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Editing a photo (image)

Renée Meloche
Renée Meloche
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Edit photographic images you add to your design canvas in the Venngage Editor with crop, resize, shape crop, rotate and opacity tools. 

Select the image and use the bounding box

Select the image you want to edit. Before you start, ensure the image isn't locked to the canvas or grouped with other design elements. 

Move the image by clicking and dragging it into position on the canvas. For more precise positioning, click on the image to select it and use your arrow keys to nudge it into place. 

A partial view of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor shows a light blue-green background with a photo of a white and orange building layered over it. The photo is in a selected state in the Editor, so it appears with a thin blue border. The bounding box border has 'handles', small icons that indicate different tools on the bounding box; three of these are magnified to make them easier to see, and appear with a dark red arrow next to them and a text label. At the top of the photo's bounding box is a circular arrow with the label 'Rotate'. At the top right corner of the box is a small white square icon with the label 'Resize'. The Resize handles appear in all four corners of the photo. on the right side of the photo, in the middle between two Resize handles, a small, thin, white rectangle icon appears with the label 'Crop'. The crop handles appear on each side of the photo.

 

The bounding box that appears around the image when you select it has three main tools: resize, rotate and crop. 

Resize using the square handles in the corners of the bounding box. 

Rotate with the circular arrow that appears at the top of the bounding box. 

Crop the image with the long rectangular handles on the tops and sides of the bounding box. 

Learn how

How do I resize or rotate images?

Drag the corner handles of the bounding box to make the image proportionally larger or smaller. 

A partial view of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor shows a light blue-green background with a photo of a white and orange building layered over it. A user clicks on the photo to select it, and the bounding box appears as a thin blue border around the photo, with small icons in the corners of the photo and on the sides. The user clicks on the small white square icon in the top right corner of the bounding box, and drags away from the photo, making it bigger on the canvas; the user then drags toward the photo and makes it smaller.

 

Rotate the image by clicking and holding the circular arrow icon on the bounding box. This appears at the top of the image, and your cursor will appear as two arrows in a circle you're using the tool.

A partial view of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor shows a light blue-green background with a photo of a white and orange building layered over it. A user clicks on the photo to select it, and the bounding box appears as a thin blue border around the photo, with small icons in the corners of the photo and on the sides. The user clicks on the small blue circular arrow icon in the top center of the bounding box and drags to the right and then the left, changing the orientation of the photo so that it appears rotated 90°, then 180°.

How do I crop an image? 

Crop an image by dragging its side handles inward. This creates a frame that displays the visible area of the image. 

Reposition the visible area of the image by clicking 'Crop' in the top toolbar. The entire image becomes visible, with the part of the image that appears in the visible area highlighted and the rest of the image in shadow. Click on the image inside the visible area and drag it into position.

A design canvas in the Venngage Editor with a light green background and dark grey and white accents also contains a black and white image of a horseshoe-shaped office building, shot from a low angle. The photo is positioned to the left and partly off of the canvas. A user clicks on the photo to resize it, using the handles on the bounding box that appears when the photo is selected. The user resizes the photo so that it fits in the left third of the design page. When the photo is the correct size, the user clicks on 'Crop' in the top toolbar and the photo enters crop mode, which shows the full width of the photo, divided into areas that are shadowed, and a highlighted part that appears inside the 'frame', which represents the visible part of the photo that will show when the photo is cropped. The user clicks and drags the photo, so that a different portion of it appears in the crop frame, then clicks outside of the photo to confirm the changes.

How do I crop an image to a shape?

Crop an image into a pre-defined shape from the top toolbar. 

A partial view of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor shows a large, rectangular photo of red apples on a blue patterned towel and a dark countertop. To the right of the canvas is some text, including a heading in red letters and two paragraphs of smaller, black text. A user clicks on the photo of the apples. In the top toolbar, the Frame Type menu appears. The user clicks on it, and a drop-down widget expands, with a list of shapes. The shape 'Rectangle' is already selected. The user selects 'Circle' and the photo on the canvas is cropped into a circle shape. The user then selects 'Triangle' and the photo is cropped in a triangle shape.

 

Select the image. In the Frame Type drop-down menu in the top toolbar, select a shape and click to apply it.

A close-up of the top toolbar in the Venngage Editor, where the Frame Type menu is highlighted and the rest of the toolbar is shadowed. The Frame Type menu has a tag with a label that says 'Frame Type', and is currently set to 'Rectangle'. A small down-ward orientated triangle appears in the menu box, indicating that it is a drop-down menu.

 

Adjust how the image looks in the shape frame: select the image, then click Crop in the top toolbar and click and drag the image so that it appears in the frame the way you want. 

A partial view of a design canvas in the Venngage Editor shows a light blue-green background with a photo of a white and orange building layered over it. A user clicks on the photo to select it, and the bounding box appears as a thin blue border around the photo. Additional tools appear in the top toolbar above the canvas. The user clicks on the Frame Type drop-down and selects 'Triangle'. The shape of the photo changes from rectangular to a triangle, with parts of the photo cropped out. The user clicks on the 'Crop' tool in the top toolbar, and the photo enters crop mode, which shows the full width of the photo, divided into areas that are shadowed, and a highlighted part that appears inside the 'frame', which represents the visible part of the photo that will show when the photo is cropped. The frame is a triangle shape. The user clicks and drags the photo, so that a different portion of it appears in the triangular crop frame, then clicks outside of the photo to confirm the changes.

How do I change the image opacity?

Customize the opacity of an image to change its appearance, letting colors and textures from the background filter through.

Click the image to select it. Click on Opacity in the top toolbar and choose a number. 

A close-up of the top toolbar in the Venngage Editor, where the Opacity menu is highlighted and the rest of the toolbar is shadowed. The Opacity menu appears with an icon of an eye with a slash through it and has a tag with the label 'Opacity'. A small down-ward orientated triangle appears in the menu box, indicating that it is a drop-down menu.

 

Lower numbers make the image more transparent; higher numbers make it more opaque. 

On a partial view of the design canvas in the Venngage Editor, a header image appears on a white background. The image shows a landscape in South America with mountains and houses in the background and a green, grassy field and a llama walking in the foreground. Over the image, in white capital letters, the heading 'SOUTH AMERICA' appears. A user selects the image and additional image tools appear in the top toolbar over the canvas. The user clicks on the Opacity drop-down menu and the menu widget expands, showing values from 1 to 100. The image opacity is set to 100; the user changes it by selecting the value 65. On the design canvas, the image becomes more transparent, which lets the white of the background filter through it and renders the image contrast, brightness and saturation less vibrant. The user then clicks the value 100 in the drop down and changes the image opacity back to 100.

Click anywhere outside of the Opacity menu to confirm the change. 

Placing a colored shape or other element behind an image with lower opacity can create an interesting visual effect. You can also use a semi-transparent photo as a background image for your entire canvas, or create a gradient filter image background with a photo and a gradient background.

 
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