Documentation

Everything Picstea can do today, how to use it, and what it can't do yet.

  • Getting started with Picstea

    Create a document, open an image or PSD, edit with layers and export — all in your browser, without uploading anything.

  • Layers, groups and masks

    How Picstea's layers work: pixel, shape, text, fill and adjustment layers, groups, blend modes, opacity, masks and effects.

  • Selections

    Select with the marquee, lasso and magic wand, combine and refine selections, and use them to paint, fill, copy and mask.

  • Painting, fills and gradients

    Brush, pencil, eraser, paint bucket, gradient and eyedropper in Picstea, and how they work with layers, masks and selections.

  • Retouching: clone, heal, dodge, burn and more

    Remove blemishes and distractions with the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush in Picstea, and lighten, darken, saturate, blur, sharpen or smudge areas with a brush.

  • Rulers, guides, grid and snapping

    Place layers precisely in Picstea: rulers, guides you drag from the ruler, a grid, snapping with smart guides, and aligning layers to the canvas or a selection.

  • Filters: blur, sharpen, noise and more

    Apply filters to a pixel layer in Picstea with a live preview: Gaussian, box and motion blur, Unsharp Mask, Add Noise, Pixelate, Emboss and Find Edges.

  • Paths and the Pen tool

    Draw precise shapes and selections in Picstea with the Pen tool: anchor points, curves, Direct Selection, paths to selections and back, and vector masks.

  • Smart objects and smart filters

    Use smart objects in Picstea to scale and transform without losing quality, edit their contents in their own tab, and apply filters you can change later.

  • Actions, batch processing, colours and history

    Record actions in Picstea and replay them on any image or a whole batch of files, pick exact colours, keep swatches, and step back through the History panel.

  • File formats: PSD, PNG, JPEG, WebP, SVG, PDF

    Which file types Picstea opens and exports, what each format keeps, and how to move projects between Picstea and other tools.

  • Keyboard shortcuts

    Every Picstea keyboard shortcut. Cmd on macOS, Ctrl on Windows and Linux.

  • Privacy and where your files are stored

    Picstea edits images on your device and never uploads them. Where projects are kept, how to back them up and what the website stores.