Frequently Asked Questions

ImageTools is a free suite of online tools designed to help you with common image manipulation tasks directly in your browser. You can compress, convert, resize, rotate, flip, remove backgrounds, and upscale images without needing to install any software. All processing is done client-side for speed and privacy.

No, all image processing performed by ImageTools happens directly in your web browser (client-side). Your images are not uploaded to any server, ensuring your privacy and a faster experience.

Yes, ImageTools is completely free to use for all its current features.

Support varies slightly by tool:

• Compress: Primarily JPG, PNG, GIF (outputs static), WEBP. Others like BMP/TIFF are converted first.
• Convert: Accepts a wide range including JPG, PNG, GIF, WEBP, BMP, TIFF, ICO, SVG (rendered). Outputs to popular web formats like PNG, JPG, WEBP, AVIF.
• Resize: JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF (static), BMP. Output can be original format or PNG/JPG/WEBP.
• Rotate & Flip: JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF (static), BMP. Output can be original format or PNG/JPG/WEBP.
• Remove Background: JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP (solid backgrounds work best). Output is always a format supporting transparency (PNG, WEBP, AVIF).
• Upscale: Best with JPG and PNG. Output can be original format or PNG/JPG/WEBP.

Please check the "Supported & Output Formats" accordion on each tool's page for specific details.

The compression tool uses browser-based algorithms to reduce file size. For JPEG and WebP, it re-encodes the image at a slightly lower quality level. For PNGs, it optimizes the existing data or re-encodes it. GIFs are converted to static (non-animated) images for compression. The goal is to significantly reduce size with minimal perceptible loss in quality.

Client-side upscaling (enlarging) an image primarily works by interpolating existing pixels to create new ones. It increases the dimensions but cannot create new, real detail that wasn't in the original image. While our tool uses browser algorithms to do this as smoothly as possible, significantly upscaling a small or low-quality image may result in some blurriness or a less sharp appearance. For the best results, always start with the highest quality source image available.

Our client-side background removal tool uses a color-based approach. You can pick a color from the image, and the tool will attempt to make pixels of that color (and similar colors, based on the tolerance you set) transparent. It works best on images with solid, contrasting backgrounds. For complex backgrounds, hair, or semi-transparent areas, the results may vary. The "Auto Remove" feature attempts to guess the background color from the image's edges.

Yes! Most of our core image manipulation tools (like Compress, Convert, Resize, Rotate, Remove Background, Upscale, Grayscale, Invert Colors) support uploading and processing multiple images simultaneously. You can then download them individually or as a single ZIP archive. Some specific utility tools might process one input at a time.

We'd love to hear from you! If you encounter any problems or have suggestions for improvement, please use the Contact Us page to send us a message.

You can switch between dark and light mode using the theme toggle switch located in the website's main header, usually near the navigation links. Your preference will be saved in your browser for your next visit. By default, ImageTools will also try to respect your operating system's color scheme preference on your first visit if no specific choice has been made on our site.

The search bar located below the main header allows you to quickly find tools. Simply type keywords related to the tool you're looking for (e.g., 'compress', 'PNG', 'resize pixels'). A dropdown will appear with matching tools, including their name, a short description, and an icon. You can click on any result to navigate directly to that tool.

Since all processing is done client-side (in your browser), there isn't a strict file size limit imposed by our servers. However, very large images (e.g., hundreds of megabytes or extremely high resolutions) might perform slowly or even cause your browser to become unresponsive due to memory limitations of the browser itself. For best performance, we recommend working with images of a reasonable size for web and typical editing tasks.

Currently, ImageTools requires an internet connection to load the initial webpage and its resources. Once a tool's page is loaded, the image processing itself happens in your browser and does not require a continuous internet connection for that specific task. However, navigating to new tools or reloading the page will require an internet connection.

ImageTools is designed to work best on modern web browsers such as the latest versions of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge. While some tools might function on older browsers, we recommend using an up-to-date browser for optimal performance, security, and access to all features, especially those relying on newer web technologies for client-side processing.

We love hearing ideas from our users! You can suggest a new tool or feature by using our Contact Us page. Please select 'Suggestion / New Tool Idea' as the reason for contact and provide as much detail as possible about your suggestion.

ImageTools is a completely free online service, and all our image editing tools are offered at no cost to our users. The advertisements displayed on the site are currently our primary way to cover the operational costs associated with running and maintaining the website, such as server expenses, domain registration, and future development.

We strive to keep ads as unobtrusive as possible. We greatly appreciate your understanding and support, which allows us to continue providing these tools for free to everyone.

The HTML to Image Converter allows you to paste HTML code or upload an HTML file to generate an image (PNG or JPG) based on that HTML structure. It uses a client-side library (html2canvas) to render the HTML in your browser and then captures it as an image.

Limitations:

• Complex CSS, external stylesheets, and some modern CSS features (like certain grid or flexbox intricacies) might not render perfectly.
• External resources such as images, web fonts, or iframes loaded from different domains may not appear in the generated image due to browser security restrictions (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing - CORS), unless those external domains explicitly allow cross-origin requests.
• HTML content that relies heavily on JavaScript for its final appearance or for loading dynamic content might not be fully captured, as the tool primarily renders the static HTML structure and basic styles at the moment of capture.
• The "Enter Website URL" tab for this tool is currently an experimental feature. Capturing live, complex websites directly from a URL has significant limitations when done purely client-side. For reliable, full-featured website screenshots, server-side tools (like Puppeteer or Playwright) are generally required.

The Image Color Picker allows you to upload an image and then select colors directly from it. When you move your mouse over the displayed image, a small preview (or loupe) will show a magnified area around your cursor. The color directly under the center of your cursor/loupe will be shown in a "hover color" preview box.

