Photo editing tutorial

You edit one photo in three stages in the Photo workspace. Use a photo of your own. The example shows a terrarium with a lava rock and a fern on a black background.

The Photo workspace

Select Photo in the workspace switcher in the title bar. The tutorial uses these parts of the workspace:

• The Tools toolbar at the left, with Crop, the selection tools, and the healing tools.
• Tool Options at the top, with the settings of the current tool.
• The Properties and Layers panels in the right column.

The stages

1. Opening and cropping: the photo opened and cropped to 5:4.
2. Retouching: dust and a smudge removed on a layer above the photo.
3. Adjusting and exporting: Curves, Vibrance, and a local Shadows/Highlights, then a .capy file and a JPEG for the web.

The finished layers

The edited photo has these layers, from top to bottom:

Layer	Contents
Shadows/Highlights	Lifts the shadows in the rock, masked to a feathered selection
Vibrance	Raises the vibrance of the whole photo
Curves	An S curve for the whole photo
Retouch	Healing strokes
The photo layer	The photo, named after its file
Paper	Hidden

Nothing is painted on the photo layer.

First stage: Opening and cropping.