{"slug": "photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free", "title": "Photoshop Sends Your Photos to the Cloud. This Doesn't — And It's Free.", "summary": "A developer released APIC, a free browser-based photo editor that performs all image processing locally on the user's device rather than uploading files to a server. The tool offers filters, format conversion, target-size compression, resizing, and on-device AI features including background removal and MI-GAN-based object removal that runs entirely client-side.", "body_md": "Every \"free\" online photo editor works the same way: you upload your photo to their server, they process it, you download it back. Your image touched a stranger's computer along the way.\n\n**APIC never does that.**\n\nOpen it, drop an image, and everything happens locally in your browser. Nothing uploaded. Nothing logged.\n\n| Feature | What it does | \n|---|---|\n| 🎨 **Edit** | Filters, brightness, contrast, saturation, blur, rotate, flip | \n| 🔄 **Convert** | PNG ⇄ JPEG ⇄ WebP ⇄ BMP ⇄ ICO ⇄ PDF | \n| 📦 **Compress** | Shrink to a *target* file size, not a guess | \n| 📐 **Resize** | Exact pixels or percentages | \n| ✂️ **Remove Background** | Real on-device AI segmentation | \n| 🩹 **Remove Object** | Trained neural net (MI-GAN) fills the gap — like Photoshop's Generative Fill, 100% client-side | \n\nNo tab, no internet needed once it's running. Clean sidebar with dedicated **Edit / Convert / Compress / Search** modes.\n\n*(Also linked from the APIC-web site — but here it is directly.)*\n\nMost \"free\" tools aren't free — you pay with your photos, your data, your privacy.\n\n**APIC flips that: your files stay yours. Always.**\n\nTwo products. One philosophy: **powerful editing shouldn't cost you your privacy.**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/akhourianmolkumar/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesnt-and-its-free-2iab", "published_at": "2026-09-27 04:13:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-27 04:30:43.280770+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "ai-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["APIC", "Photoshop", "MI-GAN"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/photoshop-sends-your-photos-to-the-cloud-this-doesn-t-and-it-s-free.jsonld"}}