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  Ever wish you could cut that annoying bystander out of your photo?   Or change the color of a photo to make it more vibrant?   With the Photo Editor, now you can!   However, that’s not all.   With the Photo Editor, you can do some standard adjustments, such as crop, exposure, rotation, color, and sharpness.   But it is also a place where you can have some fun!   Try the Artistic section with different effects, such as black and white, sepia, and pencil, or try the Fun section where you can graffiti a photo, add fun stickers, and insert text/word bubbles.   Also expect more effects in the upcoming releases!   You need a premium account for the Photo Editor, so Upgrade now!  To use the Photo Editor, simply find the Photo you want to edit.   You can access the Photo Editor when viewing either the thumbnail version or the big version of the photo.   For thumbnails, when you mouse over the thumbnail of the photo you want to edit, you will see a pen looking icon/button.   To make sure you are looking at the right button, after a second of mousing over the icon, you will see the label “Edit Photo with Sosauce Photo Editor” appearing.   Click on the icon/button to open the Photo Editor.   When on the big photo page, look for the Manage Photo link to the right of the big photo.  Click on it would open a menu of functions.  Click on the first link under Edit Photo called “Photo Editor" to open the Photo Editor.   Now that you opened the Editor, this is what you see:     With the Photo Editor you can do the following:   Crop To crop your photos, click on the Crop button in the left menu to open up a number of crop options.   If you just want to free drag to the size you want to crop, simply grab a blue corner of the crop area you see over your photo and move it to the size you want.   If you want to move the crop area itself, simply click inside the area, drag, and move it.   After you are happy with the crop area and size, click on the green Apply Crop button to apply the crop.   If you don’t want to apply the crop, then simply click off to another option, like “Rotate” for example.     The other crop options, such as 3x5, 4x6, 5x7, and Square, lock the area to preset dimensions.   These crop options are useful if you want to imitate print sizes.   You can still drag and resize, but the area will always be some multiple or fraction of the preset dimensions.   If you want to go from a horizontal to a vertical crop, just drag the blue corner vertically, and you will see the crop area automatically adjust.   Rotate To rotate your photo, all you have to do is to click on any of the 4 rotate buttons:   Rotate 90 Left, Rotate Right, Flip Horizontal, and Flip Vertical.   If you want to go back to how you had it originally, click on the Reset button.       Exposure Exposure has two dials, Brightness and Contrast.   Each dial is set to the middle.   To make your photo brighter or have more contrast, drag the dial to the right.   For darker or less contrast, drag the dial to the left.   To go back to what the original photo looks like, click on the Reset button and return the dials to the middle.     Color Color also has two dials, Hue and Saturation.   Hue covers the color spectrum, and Saturation is how rich you want the color to be.   Each dial is set to the middle.   Drag the dial to the right or left to adjust hue or saturation.   To go back to what the original photo looks like, click on the Reset button and return the dials to the middle.     Blur/Sharpness The Blur and the Sharpness dials both start at the left.   To make your photo more blurry, drag the Blur dial to the right.   For more sharpness, drag the Sharpness dial to the right.   To go back to what the original photo looks like, click on the Reset button and return the dials to the left.     Fun Editor Here you can draw graffiti, put stickers on, and add text bubbles.   To draw graffiti, select the Graffiti option.   Then, just hold your mouse down and drag it over the photo to draw.   To change color, click on the Color Box (default in red) to open a palette with a bunch of colors to choose from, and then click on the color that you like.   To change the thickness of your graffiti, use the Size dial.   If you don’t like what you just drew, click on the Erase button to clear your drawing and start over.       To add some fun stickers, select the Stickers option to open up a menu of sticker categories to choose from.   Say if you want to add a mustache to someone in your photo, click on “Face,” and then you will see some stickers appearing on a panel to the right of the menu.   To apply the one that you want, you can click on the sticker once for it to appear over the center of the photo, and you can then click on the sticker to drag and resize to wherever you want.   You can also drag the sticker from the panel to the photo to apply it.   To clear a sticker, click on it over the photo so that the border lines and corners appear, and then hit the Delete button on your keyboard.       Adding some texts to a photo is always fun.   To do that, select the Text option and some default text, “your text here,” would appear over your photo.   To change the text to what you want to say, look for the textbox just below the Text option in the left menu.   You can type in what you want to say in the textbox, and as you do, you will see your writing appear over the photo as well.    You can use the Font dropdown to change fonts, and click on the Color box to change font color.   If you want to resize, move, or rotate the text you entered, click on the text over the photo to display the border lines and corners, and then drag to resize, move, or rotate.   To resize and rotate, look for the stretch or circle arrows when you mouse over the corners.  To clear your text, click on it over the photo, and then hit the Delete key on your keyboard.     Artistic Editor This is where you choose and apply different effects, such as black and white, sepia, and pencil, to your photo!   To use this, simply click on Artistic Editor and select the effect that you want.   If you want to go back to the photo’s original look, simply click on the Reset button.       The Photo Editor also enables you to zoom into and out of your photo for more detailed editing.   At the bottom of the Photo Editor, look for the Zoom dial on the left. Simply drag the dial to zoom in and out.   The changes you already made, such as stickers and texts, will also adjust with the changing zoom.        At any time, if you feel like you made a mistake or did something you didn’t like, you can click on the Undo button at the bottom of the Photo Editor to remove the last thing you added.   You can basically just click on Undo to remove anything added all the way to the very beginning, and click on Redo to recover any changes.       To save your work and exit the Photo Editor, click on the green Save and Close button at the bottom right of the Editor.   While you are saving, if you change your mind, you can always click on the Cancel button (also at the bottom right that appears after you click on Save and Close) to cancel.   You will then be taken to your edited photo in big photo view to appreciate it.     When you save an edited photo it will not write over your original photo.   It will simply save your new photo, with edits, as an additional photo in the same album (or Purgatory).   The new photo will be placed at the end of the current album and will enjoy all the management and sharing features on Sosauce, just like the original photo.   (Note:   The newly created photo is 1024x in size to make the photo editing manageable, so it is not meant for large size photo prints.)   Have fun editing your photos, and if you have any questions, check out our "Need Help" section at the top of any Sosauce page.  If that is not sufficient, please use our "Feedback" link at the top of the page and shoot us a question.  We'd be happy to help!   Enjoy the Photo Editor!