Schubert|it – Diffraction | Image Editor for macOS

Window of the Diffraction image and photo editor.

macOS Dock with the Diffraction application shown running.

Diffraction is a comprehensive image editor designed specifically for macOS and tailored to the needs and mindset of creative creators. Whether you’re a professional photographer or an enthusiastic hobbyist, Diffraction offers robust tools to enhance and create stunning images. With Diffraction, you can color correct and retouch your photos, make creative compositions with layers and masks, or create your own images from scratch using its powerful brush tools, which include dozens of realistic and fun brushes.

Layers and Masks

Create intricate compositions with ease using layers and layer masks. Diffraction’s adjustment layers enable you to losslessly color correct your images, ensuring every edit is non-destructive and reversible.

Diffraction documents support multiple pages, making it effortless to work with file formats that accommodate multiple images in a single file – such as TIFF.

Retouch

Diffraction harnesses advanced artificial intelligence to repair images, so you can effortlessly remove dust, blemishes, unwanted objects or persons.

Effect Filters

Transform your images with a variety of effect filters. Sharpen or blur your photos, add creative distortion effects, or apply halftone patterns to give your images a comic or newspaper print look. For an artistic touch, use the pointillize filter to make your photos appear painterly.

Diffraction offers a range of filters to suit every creative need.

Powerful Editing Tools

Diffraction’s editing tools make it easy to crop and resize images, paint or erase with precision, and draw gradients. Enhance your photos with retouching tools like dodge & burn, clone stamp, and spot removal, giving you the flexibility to perfect every detail.

AI Masking Tools

With just one click, Diffraction will automatically create highly accurate selection masks of people¹ or objects.

¹ requires macOS 12 Monterey or later

Selection Mask around a jumping Ballerina.

Bokeh for any Lens

The innovative Depth of Field filter harnesses the depth information stored in your iPhone photos or uses AI to analyze any image, allowing you to create a creamy background bokeh effect. All of this is possible without the need for an expensive wide-aperture lens.

New!

2.4

Design With Patterns

Create stunning designs with more than 30 built-in high quality patterns.

Or define your own.

Portrait of young woman before skin retouching.

Portrait of young woman with soft skin after skin retouching.

One-click Skin Retouching

With Diffraction the perfect skin retouch is just one click away. The Soften Skin filter does all the work four you automatically, without the need for masking or cloning.

Extensive support for PSD documents

Document icon for the Diffraction image and photo editor for macOS.

Diffraction ensures you are not locked into a proprietary file format. With extensive support for the PSD format, you can import and export PSD documents with layers, layer effects, adjustment layers, and masks. This allows you to share your work seamlessly with others who use different applications. Additionally, Diffraction supports many other standard image file formats like JPEG, PNG, and HEIC, for maximum compatibility and flexibility in your workflow.

What’s new in version 2.4?

The Fill dialog now supports filling the active selection with an environment pattern or intelligently repairing the active selection.

New menu command to intelligently repair the active selection

Improved import of PSD files containing shapes.

The Spot Removal Tool now allows choosing the method between environment pattern and intelligent repair, and can now more plausibly repair large areas.

The new filter "Depth of Field" can create a shallow depth of field effect for a smooth and soft background bokeh.