When you click on a point in the image, that color is "selected", and its values in different color models (HEX, RGB, HSL, HSV) will be displayed. You can then copy these color codes for your use.

The tool also provides zoom and pan controls to help you navigate larger images and select precise colors.

Limitations:

• Performance: Very large images might take a moment to load and process for color picking.
• Browser Differences: While we aim for consistency, the exact color values picked might have minuscule differences between browsers due to their internal rendering engines. For most practical purposes, these differences are negligible.

The Image Color Palette Extractor tool analyzes an uploaded image and identifies its most dominant or representative colors. You can specify how many colors you'd like to extract (e.g., from 2 up to 32).

Once the palette is generated, the colors are displayed as swatches. You can choose to view the color codes in various formats: HEX, RGB, HSL, or HSV. You can then copy individual color codes or the entire palette as a list to your clipboard. You also have an option to download the generated palette for the current image as a .txt file.

This tool is useful for designers, artists, and developers who need to quickly find a color scheme based on an existing image.

Limitations:

• The accuracy and representativeness of the extracted palette depend on the algorithm used (currently based on ColorThief.js) and the complexity of the image.
• The "percentage of presence" for each color is not explicitly calculated or displayed in the current version, but colors are generally those most prominent.

The Image Adjustments tool allows you to fine-tune several visual properties of your images. You can:

• Brightness: Make the image globally lighter or darker.
• Contrast: Increase or decrease the difference between light and dark areas.
• Saturation: Control the intensity of colors, from grayscale to very vivid.
• Vibrance: A smart color booster that primarily enhances muted colors, with less effect on already saturated ones and skin tones (effect is an approximation).
• Hue Rotate: Shift all colors in the image around the color wheel (0-360 degrees).
• Exposure: Simulate changes in lighting, primarily affecting the overall brightness and highlights (effect is an approximation).
• Opacity: Adjust the overall transparency of the image.

All adjustments are applied client-side using CSS filters for a live preview, and the final image can be downloaded in various formats.

The "Sharpen Image" tool enhances the definition of edges within an image, making details appear clearer and more distinct. It typically works by applying a convolution filter (like an unsharp mask) that increases the contrast between adjacent pixels along edges.

You can adjust the "Intensity" slider to control the strength of the sharpening effect. Higher values produce a more pronounced sharpening, but excessive sharpening can lead to unnatural artifacts, halos around edges, or increased noise.

It's best used moderately to subtly improve clarity in photos that might be slightly soft or to bring out fine textures. The preview provides an approximation, and you can zoom in to inspect the details before downloading.

Gamma correction is a non-linear adjustment to the brightness of an image. It's often used to control the overall lightness or darkness and can also affect the contrast.

In our tool:

• A gamma value of 1.0 results in no change to the image.
• Gamma values less than 1.0 will lighten the image, especially affecting mid-tones.
• Gamma values greater than 1.0 will darken the image, also primarily affecting mid-tones.

It's a more nuanced way to adjust brightness compared to a simple linear brightness slider, as it modifies the luminance curve. You can use the slider to find the optimal gamma value for your image, with a live preview of the effect.

The "Adjust RGB Channels" tool allows you to independently modify the intensity of the Red, Green, and Blue color components of an image. Each channel has a slider, typically ranging from 0% (no color from that channel) to 200% (double the intensity of that color), with 100% representing the original value.

By adjusting these sliders, you can:

• Perform color corrections or white balance adjustments.
• Create artistic color tints and effects (e.g., sepia-like tones by reducing blue, or vintage looks).
• Enhance or subdue specific colors within the image.

The changes are applied pixel by pixel, modifying the respective R, G, or B values based on the slider's multiplier. A live preview helps you see the effect instantly.

The "Colorize Image" tool allows you to apply a uniform color tint to your pictures. You can select any color using a color picker and then adjust the intensity of this tint using a slider.

This is useful for several creative purposes, such as:

• Creating duotone or monotone effects.
• Giving images a vintage or stylized look.
• Matching an image's overall color tone to a specific design palette.

The tool often works by first considering the image's luminance (brightness levels) and then blending the chosen tint color with these levels according to the selected intensity. A live preview helps you achieve the desired effect.

The "Sepia Filter" tool applies a classic sepia tone to your images, giving them a warm, brownish, antique appearance often associated with old photographs. This effect is achieved by first converting the image to grayscale and then tinting it with a specific sepia color.

You can use a slider to adjust the intensity of the sepia effect:

• At 0% intensity, the image remains in its original color (or grayscale if it was already so).
• At 100% intensity, the full sepia toning is applied.
• Values in between create a partial sepia effect, blending the sepia tone with the desaturated version of the original image.

This tool uses the CSS `sepia()` filter function for a quick and efficient client-side application of the effect, which you can preview live.

The "Vignette Effect" tool adds a border to your image that gradually fades towards the center, typically by darkening or lightening the edges. This helps to draw the viewer's attention to the central part of the photograph.

With our tool, you can customize:

• Vignette Color: Choose the color of the vignette (e.g., black for darkening, white for lightening).
• Extent (Offset): Control how far the vignette effect extends from the edges towards the center of the image. A higher extent means the vignette covers more of the image.
• Softness (Blur): Adjust how smooth the transition is between the vignette 고민and the main image. Higher softness creates a more gradual, feathered edge.

It's a popular effect in photography for adding mood or emphasizing the subject.

The "Vignette Effect" tool adds a border to your image that gradually fades towards the center, typically by darkening or lightening the edges. This helps to draw the viewer's attention to the central part of the photograph.

