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Starts a fresh blank document. Opens the create dialog where you pick the canvas size before editing.

Opens an existing image or places one into the current document. Use it to bring an image in from the Media Library or your computer.

A submenu listing files you edited recently, each shown as its name and attachment ID. Choosing one reloads the editor with that attachment. If nothing has been opened yet, it shows a disabled No recent files entry.

Tip. Each entry is labelled name (#id) where #id is the Media Library attachment ID.

Opens the template picker so you can start from a saved dynamic template. Dynamic templates carry placeholders that fill in from post or site data.

Flattens the design to a single image and saves it back into the WordPress Media Library, overwriting the source attachment. This is the standard save for an image that came from the library.

Saves the flattened design as a brand new image in the Media Library instead of overwriting the original. Use it to keep the source untouched.

Opens the export dialog to download the image in a chosen format and quality. Use it to get a file onto your computer rather than into the library.

Creates or copies a shareable link to the current saved design. Greyed out until the document has been saved as a design and has a design ID.

Revokes the public link of the current design. The link stops working immediately and the shared image is deleted; sharing again creates a new link. Greyed out until the document has been saved as a design.

Saves the full editable design, keeping all layers so you can reopen and change it later. If it is already a saved design, this updates it in place.

Saves the current design as a new, separate editable design. Greyed out until the document already is a saved design (otherwise plain Save already creates one).

Saves the current design as a dynamic template that others can reuse, with placeholders that fill from post or site data. Use it to turn a finished layout into a reusable starting point.

Saves the active layer into the Asset Library as a reusable asset. Available only when a layer is selected.

Saves the current design as a repeating pattern you can fill other layers with. Use it to build your own seamless textures.

Adds another page to the document. Use it for multi-page designs such as carousels or documents with several slides.

A submenu for working with the editor's own project file format, which stores the whole editable document as a single downloadable file.

Opens a .wpie project file from your computer, restoring the full editable document. Found under the Project (.wpie) submenu.

Downloads the current document as a .wpie project file to your computer. Use it to archive or move an editable design between sites.

A submenu for exchanging designs with other formats: SVG, Photoshop PSD, layer comps and carousels.

Imports an SVG vector file into the document. Found under the Import / Export submenu.

Exports the current design as an SVG vector file. Found under the Import / Export submenu.

Imports a Photoshop PSD file, bringing in its layers. Found under the Import / Export submenu.

Exports the current design as a Photoshop PSD file with its layers. Found under the Import / Export submenu.

Exports the document's saved layer comps as separate images. Only enabled when the document has at least one layer comp.

Opens the carousel export dialog to output a multi-slide design as a set of images. Found under the Import / Export submenu.

Closes the editor and returns to where you came from. Use it when you are done editing.

A greyed-out placeholder shown inside File, then Open Recent when you have not opened any files yet. It is not clickable and just tells you the recent list is empty. As soon as you open images, this is replaced by their names.

Tip. Each real recent item opens that attachment in the editor by its media ID.

Reverses your most recent action. Greyed out when there is nothing to undo.

Re-applies an action you just undid. Greyed out when there is nothing to redo.

Removes the selected layer(s) from the document and places them on the clipboard so you can paste them elsewhere. Requires an active layer.

Copies the selected layer(s) to the clipboard without removing them. Requires an active layer.

Pastes layers from the clipboard into the document. Only enabled when the clipboard holds one or more layers.

Makes an exact copy of the active layer in the same document. Requires an active layer.

Without an active selection it removes the selected layer or layers from the document. With a selection active it clears the pixels inside that selection on the active pixel layer instead, leaving the layer in place. Requires an active layer either way.

Copies just the active layer's styles (its appearance and effects) to a style clipboard, without copying the layer itself. Requires an active layer.

Applies previously copied layer styles to the active layer. Enabled only when a layer is active and styles are on the style clipboard.

Enters free transform on the active layer so you can scale, rotate and skew it by dragging handles. Requires an active layer.

Selects the whole canvas as a selection. Use it before an action that should affect everything.

Clears the current selection. Only enabled when a selection exists.

Opens the plugin's settings page in a new browser tab. Use it to change editor-wide options.

Opens the resize dialog to change the document's pixel dimensions, scaling the content to fit. Use it to make the whole image larger or smaller.

Opens the resize dialog in canvas mode to change the working area without scaling the content. Use it to add or remove space around your design.

Opens the resize tool that re-lays out the design to a new size, moving and re-fitting elements rather than simply scaling. Use it to adapt a layout to a different format.

