Photo Editor Pro is a native Mac raster editor: pixel layers with blend modes, masks and groups; pixel selections; painting, adjustments and filters; Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, Lab and Multichannel documents at 8 or 16 bits per channel. It saves a layered TIFF every other app can still open flat.
Photo Editor Pro works the way a photo editor has to. A document has fixed pixel dimensions at a set resolution, a colour mode and a stack of layers; the selection is an 8-bit mask, so a feathered edge really is a partial-density edge and every tool respects it. Vectors have not gone anywhere — the pen, the paths and placed SVG artwork all live inside a layer — but the document itself is pixels.
Underneath, the compositor is Skia on Metal: layers are cached one by one and flushed by dirty tile, so the picture on screen is the picture the file gets. The colour and imaging kernels live in a portable C core below the interface, which is why the preview you drag and the pixels you commit are the same arithmetic.
The native document format is TIFF: any viewer sees the flattened picture, Photoshop finds the layers in tag 37724, and the app itself reads back the whole stack — layer names, masks, blend modes, groups, guides, paths, smart-object sources and 16-bit data. PSD is read and written too, with groups, masks, blend keys and 16-bit channels.
Formats and saving →Every card below is a section of the feature guide.
Groups, layer masks, vector masks, sixteen blend modes, opacity, and non-destructive drop shadow, outer glow and stroke.
Learn more →Marquee, lasso, magic wand, Grow, Similar, Feather, Fringe, Quick Mask and selections stored as alpha channels.
Learn more →Brush, pencil, airbrush, eraser, rubber stamp, smudge, blur and sharpen over a real brush engine, with a Brushes palette.
Learn more →Levels, Curves, Hue/Saturation, Colour Balance, Brightness/Contrast, Threshold, Posterize, Equalize, Invert and Arbitrary Map.
Learn more →Non-destructive control layers, including Colour Lookup from a .cube or .3dl file, colour wheels and HSL curves.
Learn more →Twenty-one filters with their original parameters — Gaussian Blur, Unsharp Mask, Median, Add Noise, Mosaic, Custom kernels and more.
Learn more →Bitmap, Grayscale, Indexed, RGB, CMYK, Lab and Multichannel, 8 or 16 bits, with channels, ICC conversion and printing.
Learn more →The pen stays: work paths, vector masks, and SVG, .ai or PDF placed as smart objects you edit in SVG Editor.
Learn more →The in-app chat, plus twenty-three pe_* MCP tools so an assistant drives the pixel document itself.
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 →
Photo Editor Pro is built on the Skia and Metal engine of SVG Editor, which is why placing an SVG, .ai or PDF gives you a live smart object rather than a flat import — and why Layer ▸ Smart Objects ▸ Edit Contents can hand the artwork to SVG Editor, watch the file and take your change straight back into the picture.
Version 26.0, the first public build. Direct download only — signed by RainbowFactory LTD, notarised by Apple, and it keeps itself up to date.
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.