Flare Help

Flare - Photo Editor is a layered raster image editor. A Flare document is a stack of pixel layers with a fixed size in pixels, a resolution and a colour mode (Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed Color, RGB, CMYK, Lab or Multichannel), saved by default as a TIFF that keeps its layers.

Topics

• Documents and file formats — New, Open, Save, Save As, Export, Place, camera raw files, printing.
• Tools — every cell of the Toolbox, its letter and its family.
• Layers — the Layers palette and the Layer menu: masks, groups, clipping masks, smart objects, adjustment layers.
• Selections — Marquee, Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick Mask and the Select menu.
• Adjustments, modes and filters — the Image, Mode and Filter menus.
• Palettes and workspaces — the Window menu, palette shortcuts, workspaces.
• Keyboard Shortcuts — every shortcut of the menu bar, menu by menu.
• Sending feedback — the ways to reach the Flare feedback inbox.
• System requirements — Windows version and the Direct3D 12 graphics card the canvas needs.

Help inside the app

Help ▸ Online User Manual (F1) opens these pages in your browser, in the language of the app when a translation is available. Help ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+K) opens the list of every command that carries a keyboard shortcut, generated from the app's own menus.

Help ▸ Search Commands… (Ctrl+Shift+K) finds any command of the menus, the tools, the filters and the Preferences panes by typing part of its name; Enter runs the highlighted row.

Windows and Mac

Flare - Photo Editor for Windows is the Windows version of Flare for the Mac and has the same commands. On Windows, ⌘ becomes Ctrl and ⌥ becomes Alt; Preferences… is in the Edit menu, and About, Check for Updates… and Send Feedback… are in the Help menu. Closing the last window quits the app.

Documents and file formats Tools Layers Selections Adjustments, modes and filters Palettes and workspaces Keyboard Shortcuts Sending feedback