Photos

Photo in Paint places a picture on faces. The picture shows under the unfolded sheet of faces. Drag the sheet over the picture to line up the faces with the part of the picture you want, then tap a face to stamp.

Select a photo

Select Photo in Paint’s menu row. The photo menu has: Take a photo, Camera roll, Type words (makes text as a see-through picture), and Make a pattern sheet. Your pattern sheets and flattened figs are listed below the main buttons. See Flatten a fig .

Type words has a text box (up to 80 characters, on one or more lines), a size (Small, Medium, Big), a font (Ünflat, Times, Helvetica), and the 28 Classic colors. Use these words places the words on the canvas like a picture; only the letters stamp. Text in Paint’s menu row opens this step directly.

To use a picture as a reference that leaves your paint alone, select the layer chip in the header and choose Photo on Sketch…. The app switches to the Sketch layer and opens the photo menu. Pictures stamped on the Sketch layer are only guides and are left out of exports. See Layers .

After you select a picture, the Make it yours step opens:

• Frame it: Drag the picture to set the crop. Pinch to zoom.
• Warp it: Straightens pictures taken at an angle. See Warp it .
• Look ▾: Sets a tint (Plain, Warm, Cool, Pastel, Moody, Faded).
• Select Use photo to go on. ← at the top goes back to the photo menu. ✕ cancels. Help in the title bar has Tap for hints. See Getting around .

The Photo card

The Photo card has the picture’s settings in sections. Tap the card header to fold it into a Photo tab at the edge of the screen; tap the tab to open it again. On a phone it starts folded. The ✓ in the header (Stamp everything) stamps every face the picture covers now. ✕ closes the picture.

• The photo: Controls to move, size, rotate, and flip it. Hold and drag the cross to move the picture. Minus and plus make it smaller or bigger. The turn arrow rotates it. The two flip arrows flip it. Two fingers on the canvas move the sheet on its own.
• Tap to stamp: Sets the faces it stamps. All faces stamps every face the picture covers. One face stamps only the face you tap. The second toggle is for the paint under it: Keep the paint stamps the picture over the paint already there. Transparent first makes the faces see-through before stamping, so a cutout picture has no background around it. One face taps clear and stamp the tapped face; All faces taps, Stamp everything, and Pin to face with All faces clear and stamp every face the picture covers. One Undo undoes both the clear and the stamp. A pattern sheet starts on Keep the paint, so its see-through space stamps nothing and the paint under it stays.
• Pin to face: Select Pin to face to put pins around the picture. The second toggle sets the placement: All faces places the pinned part across the whole sheet. Single face places it on one face; tapping another face moves it there. Drag the corner pins to line up the edges. Drag the edge pins to bend the edges. While a pin moves, the faces in the 3D preview show the result. Select ✓ Stamp all faces or ✓ Stamp the face. See Pin to face .
• Magic cut: Select Cut away, then tap a color in the picture to cut it away. Color range (Less, Normal, More) sets the range of colors that count as a match. Cut-away areas stamp nothing; with Keep the paint, the paint under them stays. See Magic cut .
• Look: Opens the dither settings.

Stamped pictures turn into pixels at the canvas’s resolution. This gives pixelation ; change Standard ▾ to set the pixel size. See-through pixels (from PNG files or Magic cut) and pixels less than 50% solid stamp nothing. Pixels between 50% and fully solid blend over the paint already there. Stamped pixels work like paint: you can paint over them, erase them, and undo the whole stamp.

Figs made with From a picture in the new-fig menu start with the picture already placed on them. The new fig opens in Paint with the picture on the table, lined up with the sheet, with Transparent first on. Use Cut away or the Eraser to clean up the edges, then tap the sheet to stamp. The picture keeps its proportions on the sheet, with see-through margins.

A picture not stamped yet is saved with the fig. Selecting Done keeps your changes; the unstamped picture stays and comes back the next time you open Paint. If a picture is open, selecting Photo reopens Make it yours with the last Frame it and Warp it settings.

Selecting another tool on the toolbar closes the picture.