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Image Filters Online

Adjust image brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and more.

How the Filters Tool Works

The Filters tool doesn't run any AI model or upload your photo anywhere. It writes your five slider values straight into the browser's built-in canvas filter pipeline — the same brightness(), contrast(), saturate(), hue-rotate() and blur() functions your browser already implements — then redraws the image through that pipeline in a single pass and re-encodes it. Brightness, Contrast and Saturation are percentages of the source image, with 100% meaning untouched: drag below 100% and the effect pulls toward black (Brightness), a flat mid-gray (Contrast), or full grayscale (Saturation); drag above 100% and it pushes past the original intensity. Hue rotates every pixel's color by the degrees you set — 0° and 360° both land back on the source colors, so it wraps around the color wheel rather than clipping. Blur adds a soft, uniform blur radius in pixels on top of whatever sharpness the source file already had. Because all five values are combined into one filter expression and applied to the whole canvas in a single draw call, they always act on the entire image at once — there's no selection, no mask, no region picker. Filters can't brighten just a face or blur just a background, and it can't recover detail that's already clipped to pure white or crushed to pure black, since these are linear percentage boosts, not a curves or levels tool. It also doesn't sharpen, retouch, crop, or stack with other layers. Anything that needs to target part of an image, or combine this kind of adjustment with other edits, belongs in the full Photo Editor instead.

When You'd Reach for Quick Filters

You'd use this instead of the full editor when the fix is global and you want it done in seconds. A phone photo shot under yellow indoor bulbs comes out with an orange cast — nudging Hue a few degrees and easing Saturation back corrects it faster than opening a project. A product photo for a listing is a touch underexposed; pushing Brightness and Contrast up 10-20% before you upload it fixes that without leaving the browser tab. A batch of scanned documents or screenshots all share the same washed-out look, and because this tool accepts multiple files at once, you set the sliders once, apply them to the whole batch, and download everything as a single zip. A set of photos needs a consistent moody, desaturated tone for a gallery — dropping Saturation and Contrast together, checking the before/after comparison on each thumbnail as you go, gets you there without touching layers or masks. Switch to the full Photo Editor when the adjustment isn't global: brightening only a subject and not the background, blurring only a face (that's what the dedicated Blur Face tool is for), retouching blemishes, cropping, or combining these adjustments with text, borders, or other layered edits. Filters is the fast, single-pass version of brightness/contrast/saturation/hue/blur work; the Photo Editor is where you go once you need selections, masking, or multi-step non-destructive editing.

Five adjustments combined in one pass
Batch-apply the same settings across every uploaded image
Before/after comparison on each thumbnail before you commit
Runs entirely in your browser — no upload, no wait

Using the Filters Sliders

Upload one or more images — JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP or SVG, up to 50MB each — and Filters will apply the same settings to every file you add. Drag Brightness, Contrast and Saturation to taste, keeping in mind 100% is the untouched starting point on each; rotate Hue in 10° steps to shift the color cast; add Blur in 1px steps if you want to soften the image. Each thumbnail shows a live before/after comparison as you adjust, so you can judge the effect before committing to it. Click Apply to process the batch — you'll see the Processing... state while each image runs through the canvas filter pipeline — then download a single result directly, or grab the whole set as a zip if you adjusted more than one image. If a combination isn't working, hit Reset to snap every slider back to its untouched default (Brightness, Contrast and Saturation to 100%, Hue to 0°, Blur to 0px) and start over from the original file.

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Upload one or more images

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Drag Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue and Blur to taste

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Check the before/after comparison on each thumbnail

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Apply, then download the single file or the zip

Frequently Asked Questions

All three run from 0 to 200 in steps of 5, with 100% as the neutral, untouched value — that's your uploaded image with nothing changed. Values under 100% pull the image down: Brightness toward black, Contrast toward flat gray, Saturation toward grayscale at 0%. Values above 100% push past the source, so at 200% brightness is doubled and colors are pushed toward oversaturated. Hue runs separately, 0 to 360 degrees in steps of 10, rotating color around the wheel rather than scaling it, and Blur runs 0 to 20 pixels in steps of 1.
Enhance is built around curated presets — Auto, Vivid, Natural, HDR, Soft — that bundle brightness, contrast, saturation, sharpness and exposure together, with fine-tuning sliders layered on top of whichever preset you pick. Filters gives you five raw, independent sliders and nothing else: no presets, no sharpness, no exposure, just direct control over brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and blur. If you want a fast styled look, start with Enhance; if you already know which of the five values you want to move and by how much, use Filters.
Only within limits. Brightness and Contrast are simple percentage scalars applied uniformly to every pixel, not a curves or levels adjustment, so if highlights are already clipped to pure white or shadows crushed to pure black, there's no image data left to pull back — you'll just get a uniformly gray patch rather than recovered detail. It works well for a photo that's evenly a bit too dark or a bit too flat; it won't salvage a blown-out sky or a solid black shadow block.
No. The whole pipeline — reading the file, drawing it through the canvas filter, re-encoding the result — runs in your browser using the canvas 2D context's native filter API. Nothing is sent anywhere and there's no server round trip, so closing the tab simply discards everything since no server-side copy ever existed.
You can upload JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP or SVG files, up to 50MB each. Output is generated as a canvas blob in the same MIME type as your source where the browser supports it, so a JPEG in gives you a JPEG out and a PNG stays a PNG. SVG is the exception: it gets rasterized through the canvas before filters apply, so an SVG upload comes back as a flattened raster image rather than vector output.
No — Blur here is uniform across the whole frame, combined into the same single canvas filter as the other four sliders, so it softens everything equally with no region control. To blur a specific face or area instead of the whole image, use the dedicated Blur Face tool, which targets a selected region rather than the full frame.
Yes — all five values combine into a single filter expression applied to the canvas in one draw call, so the order you dragged them in doesn't matter, only the final slider positions do. That also means adjustments don't compound or degrade from being stacked on top of each other visually; every time you click Apply, the filter is computed fresh from your original uploaded file, never from a previously filtered version.
Yes, when you upload multiple files, one set of Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue and Blur values applies to every image in the batch when you click Apply. If you only processed one image, the download button gives you that file directly; process more than one and it packages all the results into a single zip instead.

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