Non-destructive Color and Luminance Range Masking

Use Color and Luminance Ranges to chart the most vivid hues and deepest shadows in your image. Illuminate the fiery glow of a sunset or amplify the depth of a shadowed forest and craft a visual adventure that captures every nuance of color and light.

Helpful tip!
 Hold shift while using the Rectangular or Elliptical Selection tools to create perfectly square or round selections.

Channel Selection

Make selections and masks based on the image’s Color Information Channels.

Pixel Targeting

Make pixel perfect selections of distinct tones, color, and skin tones using Luminance and Color ranges. The brighter a pixel is, the stronger a selection will be on that pixel.

Helpful tip!
Use the handy Selection Preview button to view your selection mask with one click.

Polygon Selection Tool

Select any part of your image manually using the Polygon Selection Tool.

Refine Selection

Use Refine Selection to shift or soften edges which can maximize the effect of tools like Smart Erase.

Helpful tip!
Brush on adjustments in parts of your image without affecting others, or apply them in gradual progressions using linear and radial gradients. Customize the shape of radial gradients with the Squareness slider.

Layer Masks

Build composite images using layer masks. Apply a layer mask to parts of an image so the layers under it show through. Copy and paste your masks on other layers, including adjustment layers.

Adjustment Layers

Use adjustment layers to change exposure, levels, curves, white balance, split tone, and more.

Helpful tip!
Save your layered images as .gsd files to preserve your layers and allow for future adjustments.

Layer Blend Modes & Opacity

Choose from 25 layer Blend Modes, like Overlay and Multiply, and adjust the opacity of that layer to affect your final image.

Layer Effects

Add inner glow, shadows, a bevel, an outline, or blur between your image and text layers.

Multi-Select Layers

Pull groups of images into the Layers pane and select one, some, or many.

Align & Blend Layers

Auto-align or auto-blend layers of images taken in a burst to achieve one optimal version of the subject.

Helpful tip!
Customizable rulers and guidelines make placing layers, text, and objects foolproof. Snap layers to guidelines. Lay as many guidelines as you like. Control the unit of measure, color, and visibility. Display a grid for precision situating.

Frequency Separation

Separate your image into high frequency and low frequency layers to remove imperfections while retaining detail.

Canvas Resize

Resize the canvas to expand around your layered content or add solid backgrounds for limitless photo manipulations.

Speedy tip!
Gemstone’s GPU-accelerated layers engine and adjustment layers, as well as quality performance for speedy filter application, will get you finished faster.

Helpful tip!
Zoom in or out of your image and pan around it for even more precise editing.

Smart Erase

Brush over unwanted objects with the Smart Erase tool and watch them disappear instantly. The Smart Erase tool fills in the area naturally.

Heal

Remove image flaws using the Healing Brush on complicated textures like skin or fur.

Clone

Remove image flaws using the Cloning Brush for strong, simple textures or uniform colors.

Blended Clone Tool

Use the Blended Clone tool to copy pixels from a source area to a target area. The software analyzes the pixels in the target area and blends them with the copied pixels for the most seamless repair yet.

Red Eye Tool

Automatically remove red eyes from the faces in your photos.

Dehaze

Restore contrast, detail, and lost color to your images. This tool is especially useful for images that have been captured through a haze.

Liquify

Retouch images by moving pixels, not changing them, for limitless photo manipulations.

Flip

Mirror your images either vertically or horizontally.

Rotate & Straighten

Rotate your images at preset or custom angles, or adjust the horizontal angle of your image using the Straighten tool. You can save your settings as a preset for future use.

Sharpen

Sharpen your photos by enhancing medium and high contrast edges.

Noise Reduction

Reduce noisy artifacts in your images and adjust using Luminance and Tone sliders for greater results.

Skin Tune

Use the Skin Tune tool to even tone and restore glow in your subjects, as well as brighten and smooth.

Chromatic Aberration

Heal colored fringes on the borders of high contrast areas with the Chromatic Aberration tool.

Lens Correction

Automatically correct barrel and pincushion distortion by applying the fix calibrated for the distortion inherent to the lens you used. More lenses have been added to the supported Lens types.

Distortion Correction

Correct barrel, pincushion, and fisheye distortion in your photos.

Perspective Correction

Easily adjust the perspective of your photo so large or far-away objects are the correct size.

