Darkroom’s powerful but easy-to-use tools help you make stunning improvements to any image. And with versions for Mac, iPad and iPhone, Darkroom frees you to create, no matter which device you’re using.
If you’re a beginner who wants to look like a pro, try these photo-editing features and tools.
Filter with precision
Click the Filters button – it looks like the Darkroom icon in a frame – to apply any of dozens of elegant filters, organised by image type (landscape, portrait) and style (black-and-white, duotone, instant). Click a filter once to apply it, then again to adjust the intensity – moving the slider left results in a more subtle effect.
Set things straight – or not
The Crop button reveals tools for more than just cropping: drag the sliders to correct horizontal and vertical perspectives or to rotate an image ever so slightly. Fine-grain controls go to a hundredth of a degree to get the perfect horizon.
Then use the Aspect Ratio options to crop your image in different formats: try 2.35:1 for a cinematic horizontal crop or 4:5 or 5:4 for your social media feed.
Fine-tune the tone
Tap the Adjustments tool (the icon with three tiny sliders) to bring up a bevy of options for tweaking contrast, shadows, saturation, vibrance, sharpness and much more.
Or make nuanced colour adjustments with the Curves tool (the icon with a wavy line inside a box), which lets you zero in on specific ranges of red, green, blue and black.
Not sure how to work these controls? Don’t be intimidated – play around until you stumble on something you like!
Use the look everywhere
Once you’ve perfected your photo, jump back to the Filters view and click Create a New Filter. Now you’ve got a custom filter you can use to instantly duplicate the look on any image.