Free image tools
Free, private image tools that run in your browser.
No uploads, no sign-up. Each tool processes your photos on your own device — and pairs with the AI photo generator we're building.
Your images never leave your device
Resize & crop
Convert & compress
Image Converter
Convert between PNG, JPG, and WebP — in your browser.
Open toolImage Compressor
Shrink photos with a quality slider and a before/after comparison.
Open toolImage to PDF Converter
Combine images into a single PDF — in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Open toolPDF to Image Converter
Render every PDF page to PNG or JPG at up to 300dpi.
Open toolColor & cutout
What every LaFoto image tool guarantees
- Runs in
- Your browser — nothing uploaded
- Account
- Not required
- Cost
- Free, no watermark
- Works offline
- After the page loads
- Formats
- JPEG, PNG, WebP
- File limit
- Your device memory, not a quota
Why browser-based matters
A free image tool that never sees your file
Six of the eight tools here read your file directly in the page and never send a byte to a server. That is not a privacy promise you have to take on trust — open your browser network tab while you resize an image and you will see no upload request at all.
It also changes what "free" can mean. A tool that uploads has to pay for bandwidth and storage, which is why free tiers on upload-based converters cap file size and count. A tool that runs on your own machine has no marginal cost, so the limit is your device memory rather than somebody's pricing page.
Pick by the job
Which free image tool do you actually need?
Resize, or compress — they are not the same thing
Resizing changes the pixel dimensions: a 4000px photograph becomes 1200px and the file shrinks because there genuinely are fewer pixels to store. Compressing keeps the dimensions and discards image information instead, trading visible quality for bytes.
For a web page you almost always want both, in that order. Compressing a 4000px image down to a size target destroys far more quality than resizing it first would have.
- Resize first, compress second — never the other way round.
- Never enlarge past the original with a resizer; that is upscaling.
- Re-encoding compounds softness, so work from the original file.
Converting between JPEG, PNG and WebP
The choice is about what the image contains, not about which format is newer. JPEG suits photographs, where its lossy compression is invisible and its file sizes are small. PNG suits flat graphics and anything needing transparency, because it is lossless and preserves an alpha channel.
WebP does both jobs at smaller sizes and is supported everywhere that matters now. The one reason to stay on JPEG or PNG is a destination that explicitly demands it — some marketplaces and print services still do.
- Photographs to JPEG or WebP; flat graphics and transparency to PNG.
- Converting to a lossy format re-encodes: expect a small quality cost.
- Metadata including GPS is dropped when a file is re-encoded.
Reading what a file is actually carrying
A photograph carries more than pixels. EXIF metadata records the camera, the lens, the exposure, often the software that touched it and — if location services were on — the exact coordinates where it was taken.
That matters twice over: it is genuinely useful for learning what settings produced a result you liked, and it is a privacy problem when you share a file without knowing it is there.
- Check EXIF before sharing a photo you did not take yourself.
- Sampling a colour gives you HEX and RGB for design work.
- Re-encoding through the converter strips metadata as a side effect.
Common questions in practice
What the free image tools handle
The cases people actually bring to them, and where each one stops.
A photo too large to email
Resize the longest edge to 1600px and the file usually drops below any mail limit while staying sharp on any screen.
A logo that needs a transparent background
The background remover handles flat, solid backgrounds cleanly. A subject shot against a busy scene needs the AI editor instead.
An image a marketplace rejected for size
Check the listing rules for both minimum pixel dimensions and maximum file size — they are separate limits, and the fix for each is a different tool.
Matching a colour from a photograph
Sample the pixel with the colour picker for an exact HEX value, but treat it as a starting point for anything printed rather than a specification.
A screenshot that looks soft when enlarged
No browser tool fixes this. Enlarging needs detail reconstruction, which is what the AI image upscaler is for.
All eight tools
Free online image tools, by the job they do
Beyond the browser tools
What the AI image generator adds
The jobs that need a model too large to run on your own machine.
- resize an image
- convert an image format
- compress an image
- crop to a ratio
- colour picker from image
- remove a background
- read photo metadata
- structure a prompt
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Free image tools
Free online image tool questions
- Are the LaFoto image tools really free?
- Yes, and there is no account. Six of the eight run entirely in your browser, so there is no upload to pay for and no per-use limit to enforce. Nothing here is a trial that expires or a preview that watermarks the result.
- Do my images get uploaded when I use these tools?
- The resizer, converter, compressor, cropper, colour picker and EXIF viewer never send your file anywhere — they read it directly in the page. Only the AI prompt generator calls our server, because generating text requires a model. You can confirm this in your browser network tab.
- Which free image tool should I use to make a file smaller?
- Two different jobs, two different tools. The compressor keeps the pixel dimensions and lowers quality to cut file size; the resizer reduces the pixel dimensions themselves. For a web page you usually want the resizer first and then the compressor.
- What image formats do the tools support?
- JPEG, PNG and WebP throughout, with AVIF supported for conversion output. The converter handles moving between them; the EXIF viewer reads metadata from JPEG and from TIFF-based raw files where the camera wrote a standard header.
- Do the tools work offline?
- The browser-based ones do, once the page has loaded. They are ordinary JavaScript running against a file you selected, so an interrupted connection does not stop a resize or a crop. The prompt generator needs the network.
- Is there a file size limit?
- The practical limit is your device memory rather than a rule we impose. Very large files — beyond roughly 50 megapixels — can be slow on phones because the whole image is decoded into memory at once. Desktop browsers handle far more.
- Do the tools strip EXIF and location data?
- The converter and compressor drop metadata by default when they re-encode, which removes GPS coordinates along with it. Use the EXIF viewer first if you want to see what a file is carrying before you share it.
- Can I use the free tools commercially?
- Yes. They process files you already own and claim nothing over the output. Since most run on your device, we never receive the file in the first place, so there is nothing for us to have rights over.
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