Diffraction | Image Editor 4+
Edit photos and images
Manfred Schubert
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- Free
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Description
Diffraction | Image Editor is currently free for a limited time. Don't miss out on the opportunity to access its powerful image editing tools at no cost and download now.
Diffraction is a great image editor made for macOS.
Import your photos from many popular formats like JPEG or HEIC, edit them with Diffraction’s powerful tools or create compositions with layers and masks. Adjust colors of your photos with adjustment layers without losing any of the original image quality. Diffraction can export your results in standard formats to share them with others. You can even import and export PSD documents with layers.
The powerful image editing tools available allow you to:
- Crops, resize, scale and rotate images.
- Paint using the brush and pencil tools.
- Mask parts of an image with rectangular and elliptical masks, or the lasso, magic wand or quick mask tool.
- Fill with color or gradients.
- Retouch photos with dodge and burn.
- Repair defects with the clone stamp or spot removal tools, or modify object shapes with the smudge tool.
And more.
You can adjust the colors of your photos with 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
- Shadows and highlight recovery.
Diffraction can even automatically correct the colors of your photos.
Diffraction also comes with several image filters to:
- Blur or distort the image.
- Add or reduce noise.
- Sharpen the image.
- Reduce red eye and soften skin.
And more.
What’s New
Version 2.2.1
- Fixes a problem with opening large images on devices with M-series processors.
- Fixes a problem with creating Curves presets.
- Fixes a problem that could lead to a crash when using the Crop tool.
Ratings and Reviews
Just amazing
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
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
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.
App Privacy
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.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Manfred Schubert
- Size
- 51.4 MB
- Category
- Photo & Video
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020-2024 Manfred Schubert
- Price
- Free