Image Tools

Resizing and Compressing for the Web

Oversized images are one of the most common causes of slow-loading websites and rejected uploads. The Image Resizer adjusts image dimensions precisely — whether you need an exact pixel size for a profile photo or a percentage scale-down for a web gallery — while giving you control over whether the aspect ratio is preserved or intentionally overridden. Once resized, the Image Compressor reduces file size with minimal visible quality loss, which is particularly useful before uploading to a website, attaching to an email with a strict size limit, or simply saving storage space on a device that's running low.

Format Conversion and Color Extraction

Different platforms support different image formats, and discovering that a file type is unsupported mid-upload is a familiar frustration. The Image Format Converter switches between JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, and BMP instantly, while the dedicated PNG to JPG Converter offers a faster, more direct path for that specific, extremely common conversion, with adjustable quality settings to balance file size against visual fidelity.

Designers matching a brand color from an existing graphic or screenshot can use the Image Color Picker to click any pixel in an uploaded image and instantly get its exact HEX and RGB value — far faster than opening a full design application just to sample one color, and precise enough to drop straight into a stylesheet or design system without eyeballing it.

Checking What’s Inside Your Image

Photographers and privacy-conscious users checking what information is embedded in a photo can rely on the Image Metadata Viewer, which displays EXIF data such as camera settings, timestamps, and (when present) GPS coordinates — useful both for technical review and for confirming what data should be reviewed before sharing a photo publicly. It's a read-only inspection tool: it shows you exactly what's hiding inside a file before you decide where that file goes next.

Most people are surprised the first time they check — a phone photo can carry the exact camera model, the date and time down to the second, and sometimes precise GPS coordinates, all invisible unless you know to look. Running an image through the viewer before posting it publicly takes a few seconds and tells you plainly what a stranger could learn from the file alone.

Privacy-First Image Processing

Most online image tools follow the same pattern: upload your file, wait for a server to process it, then download the result — a flow that always involves a stranger's infrastructure handling your photo, even if just briefly. PixelTools's image tools flip that pattern. Modern browsers are capable of resizing, compressing, and converting images directly on your own device using the Canvas API and related web standards, so for the vast majority of tasks in this category, your image never has to leave your computer or phone at all.

This matters most for the images people are least comfortable sharing: a passport photo being resized for a form, a screenshot containing private information, or a personal photo never meant for public upload. Processing locally also means there's no waiting on an upload bar for a large file, and no dependency on our servers staying online for a tool to work — open the page, and the tool is ready.

These tools won't replace a full photo editor for serious creative work, and they're not trying to. They're built for the smaller, more frequent tasks that sit just before or after the real editing — getting a file under a size limit, matching a color, checking what metadata is hiding in a photo before you send it. Handling those steps quickly, privately, and without extra software is the whole purpose of this category.