Prefer Photoshop's layout? Switch to it.

Piclash starts out Canva-simple: panels on the left, a toolbar that follows what you select, and pro tools one search away. If your hands already know Photoshop, you don’t have to relearn anything. Switch to the Photoshop-style workspace and the editor rearranges itself:

• One tool column on the left, in Photoshop’s order, with corner flyouts for tool groups.
• An options bar across the top for the active tool: brush size and hardness, healing source and alignment, selection mode, feather and tolerance, liquify settings.
• A dock on the right with Add an adjustment (adjustment layers) above Layers, Properties and History.
• A status bar with zoom, the page and a hint for the current tool.
• A dark pasteboard around the page, so the image stands out.

What’s in the toolbox

Selections (marquee, lasso, polygonal lasso, magic wand, select subject, colour range, quick mask), crop and perspective crop, eyedropper, spot healing, healing brush, patch, red-eye, brush and eraser, clone stamp, gradient and paint bucket, dodge, burn and sponge, blur, sharpen and smudge, text, shapes and pen. Warps (mesh, puppet, envelope and liquify) and layer styles such as stroke, bevel and inner glow are in the same editor.

Why not just use Photoshop?

If you edit photos all day, Photoshop is still the deeper tool. Piclash is for when you want those tools without an install or a subscription, when you’re starting from a Canva design, or when you need a quick, careful edit on someone else’s computer. See the Photoshop alternative comparison for an honest side-by-side.