PRIVATE IMAGE EDITOR
Make edges and fine details appear clearer directly in your browser. Your original image stays on your device.
Make image details appear clearer and more defined.
FileTools uses an unsharp-mask operation. The image is compared with a blurred version, and differences above the configured threshold are reinforced. This can improve perceived edge definition without changing the image dimensions.
Moderate sharpening can make text, product edges, foliage, and architectural details look crisper.
Excessive sharpening can produce bright or dark outlines around high-contrast edges and make noise more obvious.
Sharpening changes the appearance of existing pixels. It does not recover information that the source image never contained.
The underlying Rust engine uses an unsharp-mask function with a fixed threshold of 1 and passes the slider strength as its sigma parameter. The sharpen strength calculator shows how the parameters relate.
The image is processed locally in your browser with WebAssembly. FileTools does not need to upload the original image to sharpen it.
Sharpening speed varies with pixel count, format, browser, CPU, and cold versus warm WebAssembly startup. A useful benchmark should report all of those variables rather than presenting an unsupported universal timing.
Yes. The selected image is decoded and sharpened in your browser using FileTools' WebAssembly engine.
Sharpening increases local edge contrast so fine details and boundaries appear more defined. Too much sharpening can create halos or accentuate noise.
The slider value is passed to the Rust image engine as the unsharp-mask sigma. The browser UI currently exposes values from 0 to 10.
No. Sharpening can make existing edges appear clearer, but it cannot reconstruct information that was lost through blur, compression, or low resolution.
No. The sharpening operation keeps the image width and height unchanged.