Crop Tool

Use the Crop tool to remove unwanted parts of your images, or to reduce the image canvas to a particular size.

Clarity

The Clarity tool adds subtle definition to the details in your image. Use it to enhance the contrast of midtones in your images, without overpowering the shadows and highlights.

Color Wheel

Select a range of colors using the Color Wheel and completely change the Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast. Perfect your color selection even further by adjusting the selected color saturation range.

Tone Wheels

User-friendly tone wheels make split-toning highlights, midtones, and shadows easy.

Color EQ

Use the Color EQ (hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness) tool to adjust overall colors in your image or each color individually. The advanced tools can subtly fine-tune and enhance colors, or completely change individual colors in your images.

White Balance

Choose from a variety of Presets, Auto, or Custom settings to be applied over the entire image or adjust the Temperature and Tint of a selection using the brush or linear/radial gradient application tools.

Curves

Change the tonal range of your image using the Curves tool. Select the RGB color channel to adjust the entire range of the image, or select a specific color. You can also delete points on the Tone Curve, giving you full control.

Color Look-Up Tables (LUTs)

Use built-in Color LUTs to seamlessly color grade your images, or import and apply LUTs as non-destructive filters.

Saturation & Vibrance

Adjust your image’s color saturation. Use the Vibrance tool to adjust saturation without affecting skin tones.

Advanced Black & White Adjustments

In Black & White mode, increase or decrease the contrast of each individual color, and specify the brightness range that the contrast adjustment will target.

Split Tone

Split Tone allows you to customize the tones of the highlights and shadows in your image.

Light EQ™

Adjust areas in your image that are too dark or too light, without affecting other areas of the photo. You can also simultaneously brighten dark areas that are too dark, and darken areas that are too bright.

Dodge & Burn

Use the Dodge and Burn tool to lighten or darken areas in your photo without affecting other areas. The tool is often used to lighten underexposed areas or darken overexposed areas.

Helpful tip!
Use the Histogram pane to easily view a graphical representation of the distribution of light in your image.

Auto & Manual Levels

Precisely adjust the contrast and light levels in your images manually or let Gemstone do it automatically.

Exposure

Automatically or manually adjust the amount of light on your image. Target specific areas using the Edit Brush or Gradient tools to limit where the exposure adjustment occurs.

Contrast

Adjust contrast in specific tones and target precise brightness ranges to bring out contrast details in highlights or shadows.

Multi-Document Interface (MDI)

Have multiple documents open at the same time and use universal tool settings across document tabs. View or edit files in split views or child views.

Fast AI-Powered Performance

Gemstone uses the full might of your Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for accelerated AI-driven editing. This power boost makes using AI-integrated tools – such as AI Masking, AI Sky Replacement, and AI Super-Resolution – incredibly fast to keep your productivity flowing.

RAW File Support

Take full editing control of your images with ACDSee RAW, a non-destructive RAW photo editor built right into Gemstone. ACDSee RAW supports RAW image files from over 750 camera models, as well as many other image file formats.

Editing Presets

Choose from a variety of ready-to-use editing Presets to give your image an attractive, distinct and professional look.

Watermark Tool

Put your individual stamp on your work using the Watermark tool.

Resize

Resize images to any dimension, following pixels or percentages, along either edge, or as a print size.

History & Snapshots

Keep track of your editing history. Take Snapshots of your edited image along the way. Go back to a previous step or Snapshot at any time throughout your editing process.

Settings Presets

Simplify your photo editing process by saving frequently used editing settings as Presets.

Intuitive Home Screen

Initial screen for starting new projects or for continuing previously opened projects.

Templates

Choose from popular social media, print, and web specs or create your own templates for maximum efficiency.

Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts

Whip through your editing process with customizable hot keys available for every stage of your workflow.

Customizable Workspace

Customize your workspace for enhanced efficiency. You can tear off, move, stack, dock, and hide panes and toolbars so everything is right where you want it.

Local AI Computing

The AI-driven features in Gemstone operate locally, meaning the software does not rely on remote servers to process your images, unlike some competitors. Therefore, you get real-time results when using AI features, and your privacy remains protected.

Compatibility

Enjoy comprehensive support for all of the most popular image formats. Gemstone also provides comprehensive color management.