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Photographs, in layers

Open a photograph, stack your changes in layers, mask what you don't want touched — and change your mind next week, because every layer is still there. Photo Editor Pro saves a layered TIFF: Photoshop opens the layers, every other app opens the picture.

Direct download: version 26.0 beta · 34 MB · .dmg · signed & notarizedmacOS 14.6 or later · Apple siliconNative format: layered TIFF
Photo Editor Pro with a mountain photograph open: HSL Curves adjustment layer, Color Wheels palette and the Layers palette
LayersBuild the image in steps you can always undo: layers, groups, masks and adjustment layers.
SelectionsPick exactly what you mean — a face, a sky, a soft-edged shape — and work only there.
PaintingBrushes, pencils, erasers, stamps and gradients that behave like real tools.
AdjustRescue exposure and colour with Levels, Curves and a shelf of filters.
ColourFrom a web picture to a print-ready file, with a real print dialog at the end.
Made for photographs

It treats a photo like a photo.

A picture has a real size and real edges, and the app respects both. Select a face with a soft edge and the softness is real: every brush, every adjustment fades out exactly where your selection does. Need clean lines on top — a logo, a path, some placed artwork? They sit in their own layer, sharp at any size, right inside the picture.

And what you see is what you save: the image on screen and the file on disk are the same picture, always.

The file you end up with

A layered TIFF that every other app can still open.

Save, and you get one file that does everything: any viewer shows the finished picture, Photoshop opens it with the layers, and Photo Editor Pro brings back the whole stack — names, masks, groups and guides. PSD works too, in both directions.

Formats and saving →
OpensTIFF, PSD, PNG, JPEG, HEIC, GIF, BMP, WebP, AVIF, JPEG XL and OpenEXR; SVG, PDF, .ai and EPS come in placed or rasterised.
SavesBack into the format it came from — a PNG stays a PNG — while TIFF and PSD keep the layers.
HistoricalFile ▸ Open As… reads PICT, IFF, MacPaint, PixelPaint, Pixar, Scitex CT, Targa, ThunderScan, GIF and raw.
UndoOne History palette for the whole document; cold steps spill to disk so a long session does not run out of memory.

Everything at a glance

Every card below is a section of the feature guide.

Layers and masks

Groups, layer masks, vector masks, sixteen blend modes, opacity, and non-destructive drop shadow, outer glow and stroke.

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Pixel selections

Marquee, lasso, magic wand, Grow, Similar, Feather, Fringe, Quick Mask and selections stored as alpha channels.

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Painting

Brush, pencil, airbrush, eraser, rubber stamp, smudge, blur and sharpen over a real brush engine, with a Brushes palette.

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Adjustments

Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Colour Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Threshold, Posterize, Equalize, Invert and Arbitrary Map.

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Adjustment layers

Non-destructive control layers, including Colour Lookup from a .cube or .3dl file, colour wheels and HSL curves.

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Filters

Twenty-one filters with their original parameters — Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Median, Add Noise, Mosaic, Custom kernels and more.

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Colour modes

Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, Lab and Multichannel, 8 or 16 bits, with channels, ICC conversion and printing.

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Paths and smart objects

The pen stays: work paths, vector masks, and SVG, .ai or PDF placed as smart objects you edit in SVG Editor.

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AI Console and MCP

Ask for changes in plain language, in the app — or let your own assistant do the editing for you.

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The menu bar

The menus a photo editor is supposed to have.

File, Edit, Mode, Image, Layer, Select and Filter sit where your hands expect them, with the Photoshop keyboard chords. The vector menus of the editor this app grew out of are still there, and validate to disabled while a picture is in front.

The workspace →
The Photo Editor Pro application icon: a paintbrush drawn across a photograph of blue mountains
Palettes

Floating palettes, one per job.

  • Layers with thumbnails, mask thumbnails, groups, drag reordering and the blend and opacity header.
  • Channels: composite, one row per colour channel, alpha channels and the active layer mask.
  • History, Histogram, Info, Navigator, Brushes, Colour, Swatches and Paths.
  • An Options bar that changes with the tool, and remembers each tool's settings.

Palettes and tools →

Built on the suite

The same engine as SVG Editor.

Drop an SVG, .ai or PDF into a photo and it stays a live object, not a flattened copy: double-click it, fix the artwork in SVG Editor, and the change lands back in your picture by itself.

SVG Editor →

Get the Photo Editor Pro beta

Version 26.0, the first public build. Direct download only — signed by RainbowFactory LTD, notarised by Apple, and it keeps itself up to date.

26.0 beta · 34 MB · .dmg · signed & notarizedmacOS 14.6 or later · Apple siliconUpdate feed (appcast)

This is the first public build, and it is a beta: work on copies of your pictures and tell us what breaks — Join us on Discord, or Help ▸ Send Feedback… inside the app. What it already does — and what it does not do yet — is on the features page.