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Image editing and design covers tools for retouching photos, drawing, and preparing graphics for print or screen. The topic mixes desktop apps, browser editors, and small utilities such as background removers, button generators, and animation makers. Some are full suites with layers, masks, and colour management, while others do one job and stop there. Weigh them on file formats, export limits, and licence terms, since a free tool can restrict commercial use and a paid one can still lack the format you need. Also check whether the app runs offline or keeps your files on its own servers.
PicFont is a web tool for adding text to photos. Users can upload an image from a computer or device, choose a canvas size, and add text with effects such as curved text, glow, gradient and textures. The finished image can be downloaded for free. Its page states that designs can start from templates, models and illustrations.
PicMix is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
PixiEditor is a free and open-source universal 2D graphics editor built around a Node Graph workflow. It combines pixel art tools, raster image editing, drawing, vector art and frame-by-frame animation in one desktop application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux and works offline.
Pixlr is a free online AI-powered photo editor and image generator that requires no installation. It provides tools for photo editing, AI image and video generation, face swapping, background removal, and collage creation, powered by AI models including Flux, Kling, and Veo.
Polaroma is a free online photo editor offering more than 20 film presets, including vintage film filters, polaroid effects, CRT and VHS styles. It accepts JPEG, PNG and RAW files up to 50MP and requires no app download. It also provides manual adjustments for exposure, highlights, shadows and tint.
Polotno Studio is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
PyDPainter is a pixel art program written in Python using PyGame, inspired by the Commodore Amiga version of Deluxe Paint. It offers painting tools, color cycling, animation and gradient fills, and runs on Windows, Mac and Linux under the GPLv3 license.
RedKetchup is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
A web-based tool that automatically removes image backgrounds. According to its site, users can create transparent PNG backgrounds and edit photo backgrounds to white for uses such as e-commerce shots, car listings or professional headshots.
rx is described as a modern and minimalist pixel editor built around a command system inspired by vi's modal nature. Its listed features include built-in sprite animation with live preview, working with multiple files simultaneously, undo and redo, animated GIF output, HiDPI support and UI scaling. It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows and requires OpenGL 3.3 or later.
ScreenToGif is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
Sketchbook is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
Stet is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
SumoPaint is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
Tenor is a GIF keyboard and search service for finding animated GIFs and videos to use in conversations. It presents trending searches and featured GIFs and offers options to share or embed GIFs.
tldraw is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
Tooooools is a free online tool for applying lo-fi effects to images and videos, including dithering, halftone, gradients and patterns. Users upload an image, select and adjust an effect, and export the result; no sign-up is required.
Tweetgen is an online generator for fake tweets and Twitter screenshots, updated for Twitter's latest look. It can create images of reply chains, user blocking and account suspension, and offers a verified check mark, custom like and retweet counts, and custom images. The site states it is still under development.
Unlimited is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
UpperPix is a collection of free browser-based image tools. It converts JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and ICO files, compresses images, resizes files in bulk, generates favicons and ICO files, and merges, splits or compresses PDFs. Processing happens locally with no upload and no registration.
Upscayl is a free and open source AI image upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows. It uses AI to upscale images, offers multiple models and batch processing, and can enhance images by up to 16x.
VectorPaint is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
Vectorpea is an image tool for editing, cropping, design, memes, graphics, or visual publishing.
VHS-Engine is a free online tool that applies VHS tape effects to photos in the browser, including scanlines, glitch, chromatic aberration and tape grain. It requires no signup and photos never leave the device.
