Paste Image

// Paste the image itself, not a filename

Take a region screenshot or copy an image from a browser, Figma, Discord, or another app. Then press Ctrl+V on Windows or Linux, or Cmd+V on a Mac, anywhere on this page. The image appears without a file picker or an editor in between. Drag and drop or the file picker are available when the clipboard path is awkward, and the file picker is the honest route on phones and tablets.

The Original button saves the exact bytes supplied by the clipboard or file picker. The PNG, JPG, and WebP buttons redraw the current crop, orientation, and size in the chosen format. JPG has no transparency, so transparent pixels are placed on white rather than silently turning black. Its quality control starts at 92 percent. PNG keeps transparency and is the usual format delivered by screenshot clipboards.

Every download uses a timestamp such as pasted-2026-09-08-140509.png, so repeated screenshots do not all arrive as image.png. The format shown beside the dimensions is the format that actually arrived. A copied browser image can differ from the format of the file on the website because clipboard software often provides a decoded PNG bitmap instead of the original web file.

// A small image workbench after the paste

Rotate in 90 degree steps, flip horizontally or vertically, and open the crop guide to drag a rectangle around the part you want. Width and height can then be changed with the aspect ratio locked, which avoids stretching the crop. The result is always rebuilt from the image that arrived, not from the last compressed result, so a sequence of edits does not accumulate one lossy generation after another.

Fit view is useful for seeing the whole result. The 100 percent view gives each output pixel one CSS pixel, while the plus and minus controls move through useful inspection sizes. Zoom changes only the view. It never changes the downloaded dimensions. The current output dimensions and encoded file size stay next to the preview so the save buttons do not ask you to guess.

Copy result writes the edited pixels back to the system clipboard as PNG, which is the image clipboard format with the broadest browser support. Browser clipboard reads and writes require a secure page and may show a permission prompt. Ordinary Ctrl+V paste remains the primary path and does not require the optional read button.

// Private by construction, with a deliberate canvas limit

The image is decoded, transformed, previewed, and encoded inside this browser tab. No image bytes are sent to this site or to an image-processing service. Native browser formats keep working offline after the page loads. HEIC and HEIF need their one-time decoder download first; after that decoder has loaded, those formats work offline too.

A browser canvas is not an unlimited image editor. This page refuses an output above 8,192 pixels on either side or 16.7 million pixels in total before asking the browser to allocate it. That ceiling keeps an unusually large clipboard image from exhausting a mobile tab. The exact Original bytes remain downloadable even when a transformed output is too large, and entering smaller output dimensions gives the canvas a safe job.

Animated GIFs need one extra distinction. Original preserves every byte and therefore keeps the animation. Canvas-based PNG, JPG, and WebP conversions use the decoded still frame, so the page puts Original first and says when that caveat applies.

// fair questions

Where does my image go?

Nowhere. The image stays in this browser tab. Decoding, crop, rotation, resizing, conversion, preview, download, and copy-back all happen on your device without an upload.

Why is my screenshot a PNG?

Screenshot and image clipboards commonly provide a decoded PNG bitmap, even when the image you copied came from a JPG or WebP file. PNG keeps sharp interface text and transparency. You can save the result as JPG or WebP here when a smaller lossy file is more useful.

Can I paste an image on a phone?

Mobile clipboard support varies by browser and operating system. Tap the large paste area to choose an image from Photos or Files. The optional Paste from clipboard button can also work in browsers that expose image clipboard permission, but the picker is the dependable mobile path.

Does converting to JPG remove transparency?

Yes. JPG cannot store transparent pixels. This tool fills transparent areas with white before encoding so they do not become black. Choose PNG or WebP if the alpha channel needs to remain transparent.

Will converting an animated GIF keep it moving?

No. The PNG, JPG, and WebP conversions redraw the decoded still frame and lose animation. Download Original to keep the GIF bytes and all of its frames unchanged.