With our tool, you can customize:

• Shape: Choose the shape of the vignette effect (Circular, Elliptical, or Rectangular).
• Color: Select the color of the vignette (e.g., black for darkening, white for lightening).
• Opacity: Adjust the transparency of the vignette. Lower values make it more subtle.
• Edge Hardness: Control the sharpness or softness of the vignette's edge (feathering). 0% is very soft, 100% is very hard.
• Center Position: Precisely control the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) position of the vignette's center to draw focus anywhere on the image.
• Size (Radius/Width/Height): Define the size of the clear central area for circular, elliptical, or rectangular shapes.
• Rotation: For elliptical and rectangular shapes, adjust their rotation.

It's a popular effect in photography for adding mood or emphasizing the subject.

The "Add Noise / Grain" tool adds a layer of random, granular texture to your image. This can be used for various artistic or practical purposes:

• Vintage/Film Look: Simulates the grain found in older film photography.
• Texture: Adds a subtle texture to digitally smooth images.
• Dithering/Masking: Can help to smooth out color banding in gradients or reduce the appearance of compression artifacts in some cases.

You can typically control:

• Noise Type: "Grayscale Noise" adds random light and dark pixels, while "Color Noise" adds pixels with random colors.
• Intensity: A slider controls how much noise is added. Higher values result in a more pronounced and dense grain effect.

The effect is applied by modifying the color values of individual pixels in the image based on the selected noise type and intensity.

The "Blur Image" tool allows you to apply a softening effect to your pictures, reducing detail and sharpness. This is commonly used for several purposes:

• De-emphasizing Backgrounds: Blurring the background can help your main subject stand out more.
• Artistic Effects: Create a dreamy, out-of-focus look.
• Privacy: Obscure sensitive information or faces in an image (though for strong privacy, other methods might be better).
• Softening Textures: Smooth out overly sharp or noisy textures.

You can control the intensity of the blur (often referred to as the blur radius) using a slider. A higher value will result in a more pronounced blur. The tool typically uses a Gaussian blur or a similar algorithm, which is applied client-side via CSS filters for a live preview.

The "Pixelate Image" tool transforms your image into a blocky, pixelated version, often reminiscent of retro video games or used for artistic abstraction or censoring parts of an image.

It works by dividing the image into a grid of larger "pixel blocks." The color of each block is determined by averaging the colors of the original pixels that fall within that block. You can control the pixel block size with a slider:

• Smaller block sizes result in a finer pixelation, where more detail from the original image is preserved.
• Larger block sizes create a more abstract, coarse effect with less detail.

The tool provides a live preview as you adjust the block size, allowing you to achieve the desired level of pixelation before downloading the modified image.

The "Comics Effect" tool transforms your photos to resemble a style commonly found in comic books or cartoons. This is typically achieved through a combination of processes:

• Edge Detection: The tool identifies and emphasizes the outlines and significant edges in your image, often rendering them as darker lines, similar to ink lines in a comic. You can usually adjust the sensitivity of this detection.
• Color Posterization: The number of distinct colors in the image is reduced, leading to flatter areas of color, which is characteristic of many comic art styles. You can often control the number of color levels.
• Black Outlines: Optionally add distinct black outlines around the detected edges, with adjustable thickness for a bolder or subtler ink effect.
• Color Saturation: Fine-tune the vibrancy of colors in the comic effect, allowing you to create more vivid or more muted tones.

By adjusting these parameters, you can customize the intensity and appearance of the comic effect, from a subtle stylization to a more dramatic, graphic look. The live preview helps you fine-tune these settings.

The "Artistic Paint Effect" tool transforms your photos into stylized, paint-like images. It works by analyzing small regions (controlled by "Brush Size") of the image and simplifying the colors within those regions to a dominant or average color. This creates a blockier, more abstract appearance reminiscent of brush strokes.

Larger "Brush Size" values lead to more abstraction and larger color areas, while smaller values retain more of the original detail. It's a simplified way to achieve a painterly style directly in your browser.

The "Image Emboss Effect" tool gives your images a 3D relief or "sculpted" appearance. It simulates a light source (typically from the top-left) to highlight edges, making them appear raised or indented. The result is usually a grayscale image that emphasizes contours and textures.

Our tool applies a standard emboss filter. You can adjust the "Emboss Depth" to control how pronounced the effect is. You also have the option to toggle between the embossed version and the original image in the preview.

The "Add Border" tool allows you to frame your images. You can customize:

• Border Color: Pick any color for your border.
• Thickness: Adjust the width of the border in pixels.
• Corner Radius: Set a radius to create rounded corners for both the image and the border. If you use rounded corners, it's recommended to output as PNG or WebP to preserve transparency in the corners.

A live preview shows your changes instantly.

The "Posterize Image" tool reduces the number of distinct color levels for each Red, Green, and Blue channel in your image. This simplification of color gradients results in flatter areas of color and can create a stylized, poster-like or retro graphic appearance.

You can control the "Color Levels" with a slider – fewer levels lead to a more abstract and blocky effect, while more levels retain more color detail from the original image.

The "Oil Painting Effect" tool attempts to simulate the appearance of an oil painting by analyzing pixel neighborhoods. It looks at pixels within a certain "Brush Radius" and, based on the "Intensity Levels" you set, determines the most prominent color in that area to create a "brush stroke" of that color.

A larger "Brush Radius" results in broader, more abstract strokes, while a smaller radius can preserve more detail. Higher "Intensity Levels" allow the algorithm to consider more subtle color variations within a brush stroke area, potentially leading to more detail but also increasing processing time. This effect can be computationally intensive, especially on large images or with high settings.

