1Upload the images you want to work on; the file opens in an editable view in your browser with nothing installed.
2Make your changes — crop, rotate, resize, draw and recolour on an image; rewrite the words and restyle headings, lists and tables in a document — and every one of them lands on a working copy, never on your upload.
3Preview the result at full size before you commit to it.
4Export back to Image, or to a format that re-compresses nothing if you are still part-way through editing.
Image Editor FAQ
What can I actually change?
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Whatever the format itself can carry. On an image that is crop, rotate, flip, resize, drawing, text and shapes, filters and colour; in a document it is the wording, the headings, the lists and the tables. Everything is applied to a working copy, so the file you uploaded is never modified in place.
Does the file format limit what the editor can do?
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It does. this format is read and written by the same streaming pipeline as everything else we support. What the format can represent bounds what any editor can preserve, here or on the desktop.
Is anything lost when I export?
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Only what the export format cannot represent. Choose a lossless output while you are still iterating and a compressed one when you are finished — exporting to a lossy format between edit sessions is what accumulates damage.
Is my file uploaded, or does editing happen locally?
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Editing happens in your browser; the file goes to our workers only for the operations that genuinely need server-side processing, and it is deleted shortly afterwards.
Will Image Editor lower the quality of my images?
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That depends on what you brought. A lossless source (PNG, BMP, TIFF) round-trips exactly; a lossy one (JPG, WebP, GIF) is already the product of one quantisation pass and only re-encodes if the operation genuinely requires it.
What happens to metadata and transparency?
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EXIF and the ICC colour profile are carried across wherever the target format supports them, and an alpha channel survives into any format that has one. Transparency is only flattened when the destination format has no way to represent it.
Does Image Editor cost anything?
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No. Image Editor is free without an account and adds no watermark. Uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job completes.
Which image formats does Image Editor accept?
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All of the common ones — JPG, JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG, ICO, PSD, JFIF and HEIC. You can mix formats freely in one batch; each file is identified from its header and routed to the right decoder.
Why does a PDF site host Image Editor?
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PDF.to exists because PDF is where documents go to be shared and the worst place to keep them while they are still being worked on, so nearly every job here is about getting something into or out of that state deliberately. A document rarely arrives in the state it needs to leave in: it is too big, in the wrong order, locked, or a scan with no text in it. Image Editor sits on the same upload and the same account as the conversions because those jobs turn up together.
What should I do with the result once Image Editor is finished?
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The converter on this site moves documents between PDF, Word, images, plain text and eBook formats in either direction, so whatever comes out of a tool here has somewhere to go next without a second upload. Running that after Image Editor rather than before keeps the document structure intact through the step that is most likely to flatten it.
Is Image Editor here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same document toolchain, the same workers, the same limits. What a PDF site adds is a view on when a file should stay a document and when it genuinely wants to become something else, which is the decision most tools quietly make for you. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: a PDF is an object graph, not a page image, so text stays selectable and vectors stay sharp no matter what happens to the raster content inside it.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, nothing is read and nothing is indexed. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
