Image Editor

No. The editor opens the photo, edits it and prepares the download inside your browser tab. The photo is not sent anywhere — there is no upload and no account.

They are lost. The photo and your edits live only in the memory of this tab; Imgovo does not save your work and cannot bring it back. Download the result before you leave. Only your presets (settings, never photos) can be kept in this browser — see below.

The tool page puts your original photo (not an edited copy) into a temporary store inside this browser (IndexedDB — not the address bar, not a cookie) and opens the editor in a new tab. The editor takes it out of the store the moment it opens, so a second tab with the same address finds nothing. The hand-over is valid for 10 minutes. If nobody opens it, the stored copy is not deleted by the clock itself: it is removed at the next clean-up (by the tool page that stored it, if that page is still open after the 10 minutes, or the next time you open the editor or press “Continue in the editor”), or when you clear this site's data. Until then it stays on your device only. Nothing is uploaded. If the browser refuses to store the photo (private mode, full storage), the editor does not open and your result stays on the tool page. More in the Privacy Policy.

Always: Rotate and Flip, Straighten and Crop (all in the first step), then Resize, then Adjust (exposure, colour, curves, noise reduction, red-eye), then Effects (grayscale, blur or pixelate areas), then Watermark, then the round or circle shape, then Export. If you change an earlier step, the later steps are recalculated from the original photo, so the watermark stays inside the picture and keeps its place after a crop or a resize, and corrections are always applied to the picture you will really get.

Turning a photo leaves empty corners, so the editor turns it by the angle you choose (up to 15° either way) and then keeps the largest straight rectangle of the same shape that fits inside. The result is a little smaller than the original — the Crop step tells you exactly how many pixels. The turned pixels are resampled once, from the original, so nothing is turned twice. At 0° the photo is not touched at all.

Exposure (in stops, applied to the light itself), white balance (temperature and tint), shadows and highlights, curves for the brightness or for each of red, green and blue, noise reduction and red-eye. None of it changes your original: every correction is a setting, the editor draws the picture from the untouched original each time, and the corrections are applied once more, with the same code, to the real-size picture when you prepare the file. Undo, Redo and “Reset all edits” cover all of them.

For exposure, colour, shadows, highlights, curves and red-eye the preview and the file use the same calculation, so the colours match; the preview is only drawn smaller. Noise reduction is the one exception: noise is a property of single pixels and shrinking the picture hides it, so the preview does not run it. Use “Check at 100 %” in the Adjust step to see it on real pixels — that window and the download use the same function. “Preview export” in the Export step shows the result of everything.

No. It looks for places in the photo that look like each other and averages them (a “non-local means” filter), so flat areas such as sky or skin get smooth while edges and texture keep their detail; colour noise is smoothed separately along the edges of the picture. The editor measures how noisy your photo really is and scales the filter to it, so a clean photo is hardly touched at any setting. It is a good general-purpose filter, not a magic one: very heavy noise from a dark scene will still show some grain, and a strong setting can make fine texture (hair, foliage, fabric) look softer. Judge it at 100 %.

You mark each eye with a circle (click, tap, or move the cross-hair over it and press Enter; zoom in for small eyes). Inside the circle the editor darkens only pixels that are really red, keeps their brightness detail, and leaves the white of the eye, the skin and the bright reflection in the pupil alone. It cannot guess where eyes are, so nothing happens outside your circles. Animal-eye glow (green or white) is not red-eye and is not changed.

No. Turning by 90° or flipping only moves whole pixels, so nothing is resampled or compressed. The turned photo is drawn once from your original; Straighten, Crop and everything after it then work on that picture, and a crop selection or red-eye marks that you already made turn with it. Undo and “Back to the original orientation” restore the original exactly.

Open the Effects step, choose Blur or Pixelate, press “Draw an area on the picture” and drag over the part you want to hide — or add an area and type its place in percent, or move it with the arrow keys. The strength is relative to the size of the area, so it looks the same on the small preview and in the full-size file. The pixels of the downloaded file are changed, so the hidden detail is really gone from it; Pixelate with a high strength hides the most. An area works on the result, so it keeps its place when you resize, and it turns with the picture when you rotate or flip it.

In the Effects step choose “Circle” or “Rounded corners”. A circle has the diameter of the shorter side and sits in the middle, so crop the picture to a square first (the editor offers a button for it). Everything outside the shape becomes transparent: PNG, WebP and AVIF keep that, JPG fills it with the background colour you choose in the Export step.

The file you download is created again from the pixels, so the camera data, date and GPS location of the original are never copied into it. You do not have to take that on trust: when the file is made the editor reads the structure of that file itself and reports whether it found EXIF, GPS, XMP or IPTC data. The Export step also shows what your original file carried. The picture is turned upright according to its orientation tag before the data is dropped, so a phone photo does not come out sideways.

No. The editor keeps your original untouched and draws the result from it every time. The picture is encoded (JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF) only once, when you prepare the download.

One history covers every step. Undo and Redo (buttons, or Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Shift+Z; Cmd on a Mac) go back and forth through your changes — a slider movement, a crop drag or a typed value counts as one step. “Reset all edits” clears all steps after you confirm, and can itself be undone. Inside a text field, Ctrl+Z undoes your typing as usual.

Fit inside keeps the whole picture and makes it as large as the frame allows — the result can be smaller than the frame in one direction, with no margins. Fill the frame makes the picture cover the frame and cuts off what sticks out; the focus point decides which part stays. Pad to the frame keeps the whole picture and adds margins (a colour, or transparent where the format allows) so the result has exactly the frame size.

It never makes the picture bigger than its own pixels. If the frame you ask for is larger than the picture: Fit inside gives the smaller picture, Fill the frame shrinks the frame (same shape) until the picture covers it at 100%, and Pad to the frame keeps the frame and puts the picture at its own size in the middle. The editor always shows the size you will really get.

No. The file is created again from the pixels, so EXIF data such as camera model, date and GPS location is not copied into it, and the original colour profile is not carried over: your browser draws the colours in standard sRGB, and it may add a small sRGB profile of its own to JPG or WebP files. A photo that was stored rotated by its EXIF orientation is turned upright first, so it is not rotated twice. The editor does not set a print resolution (DPI) — use the DPI calculator to plan print sizes.

JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF. PNG, WebP and AVIF keep transparency; JPG cannot, so transparent areas are filled with the background colour you choose, and the editor says so. After the file is prepared you see its real format, size and dimensions.

Yes, for JPG, WebP and AVIF. The editor searches for the highest quality (up to 92%) that stays within your limit. It never changes the dimensions on its own: if the limit cannot be reached, you get the smallest file it could make with a clear message, and you can allow a smaller picture as a separate option. A PNG has no quality setting here, so its size can only be reduced by shrinking the picture.

The editor works on one still picture: one frame of an animated GIF or WebP (the animation is not kept), the first page of a TIFF, and for RAW files the picture developed by Imgovo’s RAW decoder (standard sRGB, 8 bits).

A preset is a small set of settings (for example “1080 × 1350, Fill, WebP 80”). Presets are stored in this browser only (localStorage) — never on a server, and never with a photo. For Crop only the aspect ratio is saved, because a crop rectangle from one photo does not fit another. You can export presets to a JSON file and import them again; imported files are checked before anything is used. Deleting a preset removes it; clearing the site data of imgovo.com removes them all.

The editor handles one photo at a time. To stamp many photos with the same watermark, use the Add Watermark tool, which can process a whole batch into one ZIP.