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PhotoDemon Help

Edit your first photo

Now that you’ve gotten PhotoDemon up and running, it’s time to have some fun!

Load a photo into the program

One of the central themes in PhotoDemon is there’s no one right way to do things. There are many different ways to use the program, and you are welcome to use whatever works best for you.

This starts with how you load images into the program for editing. Here are some ways to do this:

  1. The File > Open menu
  2. The File > Import menu, with options for scanning images, importing them from the Internet, taking screenshots, and more
  3. Dragging files from somewhere like Windows Explorer and dropping them onto an open PhotoDemon window
  4. Before you even start PhotoDemon, you can drag image files onto the PhotoDemon.exe icon and the program will start up, then load the dropped files automatically
  5. The Edit > Paste to new image menu is also an option, if you’ve already copied files or images in another app

All of these options work interchangeably, and you can switch between them at any time.

Basic photo editing tasks

Now that you’ve loaded one (or more) images into PhotoDemon, let’s walk through a few basic editing tasks.

Cropping a photo

To crop a photo, start by selecting any of PhotoDemon’s Selection tools on the left toolpanel.

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For this example, I’ll use the Rectangle selection tool.

Once the tool is selected, I can click-drag on…