Touching Up a Photo

Sometimes you want a quick fix for a photo, like lightening up the subject or smudging out the stranger in the background. If you want to make an adjustment to an area of a photo without affecting the whole image, the Touchup Ribbon is your "go-to" for menu choices that will make those quick corrections.

To touch up a photo, follow these steps:

1. Add the photo to the page—either with or without a frame (See Adding a Photo to a Page for more information).
2. Make sure the photo is selected, and click the Touchup Ribbon.
   The Touchup ribbon menus are enabled.
   

Note: If a photo is not selected, all ribbon menus except New Canvas will be unavailable.

3. Click the desired menu to touch up your photo.

Note: You may get a message asking you to flatten the image:

If you are finished sizing, zooming and centering the photo, click OK. See Arranging Elements on a Page for more information about flattening images.

 

Menu	Description
New canvas	Allows you to free-form draw anywhere on the page.
Paint	Allows you to free-form draw anywhere on the selected photo or image.
Clone	Allows you to pick an area of the image to copy. This feature is nice for masking out an area of a photo (e.g., a stranger in the background of a vacation photo).
Smudge	Allows you to smudge the colors of an area of a photo or image.
Lighten	Allows you to lighten an area of a photo or image.
Darken	Allows you to darken an area of the photo or image.
Blur	Allows you to blur an area of the photo or image.
Colorize	Allows you to add a color "filter" over an area of the photo or image.
Increase Color	Allows you to increase the color saturation of an area of the photo or image.
Decrease Color	Allows you to decrease the color saturation of an area of the photo or image (e.g., converts to shades of gray).
Erase	Allows you to erase an area of the photo or image.