Next, select the Blur button at the top to adjust the amount of blur included in the image. To apply this editing to your image, click Selective Focus and then position and resize the circle in the snapshot below to select the area of the picture to keep in focus. So this keeps a selected part of the photo in focus with the rest out of focus. Photos also has a Selective Focus option that blurs the picture around a selected area. Rotating the circle anti-clockwise lightens the borders. Click Vignette and then rotate the circle clockwise to darken the borders. The Vignette option darkens the border of the picture, as shown in the snapshot below. This can be a good option to enhance dull blue skylines in photos, or to make a blue sky seem a bit moodier.Ĭlick Effects to open two more options that apply Vignette and Selective focus editing to the image. Rotating it right will boost the selected color. If you rotate the circle anti-clockwise, that can convert the image color to grey as shown directly below. Then drag the circle around the circular bar to enhance or reduce the vibrancy of the selected color. The circle on the color picker highlights what color it will edit. You can select a color in the picture to edit by dragging the color picker over it. Click the Color Boost option, and then drag the color picker onto the picture. There you can select Color Boost to either enhance or reduce a color in the photo. To adjust the image colors, click Color on the left. Click the filter options to see how they edit the picture. The only obvious one is the black and white filter that converts pictures to black and white. The app doesn’t include any tooltips to make it clear what these filters are, so you’ll need to use some trial and error to figure out which one does what.

Then click anywhere on the image to apply the editing.Ĭlick Filters on the left to open six filter options. Select Straighten and then rotate the circle around a circular bar to adjust the angle of the picture. The Straighten option also comes in handy if your photo isn’t entirely straight. And if you don’t like the results, you can always press Ctrl + Z to undo any editing. For example, it will probably make a blurry photo a little sharper and enhance its contrast. This is a quick fix option that makes some basic edits to photos. One handy option you can select here is Enhance. It will open with Basic Fixes selected on the left, which has the Crop and Rotate options included in Paint.

That will open the app’s photo-editing options in the shot below. Choose a photo to edit by clicking its thumbnail preview and selecting the Edit button.

Microsoft paint photo editing