Cut

A cut keeps part of a picture, a clip or a group and clears the rest. Select it, open its Border menu and pick a card in the Shape section, and its Recipe — named after the cut's shape — holds the settings listed below: what the cut keeps by, that source's settings, the shape's outline, then its edge and which side it keeps. Hover a row of the Recipe, or hold a finger still on it, and it shows what that setting does — the sentence this page lists for it — with Learn more leading to its section here; the value does not change.

Cut by Shape, the shape's own settings follow: Round where it has corners; on the star, plus, clover and the polygons Points, Tip (Point, Flat or Round), Waist and Turn; on the triangle, square, trapezoid, skew and banner its Edges — Top width, Top center, Top notch, Base width, Base center and Base notch; on the circle Squareness; and on the arrow and the curved shapes the settings their rings drag.

A cut by a colour or a brightness keeps what matches a key; the key's settings are the same as a visual effect's colour key, listed on the visual effect page under its Region.

Where you can use a cut

• Image — Image · 3D · Groups
• Video — Video · Image · 3D · Groups
• Document — Image · 3D · Groups

What you can do with a cut you made

You can keep a cut you have shaped, share it, or put it on another item:

Star · Post · Copy

Cut shape

• Cut by — What decides which of the picture is kept: the shape, a fade across it, a colour or a brightness.
  • Shape · Fade · Color · Brightness
• Fade by — Which way a fade runs across the picture: out from its middle, or round it like a clock hand.
  • Radius · Angle
• Window — Where along the fade the picture is kept, and how gently it fades away on either side.
• Round — How round the cut’s corners are, from sharp to as round as they go.
• Points — How many points or sides the cut’s shape has.
• Waist — How far the cut dips in between its points: deep for a spiky star, shallow for a fuller one.
• Tip — What each point of the cut ends in: a sharp point, a flat bar or a round lobe.
  • Point · Flat · Round
• Turn — Which way the cut’s points face, turned clockwise from straight up.
• Top width — How wide the cut’s top edge is, as a share of the picture’s width.
• Top center — Where the cut’s top edge sits across the picture, from its left side to its right.
• Top notch — A V in the middle of the cut’s top edge: cut further into the picture, or pushed out to a point.
• Base width — How wide the cut’s bottom edge is, as a share of the picture’s width.
• Base center — Where the cut’s bottom edge sits across the picture, from its left side to its right.
• Base notch — A V in the middle of the cut’s bottom edge: cut further into the picture, or pushed out to a point.
• Head length — How long the arrow cut’s head is, up to half the arrow.
• Shaft width — How thick the arrow cut’s shaft is behind its head.
• Squareness — How square the rounded cut is, from an ellipse toward a box.
• Band width — How thick the sign-shaped cut’s ring and its bar are.
• Thickness — How thick the crescent cut is, from a thin sliver to almost a whole disc.
• Notch depth — How far apart the heart cut’s two lobes sit, which sets how deep the dip between them is.
• Height — How the dome-shaped cut rises: lifted on straight sides, a half circle, or narrowing to a point.
• Point length — How far the teardrop cut’s point reaches past its round head.
• Feather — How softly the cut’s edge fades out, from a crisp line to a wide soft border.
• Edge grow — Moves the cut’s edge outward to keep more of the picture, or inward to keep less.
• Mode — Which side of the cut is kept: the picture inside the shape, or the picture around a see-through opening.
  • Cut out · Frame