Online photo editor

How to edit a photo online

1. 1. Drop a photo onto the tool or click to choose a file. It opens instantly — there is nothing to upload first.
2. 2. Tap a Look, pick a tool — Draw, shapes, Text or Sticker — or move the sliders. Hold Compare at any point to see the untouched original.
3. 3. Choose JPG, PNG or WebP and hit Download — the edited photo is saved straight from your browser at the original resolution.

The one-tap Looks

Every Look is a named combination of the same sliders you can move yourself — no hidden formulas, no re-imagined pixels. Tapping one sets the sliders so you can keep refining.

Adjustments explained

Five sliders cover the light and color corrections every image editor gets asked for — no layers to wrestle:

Brightness

Lightens or darkens the whole photo. Faded night shots and dim indoor snaps.

Contrast

Separates light from dark. A small boost helps photos that look hazy or flat.

Saturation

Color intensity — from muted film looks all the way to black & white.

Warmth

Shifts the color balance between a cool blue cast and a warm orange one. Handy for indoor shots that came out too yellow or photos taken in blue evening light.

Vignette

Darkens the edges to draw the eye toward the centre of the frame.

Text on photo, drawing, stickers & frames

The tool rail sits at the top of the editor, above the photo, so every tool is one tap away — pick a tool, its options appear right below, and you work directly on the image:

Draw

A freehand ink brush. Pick a color and a thickness, then trace on the photo — great for circling the important part of a picture or signing off a proof.

Shapes

Rectangle, oval and arrow outlines in the same ink. Press and drag on the photo; the shape snaps in on release.

Text on photo

Type a caption, tap the photo to place it, tap again anywhere for another. Caption height is a percentage of the photo, so it scales with your file, and text keeps the exact ink color you chose — the quick way to add text to image posts and cards. For tiled, angled or logo watermarks, use the dedicated Watermark tool instead.

Stickers

Emoji stamps: pick one, tap to place, tap again for more. They render as part of the photo on export.

Frame & rounded corners

A colored border drawn inside the photo's edges (as a percentage of the shorter side) and corner roundness up to a full capsule. Rounded corners export with transparency in PNG and WebP; JPG fills them white.

Two details worth knowing: ink, captions and stickers keep their own color — brightness, warmth and the rest apply to the photo underneath them, never to your annotations. And because annotations live in photo coordinates, a later rotate or flip carries them along.

Supported formats

Output behavior

• Pixel dimensions are never changed — an edited 4032×3024 photo still downloads at 4032×3024. Rotating a portrait swaps the width and height, which is exactly what a rotation should do.
• The download re-renders through the same pipeline as the preview, so the file matches what you see — Looks, every slider, drawings, captions, stickers, frame and rounded corners included.
• Rounded corners follow the transparency rules: PNG and WebP keep the cut corners transparent, JPG fills them white along with any other transparent areas.
• EXIF, GPS and camera metadata are stripped, because the output is re-encoded. That is good for privacy and one of the reasons the file is often smaller.
• At very high JPG quality the file can occasionally end up larger than the original — lower the quality slider or pick WebP if size matters.

Privacy

This photo editor works completely offline in your browser. Your photo is read into memory, edited onto a canvas, and handed back as a download. Nothing is transmitted to any server, and closing the tab discards everything.

Browser & device compatibility

• JPG, PNG and WebP work in every modern browser.
• AVIF input needs a recent browser — current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari 16+. On older browsers you'll see a clear message instead of a broken result.
• Drawing on touch devices: while a drawing tool is active, the canvas doesn't scroll the page — that's what makes freehand drawing possible. Switch back to the View tool to scroll normally.
• Rendering uses your browser's native canvas engine, so exact color rendering can differ very slightly between browsers and operating systems.
• Very large photos (100+ megapixels) can exceed the memory of older phones and tablets — processing happens on your device, so your hardware sets the ceiling.

Troubleshooting

• "That file type isn't supported" — the file isn't a JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF image. Rename or re-export it first.
• "Your browser couldn't decode this file" — the type is recognized but this browser can't read it (often AVIF on an older browser), or the file is corrupted.
• A caption or sticker landed in the wrong spot — Undo removes one placement per step, so a few undos backtrack cleanly, and Clear ink wipes every annotation at once.
• Very large photos are slow or fail — editing uses your device's memory; see compatibility above.

Frequently asked questions