Free online photo editor

Adjust light and color, remove backgrounds in one click and add text on separate layers in a web browser.

The free plan needs no card, and edited photos carry no watermark.

The Hugogen photo editor with a portrait selected and its Remove BG, Adjust and Style tools showing

Photo tools in one place

Fine-tune light and color

Ten sliders cover brightness, contrast, saturation, vibrance, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature and tint, with an invert switch beside them. Every change shows on the photo as the slider moves.

The adjust panel with light and color sliders next to a photo

Remove a background in one click

Select a photo and press Remove BG to cut the subject out of it. The cutout keeps a transparent background and can be placed on any color, or exported as a PNG with the transparency intact.

A portrait after one click on Remove BG, the cutout on a plain white page

Change the look with a style preset

A gallery of style presets changes the look of a photo in one step. Apply a preset first, then adjust the light and color sliders to finish the result by hand.

The style preset gallery open beside a photo in the editor

Work in layers with text, shapes and drawing

Every photo, text box and shape sits on its own layer in the layers panel. Add text in a choice of fonts, place shapes, and draw on top with a pen, brush or highlighter.

The layers panel listing a text layer and a photo, with the photo selected

Describe a change in plain words

Open the AI panel and describe the edit, such as a new headline or a different layout. The AI designer makes the change on the page, and every element stays editable afterwards.

The AI panel open beside a design in the image editor

How to edit a photo online

  1. Step 1

    Upload a photo

    Open the photo editor and add a photo from a computer. JPG, PNG and WebP files all work.

  2. Step 2

    Edit the photo

    Adjust the light and color, remove the background, and add text, shapes or drawing on separate layers.

  3. Step 3

    Download the result

    Export the photo as a PNG with transparency, a JPG or a PDF. Compression and a file-size limit help with upload rules on some sites.

Ready-made sizes for common uses

Start from a preset size, or set any custom size from 64 to 4096 pixels on each side.

Instagram square post
1080 x 1080
Instagram and Facebook portrait post
1080 x 1350
YouTube thumbnail
1280 x 720
Pinterest pin
1000 x 1500
LinkedIn landscape post
1200 x 627
YouTube channel banner
2560 x 1440

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Questions and answers

The free plan includes the photo editor and needs no card to start. AI features such as background removal use credits, and the pricing page lists how many each plan includes.

One click on Remove BG cuts the subject out of the photo. The cutout keeps a transparent background, and a PNG export keeps the transparency.

Each photo, text box, shape and drawing is a separate layer. All of them are listed in the layers panel and stay editable at any time.

Text boxes can go anywhere on the photo, in a choice of fonts, sizes and colors, on their own layer above the picture.

Edited photos export as PNG, JPG, a standard PDF or a print PDF at 300 dpi. A PNG export keeps transparent areas transparent.

Hugogen adds no watermark to exported photos on any plan, including the free one.

The photo editor runs in a web browser on a computer, with nothing to install.

A free account is needed to edit and export photos. Signing up takes a Google account and no card.

Open a photo and start editing

Adjust it, remove the background and download a PNG, JPG or PDF with no watermark.

Open the photo editor