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# How to edit images inside Ghost
- URL: https://www.magicpages.co/help/features/how-to-edit-images-inside-ghost/
- Published: 2026-08-27T10:13:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-27T10:13:39.000Z
- Description: Every Magic Pages plan includes Kalotyp, a built-in image editor. Crop, resize, and fine-tune your images without leaving Ghost.
- Author: Sviatoslav Huzel
- Tags: Help Center & Guides, Features and Benefits

Every Magic Pages site including Starter plans has an open-source image editor Kalotyp. Open any image in the post editor and you can crop, resize, rotate, filter, and annotate it without leaving Ghost.

## Where to find it

Add an image in a post and hover over it. A small icon appears in the right upper corner of an image, and it is labelled **Edit**. Click it to open the image editor.

![Post editor with the Edit wand icon highlighted on an image.](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/08/editor.jpg)

In Ghost admin, an edit icon also appears when hovering over an image, including the cover image under **Settings → Design & branding**, and staff profile photos. Clicking it opens the same Kalotyp editor.

One limit: the Edit icon doesn't appear on animated GIFs. Ghost still lets you upload and use them, just not edit them in place.

## What you can do

Nine tools, in a row along the top of the editor:

- **Crop**: drag the handles, or pick a ratio like square or 16:9.
- **Rotate** and **Flip**: straighten a tilted photo or mirror it.
- **Filter**: seven one-click looks.
- **Finetune**: the sliders behind those looks, for adjusting the result by hand.
- **Annotate**: text, shapes, arrows, freehand drawing, and emoji stickers.
- **Redact**: cover part of an image so it can't be read.
- **Resize**: set exact output dimensions.
- **Frame**: add a coloured border.

![Kalotyp editor's Finetune tab, with Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation sliders.](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/08/editor-2.png)

Filter, Annotate, and Redact each carry more options than the toolbar icon suggests.

### Filter and Finetune

Filter gives you seven presets to click through: None, Vivid, Mono, Soft, Punch, Mute, and Bright. Each one is a different mix of brightness, contrast, saturation and the rest. Finetune shows you those six sliders directly, so you can start from a preset and adjust it, or skip the presets and set the look by hand.

### Annotate

Eight tools sit along the annotate toolbar: Select, Text, Rectangle, Ellipse, Arrow, Freehand, Highlight, and Emoji. Pick a colour from the six swatches or type a hex code, and set the stroke width with the slider next to it. **Insert at centre** drops a new shape in the middle of the image if you'd rather not drag one out by hand, and **Delete** removes whatever's selected.

### Redact

Redact covers part of an image three ways: **Pixelate**, **Blur**, or **Solid fill**. Only Solid fill uses the colour picker. Pixelate and Blur don't take a colour, since there's nothing to tint. As with Annotate, **Insert at centre** and **Delete** add or remove a redaction region.

## Setting your defaults

The gear icon next to close opens **Preferences**, where you can set defaults for every image you edit from then on:

- **Format**: Auto (recommended), WebP, AVIF, JPEG, or PNG. Auto picks the best format for the image; the rest force a specific one.
- **Quality**: a slider from 50 to 100\. The default is 85.
- **Strip EXIF, GPS, and camera metadata on save**: on by default, so location and camera data don't travel with the file.

Underneath, three toggles decide what the editor remembers between sessions: your last annotation colour and stroke width, your last filter preset, and your last frame preset. All three are on by default. Turn one off if you'd rather the editor reset to its defaults each time instead of picking up where you left off.

![Kalotyp editor's Preferences panel, showing output defaults and session settings.](https://www.magicpages.co/content/images/2026/08/editor-3.png)

**Reset to defaults** puts every one of these back to its starting value.

Kalotyp covers most of the everyday image tweaks, without needing a separate app. It's built to be simple, so feel free to explore each tool without worrying about getting it wrong. Most of what it offers is just one click away.