A submenu of color utilities: background color, palette extraction and application, brand colors, and LUT loading.

Sets the document's background color. Found under the Colors submenu.

Reads the dominant colors from the active layer and collects them as a palette. Requires an active layer.

Recolors the design using a palette derived from an image. Requires an active layer. Found under the Colors submenu.

Recolors the design using your saved brand colors. Only enabled when a brand palette with colors is available.

Loads a .cube color lookup table and applies its color grade to the active layer. Requires an active layer. Found under the Colors submenu.

Crops the whole document down to the current selection's bounds. Only enabled when a selection exists.

Trims away empty or uniform border areas around the document. Use it to remove excess space at the edges.

Rotates the entire document 90 degrees clockwise.

Rotates the entire document 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

Mirrors the entire document left to right.

Mirrors the entire document top to bottom.

Crops the canvas to the bounds of the selected image layer, so the document exactly matches that picture.

Adds a new empty layer above the current one. Use it as a fresh surface to paint or place content on.

Creates a new layer group (folder) to organise layers together. Use it to keep the stack tidy and move layers as a set.

A submenu that adds a fill layer of a chosen kind: solid color, gradient or pattern.

Adds a fill layer filled with a single solid color. Found under New Fill Layer.

Adds a fill layer filled with a gradient. Found under New Fill Layer.

Adds a fill layer filled with a repeating pattern. Found under New Fill Layer.

A submenu that adds a procedurally generated texture layer in one of eight styles. Use these to add tactile surface detail over a design.

Adds a film-grain style texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a paper-surface texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a fibrous, thread-like texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a woven canvas texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a cross-hatched line texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a rough concrete surface texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a colored noise texture layer. Found under New Texture Layer.

Adds a scanline texture layer for a screen or retro look. Found under New Texture Layer.

Makes an exact copy of the active layer. Requires an active layer.

Removes the selected layer(s) from the document. Requires an active layer.

Creates a new layer from a copy of the current selection's contents on the active layer. Requires an active layer. Use it to lift part of a layer onto its own new layer.

Shrinks the active layer's bounds to remove empty transparent areas around its pixels. Only available on a raster (pixel) layer.

Merges the active layer into the layer directly below it, combining them into one. Requires an active layer.

Combines all layers into a single flat layer. Use it to finalise a design into one image.

Wraps the active layer in a smart object so it can be transformed and re-edited without losing quality. Requires an active layer.

Adds a mask to the active layer so you can hide parts of it non-destructively by painting on the mask. Requires an active layer.

Clips the active layer to the layer below it so it only shows where the layer beneath has content. Requires an active layer.

Fits the active layer into a frame so its content is contained and cropped to the frame's shape. Requires an active layer.

Moves the active layer one step up the stack, in front of the layer above it. Requires an active layer.

Moves the active layer one step down the stack, behind the layer below it. Requires an active layer.

Crops the canvas to the bounds of the selected layer or selection of layers.

Selects the entire canvas so the next edit affects everything.

Clears the current selection so edits apply to the whole layer again. Only enabled while a selection exists.

Flips the selection so everything that was outside becomes selected and the old selection becomes unselected. Handy after selecting a subject to then work on its background.

Switches to the Marquee tool so you can drag a rectangular selection.

Switches to the Lasso tool so you can draw a freehand selection outline.

Automatically finds the main subject in the image and selects it for you, no dragging needed.

Tip. Great starting point before Inverse to isolate a background.

Fills the current selection by rebuilding the pixels behind it so the selected object disappears. Only enabled while a selection exists. With an AI provider configured it asks that provider first, and the whole flattened document is sent for the edit; without one, or if the call fails, it reconstructs the area locally in your browser. Either way the result arrives as a new image layer the size of the document, above the stack.

Softens the selection edge by a chosen radius so edits fade in gradually instead of stopping at a hard line. Only enabled while a selection exists.

Stores the current selection under a name so you can bring it back later. Only enabled while a selection exists.

Restores a selection you saved earlier. Only enabled once at least one selection has been saved.

A submenu of one-click, non-destructive filter looks applied to the active layer. Any filter presets added by extensions appear here too.

Removes all color for a clean grayscale look.

Adds a warm brown tint for a vintage feel.

Pushes colors toward warm tones and lifts saturation slightly.

Shifts colors toward cooler blue tones.

Boosts saturation and contrast for a punchy image.

Lowers saturation and contrast and lifts the shadows for a washed-out look.

