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Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea

You're reading from   Unlock Your Creativity with Photopea Edit and retouch images, and create striking text and designs with the free online software

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801816649
Length 478 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michael Burton Michael Burton
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started With Photopea
2. Chapter 1: Taking Your Design and Editing to the Next Level with Photopea FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Creating and Working with Image Editing Documents in Photopea 4. Chapter 3: Navigating and Utilizing the Workspace 5. Chapter 4: Layer Management: Creating, Organizing, and Applying Advanced Features 6. Chapter 5: Understanding Selection Fundamentals 7. Part 2: Digital Imaging, Design Techniques, and Other Software
8. Chapter 6: Color Theory and Application 9. Chapter 7: Using and Creating Brushes 10. Chapter 8: Photo Retouching Techniques 11. Chapter 9: Exploring Advanced Image Compositing Techniques 12. Chapter 10: Text Fundamentals and Styling in Photopea 13. Chapter 11: Pre-Designed Templates, Extra Effects, and Features Overview 14. Part 3: Drawing Figures, Creating a Logo, and Other Features
15. Chapter 12: Advanced Color Techniques 16. Chapter 13: Bonus: How to Draw and Paint a Figure and Character 17. Chapter 14: Bonus: How to Create a Logo 18. Chapter 15: Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the toolbar

The toolbar is located on the left side of the interface. It contains all the necessary tools needed to edit your images and design elements on the document.

Important note

You can only use one tool at a time and will be changing between them often.

When you use the mouse to left-click and hold over a tool, a sub-tool menu flies out with other tools for additional features to assist you. See Figure 3.13 for the Move Tool example:

Figure 3.13 – Move Tool

Figure 3.13 – Move Tool

Now that we’ve introduced the toolbar and the sub-tool menu, let’s deep dive into the tools.

There are a lot of powerful tools in Photopea, much like other photo editing programs. We will only cover them briefly in this section. We will provide a list of functions for the main tools at the end of the book.

  • Move Tool is the first tool located in the upper left corner, just below the top menu. It is used to move, scale, and rotate an object...
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