Edit an image

Sometimes you want to give an image just that little extra to really shine in your emails. Fortunately, you can rely on a number of default applications from your operating system to help you with this.

Windows

Microsoft Photos

The default app Microsoft Photos for Windows 10 and Windows 11 received a nice upgrade in 2022. Since then, you can perform common edits directly in this application:

Resizing an image (via context menu)
Crop an image (according to aspect ratios or free)
Flip or rotate an image
Make adjustments to the colour and lighting of the image
Add filters to an image
Add markings to an image
Generatively remove parts of the image
Blur, remove, or replace the background of an image with a solid colour

More details about the possible edits and how to do them can be found on the Microsoft support page: Editing photos and videos in Windows

Microsoft Paint (3D)

An old faithful, but this application has also received some updates recently which allow you to perform a number of basic edits now:

Resize an image
Crop an image freely
Rotate an image (90°, 180°, 270°)
Flip an image
Add text, highlights, shapes, and annotations to an image
Remove the background from an image (Windows 11)
Support for multiple layers (Windows 11)
Support for AI Image Cocreator (Windows 11)

More details about the possibilities can be found on the Microsoft Paint page: Draw, Create, and Edit with Paint

MacOS

Photos

With Photos on MacOS, you can make simple changes to your photos and images. The features available to you depend on your MacOS version.

In the most recent version, you can:

Resize an image (via File > Export)
Crop an image (according to aspect ratio or freely)
Flip and straighten an image
Add filters to an image
Make advanced exposure, white balance, and colour adjustments to an image
Remove distracting elements and imperfections from an image
Remove red-eye from photos
Apply vignetting to images
Sharpen a photo

More details about possible edits and how to perform them can be found on Apple's support page: Editing basics in Photos on Mac

Preview

Additionally, you also have Preview on MacOS. With this application, you can make small adjustments to images:

Resize an image
Rotate an image (90°, 180°, 270°)
Crop an image
Remove the background or an element of an image
Add text, highlights, shapes, and annotations to an image

More details about the possible edits and how to perform them can be found on Apple's support page: Annotating an image in Preview on Mac

Webtools

In addition, there are also web tools that allow you to make certain adjustments easily in your browser. Handy if you do not have access to the default applications mentioned above.

Cropping Images

Compressing images

Resizing images

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