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Photo Editor

Drop in a photo and everything is in one place: the frame for cropping, the buttons for turning it, the width of the result, three sliders for the light, and a line of text if you want one. What you see on screen is what the downloaded file looks like.

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One photo — JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC from a phone, up to 50 MB

    This is an editor of the whole picture, not of what is inside it: it crops, turns, resizes, adjusts light and lays a caption on top. Retouching, cutting out a background and layers are not here — that is different software, and pretending otherwise would waste your time. The photo is decoded and redrawn on your own device, and nothing is uploaded.

    How to use

    1. Drop a photo onto the area below, or press «Select file» — JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC from a phone, up to 50 MB.
    2. Drag the frame to choose what stays, turn the photo if it came in sideways, and move the sliders until the light looks right.
    3. Press «Save the photo» and download the result.

    Good to know

    The order the changes are applied in, and why it is visible

    First the turn, then the frame, then the size, and the light last. That order is not an implementation detail — it is what makes the frame behave. You draw the frame on the photo as it appears after turning, so the crop has to be measured in those same coordinates. A tool that cropped in the original coordinates and turned afterwards would cut a different piece than the one you outlined, and it would only be obvious once the file was saved.

    What you see is what you download

    The preview is coloured by the browser, and the saved file is drawn on a canvas — two different mechanisms that are easy to let drift apart. Safari only learned canvas filters in version 17, so on older phones the same brightness, contrast and colour are computed here by hand, pixel by pixel, with the formulas from the filter specification. Without that fallback the preview would look adjusted and the downloaded file would come out untouched — the worst kind of bug, because you find it after you have already sent the photo to someone.

    Frequently asked questions

    Is my photo uploaded anywhere?

    No. It is decoded and redrawn on your own device, and the result is built in the browser. That matters more for photos than for most files: a picture carries a face, a room, a document on a desk.

    Can I retouch skin, cut out the background or work in layers?

    No, and that is a boundary rather than an unfinished feature. This edits the picture as a whole — crop, turn, size, light, caption. Retouching and background removal are a different class of software, and promising them here would only cost you the time it takes to find out.

    Why did the width I typed give a smaller photo than the original?

    Because the width applies to what is left after cropping, not to the whole picture. Very large photos are also scaled down on load — a phone browser cannot hold a 48-megapixel image on a canvas, and the page tells you when that has happened.

    Can I get the original back afterwards?

    Not from here. The saved file is a new picture and the original is never modified, but the page keeps no history — keep the original if you might need it. Saving to JPG also re-compresses, so repeated rounds of saving the same photo will slowly soften it; PNG does not, at the cost of a much larger file.

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