The New Image Editor is Here!

1/19/2017

Great images make great websites. The ability to quickly upload, edit and publish photos from your phone or camera can help your business stand out from the crowd while keeping both new visitors and returning customers engaged. That’s why we built a brand new Image Editor to help you create better imagery for your site and take control of photo editing directly from your browser.

The new Image Editor is much faster than the previous version and provides an entirely new set of powerful image editing tools. To use the new Image Editor, drag the Image Element onto a page and simply select Edit Image.

New Image Editor features include:

Image Cropping: Crop photos with vertical and horizontal flip, two-direction 90-degree rotation, 45-degree rotation, or 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios.
Filters: 29 new filters to inject a variety of different pre-built effects into your photos with an intensity slider to customize filter strength.
Text: Add text to images, adjust font size style and alignment, rotate text, set background color and opacity.
Adjust: Control brightness, saturation and contrast to make images stand out.
Focus: Choose from radial and linear focus features and adjust focal location, size and blur radius.
Undo Button: Undo changes for easy editing adjustments.

The new Image Editor is HTML5-based, a big update from the previous flash-based editor, setting the foundation for future image editing improvements throughout the Weebly platform. Let us know what you think about the new feature and tell us what you’d like to see next!

Karim Ardalan link

1/19/2017 11:53:27 am

Love the new image editor! I noticed it a few weeks ago and been using it ever since. A big time saver and one last nail in the coffin of flash :)

Charles

1/19/2017 04:29:00 pm

I noticed you can not resize the image anymore. I really liked that feature, why can you not adjust the size? Everything else is an improvement. I simply use Photoshop, but the editor should be able to handle resizing!

nerdynaut.com link

1/23/2017 05:32:29 am

it's awesome

Deborah Russell link

1/27/2017 09:11:21 am

It is a piece of total crap. You have ruined my beautiful website for the second time. I am moving to Bookmark.

Martin Latham link

1/20/2017 02:48:25 am

Not a fan yet, the old style editor would allow me to alter elements of the image and place in multiple images to create one image. Also the side show seemed more user friendly allowing you to build a background slide, then add in images etc. Some of the features are really nice, would be nice to have the ability to toggle between both editors. Best of both !

Christian Pirlet link

1/25/2017 06:41:35 pm

I totally agree. I always bragged to my colleagues about my website, now I am embarrassed by my banners. I was bummed out...

Karl Feghali link

1/20/2017 04:01:34 am

we do not need any fancy image editors. we need more payment options to be enforced in your work tasks. it's seems like it's taking you so long nowadays to develop new features for Weebly. why don't you listen to the community's feedback and see what they truly are waiting for. image editor is nothing more than a pure enhancement add-on which could easily be made on any other third-party software. plus, you've ruined the inability to insert images overlaying each other, which makes it a mere nonsense if you ask me because most of the times, when creating banners, we usually insert images and drag them to beautify the banners instantly. now we have to do all that with a third-party tool which is a bit cumbersome. hope you can settle out the negative side of the new editor in upcoming releases.

Vicki link

1/22/2017 01:24:43 pm

Completely agree. The #1 thinv we've been asking for with images is a image library so that we do not have to upload images multiple times. We need you to pay attention to the community forum that YOU set up to receive feedback.

JFigPhotoDesigns link

1/20/2017 04:43:51 am

Another useless Add-On... Wasting our money on "crap", give us stuff that you have had in the suggestion community for YEARS or don't add anything!

Social2017 link

1/20/2017 11:17:00 pm

this post is really like able for me, thanks for bringing it in front of us

Mara

1/21/2017 08:16:34 pm

Do we no longer have the option to add additional pictures to layer?

Kao link

1/21/2017 09:06:56 pm

I think that the old image editor is better than this new one.
Here you cannot add another image to the layer.......I miss the old editor and many people will too.

Mobi link

1/22/2017 01:29:04 am

Thanks for this greatest post provided here man.

GAC STOP link

1/22/2017 11:04:52 am

Great update. Quite late but real update.

Wendy link

1/23/2017 06:41:05 am

I have had professional photos taken to add to my website and since the change over they are now - pixel wise - deemed too big and now look ridiculous when trying to download on to my web site. Please go back to original thank you.

Gilbert

1/23/2017 08:16:27 am

I think it is a good new feature. It is right that the most of us have already photo editor on our computer, but this one is good when you want go faster and see the result right now.

I like this new feature.

Keep going Weebly

JkP - Gaming link

1/23/2017 08:47:08 am

Great update Weebly, I do wish there was a few more font features to choose from for text.

And next hopefully we'll get some blogging features.

George

1/23/2017 12:04:01 pm

Suddenly I could not download a narrow photo from my picture file. It comes in horizontal. And your "new improved" system does not seem to allow 90-degree turns. Previously, if I wanted to place two verticals side by side, the system would allow for it. Now, they come in horizontal. Perhaps somebody in your vast system knows how to get around this. But your "improvements" have set me back. Would you like to address this, or is my complaint just a message out into space somewhere?

Chief Funologist link

1/23/2017 11:52:59 pm

I think there are some good features in the new image editor. I especially like the image filters for achieving different visual effects and for improving the appearance and viewability of images. I uploaded an image I created on my own as my first attempt ever at creating my own artwork/poster, and my uploaded image came out blurry on my website, but by using the filter, I was able to make it clear enough to be acceptable. However, I wish it were possible to switch back to the old image editor for some of its features that seem to be now unavailable, such as the greater choice in font styles and font colors for use in adding text to page header images, and the ability to create color and pattern effects such as having more than one color in the letters, as for example, starting out with the color green at the base of the letters and having it gradually change to blue at the top of the letters. I have found that I cannot even add text to the header image on a new page that I recently created, using the new image editor - I will keep trying, but so far after repeated attempts, I have been unsuccessful. Perhaps I am doing something wrong? Is there any possible way to allow users to have the option of switching back to the old image editor, even if just for a period of time, say for the next six months, before phasing it out, at least to give them time to learn how to use the new image editor?

