App: Diffraction | Image Editor
Developer: Manfred Schubert
Genres: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design

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.

Release notes:
Minor improvements and bug fixes.