Edit photos online, free

How to edit a photo online, free

Editing a photo should not require an install, an account, or a monthly fee. Open this page, drop in a JPG, PNG, or WebP, and every adjustment slider and one-tap filter is right there. Try a preset like Vintage or Punchy for an instant look, then fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation, and warmth to taste. When it looks right, press Download and the edited photo is saved at the same full resolution you started with.

Everything happens inside your browser using HTML5 Canvas. Your image is decoded, adjusted, and re-encoded on your own laptop or phone. No upload, no server-side processing, no queue, no signup. Open the network tab in your browser while you export a photo and you will see exactly zero requests going out with your image.

Crop, rotate, and straighten in one place

The Crop and Rotate tab lets you finish a photo without hopping between tools. Rotate 90 degrees left or right, mirror or flip vertically, and drag a straighten slider between minus 15 and plus 15 degrees to fix a tilted horizon. The result auto-zooms so the frame stays full, no blank corners at any angle. A draggable crop box with rule-of-thirds guides and Free, 1:1, 4:3, and 16:9 aspect presets lets you tighten the composition, and everything runs on the same undo history as the color sliders so you can step back through geometry and adjustment changes together.

Adjust brightness, contrast, and color

The adjustment sliders cover the edits that fix the vast majority of everyday photos. Brightness lifts or dims the overall exposure. Contrast pushes shadows down and highlights up so a flat photo has more depth. Saturation controls how vivid the colors are, useful for both boosting a dull food photo and toning down a sunset that looks cartoonish. Warmth shifts the hue toward orange or blue, the fastest way to correct a photo that came out too cold under fluorescent light or too warm indoors. Grayscale and Sepia are one-slider film looks. Blur adds a small soft-focus effect. Sharpen (unsharp mask) recovers crispness on slightly soft shots. Vignette darkens the corners for a classic focused look, and Grain adds a fine film texture that helps a clean digital photo feel less sterile.

Every slider shows its current numeric value and has a tiny reset link next to it, so you can undo a single adjustment without wiping the others. The Reset all button zeroes everything and returns the preview to the original photo. Every committed change is added to the undo history: use the Undo and Redo buttons, or Ctrl/Cmd+Z and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Z (or Ctrl/Cmd+Y), to step through your edit trail. Hold Space to peek at the original at any time.

Duotone color grading

The duotone chips remap your photo between two chosen colors, a shadow tone and a highlight tone. Pick Navy | Cream for a magazine cover feel, Purple | Peach for a sunset mood, Teal | Gold for a moody cinematic grade, or Plum | Mint for a soft editorial look. The amount slider lets you dial the effect from a whisper of tint to a full graphic-poster mapping, and all the regular sliders keep working on top so you can combine a duotone with a bit of contrast and grain for a finished stylised export.

One-tap filters, B&W, sepia, vintage, and more

The filter chips at the top set a preset combination of sliders in a single tap. B&W drives grayscale to 100 with a small contrast bump. Sepia gives the classic warm brown film look. Vintage combines a light sepia tint, a small hue shift, and a slight fade on contrast and saturation, a look that is instantly recognizable on Instagram-style feeds. Cool tilts everything toward blue for moody outdoor shots. Punchy boosts contrast and saturation for high-impact product shots. Soft is a low-contrast dreamy look with a hint of blur, ideal for portraits. Filters are just starting points, the sliders stay live so you can dial them in further.

Fix a dark or washed-out photo

For a dark indoor photo, try this recipe: bump Brightness by about +20, add Contrast around +15 to keep the shadows from turning gray, then nudge Saturation +10 so the recovered color does not look muddy. If the light is too warm, drop Warmth to about -10. For a washed-out photo shot at high ISO or through a hazy window, start with Contrast +25, Saturation +15, and if the whites look blue, add Warmth around +8. These are starting points, not rules, the whole point of live preview is that you can watch the picture change while you drag.

Before and after compare

The Hold to compare button lets you press and hold to see the original, un-edited photo instantly. It works with mouse and touch, so you can verify on desktop or on a phone. This is the single most useful control for judging an edit, if the compare toggle makes your edit look worse than the original, dial it back.

Export as JPG, PNG, or WebP

JPG is the default and the right choice for most photos, small file, universal support, adjustable quality slider. PNG is the right choice when the source image has transparency you want to keep, or when you want the sharpest possible pixel-exact output with no compression. WebP is the modern format, roughly 25 to 35 percent smaller than JPG at the same visual quality, and every current browser supports it. The editor uses a WebAssembly fallback so WebP export works even in Safari, where the native canvas encoder can be unreliable.

Whichever format you pick, the exported file defaults to the full original pixel dimensions of your source image. If you need a smaller (or larger) copy, type a width or height into the Export size fields, the other dimension locks to the source aspect ratio automatically. Downscaling is quality-safe; upscaling shows an honest reminder that we cannot invent detail the source does not have.

Your photo never leaves your device

Personal photos are personal. A picture of your child, a screenshot with private information, a photo of a document, none of these belong on a stranger's server. Because the whole editor runs client-side, you can edit sensitive images with the same confidence you would open them in a native app. There is no account tied to the images, no cloud backup you did not ask for, and no third party quietly logging thumbnails.

Works on Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone

The photo editor is a plain web page. It runs in Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and in mobile Safari on iPhone and iPad and mobile Chrome on Android. All the sliders, the compare button, and the filter chips are touch-friendly. If you also want to trim the frame or straighten a sideways photo, our Crop Image tool is right next door, also fully in the browser.

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