If you run a business, have a website, or use social media at all – so, in other words, just about everyone – you probably have to work with images from time to time. And you don’t have to be trained in Photoshop to be able to make some basic touch-ups and corrections to your photos. Free photo-editing tools have come a long way in the past few years, and today we’d like to show you how to use Photoscape, one of the most popular of these programs.

Let me say right off the bat that if you have a lot of previous photo-editing experience, or if you are looking for a free version of Photoshop, this is not it. Photoscape does not support layers, meaning you can’t selectively edit just one part of your photo such as an object or the background. For a more robust program with features that will appeal to graphic designers, we’ve heard good things about GIMP – though I haven’t tried it personally.

Photoscape does, however, have plenty of useful features that you can use to take your images from mediocre to eye-catching, even if you are a beginner. Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can use this program.

Basic Photo Editing-Once you open the Editor tool, simply navigate to the photo you wish to edit using the sidebar. The Home tab at the bottom hosts your basic editing functions. From here you can adjust color and brightness, apply filters, or change your photo to sepia or grayscale. You can also utilize simple one-click corrections like Auto Contrast and Auto Level.