User Manual

Cut My Pic is a fast, private image editor that runs entirely in your browser. It is built for quick edits that still need to look polished: crop and mask, rounded corners, borders, shadows, resize, color tweaks, sharpen, soften, text overlays, stamps, filters, and export.

Because everything happens locally, you can drag in an image, fine-tune it, review your edit history, switch to fullscreen when needed, and download the result without sending your file to a server. That keeps the workflow simple, fast, and 100% private.

Crop & Mask

The Crop tool lets you choose the part of the image you want to keep. The side rail offers free select, square, or 16:9 crop modes.

The settings panel gives you two behaviors: Image Trimmer removes everything outside the selected area, while Image Masking keeps the full image and fills the selected region with blur or a solid color.

Use the Apply button when you want to commit the crop result. If you switch tools without applying, the crop preview resets so it is always clear what is committed and what is still temporary.

Round Corners

Round Corners softens the outer corners of the entire image. The quick presets are shortcuts for common values, and the slider lets you fine-tune the radius.

This tool is useful for profile images, cards, thumbnails, and anywhere you want a softer finish. Apply it when the shape looks right; otherwise, reset it to return to a square image.

Resize & Rotate

Resize & Rotate changes the image’s pixel dimensions and orientation. Use Constrain Proportions to keep the same aspect ratio, or Freeform if you need a custom stretch.

The width and height fields work with the on-canvas resize handles, while the Rotate & Flip controls let you turn the image in 90° steps, rotate freely, or flip it vertically and horizontally before applying the result.

Filters

Filters offers quick styles like black and white, sepia, vintage, warm, cool, and more.

Use the preview to compare looks before applying. Once applied, the filter becomes part of the image and can be combined with your other edits.

Adjustments

Adjustments lets you fine-tune contrast, brightness, color balance, saturation, sharpen, and soften. These controls are ideal when the image is already close but needs a little more punch, balance, or edge definition.

Sharpen and soften preview live as you move the slider, so you can see the result before you apply it. Small changes can make a big difference, especially when you are preparing an image to share or publish.

Text & Stamps

Text lets you place a title or label over the image. Start by typing the text and choosing a color, then use the floating panel to adjust the size and position.

It also includes Stamp mode for preset graphics and labels, which is useful for titles, callouts, stickers, and quick social graphics.

Add Border

Add Border places a border around the image. You can set the thickness, choose a border color, and optionally turn on a gradient border.

When the gradient border is enabled, the angle controls the direction of the gradient and the start and end colors can be adjusted separately. Apply the border when the preview looks right so it becomes part of the exported image.

Shadow

Shadow adds a drop shadow to separate the image from the background. More darkness creates more contrast; the size control determines how soft and spread out the shadow appears.

The color picker changes the shadow tone, and the direction controls where the shadow falls. It is useful for mockups, product images, and social media graphics.

Zoom

The Zoom slider changes the magnification of the workspace preview without changing the image's pixel dimensions or exported size. Move it right to inspect details and left to see more of the canvas.

The percentage readout shows the current zoom level. Zoom and manual positioning affect only the editor view, not the downloaded image.

Compare

Compare becomes available after you apply at least one edit. It opens a split view with the original image on the Before side and the current applied result on the After side.

Drag the divider to reveal more of either version. You can also focus the divider and use the arrow keys, Home, or End for precise movement. Turning Compare off restores the tool you were using before the comparison.

Auto-Center

Auto-Center controls whether the image returns to the center of the workspace after an edit is applied. It is turned on by default.

Click the target-shaped button to turn Auto-Center off. The icon and border turn red while it is off, and applied edits retain the image's manual screen position. Click it again to turn Auto-Center on and immediately return the image to its default centered position.

Auto-Center changes only the workspace view. It does not move content within the image or alter the exported file.

Manual Move

Manual Move lets you reposition the image anywhere in the workspace with a mouse, trackpad, or touch gesture. Click the four-arrow Move button to activate it, then drag the image to the position you want.

Activating Manual Move turns Auto-Center off so the position is retained when edits are applied. Click Move again, select an editing tool, or turn Auto-Center back on to leave Manual Move mode.

Manual positioning affects only the workspace view. It does not change the image pixels or the exported result.

Fullscreen

Fullscreen expands the editing workspace so more of the image and canvas are visible. The compact tool rail and floating settings panels remain available, and the tool rail can be repositioned by dragging its handle.

Your image, applied edits, history, zoom, and open tool stay with you when entering or leaving Fullscreen. Use the Fullscreen button again, or press Escape, to return to the standard layout.

Undo

Undo moves back by one applied edit. Use the Undo button or Cmd/Ctrl+Z; use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z to redo an edit that you stepped back from.

Temporary previews are not history states until you press Apply. If you undo and then apply a different edit, that new result becomes the next history state instead of the previously available redo path.

Edit history

Edit History is available as soon as an image is loaded. State #0 is the original image, and every numbered state after it represents one applied edit. The step counter reports applied edits and does not count the original image.

Select any state to restore the image to that point. Later states remain in the panel as redo states, so you can move forward again until you apply a new edit. Each state restores the image pixels and the settings needed to continue from that result.

The footer also shows the Reusable Step Counter. This can be lower than the history count because it includes only the steps that can be saved as part of a reusable workflow.

Delete Image

The trash-can button beside Edit History completely removes the current image from Cut My Pic. It also clears the image's edit history and the locally saved recovery copy from this browser.

Use this when you are finished with an image or want to begin again with an empty editor. This action cannot be undone through Edit History, so download anything you want to keep before deleting it.

Reusable Workflows

A workflow saves reusable instructions from your applied edit history so you can repeat a look on another image. Open Edit History, choose Save Workflow, review the reusable-step count, give the workflow a name, and save it in your browser.

Choose Load Workflow to view, apply, or delete saved workflows. Workflows are stored locally in this browser and are not uploaded with your images. Temporary previews and edits that are not included in the Reusable Step Counter are not saved in the workflow.

Crop placement is never guessed on a new image. When a workflow includes a crop, the editor opens the crop tool and asks you to position the selection. If the workflow also includes a resize, the selector locks to the saved target ratio; after you apply the crop, the remaining steps run and the image is resized to the saved pixel dimensions.

If the selected area is smaller than the workflow's resize target, the editor warns you before enlarging it because upscaling can reduce quality. When the workflow finishes, the preview changes to a 1:1 pixel view so you can inspect the result accurately.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Cmd/Ctrl+Z steps back one preview edit from the current image history, and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z steps forward again.

Cmd/Ctrl+S opens export, Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+H opens history, and Cmd/Ctrl+Enter applies the current edit when a tool has an Apply button.

1 through 8 switch quickly between Crop, Round Corners, Shadow, Resize, Filters, Adjustments, Text, and Add Border.

Fullscreen mode keeps the tool rail and controls compact so you can work with more of the image visible at once.

Escape closes the history panel, export dialogs, or fullscreen mode.

Export

Export creates your final PNG, JPG, or WebP and opens a download and sharing panel. PNG and WebP can preserve transparency; JPG fills transparent areas with your selected background color.

If you still have unapplied changes in the current tool, the app will ask whether you want to save them before exporting. That way the final file matches what you actually intended.