Muted retro tone with a slight sepia shift.

High-contrast, moody black and white.

Extra contrast and saturation for a bold pop.

Fresh, green-leaning outdoor tone.

Soft evening color grade.

Bright, bleached highlights like strong sun.

Cold, desaturated icy look.

Warm brown cinematic tone.

Vivid, electric saturation.

Soft, hazy, low-contrast look.

Filmic color grade for a movie feel.

Removes any preset filter from the active layer, returning it to its original look. Only enabled when a filter is applied.

Submenu of focus effects that soften or crisp the image.

Smoothly blurs the layer by an adjustable radius. Opens a settings dialog.

A fast averaging blur with a boxy character. Opens a settings dialog.

Keeps a horizontal band sharp and blurs above and below it for a miniature look. Opens a settings dialog.

Increases edge contrast to make the image look crisper.

Controlled sharpening with amount, radius, and threshold so you can avoid over-sharpening. Opens a settings dialog.

Reduces grain and speckle noise while trying to keep detail.

Submenu of tonal and color adjustments.

Automatically stretches each channel to use the full tonal range. Applies immediately.

Automatically stretches overall contrast without shifting colors. Applies immediately.

Automatically neutralizes a color cast for more natural tones. Applies immediately.

Recovers detail hidden in the darkest and brightest areas. Opens a settings dialog.

Manual black point, white point, and midtone (gamma) control plus an output range. Opens a settings dialog.

Freeform tone curve for precise brightness and contrast shaping. Opens a settings dialog.

Brightens or darkens the midtones without clipping black or white. Opens a settings dialog.

Keeps one chosen color and desaturates the rest of the image. Opens a settings dialog.

Inverts every color to its opposite for a photo-negative effect. Applies immediately.

Reduces the image to a small number of tonal steps for a flat, graphic look. Opens a settings dialog.

Converts the image to pure black and white at a chosen brightness cutoff. Opens a settings dialog.

Submenu that maps the image to two colors (a shadow tone and a highlight tone) using ready-made pairs.

Tip. For custom shadow and highlight colors, use Duotone in the Stylize submenu.

Submenu of creative, look-changing effects.

Darkens the edges of the frame to draw the eye to the center. Opens a settings dialog.

Adds a soft bloom around bright areas for a dreamy feel. Opens a settings dialog.

Adds film-style grain or noise texture. Opens a settings dialog.

Turns the image into blocky mosaic squares. Opens a settings dialog.

Reproduces the image as a pattern of printer-style dots. Opens a settings dialog.

Adds digital distortion and color-channel shifts for a broken-signal look. Opens a settings dialog.

Turns edges into a raised, gray relief. Opens a settings dialog.

Traces the outlines in the image and hides the flat areas. Opens a settings dialog.

The full Duotone effect where you pick your own shadow and highlight colors, listed inside the Stylize submenu. Opens a settings dialog.

An extra submenu that appears only when installed extensions register their own effects, listing each one.

Duotone with near-black shadows and light grey highlights for a classic monochrome look. This is the duotone version, separate from the Noir filter preset.

Deep navy shadows with light sky-blue highlights, for a cool marine tone.

Warm maroon shadows with golden highlights, for a sundown look.

Dark green shadows with pale green highlights, for an earthy tone.

Deep purple shadows with soft pink highlights, for a bold pop tone.

Slate blue-grey shadows with light grey highlights, for a neutral industrial tone.

Dark brown shadows with gold highlights, for a warm luxury tone.

Dark teal shadows with mint highlights, for a fresh cool tone.

Enlarges the canvas view by 25 percent each time. Does not change the image.

Shrinks the canvas view by dividing the zoom by 1.25 each time.

Scales the view so the whole document fits inside the window.

Sets the view to actual size, one screen pixel per image pixel.

Zooms in to frame the current selection with a small margin around it. Only enabled while a selection exists.

Toggles the Navigator panel, a small thumbnail map for panning and jumping around a zoomed-in document.

Toggles the Timeline panel used for animation and frame work.

Toggles the side Library panel of assets and templates.

Toggles the Pages panel for multi-page documents. Only available when the document has pages.

Opens the Workspace settings where you can cosmetically show or hide the toolbar, panels, sections, and menus to build a personal layout.

Tip. The View menu itself can never be hidden, so this entry always stays reachable.

Toggles the horizontal and vertical rulers along the canvas edges.

Toggles a repeating alignment grid over the canvas.

Toggles the visibility of your placed guide lines without deleting them.

