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The BEE editor includes an image editor that allows you to easily crop, rotate, resize, apply filters\/frames, add stickers... and much more - to any image, without leaving the editor. We recently updated this tool with a new one that provides several benefits and an overall enhanced user experience, including faster performance, a bigger work area, and better reactions to user modifications!<\/p>\n

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Accessing the image editor<\/h3>\n

When you select an image in the editor an \"Apply effects & more\" button is shown. Click on it to have access to a tool that allows you to edit the image in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n

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The editor has a lot of cool features, from filters to resizing & cropping tools.<\/p>\n

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You can quickly and easily change the image size...<\/p>\n

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... apply some cool stickers:<\/p>\n

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There are also a number of predefined filters that can help you very quickly change the look of the image.<\/p>\n

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New image editor in November of 2018<\/h3>\n

Please note that we changed the image editor in November of 2018.<\/p>\n

Since its initial release, the BEE Editor included Adobe's\u00a0Creative SDK Image Editing UI<\/strong>\u00a0(formerly \"Aviary\") to allow users to easily manipulate images inside a message without exiting the design workflow.<\/p>\n

For many years this friendly add-on helped BEE users tweak images without needing a complex design tool or graphic design skills.\u00a0Unfortunately,\u00a0Adobe is discontinuing this service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Notes for BEE Plugin users<\/h3>\n

The Image Editor is an\u00a0optional service<\/a>\u00a0in your BEE Plugin configuration. Therefore, you can disable it if you don't need it or if you were to decide that it doesn't provide the desired experience.<\/p>\n

We carefully evaluated different services that represented an alternative to Adobe's Creative SDK Image Editing UI, and we determined that the best way to go was to customize a tool that we could integrate directly into the BEE Plugin system.<\/p>\n

The solution that we opted for is based on Pixie, a robust, easy-to-use, and extensible image editor.<\/p>\n

This new editor lacks some features that could be found in Adobe's editor.\u00a0 That said, it provides several benefits that - we believe - make up for those limitations and provide an enhanced user experience. These include:<\/p>\n