PixelForge

Free Online Photo Editor

Crop and straighten, fix the light with 22 looks and 18 sliders, add text or a watermark, remove the background, make a collage, and save the size, file type and file size you need, with nothing uploaded.

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Keys while you use the tool: 1 to 7 switch tools, hold B to compare, Z shows actual pixels and ? opens the help. Nothing you open leaves this browser.

How to Use PixelForge

1

Open a photo

Drop a photo on the page, paste it or press Open photos; on a phone you can take one. Try an example opens a photo to play with. Several photos at once can become a collage or all get the same changes.

2

Crop and turn

Drag the crop box, keep it to a shape such as square, 4:5 or 9:16, turn or mirror the photo, and straighten a tilted horizon with the slider. Cut off plain edges trims borders of one colour.

3

Fix light and colour

Press Auto fix, or pick one of 22 looks shown on your own photo, then fine-tune brightness, contrast, warmth, colour, clarity and more. Hold Before to compare.

4

Add text or a watermark

Add a caption in one of eight fonts, a logo, or a Quick watermark with your name and the year, repeated across the photo if you like. Keep it as your watermark for other photos.

5

Change the background

Find the subject, fix the cut with Keep and Remove, then put a colour, a blur or another picture behind it, or leave it see-through. Collage puts up to 40 photos in one picture.

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Save it

Choose JPG, PNG, WebP or AVIF, the full size, a long side, an exact size or a percent, and keep the file under a size if a form asks for one. Or put the same changes on many photos at once.

Why Use PixelForge?

🧰 One photo, every tool

Open a photo once and crop it, fix its light, add text, change its background and save it in the size you need, without opening it again in another tool. Every step can be undone.

✂ī¸ Background removal on your device

The subject is found from the photo's own colours and edges, in your browser. Rough Keep and Remove marks snap to the edges, and the edge is rebuilt for the full photo so hair and fur stay soft.

👀 Looks on your own photo

Every look is shown as a small picture of your photo, so you choose by seeing, with a strength slider and 18 sliders to fine-tune. Hold Before or the B key to compare at any time.

Šī¸ Watermarks that fit every size

Text and logos are sized by the photo's shorter side, so a watermark looks the same on a small phone photo and a large camera photo. Keep it once and add it to many photos at once.

📏 The size a form asks for

Save under 100 KB for an application form, at an exact size for a profile picture, or with the dots per inch a print shop needs, and see the file size before you save.

🔒 Nothing uploaded, nothing hidden

There is no account and no upload. Your photos are read, edited and saved by this browser, and saved pictures keep no location, camera details or editing notes.

Photos, Backgrounds and File Sizes Explained

🧩 How the subject is found

The photo is split into small regions of similar colour. Regions that touch the photo's edges a lot are likely background, and regions that stand out from them are likely the subject. A cut is then drawn along the strongest edges between the two, and your marks tell it where it went wrong.

🖨ī¸ Pixels and print size

A photo's size is its width and height in pixels. Dots per inch do not change the pixels; they tell a printer how big to print. At 300 dots per inch, a common choice for sharp prints, a photo 3,000 pixels wide prints 25.4 cm (10 inches) wide.

đŸ“Ļ JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF

JPG makes photos small by leaving out detail the eye hardly sees, but has no see-through parts. PNG keeps every pixel exactly, so it suits logos and screenshots. WebP and AVIF are newer and often smaller, and both can keep see-through parts.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is PixelForge free, and is anything uploaded?

It is free, with no registration. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising. The photos you open are worked on in this browser and are never sent to a server. The photo you are editing with its changes, your collage, your settings and your watermark are kept in this browser, so they are still there after a reload; Close this photo and Start over remove them.

How do I remove the background of a photo?

Open the photo, go to Background and press Find the subject. Dark red shows what is removed. Paint roughly over a part with Keep or Remove to fix it, draw a box around the subject in a busy photo, or remove a colour for a green screen or a plain wall. Then choose what goes behind it: see-through, a colour, a blur of the photo or another picture. It works from the photo's colours and edges on your device, so a subject that stands out from its background works best.

How do I make a photo smaller than 100 KB for a form?

Open the photo and go to Save. Tick Keep the file under a size and choose 100 KB. PixelForge lowers the quality first and then the size until the file fits, and shows the size before you save. JPG gives the smallest photos.

How do I put a watermark on many photos at once?

In Text and watermark, add your name, a Quick watermark or a logo, then press Keep these as my watermark. In Save, press Choose photos under Many photos at once, tick Add my watermark and press Start. Up to 300 photos come back in one zip, each with the watermark at the same place and size.

Which files can it open and save?

It opens JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF (its first frame), BMP and other pictures your browser can read, of up to 200 MB and 250 megapixels; a photo over 60 megapixels is opened smaller. HEIC photos from an iPhone open only where the browser can read them; the site's HEIC converter turns them into JPG. It saves JPG, PNG, WebP and, where the browser can make it, AVIF.

