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Image Tools

Resize, compress, convert, rotate and apply filters to images entirely in your browser — nothing is ever uploaded to a server.

6 tools · all free, all run in your browser

Image tools cover the routine edits a photo needs before it is ready to use: shrinking it to fit a limit, compressing it so a page loads faster, converting it to a different format, cropping it to a specific shape, straightening its orientation, or adjusting its colour and brightness. Every one of these runs using the Canvas API built into your browser, so the photo itself is never uploaded to a server — it is decoded, edited and re-encoded entirely on your own device, then handed back to you as a download.

Why browser-based image editing works so well

Modern browsers include a genuinely capable 2D graphics engine as a standard web platform feature, the same one every website's charts, games and interactive graphics rely on. Reading an uploaded file, drawing it to a canvas, transforming that canvas and re-encoding the result as PNG, JPEG or WebP requires nothing beyond what already ships in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. That is also why these tools have a practical size ceiling — very large images, tens of megapixels, take proportionally longer to process and use proportionally more memory, since the whole operation runs on the device in front of you rather than on a server with dedicated resources.

Lossy formats, lossless formats and why the difference matters

JPEG and WebP are lossy: each time an image is re-encoded at a lossy setting, a small amount of detail is discarded permanently, which is what makes the file smaller. PNG is lossless: it never discards image data, which is why it suits graphics, logos and screenshots but produces much larger files for photographs than JPEG does. Understanding this distinction is the single most useful piece of knowledge for editing images without a quality surprise — repeatedly compressing an already-compressed JPEG compounds the loss, while converting a JPEG to PNG only stops further loss from that point onward rather than restoring anything already gone.

Image Tools — questions

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. Every image tool processes the file locally in your browser using the Canvas API. The image is never transmitted to a server, which also means there is no file size limit imposed by an upload connection.
Is there a maximum file size?
Files up to 30 MB are supported. Very large or very high-resolution images take longer to process because everything runs on your own device rather than a server.
Do these tools work on a phone?
Yes, though processing large photos is naturally faster on a desktop or laptop with more processing power and memory available.
Will repeated edits degrade my image?
Lossless steps like resizing, cropping and rotating do not degrade quality by themselves. Re-saving as JPEG or WebP at a lossy quality setting does discard some detail each time, so keep an original copy if you plan to make several separate edits.

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