Beyond the brushes, the media editor takes stickers and text and lets you place them anywhere on the picture: dragged, rotated, resized, layered over each other.
Two of those are genuinely useful rather than decorative — a sticker is the fastest way to cover a face, and text with an outline is the only kind that stays readable over a photograph.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Place, resize and rotate stickers and text on an image.
- check_circle Cover a face or a detail quickly.
- check_circle Write on a picture so it can still be read.
- check_circle Undo any of it before sending.
Everything placed on the image stays movable until the moment you send.
gesture Objects, not paint
A sticker or a text box placed on a picture is an object. It can be dragged, pinched larger or smaller, turned with two fingers, and moved behind or in front of another one. Nothing is committed until you send, so experimenting costs nothing.
That makes a sticker the fastest redaction tool in the app. Covering a face or a name with one takes a second, and what leaves your phone is a flattened picture with the sticker baked in — the thing underneath is not in the file.
Text is the other useful one, provided you use an outlined or filled style. Plain text on a photograph disappears into whatever is behind it; an outline keeps it readable over anything.
Four things to place on a picture
Two are practical, one is fun, and one is the mistake.
visibility_off Faces, names, numbers
text_fields Writing on a photograph
emoji_emotions Decorating
rule When to stop
A sticker to cover, outlined text to label, and crop before adding anything at all.
settings Working with objects
- Crop and straighten first Before placing anything.
- Add a sticker or a text box From the editor's tools.
- Drag, pinch and rotate to place it Nothing is committed yet.
- Use an outlined text style So it reads over the picture.
- Cover sensitive areas with an opaque sticker And check the edges at full zoom.
- Drag anything unwanted off the canvas Or leave the editor entirely to discard it all.
This page is placing objects. The curriculum step is the editor as a whole: the brushes and what each is for, the typography options in detail, cropping and straightening, and the video controls that sit alongside the drawing tools.
At a glance
- 1Stickers and text
Place, resize and rotate them on a photo.
- 2Cover faces
An opaque sticker hides a face better than blur.
- 3Readable text
Use outlined text so it reads on busy photos.
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