Image toolbox: free photo and image tools
Get photos to the right size and format for email, websites and upload forms. Everything runs on your device, so personal photos stay personal.
Every tool in this category is free, needs no account and runs on your device. New tools are added as people ask for them; suggest one.
About the image tools
The image tools get a photo to the size, format and shape a form or a website asks for. Compress Image lowers the file size with a quality slider and shows the result before you download; the 20 KB, 50 KB and 100 KB pages search for the quality and width that land under a fixed limit. Resize Image sets exact pixels or a percentage. HEIC to JPG opens the photos an iPhone saves in Apple’s format and converts them for sites that do not accept it. All of this uses the browser’s own image encoder, so the photo stays on your device, and the result carries none of the camera’s hidden data such as the location where it was taken.
The passport and visa photo makers are the most careful tools here. Each one carries the official rules of the office it is for, with the source and the date it was last checked: the US Department of State, GOV.UK, IRCC, the Chinese embassy, the Saudi and Qatari visa portals, India’s Ministry of External Affairs and the exam boards. They open a camera with a head outline at the height each document asks for (or take a photo you already have), find the face, crop so the head lands in the allowed range, check the background and can change it to plain white, off-white, light grey or blue, then save the exact pixel size under the file limit. The general passport-size photo page does the same for job, school and ID forms that only ask for a 35 × 45 mm or 2 × 2 inch photo.
Frequently asked questions
How small can a photo go before it looks bad?
Shrink the pixels first and the quality second. A photo resized to 800 by 1,000 pixels at JPEG quality 80 is about 100 KB and still sharp on any screen. Below quality 70 you start to see blocks on skin and sky. The guide on compressing a photo to 100 KB walks through it.
Which format should I use, JPEG, PNG or WebP?
JPEG for photographs that go to a form, because every portal accepts it. PNG for screenshots, logos and diagrams with flat colours and sharp text. WebP for your own website, where it is about a quarter to a third smaller than JPEG at the same quality.
Does the photo keep the location and date data?
No. Re-encoding through the browser writes a fresh file without the EXIF block, so the GPS position, the date and the phone model are not in the result.
Can I change a passport photo’s background to white?
Yes. In the Passport Photo Maker or on the passport-size photo page, pick white, off-white, light grey or blue: the person is cut out on your device and the old background replaced, cleanly around hair and shoulders. Keep “Original” if your wall was already plain.
Which tool do I need?
- A photo too big for a form or email
- Compress Image, or the 20, 50 and 100 KB pages for a fixed limit
- Exact pixel dimensions
- Resize Image
- An iPhone photo a site refuses
- HEIC to JPG
- A passport, visa or exam photo
- Passport Photo Maker, then the page for your document
- A photo for a CV, a school form or an ID card
- Passport Size Photo