Polaroid Photo
Frame a photo like a classic Polaroid — white border, vignette, contrast and saturation, a touch of rotation, entirely in your browser.
Input
Processed entirely in your browser — the image is never uploaded to a server.
Control the size of the white Polaroid border.
Classic Polaroid uses white, but you can customize it.
Add a vintage vignette effect to the photo.
Adjust the contrast of the photo.
Adjust the color saturation (negative for a more muted, vintage look).
Add extra space at the bottom of the frame, like a classic Polaroid.
Slightly rotate the Polaroid for a casual look.
Output
Your edited image will appear here.
Guides
Turn any photo into a classic Polaroid — a thick border, a soft vignette, and a hint of casual tilt, all rendered instantly in your browser with no upload and no watermark.
How it works
Upload an image, then adjust the frame to taste:
- Border Size — how thick the frame is around the photo, from a slim edge to a chunky classic border.
- Border Color — the frame color. Classic Polaroid is white, but any color works.
- Vignette Strength — darkens the corners of the photo for that faded, aged look. Higher values darken more.
- Contrast — pulls shadows and highlights further apart or flattens them.
- Saturation — pushes colors toward gray (negative, for a muted, vintage feel) or makes them more vivid (positive).
- Add Caption Space — reserves extra blank space at the bottom of the frame, like the strip you'd hand-write a caption on below a real Polaroid. This tool doesn't render any text into that space — it's just a matching blank area you can annotate afterward in an image editor.
- Rotation — tilts the whole card a few degrees for a casual, tossed-on-a-table look. Because the frame doesn't grow to fit the tilt, larger angles can clip the corners slightly, just like a real print rotated on a flat surface.
The result renders instantly as you adjust the controls. Download it as an SVG file, or copy its source markup directly.
Tips
- Keep Border Size proportional to your photo's resolution — a small border on a very large photo can look thin; scale it up for high-res images.
- A little Vignette Strength (10–25%) reads as a natural lens falloff; push past 50% for a heavily aged, edge-darkened look.
- Negative Saturation paired with slightly positive Contrast gives the most convincing faded-film effect.
- The downloaded SVG stays crisp at any size since it's a vector wrapper around your original image — resizing it doesn't lose quality the way a rasterized export would.