Turns snapping on or off so dragged objects and guides jump to align with edges, guides, and the grid. Shows a checkmark when on.

Opens the Guides and Grid dialog to add guides at set positions and adjust grid spacing.

Removes all guide lines from the document in one step. Only enabled when guides exist.

Submenu that previews how the design looks under color-blindness or grayscale, so you can check it stays readable. Choose None to return to normal.

Opens the contrast checker that measures text-to-background contrast against accessibility (WCAG) targets.

Shows your design in the context of a real post or page so you can judge how it will look in place.

Leaves the post preview and returns to the normal canvas. Greyed out unless a post preview is active.

Turns proofing off and shows the design in its true colors. This is the default and carries a check when no proof mode is active.

Simulates red-blind vision (missing red cones) so you can check whether reds and greens still read apart.

Simulates green-blind vision (missing green cones), the most common form of color blindness.

Simulates blue-blind vision (missing blue cones) so you can check blue and yellow separation.

Removes all color so you can judge whether the design still holds up on tonal contrast alone.

Opens the font picker to choose the typeface for the text. During a text edit it restyles the selected characters, otherwise the whole layer. The picker has a search field on top: type to filter all font groups, Enter picks the first match.

Dropdown that sets the stroke thickness of the letters, from light to black.

Type a size for the text, or drag the px label beside it to scrub the value up and down.

Tip. Drag the px label to scrub the size without typing.

Toggles the text between normal (weight 400) and bold (weight 700). Highlighted when the text is 700 or heavier.

Slants the text on or off for emphasis.

Draws a line under the text on or off.

Sets the text fill color from a swatch. With no text layer active it sets the shared foreground color instead.

Aligns each line of text to the left edge of the text box. The tooltip reads left.

Centers each line of text horizontally in the text box. The tooltip reads center.

Aligns each line of text to the right edge of the text box. The tooltip reads right.

Positions the text at the top of its box vertically. The default for fixed-width text boxes.

Centers the text vertically within its box. The default for auto-width text.

Sits the text at the bottom of its box vertically.

Bends the whole line of text along an arc. At 0 the text is straight; move toward the ends for a stronger curve up or down.

Opens a popover with six rendered previews (two classic layouts plus four seeded variations) that restyle the text block into a designed arrangement.

The × button next to Layout clears an applied text layout and returns to plain text. Only shown once a layout is in place.

The last group in the text options bar. Its Presets button opens a popover of hand-drawn annotation presets (markers, circles, boxes, underlines, strikes and combos), each previewed with your own text. Only appears for an existing text layer.

The button in the Annotate group of the text options bar. It opens the preset popover and only appears while a text layer is selected.

The ink swatch at the top of the popover. Picking a color recolors an annotation already on the layer straight away (recorded as Annotation color) and tints every preset you apply afterwards, so a whole set of doodles shares one ink. Until you touch it, the swatch shows red.

Resets the ink swatch so presets apply in their own built-in colors again. Only shown once you have picked an ink color. It clears the ink for future clicks and does not change an annotation already on the layer.

Applies the bare reset preset: clears the layer's text effects, outline, shadow and per-character styles and returns it to plain text.

A yellow highlighter band swiped behind the text, lightly roughened.

A single pink marker swipe, tapered like a pen stroke rather than a full band.

Two overlapping teal marker swipes, as if you went over the words twice.

An orange scribble filled back and forth behind the text instead of a clean band.

A light blue marker swipe with extra roughness, for a looser hand.

A lilac highlighter band at maximum roughness, so the edges look dried out and worn.

A warm yellow marker swipe with clean edges.

A mint green highlighter band behind the text.

A red hand-drawn oval looped around the text.

A blue oval drawn with a very shaky line, for a rough sketched note.

A red circle looped around the text twice, as if you went round again for emphasis.

A near-black hand-drawn rectangle around the text.

A blue hand-drawn rectangle around the text, drawn with a looser line.

A near-black double loop around the text, like a pen circling a word on paper.

A green hand-drawn oval around the text, roughened for a marked-correct feel.

A red hand-drawn rectangle around the text, for a flagged or corrected word.

A blue hand-drawn wavy line scribbled under the text.

Two red hand-drawn strokes under the text, for a stronger emphasis than a single line.

A green hand-drawn zigzag under the text.

A purple looping cursive line under the text, like a run of handwritten e's.

A blue sine wave underline drawn as a clean, even ruled line rather than a shaky one.

An orange scribbled wave under the text at high roughness, for a scrappier hand.

