n8n Edit Image nodeConfigure Edit Image in n8n.

Blur softens the whole picture so a face, a license plate or a messy background loses its detail before the file travels any further.

• Property Name: the binary property holding the image data, usually data right after a download step.
• Blur: how strong the blur should be, on a scale of 0 to 1000, where higher numbers wash out more detail.
• Sigma: the sigma of the blur, also 0 to 1000, controlling how far each pixel bleeds into its neighbors.

A border paints extra pixels around the picture, which stops a pale visual from dissolving into a white page and gives a batch of assets the same frame.

• Property Name: name of the binary property in which the image data can be found.
• Border Width: the width of the border.
• Border Height: the height of the border.
• Border Color: color of the border, entered as a hex value or picked from the swatch.

Compositing lays one picture on top of another and decides, pixel by pixel, how the two blend together.

• Property Name: the binary property carrying the base image, the one underneath.
• Composite Image Property: the binary property holding the image to place on top, often data2.
• Operator: how the two images combine, from Over for a plain overlay to Multiply, Difference or CopyOpacity.
• Position X and Position Y: horizontal and vertical position of the composite image.

Nothing incoming to edit? Create builds a brand new image from scratch, a flat canvas that the following nodes can draw on or write across.

• Property Name: the binary property the new image is written into, ready for the next node.
• Background Color: the background color of the image to create, as a hex value or from the color picker.
• Image Width: the width of the image to create.
• Image Height: the height of the image to create.

Cropping keeps a rectangle and throws the rest away, so a wide screenshot becomes the one panel that matters.

• Property Name: the binary property that stores the image data to cut into.
• Width: crop width, the horizontal size of the rectangle you keep.
• Height: crop height, the vertical size of that same rectangle.
• Position X and Position Y: the horizontal and vertical position to crop from.

Draw puts a simple shape on the picture, which is enough to highlight an area or build a chart-like visual by hand.

• Primitive: the shape to draw, one of circle, line or rectangle.
• Color: the color of the primitive to draw.
• Start Position X and Start Position Y: where the primitive begins.
• End Position X and End Position Y: where it stops, which sets its size.
• Corner Radius: the radius used to round the corners.

Reading comes before writing. Get Information returns image information such as the resolution, and changes nothing in the file, which makes it the natural first step when the rest of the branch depends on the size of what arrived.

• Property Name: the only field to fill, the binary property in which the image data can be found, typically data right after an upload.

One node, several edits. Multi Step performs multiple operations on the same image in sequence, so a crop, a resize and a caption no longer need three nodes wired one after the other.

• Property Name: the binary property every step in the list reads and rewrites.
• Operations: the operations to perform, added one by one with Add Operation; any of the other operations can go in the list.

Resize changes the size of the image, and the interesting part is the rule it follows when the target shape does not match the original.

• Width and Height: the new dimensions of the image.
• Option: how to resize. ignoreAspectRatio forces the exact values, maximumArea and minimumArea treat them as a ceiling or a floor, onlyIfLarger and onlyIfSmaller skip images already in range, and percent reads both values as percentages.

Rotation fixes a photo that arrived sideways, or tilts a visual on purpose for a layout.

• Property Name: the binary property that stores the picture to turn.
• Rotate: how much the image should be rotated, in degrees, anywhere from minus 360 to 360.
• Background Color: the color filling the empty corners when the angle is not a multiple of 90; at a multiple of 90 there is no gap to fill and the value is ignored.

Shearing slants the picture along one axis, turning a straight rectangle into a parallelogram without cutting anything out of it.

• Property Name: the binary property in which the image data can be found.
• Degrees X: the horizontal shear, in degrees, which pushes the top and bottom edges sideways.
• Degrees Y: the vertical shear, in degrees, which does the same along the other axis.

Text writes directly onto the picture, and the string usually comes from the data flowing through the workflow rather than being typed in.

• Text: the text to write on the image, often an expression such as {{ $json.title }}.
• Font Size and Font Color: size and color of the text.
• Position X and Position Y: where the text begins on the canvas.
• Max Line Length: the maximum number of characters before a line break is added.

Transparency removes one color from the picture and leaves a hole where it was, the quick way to lift a subject off a flat background.

• Property Name: the binary property holding the image to treat.
• Color: the color to make transparent, entered as a hex value or chosen from the swatch.