Cool Photo Editing Tips Nobody Knows

Cool Photo Editing Tips Nobody Knows

Come all ye Free Photo Editor, from old pros to Level 1 users! We’ve got something here that you definitely want to see. We’ve scaled high mountains, convened with the spirits, and dug under some pretty big rocks to attain all this knowledge and now we are so generously gifting it to you. Watch the following video (or read the following words) and behold the time-savingest, most bad*ss list of photo editing tips and design magic the world has ever known.


Rotate and straighten objects

You can rotate objects in 15 degree increments, by holding the Shift key and pulling the top rotate handle to the right or left.

To straighten an object that you’ve rotated, right-click and click Straighten. The line is taken to the nearest 45 degree angle.

This tip works on any graphic or text. If you want to, say, stretch a speech bubble to make it wider, drag the side handles to make it wider or narrower and the top/bottom handles to make it taller or shorter. This will let you both resize it and change its shape. You can do the same thing with a corner handle, if you hold down the Shift key, but on their own these handles resize the image without changing the aspect ratio.

To return to your original shape, right-click and select Original aspect ratio.

For a deeper dive, see How to Edit Graphics.

Duplicate text or graphics

There are two ways to duplicate objects in Image Editor:

Right-click and choose Duplicate. This is useful if you’ve already customized (size, color, etc.) your object and want to make a copy of it.

Select the object and hit Control + D on your keyboard. (That’s Command + D on a Mac.)

Group and multi-select objects

To select multiple layers in your canvas, hold the Shift key and click each object you want to select on your canvas. To select all the layers in your canvas, hit CMD + A (or CTRL + A on a PC).

To select consecutive layers from the Layers palette, hold the Shift key and pick the first and last layer you want. Everything in between will also be selected. If you only want certain layers, instead of consecutive layers, hold the CMD key while you’re selecting, instead of the Shift key.

To group several layers together, right-click and choose Group on the Multiple Layers palette. Now they’re one layer and you can move them together and add the same effects and textures across all of them. To separate back into distinct layers, click Ungroup on the Group palette.

True alignment

In Image Editor text and graphics align to each other, instead of the bounding box, so it’s super easy to get clean looks.

If you have any grids or alignments turned on, hold down the Control key and you can move your object freely.

Pro tip: This is really handy if you want to apply a drop shadow across multiple objects.

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Create a Face Swap Online in 3 Easy Steps By Photo Editor

Create a Face Swap Online in 3 Easy Steps By Photo Editor

Have a sweetheart who’s peachy keen or a close pal who could use laugh? Delight your loved ones (and only kinda freak them out) by presenting them with a photorealistic face swap made right here in Online Photo Editor!

Use these 3 quick steps to swap faces in Photo Editor:

1. Open your picture
2. Cut out your faces
3. Place face swaps onto the original image

For the natural-est face swap this side of the interwebs, start by picking the right photo. The pic you choose should not only feature the two faces that you want to interchange, but both faces should be angled in a similar way.

1. Open your picture



Click Create new on the homepage to open a swap-worthy pic from your computer. If your photo’s already in Hub, select it and click Edit a copy (you’ll want to keep the original file in mint condition for later steps in your project).

Click the square pancakes icon in the bottom toolbar to open the Layers palette. In the Layers palette, select the background layer—it’s your photo. Click Convert to layer. This prepares your photo for swapization.

2. Cut out your faces

Making sure the photo layer is selected, click Erase in the Graphics palette. In broad strokes, erase everything around your first face. Don’t worry about whether it’s perfect yet. You can always go back and erase more during the next steps.

Zoom in on your image to erase in finer detail; adjust the Size slider so you don’t accidentally take too much off. (But if you do, you can always use the brush to paint it back on). You’ll want your Hardness slider to be on the softer side.

Once it’s looking like a proper floating visage, we can move on to the next one! The isolated face you just made will have been auto-saved in Hub for when you need it later—so you don’t need to do anything to save it. You don’t even need to close it! Just click Create new on the upper-left of the editor to open another copy of the original file in Hub or regrab the original image from your desktop. Repeat the same steps above to extract the second face.


Important concept: When you’re editing images you’ve stored in Hub, you’ll often want to choose Edit a copy, because the minute you start editing, auto-save will overwrite the original.

3. Place face swaps onto the original image

When both faces are cleaned and ready, click Create new. Open your original image one more time from your computer or create one last copy from Hub. To summon your cropped face file, open the Graphics tab (the shapes icon) and click the Add your own button at the top of the menu. Find your first face in Hub and click Open image.

