Smudge Image with Brush
Drop a file here,
or use Ctrl+V/Cmd+V to paste an image or a file.
Maximum size: 30MB, 10000 x 10000px.
Supported formats JPEG, WEBP, PNG, GIF.
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Smudge Tool for Photos
Drag colour through a photo the way a finger drags through wet paint. Blend skin tones, soften a harsh edge, pull a highlight into place, or push a background into abstraction, with the size, strength and hardness of the finger under your control.
Colour That Moves
The brush picks up what is under it and carries it along the drag, so a smear is made of colour taken from the photo itself rather than something painted over the top.
A Finger You Can Shape
Size, strength and hardness are separate controls. A wide soft finger sweeps a background; a small hard one works an edge without touching what is beside it.
Finger Painting
Start a stroke with a colour of your choosing instead of the colour under the brush, then pick up from the photo from there.
Zoom for Close Work
Zoom in with the wheel or a pinch and pan with Space or two fingers, so a small finger can follow an eyelash as easily as a horizon.
Every Drag Undoable
One drag is one undo step, undo and redo are unlimited, and Reset returns the photo to the way it arrived.
Nothing Leaves Your Browser
The photo is opened, edited and saved on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing can be kept.
What Can You Do with Smudge?
From quiet retouching nobody notices to a full painterly effect.
Retouching and Blending
A short stroke at low strength blends what it crosses: the join between two skin tones, a hard shadow line, a patch left behind by another tool, a stray hair against a plain background. Because the brush carries real colour from the picture, the repair keeps the grain and the lighting of what is already there.
Painterly Effects
Turn the strength up and the same brush becomes a painting tool. Long strokes pull colour into ribbons, a background dissolves into brushwork, and a portrait picks up the look of wet oil. Work at a large size for sweeping movement, or zoom in and use a small finger for detail.
The Four Controls
Brush Size
How much of the picture the finger covers. Measured against the photo, so the same setting behaves the same way on a small image and a large one.
Strength
How far the colour travels before the finger lets go. Low blends at the boundary; high drags colour right along the stroke.
Hardness
How sharply the smear stops at the edge of the brush. Soft fades out gradually; hard leaves a defined edge.
Finger Painting
Begin each stroke with a chosen colour rather than one from the photo, then pick up normally. Turn it on to draw colour in.
How to Smudge a Photo
Upload Your Photo
Drag and drop a JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, paste one with Ctrl+V, or pick one of the samples. The file never leaves your browser.
Set the Finger and Drag
Choose a size, a strength and a hardness, then drag across the photo. Zoom in for close work, and hold Space or drag with two fingers to move the picture instead.
Save Your Photo
Export as JPEG, PNG or WebP at the photo's full resolution, with a quality slider for the lossy formats.
Try It on Your Own Photo
No account, no watermark, no upload. Everything happens in your browser.
Start SmudgingFrequently Asked Questions
It drags colour across the photo the way a finger drags through wet paint. The brush picks up the colour under it when you press, carries that colour as you drag, and lays it down as it goes, mixing with whatever it passes over. The result is a smear that follows your stroke and fades behind it.
Blur softens a place without moving anything: the pixels stay where they are and lose detail. Smudge moves colour from one place to another, so it can pull a highlight across a cheek, stretch a background into a streak, or blend two colours into each other along the line you drag.
It sets how far the colour travels before it lets go. At low strength the brush releases what it picked up almost immediately, which blends two areas softly at the boundary. At high strength it holds on, so colour picked up at the start of a stroke is still being laid down a long way along it. At 100% the finger never lets go at all.
With Finger Painting on, the stroke starts with the colour you choose instead of the colour under the brush, then picks up from the photo normally from there. It is the way to draw a smear of a specific colour into a picture rather than only rearranging what is already there.
Yes. Every drag is one undo step, and undo and redo are unlimited within the editing session. The Reset button puts the photo back to how it was loaded. Your original file on disk is never touched.
No. The photo is opened, edited and saved entirely inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, so nothing can be stored, seen or shared by anyone but you.