File4Edit

Image editor

Edit an image in one pass, with size, crop, rotation, color and output format on one screen, free and in your browser with no upload. The result and its file size update as you go.

Size, format, quality, rotation, crop and color — all at once, with the result and its file size updating as you go. The single-purpose tools are still there when you want just one thing.

How to use Image editor

  1. Drop an image Drag one or more files onto the stage, or paste from the clipboard. Everything you open joins a tray under the stage, each file named and thumbnailed, with a compact drop target beside it for adding more. Drag a tile or use its arrows to reorder, and close any file with the cross on it. The control panels stay disabled until there is a file to act on.
  2. Set size, crop and transform Width and height start at the image's own dimensions. Choose contain, cover or stretch, rotate by 90, 180 or 270 degrees, flip, and crop to free, 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16 or golden. The crop is applied before the resize, so the size you type measures what survives the crop.
  3. Adjust and choose the output The adjust panel holds brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, sepia, grayscale, invert, blur and vignette. The output panel holds format, quality, background color and the filename pattern; quality disappears for lossless formats and the background disappears for formats that keep transparency.
  4. Watch the recipe and the size A chain under the stage lists what will happen, in order, followed by the original and result dimensions, both file sizes and the percentage difference between them.
  5. Step back if you need to Ctrl+Z undoes and Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y redoes, and the two buttons above the panels do the same. A slider drag counts as one step rather than fifty, and each file keeps its own history.
  6. Export Export writes the single file. Export every file applies the same recipe to everything in the tray, in tray order, and hands it back as one ZIP.

Image editor: common questions

Why use the editor instead of the single-purpose tools?

Because it re-encodes once. Everything you set becomes one ordered recipe applied in a single pass, so cropping, resizing, adjusting and converting cost one encode between them. Doing the same job across four separate tools means four exports, and with a lossy format each export loses a little more.

Can I undo a change?

Yes. Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z, or the Undo and Redo buttons above the panels, walk back and forward through up to fifty steps. A run of changes to one control counts as a single step, so dragging a slider is one undo rather than fifty. The history belongs to the file it was made on, so switching files can never apply the previous image's size or crop to the one on screen.

Can I apply the same changes to several images at once?

Yes. Load several files, set the recipe on one of them, and 'Export every file' applies it to all of them and returns a ZIP. Typed dimensions only mean the same thing for images of the same proportions, so the fit setting does the work and nothing is stretched.

Which formats can the editor export to?

PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, BMP, ICO, ICNS, QOI, TGA, PPM, PGM and PBM. PDF is not among them: images become PDF pages in the separate Image to PDF tool. Any format your browser cannot write is disabled with the reason shown, which today means AVIF, in every browser.