your own face — and you want to transform it into ASCII art. The kind of text-based image that looks incredible in a Discord server, a GitHub README, a terminal screen, or a social media post.

You have a low-resolution image — a blurry product photo, an old family picture, a small logo, or an anime illustration and you need it sharper, larger and print-ready. Traditional resizing just stretches pixels and makes things worse. AI image upscaling works differently and in 2026, the technology has reached a point where free online tools deliver results that were once only possible with expensive desktop software.

SVG files are the gold standard for logos, icons, and illustrations. They scale to any size without losing sharpness because they store shapes as mathematical paths rather than pixels. But most platforms — social media, email clients, Microsoft Office, Google Docs — do not support SVG uploads. When you need your vector graphic to work everywhere, PNG is the format that solves it. Converting SVG to PNG turns your infinitely scalable vector into a fixed-resolution raster image that opens on any device, uploads to any platform, and embeds into any document without compatibility issues. The challenge is doing it correctly — preserving transparency, choosing the right resolution, and avoiding the blurry output that comes from using the wrong tool or the wrong settings. This guide covers five methods, explains exactly how to handle transparency and DPI, and shows you how to choose the right SVG output format for your specific use case. For the fastest conversion with no setup, use Transfonic's SVG to PNG converter — free, browser-based, no account required. For a full overview of every image format Transfonic supports, see the image conversion tools hub.

An AVIF file is an image saved in the AV1 Image File Format — a modern, highly compressed format used across the web. It holds the same kind of photo or graphic a JPG would, but at roughly half the file size. The catch: it's new enough that some older apps and devices can't open it yet, which is usually why you landed here. If you just downloaded an image and it saved as something ending in .avif that won't open, you're in the right place. This guide explains what the file is, why you're suddenly seeing them, and exactly how to open one on Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android, and Linux — plus the one fix that works everywhere.