Photo editor with HSL

A targeted photo editor with HSL controls designed for designers, photographers, and hobbyists to quickly adjust hue, saturation, and lightness for image color accuracy.

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About This Tool

This tool provides non-destructive HSL-based color editing for raster images. It solves the need to adjust hue, saturation, and lightness quickly and consistently for photographers, designers, and marketers who require brand-consistent imagery.
Conceptually, it processes each pixel: convert RGB to HSL, apply user-specified hue shift, saturate or desaturate, and add a lightness offset. It clamps values to valid ranges and re-converts to RGB, preserving the alpha channel and embedded color profile when possible. This enables predictable results across images.
Key features include an explicit three-parameter adjustment model (hue_deg, sat_pct, lit_pct), optional luminance preservation, and an option to apply changes in batch. The outputs include the edited image alongside metadata recording the applied parameters.
Typical use cases include quick brand color corrections, mood adjustments for social media assets, and preparing image sets for campaigns. The tool differentiates itself by focusing on HSL color space operations with robust per-pixel handling and optional advanced controls that avoid overcorrection.

How to Use

  1. Provide inputs: upload an image and set Hue shift (degrees), Saturation (%) and Lightness (%) values.
  2. Choose optional advanced settings: enable luminance preservation or targeted tonal ranges if available.
  3. Run calculation: apply HSL adjustments to produce a color-tuned image.
  4. Review outputs: inspect the resulting image and the applied parameters in metadata.
  5. Export: save the edited image in JPEG or PNG with desired quality.
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What is HSL in this tool?
HSL refers to hue, saturation, and lightness. In this tool, hue shifts rotate colors around the color wheel, saturation intensifies or reduces color intensity, and lightness adjusts brightness. The combination enables broad color changes without altering underlying luminance relationships.
Is the adjustment destructive?
The tool performs non-destructive editing in the workflow by returning a transformed image and metadata rather than modifying the original input; however, the final export preserves the edited version as a separate file.
What formats are supported?
Inputs support JPEG and PNG; outputs can be JPEG or PNG. The tool preserves dimensions and color information, with optional color profile handling. RAW or vector formats are not supported by default.
Can presets be saved?
Yes, you can save a parameter set as a preset and reuse it on other images. Presets store hue_deg, sat_pct, lit_pct and optional settings; they can be re-applied via metadata export for workflow continuity.

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