Vanishing Point

Perspective Correction

• Four correction tools: 4-Point, Vertical Lines, Horizontal Lines, and 8-Point
• Drag corner handles or draw edge lines on the image
• Select corners with 1234 keys, multi-select with Shift, nudge with arrow keys
• Auto-Detect finds rectangles using Apple Vision
• Pick Mode lets you view and cycle through multiple detected rectangles
• Fine-tune with Intensity, Up/Down, Left/Right, and H/V Ratio sliders

Presets

• 256 built-in presets with real-world aspect ratios
• Automatically locks crop to the selected preset dimensions
• Covers floppy disks, optical media, tapes, game cartridges, vinyl records, photo and print formats, film and slides, cards, and more
• Common aspect ratios as presets
• Create your own custom presets with millimetre dimensions
• Favourite your most frequently used presets

Transform

• Rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise
• Flip horizontally or vertically
• Honours current preset aspect ratio

Cropping

• Drag handles to define the exact region to export
• Aspect ratio locks to the selected media preset
• Auto Crop detects content boundaries automatically
• Pixel dimensions and aspect ratio displayed while cropping
• Fit image to crop, or crop section out of image

Background Removal

• Vision-based foreground detection with morphological refinement
• Threshold, straightening, and feathering controls for clean edges
• Colour-based removal: click to sample colours with tolerance control
• Multiple colour samples with contiguous region toggle per sample
• Layer Vision mask and colour removal together
• Nudge colour samples with arrow keys, delete with ⌫
• Exports as PNG with transparency

Colour & Tone Adjustments

• Exposure, Levels (black and white points), Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Shadows, Highlights, Gamma, Sharpness
• Auto Levels with per-channel histogram analysis
• Real-time preview on the canvas

• PNG with transparency, TIFF, or JPG
• Define multiple export sizes and batch export in one operation
• Individual format selection per size
• Aspect ratio locking when a preset is selected
• Preview exports in-app before you commit them to disk
• Export size presets for quick reuse
• Export single, or from all open documents
• Auto-open in Preview after export

Viewing & Navigation

• ⌘+ Zoom In, ⌘- Zoom Out, ⌘1 Actual Size, ⌘0 Fit to Window
• Hold spacebar to pan, or ⌥+click+drag
• Press G to toggle the original image, H to hide overlays
• X Correct, C Crop, V Cutout, ⇥ to cycle modes
• R to reset all corrections
• Per-mode zoom levels

Good Behaviour

• Native .vanishingpoint packages store image and settings together
• Opens a wide range of image file formats
• Full Undo/Redo and Auto-Save support
• QuickLook preview and Finder thumbnails for .vanishingpoint files
• Multi-window, document, and tab support

Optimised

• Only 777 KB app download size
• Less than 100 MB base memory footprint

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