This tutorial is for Ultra Image Editor users so that they can quickly start to edit images using the app.
In this quick guide, we cover the following topics: basic tools and features explained, add text to your image, crop an image, and how to use layers.
This is a slide style web page. You can use your mouse scroll wheel to turn pages back and forth, or you can use the UP and DOWN key on your keyboard to do so.
In this tutorial, we will go over only the basic tools and functions that Ultra Image Editor offers. By no means it's a comprehensive overview of all the functions available. They are:
The Workspace
Shapes
Selector
Pencil and pen tools
Creating & exporting documents
Ultra Image Editor provides a convenient interface to let you focus on your work.
Tools - the vertical toolbar on the left side shows the editing and drawing tools.
Canvas - the document canvas is right in the center. You just cannot miss it. In order to scroll the canvas, you can drag it by the middle mouse button, or you can use the scroll bars.
Dock Panel - the panel on the right side contains the most used tools: transform, fill and stroke, layers and exporting.
Selector - the most frequently used tool. Click the topmost button(with the arrow) on the toolbar, and you can select any object now.
Shape tools - include rectangles, ellipses, stars and spirals. You can create a shape by click-and-drag. Each shape you create displays one or more diamond-shaped handles; try dragging them to see how the shape responds (Transform).
Pencil and pen - the easiest way to create an arbitrary shape is to draw it using the Pencil (freehand) tool; if you want more regular shapes, use the Pen (Bezier) tool.
Text - create and edit text objects.
Others - include spayer, eraser, color filler, and etc.
When an object is selected by the selector, you can move, scale, rotate and skew it using transform tools.
Moving - move an object by selecting it and draging it.
Scaling - scale an object by selecting it and draging any handle around it.
Rotating - rotate an object by selecting it and draging corner handles.
Skewing - skew an object by selecting it and draging non-corner handles.
If there are many objects in your document, you had better to use Layers to organize them
To create a new layer, click the plus sign which opens the Add Layer dialog.
To add an object to a layer, first click the layer to activate it, then add the object in the canvas. If you put the object in the wrong layer, you can select it and right click -> Move to Layer... to move it to the right layer.
To hide a layer, click the eye icon to the left of the layer in layers panel. You will see what your document look like without the layer of objects.
To lock a layer, click the lock icon to the left of the layer in layers panel. With a layer locked, all objects on it cannot be selected.
To delete a layer, click the minus sign. All the objects in the layer will be delted too.
Step 1 - open your image by clicking File -> Open
Step 2 - zoom your image by clicking View -> Zoom.
Step 3 - add a new layer by following the instructions in the previous slide.
Step 4 - with the new layer selected, select the text tool on the toolbar, click the canvas, and type in the text. With the text tool, you can always change the font family, font style, font size and the spacing.
Step 5 - transform the text object. Click the selector tool on the tool bar, and select the text object. Now you can drag the handles displayed around the object to rotate, scale and skew it. If you want to move the text, just click to select and drag it.
Step 6 - save the document by clicking File -> Save as. Change the save as type to PNG, and then save the file.
Step 1 - open your image by clicking File -> Open .
Step 2 - zoom your image by clicking View -> Zoom.
Step 3 - click the rectangle tool and draw to select an area that you want to crop.
Step 4 - select both the rectangle object and the image by pressing the shift key and select them.
Step 5 - head up to Object -> Clip -> Set to crop.
Step 6 - you have get your cropped result, and you can do any operations to it like to any other object.
Step 7 - you don’t have to just use rectangles either – you can use any shape you like.
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