Nick link

1/24/2017 12:17:20 am

You're doing great job!

Please make available editing images in galleries and slides.

Web Designing company in kolkata // Kash Digital link

1/24/2017 04:34:54 am

Very Good editor. Now it's more easy to edit the mage. Great Job.

Pooja link

1/25/2017 03:00:48 am

Very well update Weebly! But I miss the old editor. In the new one we cannot add new image to the layer, which I think people won't like. Overall, it's great.

EverHealthy link

1/25/2017 09:48:13 am

I like the new image editor and the ability to customize photos similar to what we have with our smartphones. Do you also have the ability to set follow or no-follow for images?

St. Mark's link

1/26/2017 07:06:56 am

We need the ability to re-size images.

Tammy G link

1/27/2017 06:05:39 pm

I HATE the new editor. I cannot add an image to a header on a new page. Before this new editor, I was able to add multiple pictures of various sizes and pick a color for the background and be creative with the text in my header. Now I can't do anything. The images that I have tried to upload don't fit and it is very frustrating. I am a teacher and I really liked using Weebly because it was easy to use and very user friendly and looked nice to the students and parents. However, I don't like the changes. It is very difficult to use now and I am very upset because this means that I may have to switch to another website builder and start all over again. I don't have time for that.

munni link

2/5/2017 10:45:47 am

+1 Tammy , old editor is much better off.

Hypernight Is Mine link

1/27/2017 09:06:33 pm

Thanks for the new image editor. I especially like the ability to create different effects with filters, but I do miss the ability to add additional images to layer. Would be great if you could put that back in.

Kohevet link

1/29/2017 05:34:41 am

Finally, awesome work Weebly!

Mojo

1/29/2017 05:07:43 pm

Hey, thanks for making it so that I am no longer to edit the photo image on the header of my homepage! Whereas before I had simple, easy to use customizable features that allowed me to layer images and text however I wished, I am now stuck with a "cool, modern looking" inflexible and therefore utterly unusable editing tool that has now wasted over 30 minutes of my time with zero results (other than frustration) to show for my time. Can't even replace the old image with a new on because the resizing tool won't resize the new image to fit into the space I have.

Ever hear of beta testing an idea because I seriously doubt TPTB at Weebly received overwhelming requests to change something for the worse that wasn't broken before. If anything you should have kept the previous features and added to them. THAT would have been an improvement.

Anne link

1/30/2017 01:33:21 pm

Amazing

Rahul Yadav link

1/30/2017 11:55:18 pm

Ben

1/31/2017 09:35:59 pm

I'm sorry... It sucks. It sacrifices what was great about the old editor... being able to add multiple images and/or text to the logo. Revert back to the old one.

Dhirendra Goyal link

2/2/2017 09:04:14 am

Awesome! I would love to join the beta program.

I had started my journey back 4.5 yrs ago with Weebly and totally love it.

Hochzeitsfotograf link

2/5/2017 12:53:06 pm

It looks really cool, but as I think about it there's nothing about it one couldn't already on the phone before uploading the picture right?

MoniqueE

2/9/2017 05:24:51 pm

Sorry...hate it!! Bring back multiple images, overlaying, moving images around, etc...much of what has already been said. I especially cannot use the new header editor on my older sites where I guess the themes are not longer really supported (which I'm not going to change!). The old image editor for the headers was much better.

Jonny

2/9/2017 07:11:31 pm

Hi Weebly,
This new image is not upgrade it is downgrade. It will have been upgrade if you add more features to the old one. You removed the very basic useful features of editing images and replaced them with total different ones which is typical about Weebly.

Some of us will start leaving Weebly with this type of dongradings!!
Weebly please check your feedback on this and take it seriously as this is below belt.

2/9/2017 07:17:58 pm

This is a big failure...Weebly

Howard Stinson link

2/9/2017 09:40:14 pm

Great job weebly and team, the new editor works fine but when I upload my photos they are already pretty much what I need, but what does interest me is the fact that you have incorporated HTML5 "now this opens new possibilities.

So that brings me to the part about "what I would like to see next", I was thinking that now that we have HTML5 working for us that perhaps you could spice up the gallery with four great things that would make it a bit more informative and social at the same time.

1. It would be great if users could comment on our photos.

2. It would be great if users could click a like button on our photos, not Facebook likes but instead "weebly's own like button".

3. It would be great if we could see how many views our photos received.

4. And for the last but not as important as the other three above :-)
and that is to have EXIF photo information.

So what do you think weebly team?, does at least the top three sound implementable? :-)

Keep up the great work weebly team and thanks again :-)

lele link

2/13/2017 05:19:31 am

one of the greatest platform to make a website.

Mary link

2/16/2017 07:12:46 pm

Yawn.
How about the things we NEED? Fonts! Themes! Usability! CEO CEO CEO!!!! My business is practically DONE thanks to Weebly, but maybe if you listen to your customers more, you'll fix the probs so your future website building customers will flourish. I'm all the way down to maybe 1-2 orders per week...at most. Worst in 16 years!!

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