Share Image Tool Settings With a Link (Image Stays Private)
Send a teammate a link that opens the image tool with your blur, quality or resize settings already set. Your image is never shared, only the settings.
A designer finds the right compression quality for the website images. A teammate has to repeat the job next week. The usual fix is a message like "use 80 percent, PNG, 1200 wide", and someone always sets one of those wrong.
Every tool on Monday Image Tool now has a share row that fixes this. It sends a link, and when the other person opens it, the tool opens with your settings already set. This guide shows how it works and what is, and is not, inside the link.
What gets shared, and what does not
Only the settings travel in the link. Your image does not. The person who opens the link uploads their own image, and the sliders and options appear already where you left them.
- Shared: sliders such as blur radius or quality, number boxes such as width and height, and option buttons such as the output format.
- Shared if you typed it: any text you entered in a setting box, such as watermark text. It sits inside the link, so anyone with the link can read it.
- Never shared: the image file itself, and any file you selected.
How to share your settings
- Open a tool, for example Blur, Compress or Resize.
- Drop in any image so the settings appear, then set them the way you want. The image is only there to show the controls and is not part of the link.
- Scroll to the Share row under the tool.
- Keep the box "Include my current settings in the link" ticked. It appears as soon as you change a setting.
- Choose Copy link, or tap WhatsApp, Facebook, X or LinkedIn. On a phone there is also a Share button that opens the phone's own share sheet.
If you did not change anything, the link is just the normal tool page.
What the other person sees
When they open the link, a short note under the tool says they opened shared settings and asks them to upload their own image. As soon as they drop an image in, the controls appear with your settings already set. They press the normal button to process it. Nothing is processed until they do.
The link also has a preview. When you paste it into a chat or a post, the card shows the tool name and the settings you changed in plain words, for example a blur radius of 12 and the PNG format. They see what the link is before they open it.
Where this is useful
- A team that always compresses website images at the same quality. Share the Compress link once and everyone starts from the same value.
- Social media sizes. Set up the Resize tool for the size you need and send the link to whoever posts for the brand.
- A fixed look. If you blur backgrounds at the same strength every time, one link beats a written instruction.
- Helping a friend who is not sure which settings to pick. Set the tool up for them and send the link.
The numbers in these examples are only illustrations. Use whatever values suit your own images.
Things to know
- The link stores the settings by position in the tool's form. If a tool is updated and its controls change a lot, an old link may set fewer options.
- Settings you choose by dragging on the image itself, such as a selection area, are not part of the link. Only the controls on the page are.
- A very long text setting can make the link too long. In that case the share row gives the plain tool link instead.
- The image stays in your own browser throughout. The site only counts how many times a page was shared and how many people opened a shared link, with no settings attached.
Frequently asked questions
Does the other person get my image?
No. Only the settings are in the link. They have to upload their own image.
Do I need an account to share or open a link?
No. There is no sign-up on Monday Image Tool.
Can I share a link without any settings?
Yes. Untick "Include my current settings in the link" and the link opens the tool with its default settings.
Why did the link open the tool with default settings?
Either the box was unticked, nothing had been changed when the link was copied, or the link was cut short when it was pasted. Copy it again and check that the whole address is there.
Is my text, such as a watermark, private in the link?
It is not hidden. Anything typed into a setting box becomes part of the link, so do not put private text in a tool you plan to share.
Try it on the Compress tool: move the quality slider, press Share, and open the link in a new tab to see the same value come back.