It may not look like it, but your file is now resting on top of the original image. F’real! Click and hold the face to glide it around the place it over the other person’s face. Use the corner handles to size it perfectly. You can use the Fade slider to make the face slightly transparent so it will be easier to line up the features. Turn the top handle to rotate the head so that it’s in the right position.

If the faces are at a slight angle, you may find that flipping a face horizontally (arrows next to the rotate buttons) makes the features look more realistic.

You can also use the eraser to smooth out any edges on the face. For example if Face #1’s forehead is blocking some of Face #2’s little forehead hairs, use the eraser to shave off some of the overlay.

Repeat this step with the second face. Then smooth the edges one last time with the Erase tool, and if you’re feelin’ it, toss in some other finishing touches with effects and touch-ups.

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Create Your Best Profile Pic by Image Editor

Create Your Best Profile Pic by Image Editor

In the world of social media, nothing’s more important than your profile pic. It’s the first thing that everyone sees, so having a good one will help you make a positive first impression.

But what makes a winning profile pic? Lots of things! What your wear, how you smile, what kind of background you use—they all go into making you look your best. We’ve got top-tier tools and tips to help you shoot, edit, and post your best profile pic so you can make a splash on all your favorite social networks.

Shooting your profile pic

Great profile pics start with the shoot. Here are a few tips and tricks:

• Use a neutral or muted background. White backgrounds can wash out lighter skin tones, and brightly colored backgrounds can cast an uncomplimentary hue across the skin.

• Use soft, natural light and avoid harsh flashes. This will ensure you look your best and will avoid obvious shadows.

• Show your brightest, most natural smile. Don’t be afraid to flash your pearly whites!

• Avoid selfies where you can see or sense that your arm is holding the camera. Instead, use a self-timer or have someone else take your picture.

• Experiment with angles. Some people say shooting from above works best, but everybody has a good side. Try different angles and positions to find yours.

Profile pics for professional sites

Profile pics on professional sites like LinkedIn should look, well, professional. Here are some ideas on how to achieve that I-will-be-the-best-employee-you’ve-ever-had look:

• Wear clothes that are appropriate for your profession. But if you feel like dressing up a bit, go for it. Going the extra mile by wearing a suit can give the impression that you’re capable and competent.

• Smile, but don’t go overboard. You want to appear approachable and inviting without looking like you’re laughing.

• Squinch. Yes, you heard that right. Everyone’s talking about squinching, which is basically what happens to your eyes when you smile. According to psychological research, wide eyes denote fear while slightly squinting denotes competence.

• Avoid hats, glasses, and other accessories. They not only make you look too casual, they tend to hide or obscure your eyes, which are the most important part of a great portrait.

• Stick with the tried and true head and shoulders shot. Close-cropped head shots can feel a little overwhelming for the viewer, and full body shots don’t work well in the confines of a small profile pic.

• Avoid using effects or filters. However, if you’d like to use a simple black and white effect like we did in the pic above, feel free. Traditional black and white lends a nice touch of class to your professional portrait.

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How to Organize Your Social Media Content Calendar

How to Organize Your Social Media Content Calendar by Photo Editor

Keeping an organized and updated social media content calendar is a golden rule to live by for social media marketers and pretty much anyone who intends to use social media for business purposes.

A social media content calendar is a tool to help you plan the content you intend to create and share. A content calendar can be built in various tools such a Google Sheets, Trello, or even directly in your social media scheduling tool.

By strategically planning ahead of time, you can ensure that there is something new and exciting in store for your audience every single day.

With a calendar, you can plan and schedule your social posts in advance, manage campaigns, stay true to your deadlines, and avoid dropping the ball.

From marketing teams and small business owners to consultants, media companies, and bloggers, everyone can reap the benefits of organizing a social media content calendar to perfection. Here is everything that you need to know to get started.

Give Your Current Social Media Efforts a Quick Audit 

Before you organize your social media content calendar, it is important for you to take a step back and have a look at exactly what you have been doing and how well it has been working for you.

Conduct a social media audit to check which platforms you are on, which ones you would like to start using, which platforms are working best for you, how many times per day you have been posting, etc. This will give you a good starting point so that you can strategize and organize your calendar to address the blind spots in your current plan. 

