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Editing images in Air

Learn to edit images in Air. Use Edit Mode to quickly crop, flip, and rotate your assets.

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Written by Lauren Ford
Updated over a week ago

Who can edit images on Air?


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✏️ Anyone with edit access to the workspace can use crop, flip + rotate functions on Air

Edit Mode lets you make quick, high-quality edits to images directly inside Air. You can now crop, flip, and rotate assets right where they live, helping your team move from raw file to campaign-ready faster than ever.

To begin making changes to an image:

  1. Open the image in your Air workspace (asset details view)

  2. Select the Edit icon in the bottom toolbar

Cropping an image

The crop tool allows you to trim or resize an image using presets or custom dimensions, perfect for reframing a photo for social media or your website.

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  1. Select the Crop tool in the Edit Mode menu to expand the options

  2. Set your image crop dimensions

    • Select from a list of size presets for common platforms like Instagram and YouTube

    • Input custom dimensions

    • Select from standard aspect ratio options (1:1, 4:3, 16:9)

    • Manually adjust the crop area by dragging the corners and edges of the selection on the image itself

  3. Once you have finalized your selection, select Apply crop to see the result.

Flipping and rotating an image

The flip and rotate tool helps you adjust an image's orientation for layout consistency.

  1. Select Flip and rotate in the right-hand menu to see the available transformations.

    • Rotate the image left in 90-degree increments

    • Rotate the image right in 90-degree increments

    • Flip horizontally

    • Flip vertically

  2. Select Apply transform to update the image preview with your changes.

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Saving or discarding your edits

After applying your edits, you can choose to save them as a new version or a new asset, or you can discard them entirely.

To save your work:

  1. Select the Save edits button in the top-right corner

  2. Choose to either Create new asset or Save as new version. Saving as a new version will stack the edited image on top of the original.

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To discard your changes:

  1. Select the Cancel button. A confirmation window will appear to ensure you don't lose your work accidentally.

  2. Select Discard change to revert the image to its original state and exit Edit Mode.

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