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Advanced editor · Menu reference
Most browser editors hide their features behind a row of icons. This one exposes the full working surface through eight menus — File, Edit, Image, Layer, Select, Filter, View and Window — so anyone who has used Photoshop or Photopea already knows where to look. Every entry below performs an action in this tab; nothing is a screenshot or a mock-up.
The order follows the desktop convention on purpose. File handles the document as a file, Edit handles reversible actions and the clipboard, Image handles whole-document geometry and colour, Layer handles the stack, Select handles the selection map, Filter handles pixel effects, View handles the screen, and Window handles panels. Keeping that split means a shortcut learned in one editor transfers to the next, and it also makes the destructive commands easy to spot: anything under Image → Adjustments writes directly into pixels, while the same correction applied through a mask stays editable until you merge.
| Menu | Working entries | Notes and honest limits |
|---|---|---|
| File | New, Open, Open & Place, Save project, Export PNG/JPG/WebP, Save flattened PSD, Export layers as ZIP, Print, File info, Close | PSD export is a flattened RGB file, not a layered round-trip. Opening a PSD is not supported in this build. |
| Edit | Undo, Redo, Step back/forward, Cut, Copy, Copy merged, Paste, Paste into, Clear, Fill, Stroke, Free transform, Rotate 90°, Flip, Define pattern, Preferences | Free transform supports move and scale with eight handles; perspective and puppet warps are simplified to a grid warp. |
| Image | RGB, Grayscale, 8-bit, Brightness/Contrast, Levels, Curves, Exposure, Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, Colour balance, Black & white, Invert, Posterise, Threshold, Gradient map, Desaturate, Auto tone/contrast/colour, Canvas size, Image size, Crop, Trim, Rotate | Levels and curves use a tonal LUT rather than a full spline editor. CMYK is not a real working space and is not offered. |
| Layer | New, Duplicate, Delete, Layer style (shadow, glow, stroke), Raster mask, Clipping mask, Smart object (rasterise), Group, Arrange, Merge down, Merge visible, Flatten | Groups are organisational; blend modes apply per layer, not per group. |
| Select | All, Deselect, Reselect, Inverse, Colour range, Subject, Modify (border, smooth, expand, contract, feather), Grow, Similar, Quick mask, Save/load selection | Subject uses a border-colour contrast heuristic, not a neural network. It works best on simple backgrounds. |
| Filter | Gaussian blur, Box blur, Motion blur, Sharpen, Unsharp mask, Add noise, Median, Pixelate, Mosaic, Emboss, Find edges, Posterise, Oil paint, Glow, Vignette, Camera raw, Liquify push | Filters run on the CPU and are applied destructively to the active layer or selection. |
| View | Zoom in/out, Fit, Actual pixels, Rulers, Grid, Guides, Snap, Extras, Full screen | Guides can be dragged from the rulers and cleared from the menu. |
| Window | Layers, Adjust, Filters, History, Info, Colour panels; theme toggle; document list | Panels are docked, not floating, which keeps the canvas usable on a laptop. |
A layer is an independent sheet of pixels with its own opacity and blend mode. The composite you see is calculated from the bottom up: each visible layer is drawn over the result of the layers beneath it, using its blend mode and opacity. That is why hiding a layer changes the result instantly without touching the pixels of any other layer, and why reordering two layers can change an image completely.
A raster mask is a greyscale channel attached to a layer. White reveals, black hides, and grey produces partial transparency. Painting on the mask is the safest way to blend two photographs, because the underlying pixels are never destroyed. A clipping mask is different: it uses the transparency of the layer below as a stencil, which is the standard way to place a texture inside text or a shape without cutting the texture up.
A selection is a document-wide map, not a layer property. It survives a layer change, it can be saved into a channel and recalled later, and it limits every destructive command that follows. The Modify family is what turns a rough marquee into a usable edge: Feather softens the boundary, Smooth rounds jagged corners, Expand and Contract grow or shrink the region, and Border replaces the region with a band around its edge. For cut-outs, a two-pixel feather usually hides an otherwise visible staircase edge without making the subject look blurry.
PNG is lossless and keeps transparency, so it is the right choice for screenshots, logos, text and anything with a hard edge. JPG is smaller for photographs but has no transparency and adds artifacts around sharp transitions each time it is re-saved. WebP usually beats both for the web at the same visual quality, and every current browser supports it. The flattened PSD export writes a standard RGB file that Photoshop, GIMP, Affinity Photo and Photopea can open, but it contains a single merged layer — keep the project file if you need to return to the layer stack.
V move, M marquee, L lasso, W magic wand, B brush, E eraser, T text, C crop, I eyedropper, H hand, Ctrl+Z undo, Ctrl+Shift+Z redo, Ctrl+T free transform, Ctrl+A select all, Ctrl+D deselect, Ctrl+J duplicate layer, Ctrl+E merge down, Ctrl+0 fit, Ctrl+1 actual pixels, Ctrl+R rulers, [ and ] brush size. Shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a field, so text entry never triggers a tool change.
It is an honest browser tool, not a replacement for a full desktop suite. There is no CMYK soft proofing, no 16-bit-per-channel pipeline, no video timeline, no 3D, no neural subject selection and no layered PSD import. Very large documents are limited by the memory your browser will give a single tab, and every filter is CPU-bound. For print production, colour-critical work or a 300-layer composite, use a desktop application. For cropping, retouching, masking, compositing, social graphics and everyday photo work, the menus here cover the same ground as the desktop equivalents without an install.