Set Social Media Goals

First, figure out what both your short term and longterm goals are. Then, reverse engineer to break it down into several short-term goals that will take you one step closer to meeting your end goal.

Do not bite off more than you can chew – set small and simple short-term goals that will add up to something substantial in time. Be as specific as you can about what you hope to achieve. Under the headings of content, followers/subscribers, sales, and traffic set goals that you want to accomplish in a realistic time frame. One thing to remember is that results do take time. Everyone wants the golden ticket to quick success, but that mindset is likely not going to do your social media efforts any good.

Find the Right Content Mix

While your primary concern might be to get the word about your business and services out there, it is also important that you give the customers what they are looking for – valuable advice, informative articles, answers to their questions, and relationship building content.

While organizing your social media content calendar, plan the right mix, which includes different types of content designed to meet the needs of your audience as well as your business. Color code your content types to avoid confusion. Ensure that each category contributes to getting closer to your goals. Photo Editor has a great post on social media content ideas for your content calendar that’s definitely worth checking out.

Focus on Educating, Empowering, Entertaining, and Engaging 

Your core areas are generally the problems you hope to solve and issues you intend to address with your content.

Every single one of your social media posts should focus on one of the above key points. Every time you create content, ask yourself if your content is educating your audience, empowering them, and keeping them entertained and engaged. If it fits in at least two of these categories, you are good to go, if you touch on all 4 points, even better.

Set Up an Updated Repository of Content Assets .

A content repository is where you store all the different types of content, links, images, and other important details.

When you start planning and scheduling content, all you will be required to do is to select the right piece of content for the day and post it or schedule it as needed.

Your content repository should include the title, link, information about the type, image, and pertinent quotes or stats that you have picked out of the content to be posted. All of this information will help you create the final social media posts in no time at all.

This is a great practice for both manual publishing and scheduling. When creating your content, ensure that your images are optimized for each platform that you are using. Online Photo Editor makes this easy with 56+ custom sizes for all your content needs.


Identify The Best Times to Post

An organized social media content calendar can help you get the number of posts you publish on each site just right.

Do the following to discover when and how often you should post on each platform. Have a look at your social media analytics and identify when your audience is the most active on each platform.

Based on this data, decide how often you will post and at that time, you will post. You’ll want to look at the analytics regularly to identify any behaviour changes and to ensure that you are still posting at optimal times.

No matter which direction you go when it comes to content planning, always set aside some time for engaging with your audience. Respond to comments, share curated content from loyal fans, and always identify new ways to be helpful to your audience. 

Photo Restoration with Online Photo Editor

Photo Restoration with Online Photo Editor

There’s something extra special about looking at family photos from back in the day. Isn’t it a bummer when they’re all torn, faded, and damaged? Well, we have some phenomenal news for you: you can fix ’em up with Picture Editor. Preserve your precious photos and say goodbye to creases, cracks, rips, and water damage. Old photo restoration is a quick and fun process. Watch the video to learn what you need to know, or skip down below to read for yourself:

First thing’s first: scan your photos
To get started with your old photo restoration, you’ll want to scan your pictures into a computer. If it’s a PDF, remember to convert it to a JPEG. When it’s ready freddy, drag it onto Online Image Editor’s homepage to open it.

For frayed or torn edges… add it as a graphic

Is the photo you love looking a little rough around the edges? Maybe a piece is torn off or it’s looking a little frayed? One simple fix is to open your image in the Editor and then open it again as an graphic. Stretch the graphic until it’s the same size as your original image and then flip it around so that the part that’s frayed is covered up by the part that’s not. Then just erase what you don’t need.

For wrinkles or tears… say hello to Clone

Clone is everything when it comes to restoring photos. It can help you remove a scratch by painting over it with pixels from an undamaged part of your image: just select a part of the photo that is in good condition and spread the love. Move the dotted circle (your source, or, the starting point for your clone-a-thon) to the part you’d like to clone, click, and then use your cursor (the solid circle) to paint over those less-than-stellar areas.

“Whoa, why can I still see the dotted circle?” That’s the tool showing you where you’re cloning from! Clone is dynamic, which means that as you move your cursor, the area being copied moves with you.

For faded skin and eye color… use Touch Up

Touch Up is an uuuber important part of adding color and life to your faded image. Eye Brighten puts back the light in your eyes along with enhancing the color. And adding some Spray Tan doesn’t necessarily mean your subject is suddenly Oompa Loompa orange. (Unless you want them to be, of course.) But applying a tan on your subject—and lowering the intensity— can make their skin look less faded. Try it out!

