Work with grouped professional tools, vectors, channels, non-destructive filters/fills/styles, healing brushes, and flexible panel layouts.
Where: Open an image in the image editor
Key ideas
- Tool rail: Photoshop-style flyout groups remember the last-used tool and include pen/vector, healing/patch, dodge/burn/sponge, smudge/blur/sharpen, and selection/channel workflows.
- Non-destructive layers: Solid/pattern fill layers, live gradients, smart filters, layer styles, masks, channels, and saved selections remain editable.
- Workspace docking: Panels can live in tabs, splits, or floating windows and the chosen layout persists.
Steps
- Open the image editor and choose a tool group from the rail.
- Use layers/channels/masks for non-destructive isolation.
- Add filters, fills, gradients, or layer styles and edit their settings later.
- Arrange panels with Window/docking controls and save the document.
Selection and retouch
- Marquee, lasso, wand/object select, crop.
- Clone, healing, patch, brush, eraser, fill/gradient/generative fill.
- Dodge, burn, sponge, smudge, blur, and sharpen.
Vector and non-destructive systems
- Text, pen/curvature, path/direct selection, and shapes.
- Masks, channels, saved selections, fills/gradients, smart filters, and layer styles.
- Tabbed, split, docked, or floating panels with persistent workspace layout.
Transform and blur additions
- Numeric X/Y/W/H/angle bar with proportion lock.
- Horizontal/vertical flip and drag-through-anchor mirroring.
- Lens Blur with aperture blades/rotation.
- Repeat edge pixels for document-boundary blur padding.
Crop, smart objects, channels, and large-image fixes
The Image Editor now exposes ratio/straighten cropping with optional destructive pixel trimming, smart-object embedded-content operations, a layer filter bar, component-channel viewing, and a live histogram. The focused guides below describe the actual controls and boundaries.
- 4K brush strokes and masks persist more reliably; live changes to brush settings apply without restarting the tool.
- GPU-pressure handling protects mask/brush work, but browser memory and hardware still limit large documents.
- SVG/path vertex editing supports multi-selection, segment movement, and resynchronization after undo.
- Deep duplication keeps masks and nested effect data independent between copies.
Related guides
- Image editor tools, selections, paths, and channels
- Non-destructive image layers, effects, and workspaces
- Image and Media Management
- Flip, size, position, rotate, and lens-blur layers in Image Editor
- Image Editor: crop ratios, straighten, and canvas transforms
- Image Editor: smart objects, embedded contents, and layer filtering
- Image Editor: component channels and the live histogram