Does a saved photo keep its location and camera details?

No. The Open tab shows what is inside the photo's file, such as the camera, the date and whether it holds the place it was taken. Pictures saved by PixelForge never keep the location, the camera details or editing notes.

How is PixelForge different from the site's other picture tools?

UltraCompress Pro makes many pictures smaller at once, Watermark Studio Pro is built for watermarks, SocialSizer makes one picture in the sizes of many social sites, and Passport Photo Maker lays passport photos out on a print sheet. PixelForge is a photo editor: crop and straighten, light and colour with looks, text and logos, background removal and collages, and it saves in the size, file type and file size you need.

How PixelForge works

Everything happens in this browser on this device: nothing you open is uploaded. Open a photo once and use every tool on it; every change can be undone with Ctrl+Z, nothing changes the photo itself until you save, and the photo with its changes is kept in this browser, so it is still there after a reload, until you close it.

Open

Drop photos anywhere on the page, paste one with Ctrl+V, or open them; on a phone you can take a photo. Several photos at once can become a collage, or all get the same changes. The Open tab shows what is inside the photo's file, such as the camera and whether it holds the place it was taken; pictures saved here never keep those details. PixelForge opens pictures of up to 200 MB and 250 megapixels; a photo over 60 megapixels is opened smaller.

Crop and turn

Turn by quarter turns, mirror, or flip upside down. Straighten up to 45 degrees either way: the crop shrinks so no empty corners show, or tick Keep the corners to keep the whole photo. Drag the crop box or its corners, or move it with the arrow keys. Pick a shape such as square, 4:5 or 35 x 45 mm to keep the box to it, type exact numbers, or cut off plain borders.

Adjust

Auto fix sets the light and colour for the photo. Looks are ready-made styles, shown on your own photo, with a strength slider. The sliders change brightness, contrast, bright and dark parts, whites and blacks, warmth and tint, colour, clarity, sharpness, smoothing, blur, dark corners, grain and a faded look. Bright and dark parts work locally, so detail stays. Double-click a slider to put it back. Hold Before, or the B key, to compare.

Text and watermark

Add text in eight fonts with colour, outline, shadow, a box behind and letter spacing, or a logo (a PNG with a see-through background looks best). Drag it on the photo, pull its corner to resize, or place it in one of nine spots. Repeat across the photo makes a pattern that is harder to crop away. Quick watermark adds the copyright sign, the year and your name. Keep what you made as your watermark to add it to other photos with one click, or to many photos at once from Save; a logo kept this way can be up to 200 KB. Sizes follow the photo's shorter side, so the watermark looks the same on every size of photo. One photo holds up to 50 texts and pictures.

Background

Find the subject looks for the person or thing that stands out, then follows its edges. Dark red shows what is removed. Paint roughly with Keep or Remove to fix any part: with Snap to edges on, the cut follows the photo's edges from your marks. Draw a box around the subject for busy photos, or Remove a colour for a green screen or a plain wall. The edge can be softer or crisper, grown or shrunk, and its colours cleaned so no halo of the old background shows. Behind the subject: see-through, a colour, a blur of the photo's own background, or another picture, with a soft shadow. It works from the photo's colours and edges on this device, so a subject that stands out from its background works best.

Collage

Add up to 40 photos. Pick from 35 layouts, or Fitted rows that show every photo whole. Choose a shape (square, 4:5, story, wide, A4), the space between, the outer edge, round corners and a colour or blurred background. Drag inside a cell to move its photo, use the mouse wheel or the zoom slider to zoom, drag the grip in a chosen cell onto another cell to swap them, and drop a file on a cell to put it there. Save the collage, or open it in the editor to add text or a watermark. The collage is kept in this browser until you start over.

Save

JPG is usually the smallest for photos, PNG keeps exact pixels and see-through parts, WebP is small and keeps see-through parts, and AVIF (where the browser can make it) is often the smallest. Choose the full size, a long side, an exact size with common sizes for social sites, photos and prints, or a percent; a saved picture is at most 16,384 pixels a side and 100 megapixels. Keep the file under a size lowers the quality and then the size until it fits, for forms that only take small files. Print size writes the dots per inch into the file. Copy puts the picture on the clipboard, and Share sends it on phones. Saved files hold no location, camera details or notes. Many photos at once puts the same changes and your watermark on up to 300 photos and saves them in a zip.

Keys (while you use the tool)

1 to 7
Switch tools
B (hold)
See the photo before your changes
Z
Actual pixels or fit to the screen
Ctrl Z / Ctrl Y
Undo / redo
Ctrl S
Save with the current settings
Ctrl O / Ctrl V
Open photos / paste a picture
← ↑ → ↓
Move the crop box, a text or a collage photo (with Shift, further)
Delete
Remove the chosen text or picture
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