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Diffraction is a comprehensive image editor designed specifically for macOS. Whether you’re a professional photographer or an enthusiastic hobbyist, Diffraction offers robust tools to enhance and create stunning images.
Import your photos from various popular formats, including JPEG and HEIC, with support for PSD documents with layers and styles, allowing seamless import and export. Easily adjust your images with advanced editing tools, including crop, resize, scale, and rotate functions. Utilize the brush and pencil tools for detailed artwork, and use rectangular, elliptical masks, the lasso, magic wand, or quick mask tools to isolate parts of your image. Fill areas with solid colors or gradients, enhance your photos with dodge and burn tools, fix defects with the clone stamp or spot removal tools, and alter object shapes with the smudge tool.
Modify colors without losing original image quality using adjustment layers, and explore color filters for brightness and contrast, color levels, color curves, exposure and gamma, vibrance, hue and saturation, color balance, black & white conversion, channel mixing, posterization, selective color correction, and shadows and highlights recovery. Diffraction can even automatically adjust colors for the best results.
Enhance image quality with filters to blur, distort, and sharpen images, add or reduce noise, reduce red-eye, and soften skin. Create complex compositions using layers and masks, and export your results in standard formats to easily share your creations.
Diffraction utilizes artificial intelligence to make image editing even easier. Its intelligent repair capabilities when filling and in the Spot Removal tool can plausibly repair large image areas, so you can effortlessly repair image defects, remove dust and blemishes, or remove unwanted objects or persons. Masking with Diffraction is easy too. The Subject Mask tool can create detailed selections from objects using AI, and Diffraction can automatically create precise selections of people.
Explore the full potential of your photos with Diffraction’s powerful and intuitive tools, making image editing a seamless and enjoyable experience.
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Just what I’ve been looking for !
macbyers
I retired recently and no longer have access to most of the software I used at work. I’ve been looking for a good image editor and found Diffraction on the App Store and decided to give it a try. It has a different (ie. more logical) interface which was a plus for me because my use of Photoshop was fairly limited. I opened up a psd file with Diffraction and within a few minutes I was able to figure out most of the controls. Trying to “learn” Photoshop at work was an exercise in frustration since I didn’t use it enough to really understand it. For the price (free when I downloaded it) you get a solid image editor with no monthly fees and logical controls. If you can’t find your old way of doing something, take a deep breath and take advantage of the “hover hints” you get when you hover your cursor over a control. If the text tool is important to you, Diffraction does not have one. I emailed the developer to ask about it and they responded in 24 hours to let me know that they were working on it for a future update. Two thumbs way, way up for such a fast response!
Just amazing
Anoplius
I'm a professional photographer and art director, for over 35 years, and I mainly use a PC with most of the photo editing tools out there, such as Photoshop, Lightroom, Tiffen Filters, Topaz Labs, OneSoft Software and so forth. I have lots of tools. I don't use my MacBook for my professional work, it's for travel. So, I wanted a good and simple to use Mac tool that would give me the basic photo editing tools I might use on a jpg image while on the go. I was blown away that this software has just about anything I need to adjust a photo to a professional level, tools that I'm used to only seeing in the expensive high end software. Wow. If I wanted to, I could use this to do adjustments to a client's photograph without using my desktop PC workstation. I haven't checked if it will import RAW images, I assume not, but for jpg editing, it does everything I need. It's always so impressive to see individual developers who understand the tools and can develop them on their own, outside of a big company like Adobe. Great work!
Impressed
Nuny@Bidness
Ever since upgrading to a newer mac with a newer OS, my stand alone photo editor became obsolete. I don't believe in the subscription model many sofware companies are using and wanted another stand alone program. I spent over a week searching for a replacement and just found it. Diffraction's toolset is well rounded and it took very little time to become acquainted with it. The half dozen editors I downloaded and tried just don't measure up to Diffraction! Well Done!
updated review
Zz-ta
I've received a response from the developer since my frustrated 1 star review. The developer has resolved the confusion concerning the default saved immage extension. It appears the immage has to be exported in order for a different extension to be saved as. This resolved my issue and frustration. I am able to now say that this is an app that is worth a five star review for it's free editing capabilities and ease of use. I'm a user of PS5 and Diffraction does well in comparison.
Developer Response
You can use the menu command File->Export to export images as Adobe Photoshop, HEIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, Windows BMP, or PDF document.
• Updated application icon.
Version 2.4.5
The developer, Manfred Schubert, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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