iPad Tutorial
The crop mode allows you to remove unwanted portions of an image. When you select this icon, a bright rectangle will appear.
You can re-size 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 right 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:
 |
Rotate clockwise |
 |
Rotate counter-clockwise |
 |
Flip vertically |
 |
Flip horizontally |
The macros mode is a powerful tool which allows you to apply a set of predefined actions which are incorporated into one preset. The actions can include color adjustments, frames, crop, filters and any other effect.
- Selecting a preset will apply all actions at once to achieve a certain look or effect. At any point you can remove all of the macro actions by selecting the “no macro” preset which is located at the top left corner of the presets section.
- Custom macros: you can save custom macros to be used any time you like. Tapping the Savebutton will create a new custom macro with all of the currently applied actions and changes you made to the photo up until now. Tap the Editbutton to enter into edit mode where you can delete a custom macro or set it’s name. Note: at this point macros cannot contain symbols. If any symbols exist they will not be saved to the custom macro.
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 point 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.
- Edge blur filter: Creates a radial blur around the center of the photo. Use the adjustment slider to determine the radius of the non-blurred part of the photo.
- 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.
- Exposure slider: controls the brightness of the picture. Slide it to the right to increase the illumination.
- 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.
- Highlights and Shadows: use these sliders to correct over-and underexposed areas in the photo. This correction doesn’t really change overall exposure. Instead, it lightens or darkens pixels according to the brightness of the surrounding pixels
- Saturation slider: controls how colorful the image is. If the slider is all the way to the left, the image appears in grayscale.
- 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).
- Levels section: 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.
- RGB section: This section 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 curves mode allows you to perform advanced color corrections. Using up to 5 anchor points, you can apply almost any tone or contrast modifications.
Most common corrections can be achieved by applying very small changes to the graph.
- Drag an existing anchor point to change the graph at this location.
- Start dragging the graph at an empty place to create a new anchor point.
- Tap once on an anchor point to remove it.
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 can choose 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 frames effect.
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.
- Customization: For each preset, any available customization or adjustments will appear in the sections bellow the frame presets. With some of the frame types 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).
- Frame section: Always located at the bottom end, this section 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). In this section you can also apply a reflection effect regardless of the selected frame.
Frame effects:
The Red Eyes mode allows you to correct a red eye effect caused to a person’s eyes.
This tool makes it very easy to remove any common red eye effect from any number of eyes in a photo (if you have more than one person with red eyes).
- To begin just tap on the red eye icon to enter this mode.
- To add a red-eye correction area – tap anywhere in the photo. You can add as many correction areas as you like.
- Locate the correction areas in the right place simply by dragging them.
- To remove a correction area just tap on it once.
- Use the sliders to refine the results: The radius slider sets the size of the correction area, it is recommended to select the minimum required area for the red eye fix so that other surrounding areas of the photo won’t be affected. The intensity slider determines the strength of the removal effect.
- To remove all red eye correction areas at once, tap the “Clear all” button.
Top toolbar functions:
 |
Undo button |
 |
Redo button |
 |
Undo all button Restores the image to it’s original state. This action can also be undone using the undo button. |
 |
Edit new photo button Opens a pop over with your photo albums, you can then navigate and select the photo you wish to edit. |
 |
Share button
|
 |
Save button Saves your masterpiece to the Camera Roll. A new copy is created each time you press save – so the original photo is never changed. You can create a copy of your photo in different preset resolutions or set a custom resolution of your choice. The edited photo remains in its original resolution. |
 |
Information button – opens the information dialog.
|