About Image York

Image York is a product of We Smart, as noted at the bottom of every page. There are no user accounts, subscriptions or paid tiers. Questions, bug reports and corrections are welcome through the contact page.

• Optimization: compress with a quality slider, compress to a size in KB, or remove metadata losslessly.
• Editing: resize, crop (including circle and freehand), rotate, flip, brightness and contrast, adding text, borders and frames, and a layer-based photo editor with text, shapes, drawing and filters.
• Conversion: JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF in different directions, plus HEIC, TIFF, BMP and GIF where the browser can read them, and Base64 encoding.
• Utilities: size checker, metadata viewer and remover, colour picker, palette generator, DPI setter, aspect ratio calculator and English OCR.
• Social media: preset sizes for six platforms.
• Enhance and restore: background removal, plus enhance, upscale, denoise and sharpen filters.
• Advanced: watermarks, background colour and replacement, blur, and hiding text in images.

When you open a file, your browser reads it from your device, decodes it into pixels and processes it with standard web technologies: the canvas element, Web Workers for heavier jobs, and WebAssembly where a library needs it. The result is created in the page and saved by your browser when you press download. Nothing is sent to an Image York server for processing.

Two kinds of tools need extra program files the first time you use them. The background tools download an open-source segmentation model from IMG.LY, and the OCR tool downloads the Tesseract engine and English language data from the jsDelivr network. Your images are not part of those downloads.

Image York is built on open-source software, including browser-image-compression, pica, JSZip, exifr, Color Thief, Cropper.js, Tesseract.js and IMG.LY background removal. The License page lists them with their licences.

Each tool page explains the formats it accepts, the settings it offers, what happens to transparency and metadata, and its limitations. Some of those limitations are worth knowing up front:

• Several page addresses contain "ai" for historical reasons. Only the Background Remover and Blur Background use a machine-learning model. The enhancer, upscaler, denoiser, sharpen and unblur tools are classic filters, and their pages say so.
• Format support depends on your browser. HEIC and TIFF generally open only in Safari, and many browsers cannot save AVIF.

If you find a page that says something the tool does not do, please tell us so we can correct it.

The tools are free to use. The site may show advertising served by Google to help cover running costs. Ads do not affect how the tools process your files. How advertising and analytics use cookies is explained in the Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy.

Reports of bugs, confusing wording or wrong information are the most useful feedback. Include the tool, the file type, your browser and device, and what happened. Use the contact page.