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Polaroid frame
The instant-camera shape, with the deep band at the bottom left empty.
It runs entirely in this browser tab: the file you open is never uploaded, and the result is re-encoded from pixels, so its metadata does not come with it.
Settings
- Colour
- Any CSS colour: a name, #rrggbb, or rgb(...).
- Take the middle square
- A circle from a wide photograph should be the middle of it.
- Tilt
- A tilted frame leaves transparent corners. A number from -15 to 15.
- Colour underneath
- Leave it empty to keep the corners transparent.
- Shadow
- The shadow is the picture's own shape, not its rectangle.
- Save as
- Only PNG keeps transparency. JPEG fills it in. Choices: PNG, JPEG.
- Quality
- Below about seventy the blocking starts to show. A number from 1 to 100.
How to use it
- Paste your text into the box above, or open a file.
- Adjust the settings beside it until the result is what you wanted.
- Copy the result, or save it as a file. The result updates as you type.
Questions
- Is my picture uploaded anywhere?
- No. The whole application is carried as WebAssembly and runs on your own device. There is no server to send anything to, and none of these tools makes a network request while it works — not even the one that reads a photograph's location, which is why it gives coordinates rather than drawing a map.
- What happens to the EXIF data?
- It is gone. Every result here is written from pixels, so the camera, the date, the location and the copyright field are all dropped. That is the point of the location tool and a surprise to anybody who wanted the copyright kept, which is why every result says so.
- Is a blur enough to hide something?
- Usually not. A blur and a pixelation are averages of what was there, and both have been reversed in published work by blurring candidate images the same way and comparing. Only a solid fill or noise removes the information, and the tools say which method you chose.
- Why is the example a test pattern rather than a photograph?
- Because this workspace ships no image files anywhere, and a base64 photograph pasted into a source file would be one wearing a disguise. The patterns are drawn from nothing when the button is pressed.
Other tools for frames and edges
Add a border
A border of any width and colour, with an inner line that goes on first.
Add a background
A colour, a gradient or a checkerboard under whatever transparency the image has.
Add a watermark
Lays a second image over the first, once or tiled. It marks with an image, never with text.
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