Microsoft Edge has come with a built-in image editor tool that lets you edit an image before downloading it to your Windows 11/10 computer. This tool is better than many basic image editor tools available over the internet. It lets you crop, rotate, flip an image, adjust lighting and color, set the zoom level for comfortable editing, enhance the image with different filters, and annotate it with a pen and highlighter.
Using built-in Image Editor Tool of Microsoft Edge
If you find an image on a webpage you want to edit with these options before saving it, this built-in Edge browser feature is a good option to try. There are many useful features like Math Solver, highlight text in PDF documents, etc., that are already present in the Edge browser, now this image editor tool makes it more helpful.
How to Edit an Image before downloading in Microsoft Edge
Before you proceed, update Microsoft Edge so that you can get this feature. Now, to edit an image, you need to right-click on that image and click on More tools > Edit image option. Once it is done, the image editor window will pop up.
This window has four main sections that include all the important features of Microsoft Edge’s image editor tool. Let’s review each section.
Crop images
This section lets you crop the image in free-hand crop mode at the desired angle (between -45 degrees and 45 degrees), which is one of its best options. If you don’t want to use free-hand crop mode, you can also switch to aspect ratio mode and select any available aspect ratio (9:16, Square, 5:4, 3:2, 16:9, 3:4, etc.) to crop the image.
In addition to cropping the input image, this section also lets you rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise and flip it horizontally or vertically.
Image Adjustments
This section is handy when you want to adjust the image’s lighting and color. Each option has sliders to adjust the image. You can adjust shadows, highlights, brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, tint, warmth and more. The changes appear in real time, giving you a good idea of the output image.
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Add Filter to images
As the name suggests, this section contains different types of filters that you can apply to the image. For a selected filter, you can set the intensity level (0 to 100) by moving the filter’s slider. You can also click and hold on the image to view the original image to check the difference between the input and filtered image.
An Auto Enhance feature is also present in this section.
Markup or annonate
This is an interesting section where you can do the annotation work to the image. Here, you can use a pen tool with more than 15 colors for annotation, a pen with a single or double arrow, a highlighter tool, and an eraser tool to remove ink strokes. All these options/tools are present in the left section of the image editor. For the pen and highlighter, you can also set the thickness and change the color as needed.
Use all the sections of this tool and perform the editing. You can also undo or redo steps, zoom in and out and reset the image to start over anytime. All such options are present in the top part of its image editor.
When you are done with the editing, you can use the Save button available in the top left corner to download the image as a PNG file or save it to the clipboard.
This image editor tool works well, but sometimes it got stuck and showed a blank image editor window while testing this feature. But overall, it is a nice addition to the list of features present in Microsoft Edge, and it may also improve and support other features (like text tool, resize option, more output image formats, etc.) in the future with new updates.
Hope this helps.
How do I edit photos in Microsoft Edge?
If you want to edit an image of a webpage, you can use Microsoft Edge’s built-in image editor. Right-click on an image and use the Edit image option to start editing. You can crop, rotate, flip the image, add effects, use a highlighter and then download the edited image. The post above covers all options and details for editing photos/images using Microsoft Edge.
How do I change download settings in Edge?
To change the download settings in the Edge browser, open Settings of Microsoft Edge and access the Downloads section present on the left sidebar. Once there, you can adjust settings such as changing the download folder, using the toggle to automatically open Office files in Edge instead of downloading them, and more.
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