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Custom crop, erase, or remove background from images

It would be great if we could have the ability to remove background (whether that's AI or magic wand type selection, layer masking manually, or just an eraser brush that affects that element) from images.

Alternatively, having a freehand crop -- which would be good for paper, stickers, almost everything else, especially for scrapbookers and collagers who might not want something exactly around a subject or around the whole subject -- would be a great addition. (To be honest I'd almost prefer the eraser or freehand crop, because I'm one of those use cases who doesn't always want the obvious subject.)

I know you can "make a sticker" in Photos, but not all subjects will do that, not all iPhones and iPads will do that, and the dragging process is a pain -- and then you end up trying to find other apps to make transparent pngs etc etc when it seems like erasing should be fairly straightforward.

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  • Vanessa commented  ·   ·  Report

    The app is perfect besides not having a freehand crop or cutout tool. It’s advertised for digital scrapbooking, but that’s basically impossible to do without forcing users into multi-app workarounds. Cutting things out is the entire point of a junk journal or scrapbook! I’m currently using Paper but would switch to Zinnia if this is added.

  • Nic B commented  ·   ·  Report

    The ability to freehand crop images like you are able to in GoodNotes for a more scrapbook-like aesthetic in journals.

  • Manasi Kanade commented  ·   ·  Report

    Yes please include this feature as soon as possible, i am journal creator who love to create journals and this feature is definitely a need for me.

  • T Cups commented  ·   ·  Report

    Please please please update a versatile cutting tool that allows you to cut shapes from photos and screenshots like one would do with magazines and such for collages in real life. The exacto knife does not let you cut irregular shapes from photos and cropping a photo limits one to sharp boxy images. I’d love to be able to collage more in a way that feels more creative,fun and natural. The paper app is great for this but I prefer zinnia as an overall journal experience. I find myself collaging in paper and then transferring the collage as an image into zinnia but I can’t keep paying for both apps.

  • Merri Odette commented  ·   ·  Report

    I’d love to be able to cut bits of my photos out. The same as the cutting tool for pens! Would be perfect for collages!

  • Jailyn Brookshire commented  ·   ·  Report

    It would be so helpful to be able to use an eraser tool on photos and objects from the studio like stickers and text boxes and journal cards. I have to use a different app if I want to use an eraser tool on a photo to put in my journal and it would be nice to do it all in my journal, especially since that is the only extra app I need to use besides Zinnia to scrapbook.

  • Nicoletta commented  ·   ·  Report

    Custom crop is definitely needed!!

  • Brenda Berg commented  ·   ·  Report

    Ability to cut and use certain parts of a template or paper or sticker. Crop is good but doing a lasso that can cut a flower out of a paper pack or sticker with a background

  • faye d commented  ·   ·  Report

    Bumping this to add this seems ESPECIALLY silly not to have when we have such a great slice tool!

  • Kas013 commented  ·   ·  Report

    The eraser tool doesn’t work when you import an image. Can this please be mad3 to work?

  • Gabriele Archuleta commented  ·   ·  Report

    When cropping your only allowed straight edges, it would be great to have a tool where cropping can be any design shape. Example would be for those who like to junk journal or have ripped pages I can’t do that in zinnia so i have to use another editing app then bring it into zinnia to have the effect. To I want to be able to create my own

  • Katelyn commented  ·   ·  Report

    Scissor feature and/or cut-out feature in different shapes to be able to use with the paper packs. This feature could go in with the drawing tools and have different qualities like straight edge cut, ripped cut, wavy cut, etc. for different looks. These would be so helpful for art journaling!

  • Sharon Chester commented  ·   ·  Report

    Like cropping, but then having the ability to choose what the remaining edge looks like. I’m always rotating objects and then moving the majority out of frame, but that doesn’t let me put part of an object in the middle of the page.
    Even better, if you “tear” an object and keep each piece as a new object, so you can move them around.

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