The "Image Reflection" tool creates a mirror-like reflection of your image. You can customize several aspects of the reflection:

• Direction: Choose to have the reflection appear at the Top, Bottom, Left, or Right of the original image.
• Offset (Gap): Set the amount of space (in pixels) between the original image and the start of its reflection.
• End Opacity: Control how much the reflection fades out. An "End Opacity" of 0% means the reflection will become completely transparent at its furthest edge, while 100% means it will remain fully opaque (like a direct mirror). The reflection length is currently fixed to 100% of the original image's dimension along the reflection axis.

This effect is useful for creating a sleek, modern look, often seen in product showcases or stylized graphics. Outputting as PNG or WebP is recommended to preserve the transparency of the fading reflection.

The "Color Balance" tool allows you to make precise adjustments to the overall color mixture in an image. It works by letting you modify the balance between complementary color pairs: Cyan-Red, Magenta-Green, and Yellow-Blue.

You can make these adjustments independently for different tonal ranges of your image:

• Shadows: Affects the darkest parts of the image.
• Midtones: Affects the middle range of tones. This is often where most color adjustments have the most impact.
• Highlights: Affects the brightest parts of the image.

Use the sliders for each color pair within the selected tonal range. For example, moving the "Cyan-Red" slider towards Red will add red and subtract cyan from that tonal range. This is useful for correcting color casts (e.g., if an image taken indoors looks too yellow, you can add blue to the midtones) or for creative color grading to achieve specific artistic looks.

There's also an "Auto Balance" button that attempts to automatically correct color casts by analyzing the image, primarily adjusting the midtones.

The "Image Threshold" tool, also known as binarization, converts a color or grayscale image into a pure black and white image. It works by setting a specific luminance level (the threshold, from 0 to 255).

Any pixel in the original image with a luminance value below this threshold will be converted to black, and any pixel with a luminance value at or above the threshold will be converted to white. There are no shades of gray in the output.

You can manually adjust the threshold level using a slider to control how much of the image becomes black or white. There is also an "Auto Threshold" button that attempts to calculate an optimal threshold value based on the image's content, often using an algorithm like Otsu's method or a simpler histogram-based average.

This effect is useful for simplifying images, creating high-contrast graphics, or for pre-processing images for tasks like Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

The "Pop Art Effect" tool transforms your photos into stylized images reminiscent of the Pop Art movement, famously associated with artists like Andy Warhol. You can apply this effect in two main ways:

• Single Color Mode: Applies a vibrant, posterized color scheme to your image based on a selected base color. The image's tones are reduced to a few key levels (e.g., dark, mid, light) which are then remapped to shades of your chosen color, often combined with black or white for contrast.
• 2x2 Quadrant Mode: Replicates your image four times in a 2x2 grid, applying a different bold color scheme (from a predefined set or randomized) to each quadrant. This creates the classic multi-panel Pop Art look.

You can also adjust "Color Detail Levels" to control the degree of color simplification and optionally add black outlines to further enhance the graphic style.

The 'Crop Image' tool allows you to precisely cut out a rectangular or circular section from your photos. You can define the cropping area using an interactive selection box directly on the image preview.

Key features include:

• Adjustable Shape: Choose between a rectangular/square crop or a circular crop.
• Visual Manipulation: Drag the selection box to move it, or drag its corner/edge handles to resize it.
• Numerical Control: Fine-tune the width, height, and position (or radius and center for circles) using exact pixel values in the input fields.
• Aspect Ratio Lock & Presets: For rectangular crops, you can lock the aspect ratio (e.g., 1:1, 16:9, or original image ratio) to prevent distortion during resizing. Common presets are available for quick selection.
• Live Preview: A dedicated "Live Crop Preview" box shows you exactly what the final cropped image will look like in real-time.

All processing is performed client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

The 'Localized Blur' tool allows you to apply a blur effect to specific, selected areas of your image. This is particularly useful for privacy purposes (e.g., blurring faces, license plates) or for creating artistic depth of field effects.

Key features include:

• Brush Mode: Click and drag on the image preview to "paint" the blur effect onto desired areas.
• Eraser Mode: Switch to the eraser tool to remove the blur effect from areas where it was applied by mistake.
• Adjustable Brush Size: Control the size of your blur or eraser brush for precise application.
• Adjustable Blur Intensity: Determine how strong or subtle the blur effect is.
• Brush Hardness: Adjust the feathering of the brush edge for a softer or harder blur transition.
• Brush Shape: Choose between a circular or square brush tip.
• Snap to Axis: Enable this to draw perfectly straight lines (horizontal or vertical) with the brush or eraser, or to create perfect squares/circles with the shape tools.
• Before/After Toggle: Instantly switch between the blurred version and the original image to compare your changes.

All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

The 'Rename Images' tool allows you to batch rename multiple image files with a custom, logical pattern. You can define:

• Prefixes: Text added at the beginning of the filename.
• Base Name: The main name for your files (e.g., 'Photo', 'Vacation').
• Suffixes: Text added at the end of the filename, before the extension.
• Numbering: Sequential numbers (e.g., '001', '002'), with customizable starting number and padding digits.
• Optional Date: Insert the current date into the filename in various formats (e.g., YYYY-MM-DD).

You have full control over separators (spaces, underscores, hyphens) by including them directly in your pattern fields (e.g., a prefix of 'My Photos ' includes a space). Files can be manually reordered via drag-and-drop within the preview grid or sorted by various criteria (original upload order, name, size, format). All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your images remain secure and private.

The 'Vintage Polaroid Photo Effect' tool transforms your digital photos into nostalgic images with a classic Polaroid or 80s aesthetic. You can customize various parameters including color tint, saturation, contrast, vignette amount, and grain amount to achieve a unique retro look.

