Layers without limits
Groups with isolated blending, 16 blend modes including Adobe-accurate non-separable modes, clipping, raster and vector masks, and layer styles.
PhotoForge →A growing family of native creative apps on one shared engine, from photo and illustration to page layout and beyond. Create, illustrate and publish on your own machine.
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The suite
Every app shares the same colour management, typography and file formats, so work moves between them without conversion.
Photo editing & illustration
Raster and vector, finally in one canvas.
A combined raster and vector editor: layers, non-destructive adjustments and live filters, a full vector toolchain, real colour management and an on-device AI stack.
Desktop publishing
Professional page layout, from manuscript to press.
A desktop publisher for books, magazines and marketing: styles, threaded text, master pages, long-document tools, interactive PDF and true CMYK PDF/X output.
Highlights
Groups with isolated blending, 16 blend modes including Adobe-accurate non-separable modes, clipping, raster and vector masks, and layer styles.
PhotoForge →Curves, Levels, Channel Mixer, Gradient Map, Selective Colour and more as adjustment layers — plus live filter layers and a smart-filter stack.
PhotoForge →Pen, curvature and freeform tools, 14 parametric shapes, real pathfinder booleans, variable-width strokes, gradient mesh, blends and symbols.
PhotoForge →Background removal, Select Subject, denoise, super-resolution, style transfer and prompt-driven Generative Fill, running locally on your GPU.
PhotoForge →Paragraph and character styles with based-on and next-style, GREP styles, nested styles, and object, cell and table styles.
ForgePress →Flow stories through threaded frames, build templates on master pages, and wrap text around anchored objects and contours.
ForgePress →Combine chapters into Books with a style-based table of contents, index, footnotes, endnotes and running headers.
ForgePress →PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-1a, true DeviceCMYK export, transparency, font embedding, preflight and Package-for-output.
ForgePress →Gallery
Written in C++ with an OpenGL canvas and Vulkan compute. No browser engine, no lag.
AI features run on your own hardware. Your documents never leave your machine.
Chunked .pforge and .fpress files stay readable across versions.
The same apps on Windows, macOS and Linux, with native installers for each.
News
September 27, 2026 · Featured
PhotoForge and ForgePress are ready for testing on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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