Grade the set without an account or a usage meter

Twelve photos for one post. The filter that looks right on the first one should be available for the twelfth, without an account and without a meter that starts charging at photo three. Image8K is free forever, with no sign-up wall and no usage counter.

The filter is one photo

Adjust filters takes one image. Presets are black and white, vintage, cool, warm, and fresh. You can compare with the original and move brightness, contrast, and saturation. A folder of forty files that all need the same compress belongs on batch compress. A color grade is not that job.

Open the next photo in the same tool. The workspace sidebar lists the fifteen tools. It does not add a quota, and there is nothing to unlock between photo one and photo twelve.

What the tool does not do

It does not sign you in. It does not stamp an Image8K watermark on the export. It does not upload the photo. Keep each image at or under 20MB. HEIC from a phone should be converted before it reaches the filter.

If the post then needs a lighter file, compress the graded export. Do not crush the original first and then try to recover the color.

A grade is not a crop, a cutout, or a GPS strip

Crop, background removal, and the color picker are also one image. GPS and camera data are a different page: the strip guide already says what leaves when you remove metadata, including the camera model. A filter does not strip that. If the location should not travel with the post, strip it on purpose, after you are happy with the grade.

Corners, text, and a mosaic are other tools. Do not expect the filter page to draw an arrow.

Stop when the set matches

Download each graded photo. The originals stay on the device. If the twelfth looks different because the light was different, change that photo. Do not open an account to “unlock” the same preset you already used.