HelperCratePhoto Filters
GPU-accelerated photo adjustments, live presets, histogram and full-res export.
Your files never leave your device. Everything runs in your browser.
What Photo Filters does
Photo Filters is a browser-based photo editor built on WebGL, with live preview and a full set of adjustment sliders. It covers the everyday editing jobs — brighten a dark shot, warm up a cool white balance, add contrast, soften skin, add grain or vignette — without installing an app or uploading the photo anywhere.
Seven one-click presets (Vivid, Noir, Warm, Cool, Vintage and Fade) give a quick starting point, and an Intensity control lets you dial the effect back. For fine work, the sliders are grouped into Light, Colour, and Detail & effects, including exposure, highlights, shadows, vibrance, temperature, tint, sharpness, blur, vignette, grain, grayscale, sepia and invert.
A live histogram helps you judge exposure and colour balance, while the Before/after split and a hold-to-see-original shortcut make comparisons easy. Exports re-render at the loaded image size, so the edited file keeps the original resolution.
How to use Photo Filters
- Drop a photo onto the page, browse for it, or paste from the clipboard.
- Pick a preset to set the mood, then adjust the sliders. Double-click any slider to reset just that one.
- Use the Light group for exposure and tone, Colour for saturation and white balance, and Detail & effects for sharpness, blur, vignette and grain.
- Compare with the Before/after split, or hold the compare key to see the original while you drag a slider.
- Undo and redo individual changes, or reset everything and start again.
- Choose JPEG, PNG or WebP and the quality, then export — enable Export full resolution to re-render at the loaded image's full size.
Features
- GPU-accelerated live preview, so slider changes apply instantly on large images.
- Seven presets plus seventeen manual adjustments grouped as Light, Colour and Detail & effects.
- Per-slider reset with a double-click, undo/redo history and a full reset.
- A live histogram for exposure and colour judgement.
- Before/after split view plus a hold-to-see-original shortcut.
- Full-resolution export as JPEG, PNG or WebP with a quality setting, with a 50 MB per-file limit.
Tips and common mistakes
- Make small moves: a few points on several sliders usually looks better than one slider at maximum.
- Use the histogram to spot clipped highlights and crushed shadows before exporting.
- When exporting for the web, JPEG at quality 80–90 is small and visually clean; keep PNG for graphics with text.
Frequently asked questions
Does editing change my original file?
No. The editor works on a copy loaded into the browser, and exporting produces a new file. Your original photo on disk is untouched.
What is the difference between Exposure and Brightness?
Exposure simulates changing the light captured, adjusting the whole tonal range and often looking more natural. Brightness raises or lowers the values more uniformly and can flatten contrast. Most photos benefit from small exposure changes first.
Why is the tool unavailable in my browser?
The live preview needs WebGL. Older browsers, some locked-down environments and a few privacy extensions disable it. Try a current version of Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari with hardware acceleration enabled.
What does (texture limited) mean on my export?
Very large photos can exceed the maximum texture size your graphics hardware supports. The working image is capped at that size, and exports cannot exceed it. For full-resolution edits of enormous images, reduce the dimensions first with the Image Resizer.
Can I edit several photos with the same look?
This editor handles one image at a time so the GPU preview stays responsive. For batch operations, use tools like the Image Compressor or Image Watermark.
Related image tools: Image Compressor, Image Converter, Image Resizer.
All editing happens on your device using your GPU. The photo is never uploaded, and no edits are stored anywhere but in your browser session.