The single-purpose tools — resize, crop, compress, and the rest — are built for doing one specific job fast. The full editor is for everything else: the moment you need to combine several changes, add text or shapes, or just work on an image freeform instead of through a fixed set of options.
A real canvas, not a fixed pipeline
Unlike the single-purpose tools, the editor gives you a genuine canvas — add, move, resize, and layer elements freely instead of working through a linear set of steps. It's the right tool when you're designing something, not just transforming an existing photo.
Text and shapes
Add text directly onto an image — captions, labels, callouts — with full control over font, size, color, and position. Basic shapes let you annotate, highlight, or build simple graphics directly on top of a photo.
When to use the editor vs. a single-purpose tool
If your task is "make this smaller" or "convert this to WebP," the dedicated tool is faster — it's built around exactly that one job. Reach for the full editor when you're combining several changes in one session, adding original content like text or shapes, or when the task doesn't map cleanly onto any single tool.
Everything else still applies
Once you're happy with an edit, the same output controls from the other tools are available — format, quality, and download. The editor isn't a separate system from the rest of pixpoo, just a more open-ended way of getting to the same kind of result.