Key features:

• Customizable Effects: Adjust tint color and intensity, saturation, contrast, vignette, and grain for a wide range of vintage styles.
• Polaroid Frame: Optionally add a distinctive Polaroid-style frame to your photo.
• Text on Frame: For photos with a frame, you can add custom text to the bottom border of the frame, choosing its color and size. The text will automatically wrap to fit the frame.
• Presets: Easily apply pre-defined vintage looks with a single click, categorized by 'Without Frame' and 'With Frame' options.

All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

The 'Dreamy Aesthetic Photo Effect' tool transforms your digital photos into enchanting images with an ethereal and whimsical style. You can apply dreamy color moods, soft focus, subtle atmospheric hazes, and simplify details.

Key features:

• Color Mood: Apply a dominant color tone and adjust its intensity for an ethereal aesthetic.
• Softness: Introduce a subtle blur to create a dreamlike, hazy quality.
• Detail Simplification: Reduce color gradients to flat areas, giving a painterly, stylized look.
• Contrast Adjustment: Fine-tune the overall contrast for a softer, less harsh appearance.
• Soft Edges: Optionally add subtle, illustrative outlines to major image features, mimicking a hand-drawn style.
• Haze: Apply a misty or atmospheric overlay with customizable amount and color for added depth and mood.
• Presets: Quickly apply predefined dreamy effects to achieve various ethereal styles.

All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

The 'Cartoonize Photo Effect' tool transforms your digital photos into striking cartoon or comic book style art. It focuses on creating a simplified, illustrative look with clear lines and vibrant, flat colors.

Key features:

• Cartoon Edges: Adds prominent, adjustable outlines to features, giving a hand-drawn effect. You can control the strength and color of these edges.
• Color Detail Levels: Reduces the number of distinct color shades, flattening gradients into solid color blocks typical of animation and comics.
• Saturation Boost: Increases the overall color intensity to achieve the bright, punchy colors often seen in cartoons.
• Brightness & Contrast: Fine-tune the image's overall light and dark tones to enhance the cartoon style.
• Presets: Apply predefined cartoon styles with a single click to quickly achieve different illustrative looks.

All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

The 'Sun Flare Effect' tool allows you to add realistic light effects to your photos, simulating sunlight, lens flares, or atmospheric hazes. You can customize various parameters to achieve the desired lighting:

Key features:

• Effect Type: Choose between a focused 'Sun Flare', a diffused 'Light Leak', or a soft 'Haze'.
• Flare Color: Select the color of the light effect (e.g., warm yellow for sun, cool blue for moonlight).
• Intensity: Control the overall brightness and visibility of the light effect.
• X Position & Y Position: Precisely adjust the horizontal and vertical placement of the light source on your image. A visual indicator on the preview helps you with placement.
• Spread: Define how far the light effect spreads out from its center.
• Feathering: Control the smoothness of the light effect's edges, from sharp to very diffused.
• Blend Mode: Choose how the light effect interacts with the image's colors (e.g., 'Screen' is good for adding light, 'Overlay' for blending tones).
• Randomness (Light Leak only): For 'Light Leak' effects, enable this to add natural-looking variations and irregularities.

All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

The 'Motion Blur Effect' tool applies a directional blur to your photos, simulating movement or speed. This can be used to create a sense of dynamism, emphasize action, or achieve artistic abstract effects.

Key features:

• Angle: Define the direction of the blur effect in degrees (0-360), simulating movement from different angles.
• Distance: Control the length or intensity of the blur. Higher values create a more pronounced sense of speed.
• Feathering: Adjust the smoothness of the blur's edges along its direction. Higher values create a more gradual and natural fade.
• Quality (Iterations): Control the number of processing passes. More iterations result in a smoother, higher-quality blur but may increase processing time, especially for large images.
• Edge Behavior: Determine how pixels behave when the blur extends beyond the image boundaries. 'Clamp' stops the blur at the edge, while 'Wrap' allows pixels to reappear from the opposite side, creating a seamless or tiling effect.

A live preview allows you to fine-tune these parameters instantly. All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

The 'Add Text & Watermark' tool allows you to easily personalize your images by adding custom text or an image-based watermark. All processing is done directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

For Text: You can add multiple text elements, customize their content, choose from various fonts, adjust size, color, opacity, rotation, and even apply a curve effect. Text can have a shadow, and its position can be precisely controlled via drag-and-drop or numerical X/Y coordinates. A dropdown allows you to select and edit individual text elements.

For Watermarks: You can upload your own image (PNG for transparency is recommended) to use as a watermark. Adjust its size and opacity, and precisely position it using drag-and-drop or numerical X/Y coordinates.

The interactive preview allows for real-time visualization and manipulation. You can pan the image and drag text/watermarks directly on the canvas, with zoom controls for detailed work.

The 'Sketch Effect' tool transforms your images into artistic pencil or pen drawings. It achieves this by combining several image processing techniques directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Line Strength: Adjust the prominence and thickness of the drawn lines. Higher strength makes edges more defined.
• Granularity: Control the amount of subtle noise or texture added to simulate the rough feel of a pencil or paper.
• Stroke Color: Choose the color of the lines (e.g., classic black, a gray pencil tone, or even a colored outline). An opacity slider is available for the stroke color.
• Background Mode: Select how the non-line areas are rendered: 'White' for a classic sketch on white paper, 'Grayscale' to keep subtle tonal variations, or 'Original Color' to apply the sketch effect over the original image's colors.
• Invert Lines: Option to swap dark lines for light lines, or vice-versa, which can create a chalk-on-blackboard effect.

The tool uses edge detection algorithms (like Laplacian or Sobel filters) to identify outlines, then applies thresholds and blends with color and noise based on your settings. A live preview lets you fine-tune the artistic output.

