About the Image Beautifier
A raw export dropped into a slide deck or a blog post tends to look unfinished, because it runs edge to edge against whatever sits behind it. Adding a margin of colour, rounding the corners and lifting the picture with a shadow is a small change that reads as deliberate design. This page does all three at once and hands back a single flattened file.
Padding is expressed as a percentage of the longer edge, so a tall portrait and a wide banner both end up with a margin that looks the same rather than one that swallows the smaller image. Ten gradient backdrops are built in, plus a flat colour of your choosing and a fully transparent option that keeps the alpha channel intact for layering later. The gradient angle is free, so you can run the sweep along the diagonal or straight down.
Canvas shape is worth setting when the destination has a fixed slot. Square suits a profile grid, 1.91 to 1 matches the link preview card that most social platforms crop to, and 4:5 fills a portrait feed. Choosing one of those expands the backdrop rather than cropping the picture, so nothing is lost. Shadows are painted from the alpha of the framed picture, which means a logo with transparent corners casts a shadow that follows its real shape. For a window frame with a title bar instead of a plain plate, use Screenshot Beautifier.
How to use
- Drop an image, a logo or an export onto the left pane.
- Pick a backdrop, then set Padding until the margin looks balanced.
- Round the corners and choose a shadow depth to lift the picture off the background.
- Set Canvas shape if the file has to fit a fixed slot, then download it.
Common questions
- Can I keep the background transparent?
- Yes. Choose Transparent as the backdrop and save as PNG. The padded area stays empty so you can drop the result onto any colour later.
- Why is padding a percentage instead of a pixel count?
- A fixed pixel margin looks huge on a small icon and invisible on a large screenshot. Scaling it to the longer edge keeps the proportions consistent.
- Does the canvas shape crop my picture?
- Never. Choosing a shape grows the backdrop on the two shorter sides until the ratio matches, so every original pixel survives.
- What happens to a picture that already has rounded corners?
- The new radius is applied on top, so set it to zero if you want the existing shape left alone.