Online photo editor

1. Wait for the editor to finish loading. If you want more room, press «Open full screen» above the editor and it opens in a new tab.
2. Press «Open…» on the start screen, or go to File › Open…, and pick the photo. You can also drop the image or PSD onto the editor.
3. Fix light and colour in Image › Adjustments: «Levels…», «Curves…», «Hue/Saturation…» or «Brightness/Contrast…». If you want to be able to change it later, use an adjustment layer instead (see the next section).
4. Change the size in Image › Image Size…, or crop with the «Crop Tool» in the toolbar on the left.
5. Export with File › Export › Export As…, where you choose the format, quality, transparency and scale, with a preview and an estimate of the file size. If all you need is a PNG, use «Quick Export as PNG». Your browser downloads the file.

Adjustment layers apply a correction without touching the original pixels. Create them in Layer › New Adjustment Layer and pick, for example, «Levels…», «Curves…», «Vibrance…», «Hue/Saturation…» or «Black & White…». You can hide them, reorder them or edit them again whenever you like.

Masks decide which part of a layer shows. Layer › Layer Mask has «Reveal All», «Hide All» and «Reveal Selection». If you select an area first, for example with Select › Subject, the mask shows only that area. According to the program's documentation, smart selection is computed on your machine, with no cloud service.

For shadows, strokes or glows, open Layer › Layer Style and choose, for example, «Drop Shadow…». Styles also work on type layers, which you create with the «Horizontal Type Tool» and which stay editable.

Filters live in the Filter menu, for example Filter › Blur › Gaussian Blur… or Filter › Sharpen › Unsharp Mask…. You see the result on the image before you accept it, and only inside the selection if there is one.

A PSD opens just like a photo: with «Open…» or by dropping it onto the editor. According to the program's documentation, layers, masks, layer styles and type layers are loaded. It also opens PSB, layered TIFF, GIMP (XCF), Krita (.kra) and Paint.NET files, as well as PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, BMP, TGA, ICO and other flat formats.

To save the document with its layers, use File › Save As… and choose PSD. If what you need is an image to publish, use «Export As…» as in the first section. Either way, the file lands in your downloads folder.

The web version doesn't autosave and can't recover your work if you close the tab or reload the page. Save or export before you close it.

The editor needs an up-to-date browser with WebGPU or WebGL2, which recent versions of Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari have. If the screen stays on «Loading PhotoCraft…», reload the page: the first download is the longest, and after that the browser reuses it.

To change the interface language, go to Edit › Preferences › Interface… and pick one from the language list. Anything not yet translated shows in English. The program keeps the preference in your browser.

Keyboard shortcuts reach the editor once you have clicked inside it. It opens on a phone, but it is designed for a computer with a mouse and a large screen.

We label it «Beta» because the program itself is at an early stage of development: some features may fail or not exist yet. If something doesn't work for you, let us know.