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All About the Graphic Tools Menu

Learn how to use PicMonkey’s Graphic Tools menu to customize graphics. Change colors, add shadows or outlines, crop, erase, animate, or blend elements to create unique, professional-looking designs.

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The Graphic tools menu appears when you’ve added a graphic to your canvas. The tools menu allows you to customize the look of a graphics by changing its color, cropping or erasing parts of it, adding a shadow or outline, and even animating the graphic.


The menu items

  • Change colors: Click the color wheel to change a color in the graphic.

  • Fill with image: Choose a photo to put inside a graphic.

  • Animate: Make your graphic move; download as a GIF or MP4. (Pro subscribers only)

  • Shadow & outline —

    • Drop shadow: put a shadow underneath your graphic for a 3-D effect.

    • Inner shadow: put a shadow inside your graphic for an engraved look.

    • Outline: Put a color outline around your graphic.

    • Knockout: Removes the graphic/image and leaves behind the shadows and/or outline.

  • Crop layer: Remove edges from a graphic.

  • Erase: Remove parts of the graphic

  • Fade & blend —

    • Fade: Use the slider to make your graphic more transparent.

    • Blend mode: Select a blend mode to make your graphic blend in differently with the background.

  • Replace image: Choose an image to replace the graphic.

Bottom icons:

  • Rotate arrows: Use the circle arrows to rotate the graphic 45 degrees.

  • Flip triangles: Flip it across a horizontal or vertical line.

  • Trashcan: Remove the graphic from your canvas.

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