The tone module provides the core adjustments you'd expect from a professional editor: Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Temperature, Tint, Vibrance, Saturation, Clarity, Texture, Dehaze, and Noise Reduction. All adjustments are non-destructive and GPU-accelerated.
Editorial-only toning restricts adjustments to wire-service-safe controls, disabling masking and cloning to enforce integrity standards required by news organizations. When enabled, the masking and clone tools are hidden and any image processed through the app meets the ethical requirements of news and wire services.
Once editorial-only mode is enabled, it is enforced at the export level. Images that violate editorial rules cannot be exported with the editorial profile.
The curves editor (macOS only) gives you precise tonal control with a Bezier curve overlay on a live histogram. Add points to lift shadows, roll off highlights, or shape midtones. Toggle before/after with the spacebar to compare your adjustment to the original.
Tone masks let you apply localized adjustments to specific areas of an image. Use masks to dodge faces, burn skies, or balance exposure between foreground and background. Masks are non-destructive and store with the image.
Tone masks are disabled when editorial-only mode is active, in line with wire service integrity requirements.
Photoshop-style cropping with aspect ratio presets (16:9, 4:3, 3:2, 1:1, 5:7), custom dimensions, arbitrary rotation, and saveable crop presets. The crop tool uses a familiar three-by-three rule-of-thirds overlay and supports both freehand and constrained dragging.
Save your favorite tone and crop adjustments as presets. Apply presets to entire selections at once, copy and paste adjustments across images, and sync your preset library to iCloud so it's available on every device.
- Tone presets — Save, load, rename, and manage with iCloud sync
- Crop presets — Save any crop including aspect ratio and rotation
- Copy & paste — Copy adjustments from one image and paste onto selections
- Batch apply — Apply a preset to hundreds of images at once
Build a preset for your venue's typical lighting before the event. Apply it to your full take in one pass, then fine-tune outliers individually.