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Insert a picture

Click the photo button in the page toolbar and choose an image. It's embedded inside the page file (as data, not a separate sidecar), placed and sized on the sheet. Move and resize it like any other element.

Trace to sketch

Turn a photo into a hand-drawn line drawing:

  1. Select an image (click it).
  2. In the floating action bar, press Trace.

Brainstorm runs a native edge-detection pipeline (blur, edge finding, contour tracing, and smoothing) and lays hand-drawn strokes over the image, inked to match the page. The original image stays underneath, so you can delete it if you only want the sketch.

Tip: high-contrast subjects with clear outlines (logos, objects on a plain background, simple photos) trace best. Busy or low-contrast photos are inherently harder to trace cleanly.

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