For adding polish… apply effects


Photo Editor Online Effects add a nice touch to all photos—even vintage ones! When you’re done editing out scratches and bends, head over to Effects and pick one that you like. You can apply multiple effects if you wish—it’s actually encouraged. And remember, play around with the Fade slider until your effect looks juuuust right.

Tip: If your photo’s got a faded border, one easy fix is to open a black and white effect, paint it off the border and then click Reverse effect so that it’s only applied to the border.

For color correction… use Curves and Colors


Photo seen a little too much sun? Not to worry! Use the Curves tool to subtly pull up highlights and pull down shadows, correcting the overall exposure of your image.


Plus, if the colors themselves are a little wonky, try using the Auto-adjust button in the Colors tool to instantly fix saturation and temperature.

Remove an Object From a Picture Using Clone

Remove an Object From a Picture Using Clone

Have you ever looked at one of your photos and thought, “Ughhhh. This would be perfect if that hair wasn’t out of place…if that fence wasn’t broken…if my thumb wasn’t in the frame…if my sister hadn’t insisted on having her new boyfriend in all my wedding photos when we knew they were just going to break up anyway”? If any of these situations sound familiar to you, you’ll be happy to know there’s a solution to removing unwanted objects from your pictures.

Online Photo Editor’s Clone tool lets you “erase” parts of your photos by covering them up with details from the surrounding area. Check out this tutorial video to learn how to edit something out of a picture with Clone.

Select your cloning source 

In this photo the sand is our source for covering up the dude. Click Set source to choose the area of the photo you want to use for covering up the unwanted part of your pic.

Clone is dynamic, so when you move your brush over the new area, the source moves with it like a tagalong kid sister — whatever’s inside that source circle is gonna stamp onto the area you’re cloning. If you’re cloning something that’s a little bit complicated — multiple tree branches, for example, as opposed to solid-colored sand — you should keep re-picking your source so that you don’t veer off and start painting over a part of the image that you want to keep.


Use the Erase and Undo buttons to fix areas you didn’t mean to clone stamp

Oops! The source trailed into the wrong area and you cloned the blue chair onto the guy instead of burying him in sand. Don’t worry if you make a mistake because you can always use the eraser to remove something that you didn’t mean to clone. Alternately, use the undo arrow in the bottom toolbar to go back a step (or 20).

Here’s the finished before and after:

Adjust the hardness of your clone

If it’s a soft touch you’re going for, like cloning grass (as above), a cloudy sky, or someone’s hair, you can adjust the Brush hardness slider so the cloned area is more blurry without a hard, defined edge.

Fido’s super cute and all, but he’s not gonna help you sell your house. Here’s the finished result:

Fading the cloned area 

Use the Fade slider to let part of the original image show through. This can be a cool look if you’re going for something abstract or kind of trippy like a double exposure. We got this cool look by cloning the woman to the left of herself, then adjusting the Fade slider to make the cloned version look more transparent.

Make sure you’re cloning the correct layer

If your project is a multilayered work of art, be sure that you’re using the Clone tool on the correct layer. If you accidentally start to clone the wrong layer, no worries, just click Cancel and the mistake won’t apply.

Use the zoom control

For serious, attention-to-detail jobs, zoom way in so you can clone the teensy area you’re after. A good example of when this is useful is restoring old photos, such as removing stains or crease marks from someone’s face. Read more in Photo Restoration with Image Editor.

Online Photo Editor

Online Photo Editor

Online Image Editor is another highly popular photo editing tool available online. The free Basic version offers plenty of editing options that can really make your image pop.

Some key differences that Free Photo Editor offers over Canva are:

Image adjusting – sharpen an image or fix the exposure
Custom effects – give your image a boost of color or soften your image
Image touch ups – whiten teeth, fix blemishes or remove red eye
While Photo Editor also has “fun” filters such as whisker grow or spray tan available in the premium plan, the basic version has more than enough to touch up your photo and add text to it.

It’s easy to use, just upload your image and get to work. While there aren’t any social media templates you can use for your images, Image Editor makes it incredibly easy to crop your photos to a specific size.

One thing that Picture Editor doesn’t have, that Canva does, is the option to save your work to the cloud. With Photo Editor you have to do your touch up and edits all at once, and then download the final image to your computer.

Photo Editor Online offers free tutorials on their blog to help you master all the features available.