DOCSending
Edit a picture before sending
Crop, rotate, adjust colours or burn in a caption without leaving Open Signal — the staged preview rebuilds so you always see exactly what will transmit.
Every staged picture has an Edit… button (in the ready-to-transmit strip and on the Transmit screen). It opens a small editor so you can fix a picture without leaving the app.
What you can do
- Crop — drag a box over the part you want.
- Rotate / flip — for the phone photo that came in sideways.
- Colours — brightness, contrast, saturation adjustments.
- Caption — burn a line of text into the picture itself.
Apply, and the staged preview rebuilds — what you see is what transmits, including the callsign stamp on top. The cost line updates too, since a crop changes the encoded size.
Notes
- Editing re-encodes the picture, so an animated GIF becomes a still if you edit it — leave GIFs unedited to keep the animation.
- The edit applies to this staged send; the original file on disk is never touched.
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