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The crop mode allows you to remove unwanted portions of an image. When you select this icon, a bright rectangle will appear. You can resize the rectangle by pulling the dots in the corners or move it by dragging it. When you click the “Crop” button, everything outside the rectangle will be cropped out of the picture.
You can constrain the crop area to a specific ratio by selecting one of the predefined ratios that appear at the bottom of the screen.
The rotate mode allows you to rotate your photo or flip it.
To tilt a crooked photo by up to 15° per side, drag the “straighten” slider at the bottom of the screen.
To rotate your photo by 90° or flip horizontally and vertically, simply click on the desired icon:
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Rotate clockwise |
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Rotate counter-clockwise |
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Flip vertically |
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Flip horizontally |
The filters mode contains the sharpen filter and also some fun special effects.
Once a filter is selected you can adjust it’s intensity by dragging the adjustment slider at the bottom of the filters area.
At any po
int you can always go back by selecting the “original” icon which will remove any filter applied to the photo.
- Sharpen filter: This filter is used to make a photo appear less blurred. Notice that applying too much sharpness may introduce noise into the picture.
- Pencil filter: Makes your photo appear as if it was hand drawn. Use the adjustment slider to determine the strength of the effect.
- Blur filter: Makes your photo look blurry and out of focus.
- B&W filter: Turns all pixels in the photo to either black or white.
- Posterize filter: Reduces the number of colors in the photo to create a poster-like effect.
- Sepia filter: Gives your photo a warmer tone and making it look old-fashioned.
- Night-vision filter: Makes your photo appear as if you’re looking at it through night vision goggles. Use the adjustment slider to set the amount of noise applied to the image.
- Heat-map filter: Turns your photo into a thermogram, makes it appear as if it was taken by an infrared light sensitive camera.
The color adjustment mode allows you to correct the color balance of the photo manually or automatically.
- Levels page: a colors histogram displays the distribution of colors within the picture. Drag the bars left or right to choose the part of the histogram you wish to preserve. The position of the right baraffects the brightness of the picture,and the distance between thebars affects the contrast. The triangle determines the mid point (gamma). Changing its position makes the image lighter or darker, but without discarding anycolors.The “Auto”button will adjust the colors for you.
- Exposure page: Contains sliders which adjust the contrast and exposure of the photo.
The exposure slider controls the brightness of the picture, Slide it to the right to increase the illumination. The contrast slider controls the difference in brightness between light and dark areas in the photo. Contrast can have a significant visual impact on an image by emphasizing texture. - Colors page: The saturation slider controls how colorful the image is. If the slider is all the way to the left, the image appears in grayscale.
The color temperature slider controls the “warmth” of the picture. Slide to the left to make the image appear cooler (shift to blue) and right to make it warmer (shift to red). - RGB page: This page contains 3 sliders which adjust the levels of the red, green and blue components of the photo. Use this to tint the image towards a specific color or reduce an existing unwanted color.
The symbols mode allows you to add text bubbles or other shapes on top of the picture.
Touch the symbol of your choice and wait until it blows, then simply drag the symbol icon and place it wherever you like.
To edit an existing symbol, tap on it once. When the symbol is in edit mode, you will see small circles surrounding it:
- To enlarge or shrink the symbol drag the circles.
- To change its location, drag the body of the symbol.
- You canchoose one of the template styles or use one of the designated buttons at the bottom to bring up more color and font options such as specific color for the symbol’s outline, fill and text to create your own customized look.
- To edit the text within the symbol, double tap it.
- To delete a symbol press the ‘X’ button at its top-left corner:
The frames mode allows you to create a frame around the picture or add frame effects.
Select a desired frame style from the presets list. Roll the list down for more frames. To remove the frame – select the “no frame” preset located at the top left corner of the presets list.
Press the custom button to tailor your own frame. You can decide on the frame’s shape and color, and/or choose a shadow’s style and color. The shadows styles include: Vignette, Inner gloss, Inner glows, Drop shadow and Outer glow (See examples below). Some (but not all!) of the preset frames can be customized as well, using this feature.
Press the button to bring up the backgrounds toolbar. This allows you to choose a background color other than the default black. The background color will appear outside of the picture area if there are any elements that exceed the picture boundaries (such as a frame or symbols).
To add frame effects, press the designated icon . You can add reflection and/or vignette effect:
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Undo button |
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Redo button |
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Done button Opens the following menu:
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