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A Photoshop-Class Editor. Built Into Your Library.

Layers and masks, 57 filters, AI object and background removal, tone curves and batch LUT grading — a full editing suite inside your photo library. Nothing uploads, nothing expires, and there is no second app to open.

  • 57Filters, across 11 groups
  • 12One-click color presets
  • 0Uploads, watermarks or per-image fees
  • 100%Offline — every tool runs on your machine
  • Erase whatever ruined the shot

    Click a distraction or brush over it and it is gone, with the background behind it rebuilt rather than smudged.

  • Cut out a subject in one click

    On-device background removal, straight out to a transparent PNG. No upload, no watermark, no per-image fee.

  • Real layers, masks and blend modes

    Stack images and text, paint on empty layers, hide and reveal with masks — and keep several photos open in tabs.

  • 57 filters, previewed live

    And they stop exactly at your selection, with a feather slider — the part most photo editors get wrong.

  • Grade like a colorist

    Multi-channel tone curves, 8-band HSL, and twelve one-click looks that each have an intensity slider.

  • One look, hundreds of photos

    Apply any .cube LUT across a whole shoot in a single pass, then save as copies or overwrite in place.

  • Blur faces before you share

    Faces are found on-device, and every export is already stripped of the original EXIF and GPS data.

  • Nothing leaves your machine

    Every AI model ships with the app. No account, no subscription, no connection — it all works on a plane.

Erase Whatever Ruined the Shot

Click an object and an on-device segmentation model outlines it for you, or switch to brush mode and paint over anything — a crowd, a power line, a bin, a timestamp. Pluto removes it and reconstructs what should have been behind it.

A generative model fine-tuned specifically for removal handles the hardest backgrounds — brick, foliage, patterned fabric — and it is effect-aware, so the shadow the object was casting goes with it instead of being left behind. One-time ~2.6 GB download, then it runs entirely offline.

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A hand holding a white bowl of lemon and ginger tea on a pale wooden table, with a soft shadow under the wristBefore
The same photo after object removal — the hand and its shadow are gone, the bowl intact and the wood grain rebuilt behind themAfter
One selection over the hand. The wood grain and the bowl rim behind it are rebuilt, not blurred — and the shadow under the wrist went with it.

Cut Out Any Subject in One Click

Hit Remove Background and the subject is isolated on transparency in a couple of seconds, ready to export as a PNG. A restore brush paints back anything the model trimmed too eagerly.

Because the editor has real layers, a cutout is a starting point rather than an end: strip several photos, paste each subject into one document as its own layer, scale and arrange them, add styled text, and you have a finished poster or thumbnail without leaving your library.

A photo of a blue classic car open in the Pluto Photos image editorBefore
The same car isolated on a transparent checkerboard background after one-click background removalAfter
One click, on-device — and a restore brush for anything the model trimmed too eagerly.

Layers, Masks and Blend Modes

A proper Layers panel, exactly where a Photoshop user expects it. Stack image layers over your photo, add empty layers to paint on, drop in text layers, then reorder, rename, duplicate, merge or flatten them.

  • Opacity and a blend mode on every layer — multiply, screen, overlay and the rest
  • Layer masks — paint to reveal, erase to hide, with the pixels underneath untouched
  • Visibility and lock toggles so a finished layer stays finished

Open several photos at once and each lands in its own document tab: copy a layer or a look from one and paste it into another. Paste an image and it arrives as its own movable, scalable layer that follows every later crop, rotate and flip.

The Pluto Photos image editor with a photo open — document tabs, left tool rail, options bar, histogram, layers panel and history
Document tabs, tool rail, contextual options bar, live histogram, layers and an always-on history panel.

Filters That Stop at Your Selection

Make a selection — rectangle, ellipse, freehand lasso, or a magnetic lasso that snaps to edges as you trace — and a filter applies only inside it, with a feather slider to soften the boundary so a local edit blends in instead of announcing itself.

