Image Editor for Google Chrome™

Crop, adjust, annotate and redact images right in your browser. Nothing is ever uploaded.

Image Editor for Google Chrome™ — Version 4.0 Crop, adjust, annotate and redact your images right in your browser. Nothing is ever uploaded. Every edit happens on your own computer, which means your photos, screenshots, documents and scans never travel anywhere you did not send them. Version 4.0 is a complete rebuild. The editing engine, the interface and every tool are new. WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW Crop, straighten, rotate, flip and resize. None of this existed before. Crop freely or to a fixed ratio — 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 9:16 or the original shape — with rule-of-thirds guides. Straighten a tilted horizon with a slider and the frame is trimmed automatically, leaving no empty corners. Resize to exact pixels, or pick a preset for an avatar, an HD image, a square post, a story or an email attachment. Fifteen adjustment sliders with live preview. Exposure, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, temperature, tint, saturation, vibrance, hue, sharpen, clarity, blur, vignette and grain. Drag and the picture responds immediately, because the work now runs on your graphics card instead of your processor. Click any control's name to reset just that one. One-click auto enhance. It reads the image's own histogram and sets the black and white point of each colour channel independently, correcting a colour cast at the same time. Warm indoor photos come back corrected, not merely brighter. Eight looks with real previews. Vintage, Lomo, Clarity, Sin City, Cross Process, Pinhole, Nostalgia and Her Majesty each appear as a thumbnail of your actual image, so you choose with your eyes instead of guessing from a name. Every look has a strength slider. Annotate and redact. Draw freehand, add arrows, lines, rectangles, ellipses, highlighter marks and text in your choice of font, size and colour. Blur or pixelate any region to hide a face, an address, an email or an API key before you share a screenshot — and the pixels are genuinely replaced, not covered by an overlay someone can peel away. Remove plain backgrounds. Product shots, logos and studio backdrops can be cut out in one click, with a soft edge and full transparency preserved on export. Full undo and redo. Fifty steps, a history panel you can jump around in, and keyboard shortcuts. Every crop, stroke, slider and effect is a separate step you can take back. IT WORKS WHERE YOUR IMAGES ARE Right-click any image on any web page and choose "Edit image" — the editor opens with that picture already loaded. This is the reason to install an extension rather than bookmark a website. Screenshot the page you are on and annotate it immediately. Drag an image in from your desktop, or paste one with Ctrl+V. Close the tab by accident and the editor offers to bring your image and all your edits back when you return. EXPORT ON YOUR TERMS Choose PNG, JPEG or WebP, set the quality, and see the estimated file size update as you move the slider. The format now defaults to whatever you opened, and the filename is yours to edit. Save presets of your favourite adjustments and apply them again later — or run them across a whole folder of images at once and download the results as a single zip. WHAT WE FIXED Version 3 had defects severe enough that a first-time user could hit them within a minute. All of them are gone. Files no longer download named "undefined". Any image that was not a lowercase .jpg or .png — a .jpeg, a .webp, an uppercase .PNG — produced a file literally called "undefined". Download also worked before you had opened an image at all. Both fixed. PNG transparency survives. Every export was silently forced to JPEG, turning transparent areas black and renaming your file. You now choose the format, and transparency is preserved or composited against a colour you pick. Clicking a filter before loading an image no longer breaks the editor for the rest of the session. Nothing is clickable until you have opened a picture. The minus buttons on Blur and Sharpen fed a negative value into filters that could not accept one, corrupting pixels. Both are now sliders that genuinely reverse when you turn them down. Unsupported and damaged files used to fail in silence. You now get a clear message explaining what went wrong. Rapid clicking used to overlap renders and tear the image, and memory grew with every picture opened. Large photos were squeezed into a narrow column and small ones stretched blurry. All fixed, with proper zoom, pan, fit and a true 100% view. IN YOUR LANGUAGE The interface is fully translated into 43 languages, with right-to-left layout for Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Urdu. Previously only the store listing was translated while the tool itself stayed in English. PRIVACY No account. No uploads. No tracking. The extension asks for the smallest set of permissions it can work with, and it does not send your images anywhere — because it does not send them anywhere at all.