Swapping the photo
In Basic mode, each photo slot in the Edit tab has a Replace button. In Advanced, select the photo and use Replace in its Source section, or double-click the layer.
The picker has three tabs: Library (your own uploads), Stock (the stock library) and Upload (a file from this computer, which is also saved to your library). To fill several slots at once, use Autofill instead.
Replacing a photo clears any crop you'd set. The new photo starts fresh, because a crop measured on one image means nothing on another.
On a template that comes in several looks, the photo panel says Linked across styles: that slot is the same slot in every style, so the photo you drop in shows up whichever look you switch to. Unlink this style breaks the connection for the style you're on, if you want a different photo in just one of them.
Crop: choosing what's in frame
Crop is how you decide which part of a photo shows. Enter it with the crop button in the Source section, or by double-clicking the photo on the canvas in Advanced mode.
Once you're in:
- Drag the frame's handles to change the shape of the crop.
- Drag the photo to move it inside the frame.
- Scroll to zoom. It won't let you zoom out past the point where the photo stops
covering the frame, so you can't leave a gap.
- The thirds grid is a guide for placing a face or a horizon.
Apply (Enter) keeps it, Cancel (Esc) throws it away, and Reset puts the whole photo back in frame.
Applying a crop to a normal photo layer also resizes the layer to match the frame you drew — so the crop is the new shape of that photo in the layout. The slide's full-bleed background is the exception: its frame is locked to the slide, so you can only pan and zoom within it.
Crop or Fit?
The Fit row offers Cover, Contain and Fill, which decide how a photo sits in its box before you've cropped anything:
| Fit | What it does | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| Cover | Fills the box, trimming the overflow | Almost always |
| Contain | Shows the whole photo, leaving space | The whole image matters — a chart, a full-body pose |
| Fill | Stretches to the box | Rarely; it distorts people |
Cropping overrides all three, so once you've cropped, changing Fit throws your crop away. Pick a Fit first, crop second.
Remove background
Remove background cuts the subject out and leaves the rest transparent — the way to put yourself over a colored panel or another photo. It works best on one clear subject against a plainer background; a busy gym behind you gives it a harder time around hair and hands.
It's a Pro feature. The button is there on the free plan, but pressing it returns an error rather than a cutout.
If the edge comes out rough, try a different photo rather than fighting it. A shot with some contrast between you and the wall behind you cuts out cleanly; one where your black t-shirt meets a dark background never will.
Frames and corners
Frames puts the photo inside a shape. There are ten — circle, rounded square, heart, hexagon, star, arch, diamond, triangle, polaroid and speech bubble — plus None to remove one. An arch or a circle is often what makes a plain headshot look designed.
Corners is separate and simpler: square, rounded or fully rounded, with a Radius you can set exactly, per corner if you want.
Adjust
The Adjust section is basic photo correction, applied live:
- Brightness, Contrast and Saturation, where 100 is untouched.
- Hue to shift colors around.
- Blur, which is mostly useful on a background photo so the text on top stays
readable.
- Invert, and Opacity for the whole layer.
Small moves. Contrast at 110 and saturation at 105 sharpens a flat phone photo; saturation at 180 makes everyone orange.
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