Image Editor
Free app for editing images and photos.
Free app for editing images and photos.
Last updated: 2026-08-22
Image Editor is a free, browser-based photo and image editor from Visware. These answers explain what the app opens, how edits and exports work, and what happens to your files. For step-by-step instructions, see Help.
Image Editor lets you open one image, edit it with the licensed Pintura component, and export a newly rendered PNG, JPEG, or WebP. Local files do not require an account. Google sign-in is requested only when you choose a Google Drive command.
You can open JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, GIF, HEIC/HEIF, TIFF/TIF, and static SVG files. JPEG, PNG, and WebP can be saved over their existing local or Drive home when permissions permit. Other inputs are normalized to a browser-safe PNG editing source and must first be saved as PNG, JPEG, or WebP.
Animated GIFs use the first frame. HEIC sequences, HDR and container features are not retained. TIFF uses the selected supported image page and does not preserve multipage or high-bit-depth structure. SVG is rasterized, so vector editability and animation are not retained. BMP is converted to PNG for editing. Image Editor shows a notice when an open operation has these consequences.
No. Image Editor 2.10 intentionally rejects those formats. It also rejects SVGZ and SVG documents that contain scripts, external resources, entities, event handlers, or other unsafe features.
Pintura provides crop, rotate, filter, fine-tune, annotate, decorate, fill, frame, redact, and resize tools, plus its image history. Trim, Retouch, Sticker, video editing, remote image loading, and image-backed annotation assets are not included in this release.
Yes. Use the toolbar, the Edit menu, or Ctrl/Cmd + Z. Redo uses Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z. Restoring a recovery draft begins a new undo baseline because the full history stack is not stored.
Yes. Choose Create New Image. The default is a transparent 1600 by 1200 pixel PNG. You can choose a preset or enter dimensions and a background color. Large dimensions can consume substantial browser memory, so the dialog warns before unusually large canvases.
Save writes to an existing writable JPEG, PNG, or WebP home on your computer or in Drive after permission and conflict checks. Save As writes a new file and adopts that file as the document's home only after the write succeeds. Save a Copy or a browser download writes another copy without changing the home and without marking newer edits as durably saved.
PNG is lossless. JPEG uses quality 0.92 and WebP uses quality 0.80. Transparent pixels require a matte when exporting JPEG; white is the default. The chosen extension and MIME type always match. Rendered output omits source EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, ICC, comments, and container metadata.
Image Editor compares the local file's size and modification time, or the Drive revision, with the version you opened or last saved. If another program or person changed it, the app asks whether to use their version, save a copy, or overwrite after an explicit confirmation.
No. A recovery draft is an on-device safety copy in browser storage. It can help after a reload, crash, or accidental tab closure, but browser storage can be cleared, denied, or evicted. “Recovery updated” never means “Saved.” Use Save or Save As to make a durable file.
For supported direct inputs, the source image is retained once. Converted inputs retain both the untouched original and the exact normalized image used by the editor. Later recovery updates store the canonical editor state and output options rather than another full image. You can inspect or remove abandoned drafts from Manage Drafts.
Decoding, editing, rendering, and local saving happen in your browser. Image pixels and editor state are not sent to Visware, PQINA, analytics, or advertising services. The app does not fetch remote images or allow an SVG to fetch embedded resources.
When analytics is enabled, Image Editor may record coarse, non-content events such as source kind, image format, broad byte or pixel bucket, duration bucket, result code, selected utility, and app or Pintura version. It does not send filenames, paths, Drive IDs, URLs or launch parameters, image state, annotations, metadata, pixels, raw decoder errors, exceptions, or stacks.
Image Editor requests basic sign-in information plus drive.file and drive.install. The drive.file scope limits access to files you select with Google Picker or create with Image Editor; it does not grant general access to your whole Drive. Short-lived access tokens stay in memory. Shared drives and Drive resource keys are supported when Google supplies them.
Not for local images. Sign-in is needed only for Drive operations. You may revoke the app in your Google Account or disconnect it in Drive settings; files already saved to your Drive remain yours.
Image work can require several copies of decoded pixels at once. Image Editor applies format and pixel limits, keeps one HEIC/TIFF decoder active at a time, and warns for large canvases, but the browser or device can still run out of memory. Close other large tabs, try a smaller image, or resize it before opening.
See the Help guide, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service. For a reproducible problem, include your browser version, operating system, image format, approximate dimensions, and the stable error code—but do not email a private image unless support specifically asks and you choose to do so.