Adjust Image: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Transparency

Fix the brightness, contrast, saturation and transparency of your photos with seven controls and ready-made looks. Apply to several images at once, all in your browser.

Drag your images here
or click to browse — JPG, PNG, WEBP. You can pick several at once.

How to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and transparency

To get started, drag your images onto the upload area at the top of the tool, or click it to open your computer's file picker. You can grab several photos in one go by holding Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) as you click, and you can drop a whole folder of images at once. JPG, PNG, WEBP, GIF and BMP are all accepted. As soon as the files are read, the workspace appears with the controls on the left and the preview on the right. Load more than one image and tabs named after each file show up above the preview — click any of them to see how your settings look on that particular photo.

The quickest route is to start from a quick look. There are eight ready-made combinations — Vivid, Soft, High contrast, Faded, Cool, Warm and Black & white, plus Original to get back to where you began. Click one and every control jumps to the values behind that style. From there you can fine-tune by hand: the sliders stay live after a look is applied. To compare your result against the untouched photo, press and hold the mouse button over the preview (or your finger, on mobile) — the image snaps back to its raw state while you hold and returns to your edit the moment you let go.

The individual controls cover seven parameters. Brightness lightens or darkens the whole image. Contrast separates light tones from dark ones, and it is the single adjustment that rescues the most flat-looking photos. Saturation sets how intense the colors are: at zero the image turns grayscale. Transparency runs on a direct scale — 0% keeps the image solid and higher values make it translucent, which is handy for backgrounds, overlays and subtle watermarks. Hue rotates the entire color wheel, letting you shift the temperature of a shot. Sepia adds the classic aged tone. Next to each label sits a "reset" button that returns just that one control to its default without touching the others.

Once you are happy, pick a download format: PNG preserves transparency and loses no quality, JPG gives you the smallest file, and WEBP balances the two. Choosing JPG or WEBP reveals a quality slider — 90% is a safe default for the web. Use "Download image" to save only the photo showing in the preview, or "Download all (.zip)" to get the entire batch compressed into a single archive, with the same settings applied across every file.

Frequently asked questions

Are my images uploaded to a server?
No. Every adjustment happens inside your browser using JavaScript and Canvas. Nothing leaves your device — not the originals, not the edited versions.
Can I adjust several photos at once?
Yes. Select as many images as you like: the same brightness, contrast, saturation and transparency values are applied to all of them. Download them one by one or grab the whole batch as a single .zip file.
What is the difference between brightness and contrast?
Brightness lifts or lowers every pixel by the same amount, so the whole photo gets lighter or darker together. Contrast pushes the light and dark tones apart: highlights get brighter, shadows get deeper, and the midtones stay roughly where they are. A flat, washed-out photo almost always needs more contrast (110–130%), not more brightness; a photo shot against the light is the one that needs brightness.
How do I make an image semi-transparent to use as a background?
Push transparency up to somewhere between 60% and 85% and export as PNG or WEBP — both formats store an alpha channel, so the see-through effect survives in the final file. If you export as JPG the format has no transparency at all, and the empty area is filled with the background color you pick (white by default). For a faint background image behind slides or web copy, around 80% transparency is usually the sweet spot.
Which adjustments work best on product photos for online stores?
Marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Etsy reward bright, neutral photos. A solid starting point is brightness 105–110%, contrast 110–120% and saturation 105–115% — enough to make the product pop without misrepresenting its real color, which is what drives complaints and returns. Steer clear of saturation above 140%: past that point the color on screen stops matching the product in the box.
Does adjusting an image here reduce quality or bloat the file?
Processing happens at the original resolution, with no resizing, so no detail is thrown away. File size comes down to the output format: PNG keeps maximum quality and produces the largest files, while WEBP at 90% quality typically lands 25–35% smaller than JPG at matching sharpness. For anything going on the web, WEBP is the better pick.
Does it work on a phone?
Yes. The page is responsive and runs in any mobile browser on Android and iPhone, with nothing to install. On very large photos (above 20 MP), older handsets may take a few seconds to write the final file.
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