Edit your photos with dashed lines - Photo effect with white lines

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Many are wondering if you get it done manually line by line or there will be a simpler, automatic way. There is good news and bad news: the bad news is that at the moment in most free photo editing apps there is no automatic way to do it.

But the good news is that the manual way of doing this is quite simple and allows more freedom when designing this scheme.

What is Picsart?

Picsart is a photographic application aimed at all audiences and best of all, it's compatible with all devices, so you won't have any problems downloading. The size may vary by device, just like the current version.



To use it, your device must be an Android. With it you can edit your photos almost like a pro, as in addition to the dashed lines effect option, it also has many other effects. If you are an amateur of photography you will be enchanted.

Do I need to download the app to edit my dotted line photos?

No, it's not necessary download this application, it can be used online from its official website. However, this option should not be missing on your mobile to be able to edit your photos and videos so that you will be able to make your photo editing dream come true. Whether we download it or not, the only thing really required is to open an account.

It is easily obtained by searching for it in the Play Store. We press the installation button and wait for the download process to complete. Finally, when it has reached 100%, click on «Open», to make sure that the application has been installed correctly.


How to edit my photos with dashed lines?

Entering the application, after logging in or opening our account, the home page will be displayed. Where to start editing, the first thing we need to do is to press the pink button with a plus symbol which is shown in the central part of the bar at the bottom of the screen.


This will bring up a small option menu with four buttons to choose from: Edit, Collage, Draw and Camera.

Click on the «Edit» option to choose a photo from our gallery and start editing it. The first time we do it, it will ask us for permissions to access our gallery, this is necessary to choose the photo of our device that we want to modify, then click «Accept».

When chooses the photo to edit, said photo and an options menu in the bottom bar will be displayed on the screen, where there will be a large number of options to edit the photo. Among these options is to create a blurred background image effect.

Among these we press ¨Draw¨ (in English) or ¨Draw¨. While there we select the brush, which is the second icon shown in the bottom bar. Again a small window will open in which the brush settings will be displayed.


There we can modify characteristics such as thickness, opacity and sharpness of the strokes. To save the changes, click the check mark (✅).

The first icon in the options menu is a colored box. Let's click on it to choose the tone we want for the dotted lines. To zoom in or out of the image we edit, we need to touch and move two fingers on the screen.

And to undo any changes, click the arrows in the top bar. And so we begin, stretch after stretch until we get the result we want.


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