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Five kinds of work, gathered in one place

The site is arranged around what you are trying to achieve rather than around file extensions. Each of the five areas below has its own front page, and each is built for a different rhythm of work \u2014 a quick fix, a long edit, or something you keep coming back to.

Small tools instead of one large application

Most of what people do to an image or a document is not creative. It is a requirement someone else set: an upload form that refuses anything above two hundred kilobytes, a printer asking for a particular resolution, an application that wants a portrait measured in millimetres, a mailbox that bounces attachments over a certain weight. Those are not design problems. They are arithmetic, and they should take one screen.

That is why the two toolkits are deliberately narrow. A tool here does a single job, tells you what the setting will cost before you commit to it, and gives the file straight back. You should not have to learn a workspace, pick from twelve panels or watch a tutorial in order to make a photograph smaller. The pages behind each tool are written the same way: measured numbers from the actual pipeline rather than adjectives, so you can see in advance what a choice does.

When the work genuinely is creative, the editor and the whiteboard behave like the applications they are \u2014 layers, history, an infinite canvas \u2014 because that kind of work needs room rather than a button.

What free means on Pixpoo

Free here means the whole thing, not a sample of it. There is no registration, no email address to surrender, no trial that quietly expires and no card details held for later. Nothing is printed across your result, no resolution is withheld, and there is no upgrade that produces a better version of the same output \u2014 the file a tool makes is the file you take away. Advertising on the pages is what pays for the servers behind the image tools. A rate limit sits in front of them to keep automated scripts from crowding out people, and working through a folder of your own photographs will not come close to it.

Where the work actually happens

This differs from tool to tool, and vague reassurance is worth less than a plain description. The PDF toolkit, the whiteboard and the passport photo maker carry out everything on your own machine: the file is opened from your disk, changed in your browser\u2019s memory, and written back by the browser. None of it travels. The passport maker makes the point nicely \u2014 its background removal downloads the model to your device and runs it there, so your portrait is never transmitted to be cut out.

The image toolkit is the deliberate exception. Resize, crop, compress, convert and upscale pass the picture to a server, because the library doing the work produces better results than a browser can. It is held there only while the job runs, returned the moment it is finished, and never committed to disk or kept afterwards. Two more tools sit between the two models: the watermark tool stays on your device whenever the output is PNG, JPEG or WebP, and the photo editor does its editing locally and only calls out when you export to a less common format such as AVIF or TIFF. The whiteboard likewise stays put unless you choose to open a shared room, which is the one moment board data is relayed so that other people can see it.

Wherever a picture is processed, the tags a camera writes into it \u2014 the model, the date and, most importantly, the GPS position \u2014 are left out of the result, so a photograph you hand to someone else is not also handing over where you were standing.

The jobs people usually arrive with

A form rejects a photograph for being too heavy, and Compress Image takes it under the limit while you watch the number fall. A profile picture has to be square, so Crop Image fixes the shape rather than squashing the face. A page loads slowly because its pictures are four thousand pixels wide for a slot half that size, which is Resize plus a conversion to WebP. A supplier sends artwork smaller than the layout needs, and Upscale buys back some of the difference.

On the document side the pattern repeats. Four scanned pages arrive as four files and have to go out as one, which is Merge PDF. A contract comes back needing a signature and nothing else, which is Sign PDF. A report is too heavy to email, so Compress PDF \u2014 though dropping the pages nobody reads with Delete Pages often saves more and costs nothing in quality. And an old scan that no search can find inside becomes searchable through OCR PDF.

Worth knowing before you start

• The image toolkit takes one picture per pass, up to 25 MB, and holds results to 8000 pixels along the longest side. HEIC files copied straight off a recent iPhone are not readable yet \u2014 export a JPEG on the phone first.
• The photo editor loads a working copy limited to 2200 pixels on its long side, which keeps the canvas responsive. If a large original has to stay large, size it in the toolkit rather than the editor.
• Tools that run on your own hardware have no upload ceiling, but they do have your device\u2019s memory as a ceiling. A phone copes with everyday documents and struggles with a five-hundred-page scan; a laptop takes both in its stride.
• Enlarging cannot recover what a camera never recorded, and compression below a certain point starts to show. Both tools tell you where those lines fall rather than pretending they do not exist.

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