Pure white cannot be recovered
When a pixel is recorded at (255, 255, 255), the sensor has discarded all original color and texture information. No free tool can restore what was never captured.
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How to Fix Overexposed Photos Online — Free, Instant
Drag a clipped shot in. We analyze the histogram, compress the highlights, lift the shadows, and rebuild tone in a single click. No upload to our servers, no signup, no paywall.
Your photos never leave your device. How this works
How it works
Five steps, one click of work.
Every stage happens in your browser. There is no account, no watermark, no paid tier — just an honest auto fix powered by a rule-driven exposure corrector.
- Photos never leave your device
- Processed via WebGL off the main thread
- Auto fix tuned per frame
Drop your photo in
One-click uploader accepts JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC up to 40 MB. Drag, browse, or paste from your clipboard.
Histogram analysis runs locally
We measure luminance distribution and highlight-clipping ratio in a Web Worker — no pixels ever sent to a server.
Tone recipe is decided
A small decision graph maps clipping stats to a tuned shoulder curve, shadow lift, contrast restoration and saturation recovery.
GPU renders the correction
Parameters are uploaded to a WebGL fragment shader; the processed frame is encoded straight to disk. About one second for a 6-MP photo.
Compare and download
An interactive before / after slider lets you verify the result, then downloads a high-quality JPEG to your device.
Why some shots can't be fully restored
Honest limits, decent results.
The bigger the blown-out area, the less detail any tool can pull back. Once a channel is capped at 255, the original information is unrecoverable by definition.
What we can do — and do well — is: compress partially clipped highlights, lift shadow detail back into balance, restore midtone contrast, and re-saturate skin and foliage tones washed out with the exposure.
Partial clipping can be corrected
If one or two RGB channels still hold headroom, or the clipping is confined to a small sky, tone mapping can redistribute the surviving detail.
Generative re-fill is not in scope here
Generative inpainting can plausibly hallucinate realistic texture in blown-out zones, but requires server-side GPU time. We keep the free tier strictly rule-based.
We don't silently upscale
Some competitors resample your image before processing, masking clipping as "enhancement." We operate at the resolution you give us.
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