The 'EXIF Data Cleaner' tool allows you to view and remove sensitive metadata (EXIF) embedded within your digital photos. This helps protect your privacy before you share images online.

What is EXIF data? EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a standard that stores various details about a photo and the camera that took it. This can include:

• Camera Information: Make, model, serial number.
• Shooting Settings: Exposure time, aperture, ISO, focal length, flash status.
• Date and Time: When the photo was taken (original, digitized).
• Location Data: GPS coordinates (latitude, longitude, altitude), if enabled on your camera/smartphone.

How it works: You upload a JPEG image, and the tool extracts and displays all detectable EXIF tags. You then have the option to 'Remove All EXIF Data', which processes the image to strip out all these tags. The cleaned image can then be downloaded. You can also download a .txt file containing the extracted metadata for your records. The process is client-side, ensuring your images are never uploaded to a server.

Important Note: EXIF metadata is primarily found in JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg) image files. While the tool supports other image formats for basic viewing (PNG, WEBP, BMP), EXIF extraction and removal functionalities are only active for JPEG images, as these formats do not typically contain EXIF data in the same standard.

The 'Lens Correction' tool provides a comprehensive suite of features to refine your photos directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed. It addresses both geometric distortions and color imperfections.

Geometric Corrections:

These tools help you fix structural and perspective issues:

• Horizon Straightening & Rotation: Correct tilted photos and straighten crooked horizons. You can use a slider for precise manual rotation, or activate the 'Draw Line' mode to automatically calculate and apply the exact rotation needed based on a line drawn directly on your image (e.g., along a tilted horizon or a building edge). An 'Auto Crop' option is available to remove empty corners that appear after rotation, maximizing your image's content.
• Lens Distortion Correction: Addresses optical distortions introduced by camera lenses. It corrects both 'barrel distortion' (where straight lines appear to bulge outwards, common with wide-angle lenses) and 'pincushion distortion' (where straight lines appear to curve inwards, sometimes seen with telephoto lenses). A slider allows you to adjust the intensity, with negative values typically for barrel and positive for pincushion distortion. The tool applies a radial mathematical transformation to straighten these lines.
• Perspective Correction (Vertical/Horizontal): Eliminate the 'falling backwards' or 'converging lines' effect in architectural photos or wide-angle shots. Use dedicated sliders to correct vertical and horizontal perspective distortions, making parallel lines truly parallel.

Color & Light Imperfections:

Fine-tune the visual quality of your image:

• Vignette Correction: Adjust the brightness uniformly from the center towards the corners of your image. Negative values lighten the corners (anti-vignette), while positive values darken them, ideal for correcting lens fall-off or adding artistic effect.
• Chromatic Aberration Correction: Reduce color fringing (typically red/cyan or blue/yellow outlines) that can appear at high-contrast edges, a common lens defect. A slider controls the intensity of this correction.

Workflow Enhancements:

For effortless editing:

• Undo/Redo History: Easily step back and forward through your adjustments using the Undo () and Redo () buttons, with a numerical counter showing available steps (e.g., 'X / Y').
• Individual Slider Controls: Each slider now features dedicated (reset) buttons to restore its default value, and (auto) buttons for some parameters to apply an intelligent default correction.
• Reset All: The 'Reset All' button clears all applied corrections and empties the entire undo/redo history for a fresh start.

The 'GIF Maker' tool allows you to create animated GIFs from a series of static images directly in your browser. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features:

• Add Multiple Images: Upload multiple JPG, PNG, WEBP, BMP, or AVIF images that will serve as frames for your GIF.
• Reorder Frames: Easily change the sequence of your frames using an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
• Remove Individual Frames: Delete any unwanted frame from your animation.
• Adjust Speed (FPS): Control the playback speed of your GIF by setting the Frames Per Second (FPS), from 1 to 30 FPS. Higher FPS means faster animation.
• Loop GIF: Choose whether your GIF should play continuously in a loop or just once.
• Output Size: Define the final dimensions (width and height) of your GIF. Presets like 'Original Size' or 'Auto (Original Max Dimension)' and various fixed sizes (e.g., 800px, 600px) are available. You can also manually input custom dimensions with an option to lock the aspect ratio.
• Quality: Adjust the compression quality. Lower values result in higher visual quality but larger file sizes.
• Live Preview & Download: Generate a real-time preview of your GIF before downloading the final animated .gif file.
• Delete All Images: Quickly clear all loaded frames to start fresh.

The 'GIF & Video Converter' tool allows you to convert animated GIFs to WebM videos, and various video formats (MP4, WebM, MOV) to animated GIFs. All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Input Versatility: Upload GIFs or videos (MP4, WebM, MOV) for conversion.
• Frame Extraction: Extract individual frames from videos based on a desired FPS, or automatically from GIFs.
• Trim Videos: Define start and end times to process only a specific segment of your video.
• Customize & Reorder Frames: View all extracted frames, reorder them via drag-and-drop, and remove unwanted frames before generating the output.
• Output Format Selection: Choose between Animated GIF or WebM Video as your final output format.
• Output Settings: Adjust Frames Per Second (FPS) for playback speed, looping (for GIFs), and customize output dimensions (width/height) with aspect ratio lock.
• Quality Control: Fine-tune the output quality, balancing file size with visual fidelity.
• Live Preview & Download: Generate a real-time preview of your converted media and download the final file (GIF or WebM).

The 'GIF & Video Frame Extractor' tool allows you to easily extract individual image frames from animated GIFs or various video formats (MP4, WebM, MOV) directly in your browser. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features:

• Input Versatility: Upload GIFs or videos (MP4, WebM, MOV) for frame extraction.
• Frame Extraction: Extract individual frames from videos based on a desired Frames Per Second (FPS) or automatically from GIFs.
• Trim Videos: For videos, define start and end times to extract frames only from a specific segment.
• Customize & Reorder Frames: View all extracted frames in a grid, reorder them via drag-and-drop, and remove any unwanted frames.
• Download Options: Download individual frames as PNG images, or download all extracted frames as a single ZIP archive for convenience.

