Paperform provides tools to edit your uploaded images within the form editor. You can find the option for editing images by first uploading your image, and then select the pencil ️icon from the styling toolbar.
Where can I use edited images on my form?
You can use our image editor in a variety of places, including:
To access the image editor, first upload your image to the desired location. You can then click on your new image and select Edit Image in the top-left of the popup window.
What can I edit on my images?
We have a wide variety of tools at your disposal for enhancing and editing images.
Annotate
The annotate mode allows you to draw lines, shapes, and text on top of your uploaded image. Paperform also offers a number of customisation options for edits made to your images, the options for which are shown under the relevant subtitle listed below.
- Sharpie
The sharpie tool allows you to draw freestyle lines with a custom colours and thickness, using the customisation options provided.
- Eraser
The eraser tool allows you to remove sharpie and line markings from your image.
No customisation options are available for the Eraser tool.
- Line
The line tool allows you to draw straight lines on your image.
- Arrow
The arrow tool allows you to draw straight arrows on top your image.
- Rectangle
The rectangle tool allows you to draw rectangle shapes on top of your image.
- Elipse
The elipse tool allows you to draw elipse shapes on top of your image.
- Text
The text tool allows you to draw text on top of your image with various styling options, including font, font style, font size, line height, and colour.
Crop
Images added to your form can be cropped to your desired size, rotation, and zoom distance.
The options available for transforming your image are:
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Flip Vertical
- Flip Horizontal
- Zoom In/ Out
Filters
You can apply filters to your images to change their colour and appearance. The available filters are shown below:
Finetune
Finetuning options are available for images edited on your form. The image settings available to be modified for finetuning your image are:
- Brightness
- Contrast
- Saturation
- Exposure
- Temperature
- Gamma
- Clarity
- Vignette
Resize
The dimensions (height x width) of your image can be modified directly via the image editor resize tool.
If you would like to keep both the height and width the same size aspect ratio, you can do this using the Lock button shown below.
I made a mistake, can I undo my changes in the image editor?
Changes can be undone using the Revert button in the top left of the image editor. Note that you cannot revert changes after they have been saved.
Gotchas
Editing GIF images
If you choose to edit a GIF image from within Paperform, the GIF will be converted to a PNG image of the frame shown within the image editor. This includes images from services such as Unsplash.