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Photo Studio.
Edit without limits.

Layers and groups, masks, smart objects, content-aware fill, layer styles, the Pen tool and 31 filters, in a native app that opens in an instant and works offline.

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Photo Studio editing Turner's The Fighting Temeraire: a Twirl filter previewing inside an elliptical selection, a grouped type layer with layer styles, rulers, and the Layers panel

The Fighting Temeraire, J. M. W. Turner, 1839. Public domain.

51tools
27blend modes
16adjustments
31filters
16file formats

Non-destructive

Edit without regret.

Stack Curves, Levels, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Black & White, Gradient Map and ten more as live adjustment layers. Mask them, reorder them, switch them off. Your original pixels never change.

Light theme with Hubble's Pillars of Creation, a grouped type layer, a shape layer and a Curves adjustment layer

Live preview

See it before you commit.

Every filter and adjustment previews right on the canvas, limited to your selection. On a smart object, filters stay live: toggle, tweak or remove them any time.

Pillars of Creation open in Photo Studio's dark theme with a group, a type layer and a Curves adjustment

Ten layer styles

Styles that sell the shot.

Bevel & Emboss, Satin, Stroke, inner and outer shadows and glows, and color, gradient and pattern overlays, live on any layer, including type.

A type layer with Bevel & Emboss and a sunset Gradient Overlay over The Fighting Temeraire
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Selections that think

Object Selection, Select Subject, Quick Selection, magic wand, Color Range, lassos and marquees. Quick Mask and saved selections.

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Groups & smart objects

Nest layers in pass-through or isolated groups. Smart objects scale without loss and keep their filters editable.

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Paint & retouch

Brush presets with scatter, jitter and smoothing. Clone, pattern and history brushes, healing, red eye, dodge and burn.

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Pen, type & shapes

Bézier paths become selections, fills, strokes or shape layers. Horizontal and vertical type with bundled fonts.

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Open format support

PSD with groups, OpenRaster for Krita and GIMP, SVG, EXR, plus PNG, JPEG, WebP, TIFF and more.

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Content-aware

Paint over anything with Remove, patch blemishes, move objects and let the gap fill itself.

Familiar by design

The tools you already know.

Shortcuts where your hands expect them: V, M, L, W, C, I, J, B, S, E, G, T, P, U, H, Z, plus ⌘J, ⌘G, ⌘T and ⇧⌘I. Rulers, guides and snapping keep everything lined up.

Rulers, guides and the grid over The Fighting Temeraire

⌘F

Every command, one keystroke away.

The command palette searches every menu item, adjustment and filter. Type a few letters and press Return.

The command palette listing blur filters

For automation

A command line, too.

The same engine runs headless. Batch-resize a folder, auto-tone a shoot or sharpen for the web in one line.

$ photo-studio-cli photo.jpg --adjust autotone --filter unsharp=80,1.5 -o out.jpg
$ photo-studio-cli batch ./shoot --out-dir ./web --format webp --resize 1600
✓ IMG_0412.jpg → web/IMG_0412.webp
✓ IMG_0413.jpg → web/IMG_0413.webp
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