The 'Image to PDF Converter' tool allows you to convert multiple image files (JPG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF) into one or more PDF documents directly in your browser. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features:

• Multiple Image Input: Upload various image formats to be included in your PDF(s).
• Image Reordering: Easily drag and drop images in the preview list to change their order in the final PDF.
• Customizable Page Orientation: Choose between Portrait or Landscape orientation for your PDF pages.
• Flexible Page Sizes: Select from predefined sizes like A4, Letter, A3, Legal, Tabloid, or use 'Image Size' to make each PDF page fit its corresponding image perfectly.
• Adjustable Margins: Set margins (None, Small, Medium, Large) around your images on the PDF page, or define a custom margin in millimeters.
• Merge or Separate PDFs: Opt to combine all uploaded images into a single multi-page PDF, or generate a separate PDF for each individual image.
• Download Options: Download the merged PDF directly, or receive a ZIP archive containing all individually generated PDFs.

The 'PDF to Images Converter' tool allows you to convert PDF documents into various image formats (JPG, PNG, WebP) or extract embedded images directly from your PDF documents online. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features:

• Two Conversion Modes: Choose between 'Pages to Images' (converts each page into a separate image) or 'Extract Images' (attempts to extract only the images originally embedded within the PDF).
• Output Format & Quality: Select the desired output image format (JPG, PNG, WebP) and adjust the quality for JPG/WebP outputs.
• Customizable File Naming: Define a custom naming pattern including prefixes, base names, suffixes, and automatic numbering for your generated image files. You can also add the original PDF's filename as a prefix.
• Page Range Selection (for Pages to Images): Convert specific pages or a range of pages from your PDF.
• Live PDF Preview: View your PDF document directly in the browser with page navigation.
• Download Options: Download all generated images as a single ZIP archive, or download individual images.

The 'Color Splash Effect' tool allows you to create striking artistic photos by isolating a specific color or area, while converting the rest of the image to black and white. All processing is done directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Color Picking: Click on the image preview to precisely pick the color you want to highlight. A magnifier loupe helps you select the exact pixel.
• Tolerance Control: Adjust a 'Color Tolerance' slider to include more or fewer shades of the picked color. Higher tolerance will keep a wider range of similar colors, while lower tolerance will be more selective.
• Background Desaturation: Control the intensity of the black and white effect on the non-highlighted areas. A 'Background Desaturation' slider from 0% (keeps original background colors) to 100% (full grayscale background) allows for fine-tuning.
• Zoom & Pan: Navigate and inspect your image with zoom in/out and pan controls for detailed work.
• Magnifier Loupe: A real-time magnifier loupe appears under your cursor in 'Picker Mode' to help you select colors with pixel precision. You can adjust its magnification level.
• Reset Options: Reset the picked color or reset all effects to their default values.

This tool is perfect for adding a dramatic, artistic touch to your photos, making specific elements pop out visually.

The 'Noise Reduction' tool allows you to effectively remove unwanted digital noise and grain from your photos, which often appears in images taken in low-light conditions or at high ISO settings. All processing is done directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Strength: Controls the overall intensity of the noise reduction. Higher values will aggressively smooth out noise but can also soften fine details if used excessively.
• Detail Preservation: Balances the noise reduction with the retention of important image details and edges. Higher values aim to preserve more sharp features, while lower values allow for more overall smoothing. This is crucial for avoiding a 'plastic' look.
• Auto Denoise: A 'magic' button that applies a set of optimized default settings to quickly achieve a good balance between noise removal and detail preservation.
• Before/After View: Instantly toggle between the original noisy image and the noise-reduced version to easily compare the results of your adjustments.
• Zoom & Pan: Navigate and inspect your image with zoom in/out and pan controls for detailed examination of the noise effect.

The tool uses a client-side bilateral filter, which is designed to reduce noise while attempting to preserve edges. Please note that processing can be computationally intensive, especially for large images or high strength settings, and may take some time.

The 'Red-Eye Removal' tool helps you quickly fix the annoying red-eye effect in your photos caused by flash photography. All processing is done directly in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Brush Tool: Manually paint over red pupils. Adjust 'Brush Size' for accuracy, 'Darkening Amount' to control how much the red color is desaturated/darkened, and 'Red Color Tolerance' to define the range of red shades affected.
• Area-Selection Auto-Correction: For quick fixes, click the 'Auto Correct Red Eyes' button. This will put the tool into a selection mode, allowing you to draw a rectangle over the red-eye area. Upon releasing the mouse, the tool will automatically detect and correct red eyes within that selected region, using your current 'Darkening Amount' and 'Red Color Tolerance' settings.
• Zoom & Pan: Navigate and inspect your image with zoom in/out and pan controls for detailed work.
• Before/After View: Instantly toggle between the corrected image and the original to compare results.
• Undo/Redo History: Step back or forward through your adjustments.

This tool ensures a natural correction, enhancing the look of portraits affected by red-eye.

