Embargoed images stay in-house — until you publish them.
Press offices, corporate communications and newsrooms handle pictures before anyone else may see them: announcements under embargo, portraits of executives, photos from people who need protecting. SchweizerIMG prepares them in your browser — nothing goes to an online editor you do not control.
Processed on this device: three photos are processed by the image engine in the browser; the only request to the server names the tool, and the server never receives the images.
Built for
Newsrooms
Press offices
Corporate communications
Photographers
NGOs & associations
Public administration
The daily reality
A photo can say more than the story it illustrates.
Four things every communications team knows — and what replaces each one.
01
Embargoes and online tools
An announcement image resized on a free website hours before the embargo lifts — on a server nobody checked.
The tools run in your browser. Nothing leaves the newsroom before you publish.
02
Files that reveal their source
GPS position, camera serial number and editing history can point to who took a picture, and where.
See exactly what a file contains, then remove it without re-encoding the image.
03
Bystanders in the frame
Faces in a crowd, a number plate, a document on a desk — details that should not be in the published picture.
Draw a box, and the area is hidden for good in the exported file.
04
Credits that get lost
Photographer and copyright noted in an e-mail, not in the file — and gone after the first forward.
Title, copyright and creator written into the image itself.
Press images
The images a communications team works with.
Many are time-sensitive, some are confidential, all need correct credits.
Press photos
Images for media releases and the newsroom, high resolution for print, smaller for online.
Portraits and team photos
Executives, spokespeople and new hires, with the photographer's credit and terms.
Embargoed material
Product images and announcements that must not leak before the agreed time.
Pictures from sources
Photos sent to the editorial team that may reveal where and by whom they were taken.
Video stills and clips
Frames and short animations from interviews and events for articles and social media.
Screenshots
Websites and posts captured for articles, fact checks and reports.
The tools for this work
Each one runs in your browser, on one image or a whole batch. Tools marked “Pro” are part of the Pro and Business plans.
Processed on this device: three photos are processed by the image engine in the browser; the only request to the server names the tool, and the server never receives the images.
1
Nothing leaves the newsroom
The engine processes every picture in your browser; the only request to our server names the tool, never the file.
Remove metadata: a photo's location, serial number, software, camera and date are removed, and the report ends with nothing private found.
2
Remove what identifies the source
The report shows location, serial numbers and history; remove them in one click and check the result.
Blur or pixelate: a box is drawn over a car's number plate, added as an area and hidden — the plate comes back pixelated.
3
Protect bystanders
Faces, number plates and documents in the background are pixelated irreversibly in the export.
Watermark: the shop's name is typed as a text watermark, placed bottom right and added to a holiday-flat photo.
4
Credit and mark the release
Write the credit into the file and add a visible watermark to preview versions.
Confidentiality, handled
Built for pictures that need protecting.
Swiss law protects journalists' sources (Art. 28a SCC), and the Swiss Press Council's journalists' code asks for respect of privacy. A photo's metadata can undo both. SchweizerIMG lets you see and remove it on your own computer — the images are never sent to us.
No upload before the embargo lifts. Images are processed in the browser and never reach us. Only the fact that a tool ran is recorded — never anything about the file.
Metadata, checked and removed. Location and device data are removed without re-encoding; the report confirms what is left.
Hidden for good in the export. Pixelated areas cannot be recovered from the exported file; the original stays unchanged on your disk.
This page describes what SchweizerIMG does, not your legal or editorial obligations — please assess those yourselves.
Pricing
One editor, one subscription.
Priced per account, not per picture. Choose by how much passes through your hands.
Every plan processes your images on your device. Cancel any time.
FAQ
Questions from communications teams.
Yes. Removing and editing metadata change only the information stored alongside the picture; the image data is not re-encoded. Metadata editing is part of Pro and Business.
No. The pictures are processed in your browser and never transmitted to us. About the pictures, our server only learns which tool ran and whether it finished.
No. Camera RAW formats are not supported — export JPEG or TIFF from your RAW software first.
Each person has their own account and plan. There is no shared workspace — every result stays on the device where it was created.
No — there is no integration or API. You download the results and place them in your system as before.
A recent browser with WebCodecs. Where MP4 creation is not available, WebM is used instead.
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