PhotoSmith - Photo &PSD Editor
Layers, Masks, Cutouts & Type
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
PhotoSmith is a native layered image editor for the Mac. Retouch photos, cut out subjects, and design posters with the familiar toolbox, Layers panel and shortcuts you already know. The canvas and layer compositing run on the GPU, so even large images zoom and pan smoothly.
LAYERS YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE
• Groups, clipping masks, layer masks, 27 blend modes, fill opacity, knockout and locks
• 10 layer styles: Drop Shadow, Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, Bevel and Emboss, Satin, Stroke, and Color, Gradient and Pattern Overlay
• 19 kinds of adjustment layers plus fill layers, editable at any time without touching the original
• Smart objects and smart filters: hide or remove each filter on its own
• Color labels, layer filtering and layer comps keep complex files organized
CUTOUTS IN ONE CLICK
• Select Subject finds people, pets and objects; iPhone portrait photos bring their own portrait matte
• Select and Mask refines edges, down to strands of hair
• Marquee, Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, Quick Selection, Object Selection, Quick Mask and alpha channels
RETOUCH AND PAINT
• Healing Brush, Clone Stamp and Content-Aware Fill remove what doesn't belong
• Liquify and Puppet Warp; Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Blur, Sharpen and Smudge
• Brushes with tablet pressure and tilt, adjustable smoothing, presets, texture and dual brush
• History Brush, Mixer Brush, Color Replacement, Gradient and Paint Bucket
COLOR WITH PRECISION
• Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Color Balance, Exposure, Vibrance and more, with a live histogram
• 100+ filters: blur, sharpen, distort, noise, pixelate, stylize and more, computed in the background and cancelable
• 16 bits per channel editing; sRGB and Display P3 color management
• CMYK and grayscale modes with soft proofing and gamut warning, ready for print
TYPE AND DESIGN
• Point, paragraph, path and area type (text inside any closed shape)
• 15 text warps plus type on a circle for badges and seals
• Text stroke and gradient fill; text stays editable after scaling and rotating
• Chinese typesetting: vertical text, punctuation compression, tate-chu-yoko and line-breaking rules
• Pen (standard, freeform, magnetic), shape layers and vector masks
• Recognize text in an image and replace it at the same position and size
PSD AND EVERYDAY FORMATS
• PSD read and write: groups, masks, clipping, layer styles, and editable type, shape and adjustment layers
• Opens PNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP, AVIF, GIF, PDF, SVG and camera RAW (with a develop panel)
• Export with format, quality and size settings and a file size preview; animated GIF
• Autosave and crash recovery
WORK FASTER
• Command palette: type a name to run any menu command
• Actions and batch processing, .cube LUT export
• Custom keyboard shortcuts, document tabs and multiple windows
PRIVACY
Everything is processed on your Mac. PhotoSmith works offline, collects no data and needs no account.
English and Simplified Chinese interface, with a complete user guide (Help → User Guide). Requires macOS 14 or later and a Mac with Metal.
From touching up travel photos and swapping backgrounds to making event posters or picking up a PSD where a colleague left off, PhotoSmith is a photo editor that feels at home on your Mac.
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Information
- Seller
- 意 田
- Size
- 6.3 MB
- Category
- Graphics & Design
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Mac
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, French, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © TY 2026