And just like images are organized in layers, in Textoshop, “text layers” do not simply overlay text but also cause a reflow of the whole document. This makes them powerful to organize the text and manage different versions. 👇
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Just like shapes can be combined using boolean operations, in Textoshop, two passages of text can be “united” to merge ideas, “intersected” to keep common ideas, “subtracted” to remove ideas, or “excluded” to keep unshared ideas. 👇
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But this analogy goes beyond tools and also extends to workflows. Just like only what is on the canvas is part of the final image, in Textoshop, text can be moved so that the margin becomes an experimentation zone that can also store text for inspiration or future use. 👇
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Just like colours are explored in a colour wheel, in Textoshop, tones are explored in a tone picker which offers a 3D space to browse thousands of tone variations for a single passage of text. 👇
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Just like intelligent tools transform and enhance the image, in Textoshop, intelligent tools help modify the text. For example, you can smudge the text to paraphrase it, repair to fix the grammar, or copy the tone of a passage using a tone picker. 👇
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Just like you can resize and rotate shapes by manipulating their corners, in Textoshop, you can resize a text selection to lengthen or shorten a passage. Or, you can rotate the passage to change the order of the words and the structure of the sentence. 👇
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Photoshop for text. In our #CHI2025 paper “Textoshop”, we explore how interactions inspired by drawing software can help edit text. We consider words as pixels, sentences as regions, and tones as colours. #HCI #NLProc #LLMs #AI Thread 🧵
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