Embed Photo & Video Editing into Your Website Builder or CMS

Empower your users with a modern photo and video editing and automation.



Ensure visually consistent style and format across your users’ website.

Level up your product offering by automating tasks such as image creation for social media.

500M+

video and photo creations are powered by IMG.LY every month
HP
Shopify
Reuters
Hootsuite
Semrush
Shutterfly
Sprout Social
One.com
Constant Contact

Empower Your Users with Simple yet Powerful Editing Tools

Challenge

Your users need to edit photos or videos such as touching up, adjusting format & filtering before publication on their websites.

Solution
All-in-One Photo & Video Editing Tailored to Website Builders.

Our powerful design editor revolutionizes the way users interact with their assets. With a extensive set of editing functionalities - from basic adjustments to advanced creative effects - users can effortlessly make small changes or create elaborate assets from scratch

Challenge

Websites often require images and videos to be visually consistent and conform to a certain format, mood or branding.

Solution
Allow Users to Define Presets for Consistent Style

Our editor makes it simple to define editing presets and apply them to all assets uniformly.

For example, a set of product images can be initialized with the same edits already applied, e.g. replace background, make format square and and insert text.

Challenge

Users need to repurpose the same image for a blog entry, preview image and social media posts.

Solution
Enabling Automated Asset Generation & Creative Automation.

No more tedious manual updates across multiple assets. Our editor API automates the propagation of changes, instantly applying modifications across various files & formats.

Challenge

Users often need to remove image backgrounds to achieve a uniform look.

Solution
Efficient, Client-side Background Removal

Whether it's for a product showcase or portfolio our editor is easily extendable with precise and performant background removal.                    
Running entirely on the client in seconds you’ll incur no server costs.

Challenge

Users expect more and more sophisticated AI backed editing features.

Solution
Leverage Generative AI with our Plugin System

Enhance your users’ editing experience with a host of third-party AI tools such as automatic Face retouching, style transfer, image enhancement or automatic cropping.

Challenge

Integrating a sophisticated editor takes a lot of time and resources.

Solution
Best-in-class Design Editor Integrated with Only Few Lines of Code.

Thanks to our developer-first focus and comprehensive documentation the integration process is quick and easy. Our team of experts is ready to provide support and assistance throughout and get up and running quickly, saving valuable time and resources.

Challenge

Training customers and familiarising them with new tools takes a lot of time & resources.

Solution
Fully Customizable UI that Perfectly Matches Your Use Case.

Maintain a seamless user experience and reinforce your brand identity by customizing the editor to feel like a native part of your app that's intuitive and easy to use.

Everything you need

Key Capabilities

Learn more about some of the functionalities of IMG.LY’s SDK

Editing

Transform

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Crop, flip, and rotate with ease. Preset crop ratios to common formats.

Trim

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Set the start and end time of videos.

Filters

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Over 60 state-of-the-art filters allow users to control the style and mood of their creations.

Adjustments

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Fine-tune designs with an exhaustive set of adjustment operations such as brightness and contrast.

Effect & Blur

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Add a unique mood to designs with effects & blur.

Element Snapping

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Snap stickers and text to control points for more precise placements.

Blend Modes & Grouping

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Define the blending behavior and grouping.

Undo & Redo

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Allow users to undo and redo all editing operations.

Compostion

Timeline

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Arrange videos and elements on a timeline.

Asset Libraries

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Add custom assets for filters, stickers, overlays and frames.

Split

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Split video into multiple clips.

Merge Video

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Pick, edit and merge several video clips into a single visual sequence.

Video Collage

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Arrange multiple videos on a single page for immersive video collages.

Overlay Audio

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Add audio files to videos and set the mood through music or narration.

Customizability

Build Custom UIs

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Use the headless API powering all creative operations to implement an entirely custom UI.

Theming

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Change the editor theme to fit seamlessly with your app.

Media Libraries

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Set up custom libraries that are easily sortable.

Toolbar Customization

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Reposition toolbar elements, change icons, or rename tools to fit your use case.

Internationalization

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Add support for additional languages, and customize any button label.

UIs

Design Templates

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Create role based design templates to jumpstart users’ creativity.

Text Variables

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Enable mass personalization and creative automation by embedding variables.

Placeholders & Lockable Designs

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Constrain templates to guide your users’ design and ensure brand consistency.

Configurable Presets

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Enforce a consistent aesthetic across all creations by using preset filters, adjustments, fonts, and crop ratios.

Your partner in crime

Why IMG.LY ?

Battle-tested

Our SDK has matured in demanding environments, powering 500+ million creations per month.

Scalable & Future-Proof

We regularly release new features and improvements to help you stay ahead of industry shifts.

Customization

Our SDK can be flexibly customized, you can even build custom UIs and extend the editor functionality.

Cross-platform

Our SDK is optimized across platforms ensuring consistent rendering and interoperability.

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What Our Clients Say About Us

IMG.LY’s solution engineers did a deep dive on our business case and helped us implement a custom print kiosk UI.

André Albrecht
Digital Solution Manager
 @ 
Brother

Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform.

Jeanine Zaalberg
Product Manager
 @ 
Swiss Post

Our app has photo-editing at the very core of its experience and the editor has been invaluable in making that vision happen. There are no other tools on the market up to the quality of PE.SDK.

Toby Green
Lead Developer
 @ 
Elbi

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Reach out to our sales team or start a free trial.

FAQs

Can I implement roles and permissions using the SDK?

While there is no functionality included with the editor that allows implementing roles and permissions you can use any backend technology or framework to control access to the editor. Furthermore our SDK features are extendible allowing for hooks where permissions can be checked and the editor behavior customized accordingly.

Can we integrate our own assets (Sticker, Frames, Overlays)?

Yes, absolutely! Please refer to our documentation for more information on that topic.

Can I decide on which features to implement?

Yes, you have full control over which features you decide to use. You can configure the toolbar on mobile and on web you can interface with the API directly to build the exact feature you need.

Which platforms/ frameworks are supported?

Our IMG.LY SDK is suitable for web and mobile (Android & iOS). Supported frameworks are React-Native, Flutter, Ionic, and Cordova for mobile and React, Angular, Svelte and Vue.js for web. For more information, please visit our Guides.

Can I import existing designs files into the SDK?

You can always import individual elements as PNG, JPG or SVG, we are currently working on importers for PDF and the most common design file formats.

Which export file formats for print do you support?

All CreativeEditor SDK scenes can be exported in PNG, JPEG, TGA, binary, and PDF. See the export guide in the documentation for more information on exporting scenes.

Can I enable/ disable a function by default?

Yes, you have full control over the Editor’s UI and functionality. You can also take full control over the editing process with smart templates, lockable designs and placeholders.

Do you offer integration support?

Yes, apart from accessing our complete CreativeEngine documentation you can also contact our support team. Our solutions team offer different levels of support based on your license type.
To explore your use case and potential solutions with us simply get in touch.

Which server-side technologies do you support?

You can run the CreativeEngine in a Node.js environment and deploy it on any platform with Node.js support. See this guide on how to deploy on AWS for reference.

Can I try your Editors to see how it works?

Yes, we offer a free trial for all our products. You can get your free trial right now.

Can my users edit their photos using IMG.LY SDKs when they are offline?

As the editor works client-side, a permanent internet connection isn't necessary for the editor to run properly. Once the device reconnects, available updates can be installed and the export tracking will be communicated. However, if you require the SDK to work in a purely offline environment please contact our sales team to request an offline license.

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