The 'Glitch Art Effect' tool allows you to transform your photos into captivating digital art by introducing intentional distortions. It simulates effects like broken signals, corrupted data, or vintage digital aesthetics directly in your browser. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features include:

• Glitch Intensity: Controls the overall strength and frequency of distortions.
• Pixelation Amount: Increases the size of pixel blocks for a blocky, digital look.
• Line Shift Amount: Controls the horizontal displacement of random image lines.
• Color Shift Amount: Shifts individual RGB color channels randomly within sections.
• Scanline Effect: Adds horizontal lines to simulate old CRT screens.
• Generate New Glitch: Applies new random settings for Glitch Intensity, Line Shift, and Color Shift to create unique variations with a single click.
• Undo/Redo History: Easily step back and forward through your adjustments.
• Reset to Original: Clears all effects and resets the history.
• Interactive Preview: Zoom and pan functionality on the preview for detailed inspection, with a "Before/After" toggle to compare the original and glitched image.

The 'Duotone / Tritone Effect' tool allows you to apply stylish color combinations to your photos. It converts the image to grayscale and then remaps its tonal range (shadows, midtones, highlights) to a custom palette of two or three colors, creating unique artistic looks. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features include:

• Effect Type: Choose between a two-color (Duotone) or three-color (Tritone) effect.
• Color Palette: Select custom colors for your Shadows, Midtones (for Tritone only), and Highlights.
• Tonal Mapping: Adjustable sliders to define the transition points (thresholds) for where the shadow, midtone, and highlight colors blend.
• Presets: Quickly apply predefined duotone or tritone color combinations, or generate random ones.
• Undo/Redo History: Easily step back and forward through your adjustments.
• Reset to Original: Clears all effects and resets the history.
• Interactive Preview: Zoom and pan functionality for detailed inspection, with a "Before/After" toggle.

The 'EXIF Viewer' tool allows you to easily view detailed metadata embedded within your digital photos. Unlike the 'EXIF Data Cleaner', this tool is solely for analysis; it does not modify your original images in any way. All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Metadata Types Displayed:

• Image Properties: Basic information like File Name, File Size, File Type (MIME), and Image Dimensions (Width, Height, Megapixels).
• EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format): Detailed technical information about how the photo was taken, including:
  • Camera Make and Model
  • Exposure Settings (Shutter Speed, Aperture, ISO)
  • Date and Time of Capture
  • Flash Status, Metering Mode, Focal Length
  • GPS Coordinates (if available, with direct link to Google Maps)
  • Lens Information (Make, Model, Serial Number)
  • And many more camera-specific tags.
• IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council): Professional descriptive metadata, often used by news agencies and photographers, such as:
  • Captions/Descriptions
  • Keywords/Tags
  • Copyright Information, Author, Contact
  • Location details (City, State, Country)
  (Note: Comprehensive IPTC parsing depends on the embedded format and browser capabilities.)
• XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform): A more modern and flexible standard often used by Adobe products, storing a wide range of metadata including editing history, copyright, and custom tags. The tool will display the raw XML data for XMP if found. (Note: XMP is displayed as raw XML as full parsing requires complex dedicated libraries.)

This tool is invaluable for photographers, developers, or anyone curious about the "behind-the-scenes" data of their images.

The 'Magnifier / Loupe' tool allows you to apply a localized magnification effect to specific areas of your image. This is useful for inspecting fine details or for creating artistic focal points. All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Customizable Lens Shape: Choose between a circular (default), elliptical, or rectangular magnifier lens.
• Adjustable Magnification Level: Control how much the area under the lens is zoomed (e.g., from 1.0x to 5.0x).
• Interactive Position & Size: Drag the magnifier lens directly on the image preview to move it. Adjust its size using sliders for radius (circle) or width/height (ellipse/rectangle). You can also numerically set its center position (X/Y) in percentages. For elliptical/rectangular shapes, rotation is also available.
• Customizable Border: Optionally add a border around the magnifier lens, defining its thickness (in pixels) and color.
• Dim External Area: Opt to dim or lighten the image area outside the magnifier lens. You can set the 'Dim Level' (opacity) and 'Dim Color' (e.g., black for darkening, white for lightening) to draw more attention to the magnified section.
• Global Zoom & Pan: You can also zoom and pan the entire image preview independently of the magnifier lens controls for overall navigation.

The 'Fisheye Effect' tool applies a classic barrel distortion, mimicking a fisheye camera lens, to your photos. This creates a wide-angle, spherical, or distorted view, often used for artistic effects or to mimic specific lens characteristics. All processing is done client-side in your browser, ensuring privacy and speed.

Key features:

• Distortion Intensity: A slider to control the strength of the fisheye warp. Higher values create a more pronounced spherical effect.
• Center Position: Adjust the horizontal (X) and vertical (Y) center of the distortion effect. This allows you to place the 'eye' of the fisheye anywhere on your image.
• Scale: Control the overall scaling of the image after distortion. This can be used to zoom in/out or to fill the corners that might become transparent due to the distortion.
• Optional Vignette: Fisheye lenses often produce a natural darkening towards the edges. You can optionally add a customizable vignette (adjust color and opacity) to enhance this classic look.
• Global Zoom & Pan: Standard zoom and pan controls for the entire preview area for better inspection.
• Before/After Toggle: Instantly compare the original image with the applied fisheye effect.

The 'Image Stitching / Panorama Maker' allows you to combine multiple images into a single, seamless panoramic picture or a custom grid layout. All processing is done client-side, ensuring your privacy and a fast experience.

Key features:

• Grid-based Layout: Arrange your images on a flexible grid. You can define the number of rows and columns.
• Precise Positioning: Place each image in a specific row and column, and define how many cells it should span (rowspan/colspan).
• Reorder & Move: Drag images to reorder them in the list or use arrow buttons to move/swap them directly on the grid.
• Canvas Control: Customize the background color of the final panorama or make it transparent (for PNG/WebP output).
• Interactive Preview: A live preview with zoom and pan controls helps you inspect your composition in detail before downloading.

This tool is ideal for creating wide panoramic landscapes, vertical stitched images, or creative photo collages.