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Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow. Features include basic image editing capabilities, paint brushes, image filters, colour adjustments and more advanced features such as Batch image processing.

# User manual

Welcome to the Photoflare user manual. This is information aimed at end users to help understand how to use the current features in the application.

## Table of contents

- Creating a new image
- Opening files
- Resizing images
- Cropping images
- Tools
- Adjusting hue
- Gradients
- Add/Edit text
- Batch processing/Automation
- Preferences
- Window modes
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Plugin system / Developer guide