Photo Editor

About the Photo Editor

One place to finish a photo: crop (free or 1:1, 4:5, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9, 9:16), rotate, flip and straighten; fix light and colour with adjustments (exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, vibrance, warmth, tint, vignette, grain) or one-click filters; then add text, shapes, arrows and lines, freehand drawing and highlighter, emoji and a blur or pixelate brush. Every addition is a layer you can select, move, resize, hide, lock, reorder or delete, and undo/redo covers every step.

The saved photo is drawn again from your original at full resolution — the adjustments and filters are applied to every pixel, not to the preview — as JPG, PNG or WebP. Editing happens on your device; the photo is never uploaded.

Common uses

• Getting a product, property or profile photo ready: crop, straighten, brighten.
• Marking up a photo with arrows, shapes and notes for a report or repair request.
• Adding greetings, captions or prices in English, Hindi or Marathi.
• Hiding faces or details with the blur brush before sharing.

Crop, rotate and straighten

• Crop shows a box with rule-of-thirds guides; choose a shape (Free, Original or a fixed ratio), drag the box and its corners, then Apply crop (or press Enter). With the keyboard, the arrow keys move the box and Alt + arrow keys resize it; shapes, lines and arrows can be added with Add to the middle and moved the same way. Undo crop returns to the uncropped photo without losing other edits.
• Rotate 90° and Flip turn or mirror the whole picture; text, shapes and drawings move with it (text keeps reading the right way round).
• Straighten tilts the photo up to 45° and zooms in just enough that no empty corners appear, so the picture keeps its size.

Adjustments and filters

Adjustments and filters run on the same colour engine as the photo filters tool: exposure and white balance are applied in linear light, contrast as a smooth S-curve, and highlights and shadows separately, so colours stay natural. While you edit, a screen-size copy is processed in a background worker for speed; when you save, the full-size photo is processed the same way, in strips, so even large photos fit in memory. Vignette and grain are positioned in the photo’s own pixels, so they look the same in the saved file as on screen.

Text, drawings and layers

• Text offers free fonts (including Devanagari for Hindi and Marathi), outline, shadow, a background box and curved text; Add Text to Image has more text styles.
• Draw has a pen and a see-through highlighter; Shapes draws rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows with an optional fill.
• Blur paints a blur or pixelation over faces, plates or text. Blur can sometimes be partly undone on text — for names and numbers, cover them with a filled rectangle instead (see Blur Image).
• Layers lists everything you added, top first: select, hide, lock, move up or down, or delete.

Limitations

• One photo at a time; for the same change on many photos use the batch tools, such as the image resizer or watermark tool.
• Photos larger than about 24 megapixels are scaled down for editing and saving, to stay within browser memory (especially on phones).
• Edits are kept only while the page is open — there is no project file to reopen later.
• There is no background removal, healing or AI retouching.
• Saved photos are re-encoded: EXIF data such as camera details and GPS location is not copied.

Privacy

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