A single straight, near-black ruled underline with no hand-drawn wobble.

A red ruled underline drawn as two parallel straight lines under the text.

A single rough red line struck through the middle of the text, overshooting slightly at both ends.

Two near-black lines struck through the text, one just above and one just below the middle.

A big red X drawn across the whole text box, corner to corner.

A single blue line struck through the text at high roughness, like an editor's pencil mark.

Combines a red oval around the text with a red line struck through it, like a marked-up exam paper.

Combines a yellow highlighter band with a red zigzag underline.

Combines a pale green marker swipe with a green line struck through the text, for a finished to-do item.

Combines a yellow highlighter band with a red oval around the text.

Combines a blue hand-drawn box around the text with a blue double scribble under it.

Combines a yellow highlighter band with a big red X across the text.

Combines a near-black hand-drawn box around the text with a red zigzag under it.

Combines a purple double loop around the text with purple cursive loops under it.

Submenu for generating and templating post content.

Opens the tool that drafts post or page content for you. Part of WunderPaint Pro.

Manages reusable content templates used by the content generator. Part of WunderPaint Pro.

Automatically creates featured images across many posts at once. Part of WunderPaint Pro.

Submenu for bulk image processing jobs.

Runs resizing, format conversion, and other steps over a batch of images. Part of WunderPaint Pro.

Produces many images from one design by merging rows of a CSV data file (data merge). Part of WunderPaint Pro.

Applies a watermark to many images in one run. Free feature.

Helps write image metadata such as alt text across images. Free feature.

Submenu of assistants that generate whole designs.

Generates a complete layout from a brief you describe. Free feature.

Submenu for recording and replaying editor steps. Lists Manage Actions, then the bundled action categories (Web & Sizes, Photo Fixes, Looks & Styles, Artistic, Privacy & AI, Social Formats) as their own level, and then the actions you saved yourself.

Opens the manager to record, edit, and organise reusable action macros.

Each recorded action appears as its own item labelled with its name. Click it to replay all of its steps on the current document.

Tip. Record and edit actions from Manage Actions in the same submenu.

A disabled placeholder shown when you have not recorded any actions yet. Record one in Manage Actions to make it appear here.

Opens a tool for building and exploring color palettes and harmonies for your design.

Opens a studio for generating and editing backgrounds such as gradients and patterns.

Dresses up a plain screenshot with padding, rounded corners, shadows, and a nice backdrop.

Places your design onto product and device mockups.

Creates charts and data tables to drop into your design.

Generates a QR code you can style and place in the document.

Each installed extension contributes its generator into the category it declares, so you can open it in one click. Extensions with multiple generators show a submenu named after the extension.

Opens the full editor handbook with guides and reference.

Opens a reference sheet of every keyboard shortcut in the editor.

Starts the guided walkthrough that points out the main parts of the editor.

Switches this user to a simplified beginner interface. The full editor stays the default and only the chrome changes for you.

Opens the extension manager to install, update, and remove extensions. Shown only to users who can manage the site (administrators).

Opens a diagnostics screen showing environment details, storage use, and health checks for support.

Shows version, credits, and other information about the plugin.

Moves the highlight to the next selectable item in the open menu. It skips dividers and submenu headers and wraps back to the top after the last item.

Tip. Selectable items are only the plain actions, not the submenu parents.

Moves the highlight to the previous selectable item in the open menu. It wraps around to the last item when you go past the first.

Runs the currently highlighted menu item, the same as clicking it. The menu then closes.

Closes the open menu without running anything. Use it to back out of a menu you opened by mistake.

Opens the first submenu in the current menu, for example File, then Open Recent or Layer, then New Fill Layer. Submenu parents are marked with a small right-pointing arrow.

Closes the currently open submenu and returns focus to the parent menu.

Moving the mouse over a submenu parent (any item with the right-pointing arrow) opens its submenu automatically, and moving away closes it. This is the pointer alternative to the arrow keys.

Menu items that do not apply right now are shown greyed out and cannot be clicked. For example Paste Layer is disabled until something has been copied, and Crop to Selection is disabled until you have an active selection.

Tip. If an item you expect is greyed out, select a layer or make a selection first.

Opens the full asset library dialog (also Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+L or the tray at the bottom).

Opens the stock photo search across your configured providers (Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash).

Opens the AI asset generator for gradients, text marks, shapes and illustrations.

Opens the media library manager without leaving the editor.

Opens the dynamic template picker.

Opens brand kit management (visible to users who may manage kits).