robbietilton/Compositor
The Photoshop alternative for Mac
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Adobe Photoshop costs too much and tools like GIMP don’t feel familiar enough for me to stay in flow. That’s why I built Compositor. The goal was to create a full-featured image editor that is completely free and open source. I used to use Photoshop for compositing and post-processing, so Compositor is built around that workflow - with the tools needed to create a pixel-perfect final image. Because it’s open source, you can download the Xcode project and add, remove, or modify any feature to fit your workflow. Get Compositor from robbietilton.com/compositor, or download the latest release directly from GitHub Releases. Compositor is English only for now, and translation pull requests aren't being accepted. It's maintained by one person, every new string would need translating from then on, and translations in languages…
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- Compositor
- Installation
- Download
- Homebrew
- Features
- Layers
- Transform
- Selections
- Painting and retouching
- Adjustments and filters
- Canvas and files
- Works with AI agents
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What this repository does
The Photoshop alternative for Mac
Repository facts
- Owner
- robbietilton
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 17,150
- Forks
- 1,680
- Open issues + pull requests
- 64
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-09-16T20:35:54.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-15T01:43:33.000Z
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