Free Photo Filters & Effects
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About the Photo Filters
Apply filters and adjustments to your photos — grayscale, sepia, brightness, contrast and saturation — with a live preview, all in your browser.
How to use the Photo Filters
- 1Drop in a photo, paste one, or click to browse — it's edited on your device.
- 2Pick a look — Vivid, Warm, Cool, Fade, Noir or Sepia — or stay on Original.
- 3Fine-tune brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth with the sliders, and hold the compare button to check it against the original.
- 4Choose a format and click Download to save the edited photo.
Frequently asked questions
Is this photo filter tool free?
Yes — completely free with no sign-up and no watermark.
Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
No. Filters are applied entirely in your browser — your photo never leaves your device.
What filters can I apply?
Six looks — Vivid, Warm, Cool, Fade, Noir (black and white) and Sepia — plus four sliders for brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth. A look simply moves the sliders to a starting point, so you can pick one and then adjust it rather than fighting a hidden second layer of editing. Everything updates in a live preview as you tweak it.
How do I compare the edit with the original?
Press and hold the compare button under the preview. The original is shown for as long as you hold it and the edit comes back when you let go, so you never have to undo your work to check it.
Will the edit reduce quality?
The photo keeps its original dimensions, and every adjustment is applied to the full-resolution image on download rather than to the preview. Saving does re-compress a JPG or WebP, which is why there's a quality slider set to 95% by default — raise it, or choose PNG to avoid any further compression at all.
Why does the preview look exactly like the download?
Because the same code produces both. Rather than relying on the browser's built-in canvas filters — which older versions of Safari ignore silently, leaving the sliders doing nothing at all — the tool works out each pixel itself. That runs everywhere, and it means what you judge on screen is what lands in the file.