Every filter also carries its own opacity and blend mode, so you can dial a Gaussian Blur back to 30% on Soft Light rather than committing at full strength, and Fade Filter re-mixes the filter you just applied against the pixels it replaced.

All 57 of them, in eleven groups: Blur (including a real lens blur with selectable aperture shapes), Sharpen (including edge-weighted Smart Sharpen), Distort, Noise, Pixelate, Stylize, Artistic, Light & Glow, Photo, Render, and Other — down to a custom 5×5 convolution kernel.

A photo of a classic car with no filter appliedBefore
The same photo with Pencil Sketch applied only to the left half, inside a rectangular selectionAfter
Pencil Sketch inside a rectangular selection. The filter stops dead at the selection edge — and the feather slider softens that edge to taste.
The Filter Gallery in Pluto Photos rendering a live thumbnail preview of every filter on the photo being edited
The Filter Gallery previews the whole catalogue on your own photo at once — so you can find a look you did not know to search for.

Grade Like a Colorist

A multi-channel tone curve (RGB combined, plus Red, Green and Blue independently) and 8-band HSL tuning — shift the hue, saturation and luminance of one colour range without touching the others. Bluer skies that leave skin tones alone; autumn leaves that pop without the whole frame turning warm.

Underneath sit the everyday sliders — exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, temperature, tint, vibrance, clarity, dehaze, split toning — plus twelve one-click presets, each with its own intensity slider, and a live histogram with shadow and highlight clipping indicators.

A flat, ungraded photoBefore
The same photo after a tone curve and HSL gradeAfter
The same grading controls professionals reach for in Lightroom and Capture One.

One Look, Hundreds of Photos

Select any number of images in your library, open Apply LUT, and pick an industry-standard .cube file — one you imported, or a look you saved out of the editor. A live intensity slider lets you dial the grade from subtle to full strength before you commit, then save as copies or overwrite the originals in one pass.

The batch LUT dialog with intensity at 0%Before
The same batch LUT dialog with intensity at 100%After
A whole shoot graded in a single pass, with the intensity slider live before you commit.

Portrait Blur and Hand Retouching

Portrait Blur detects the subject on-device and blurs the background behind it — four presets (Soft, Natural, Studio, Dramatic) plus manual control over blur amount, edge feather, background focus and subject protection. It turns a flat phone snap into something shot on a portrait lens.

And when you would rather do it by hand, the tool rail has what you reach for: brush with adjustable size, hardness and opacity, eraser, clone stamp (Alt-click to set the source), spot heal, fill and gradient, dodge & burn, a blur brush, shapes, text, and an eyedropper.

A photo open in the editor before portrait blurBefore
The same photo with the background blurred behind the detected subjectAfter
Subject detection and the blur itself both run on your machine — nothing is uploaded.

Blur Faces Before You Share

Sharing a photo but need to hide a face, an address, or part of a document? Safe Share finds every face and every line of printed text on-device, lets you blur or pixelate exactly the ones you choose, and — for anything the detectors miss — lets you draw a custom region by hand. Detection never leaves your machine, and every export is a fresh copy with the original's EXIF and GPS data stripped out.

A group photo with every face visibleBefore
The same photo with every detected face blurredAfter
Detected on-device, blurred in one click — and the export carries no EXIF or GPS.

And the Things You Would Expect

  • Non-destructive — every export saves a copy; your original file is never modified
  • Export controls — PNG, JPEG or WebP with a quality slider, resize, and screen sharpening for social
  • Hold to compare against the original at any point, or use the split before/after view
  • Auto Enhance — one button reads the histogram and fixes exposure, colour and contrast
  • New Document and clipboard paste, so a screenshot opens straight into the editor
  • Vignette and film grain, with intensity sliders that stack with everything else

Try Image Editor in Pluto Photos

Download free for Windows, macOS, or Linux. Image Editor is available in the Pro tier.