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If you photograph flat art, sketches, or documents with your phone or camera, small problems often show up in the file: skewed edges, extra background, harsh shadows, yellow indoor light, or uneven exposure. Create Spot includes an image editor so you can correct many of these issues before the piece is what viewers see on your portfolio.

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When to use it

The editor is meant for image-based submissions where the photo itself needs refinement—not for replacing your art with something new. Good fits include:
  • Straightening and cropping out desks, mats, or background
  • Rotating when the camera was slightly off-axis
  • Reducing uneven lighting, cast shadows, or a warm/yellow color cast on paper or canvas
  • Gently improving readability of a document or detailed drawing photo while keeping texture and detail

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How to open the editor

  1. Go to your portfolio and open a submission for Edit (you must already have an image on that piece).
  2. On the image preview, tap the Cleanup image control (image icon) in the corner overlay next to focal point and remove image.
The editor only appears when you are editing an existing submission that has an image—not when you are creating a brand-new item without a saved submission yet.

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Tools in the editor

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Crop

  • Enter crop mode, drag and resize the crop area, then apply to commit or cancel to leave crop mode without changing the crop.
  • Cropping runs before rotation when you save, matching how the preview is built.

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Rotate

Use rotate left and rotate right in 90° steps to fix orientation. The live preview shows rotation; combined with crop, you can frame the artwork cleanly.

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Alignment grid

Toggle the grid overlay to line up edges of your artwork with horizontal and vertical guides—helpful for subtle skew from camera angle.

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Auto-fix

Auto-fix runs an automatic restoration pass on the current image (powered by AI). It is tuned for photographed artwork and documents: it aims to even out lighting, soften unwanted shadows, reduce yellow/amber cast, and improve exposure and contrast lightly, while keeping paper or canvas texture, brush strokes, and fine detail. It does not crop, rotate, or add new content, text, or borders.
Auto-fix can take up to a minute depending on image size and load. It needs a working network connection. If it fails, try again; you can always use reset and crop/rotate only.

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Reset

Reset discards crop, rotation, and any auto-fix result loaded in the current session, and returns you to the last saved image on the submission.

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Save

Save uploads the edited image and replaces the submission’s main image. Until you save, changes exist only in the editor session.

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Typical workflow

  1. Auto-fix first if lighting or color is the main problem, or start with crop / rotate if framing is wrong.
  2. Use the grid to double-check alignment.
  3. Save when you are happy. If something still looks off, open the editor again—you can iterate.