Roadmap · honest

Photoshop parity, tracked.

A real checklist of what's working, what's polishing, and what's planned — keyed to the Photoshop feature categories most creators recognize. No timelines. No promises. Pinned to reality.

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Shipped
1
In progress
48
Planned

Layers

The bones of every editor.

5 shipped · 0 in progress · 3 planned

  • Layer types — raster (image), text, gradient, solid color, smart object
  • Smart objects with non-destructive transforms + AI edge feathering / matting
  • 16 blend modes — normal, multiply, screen, overlay, soft light, hard light, color dodge, color burn, lighten, darken, difference, exclusion, hue, saturation, color, luminosity
  • Layer ordering, opacity, visibility, lock, name
  • 9-point alignment within the canvas (top-left through bottom-right)
  • Layer groups — collapse, move, mask as one
  • Layer masks — raster + vector
  • Adjustment layers — non-destructive curves/levels stacked above other layers

Selection & masking

Pick what to edit.

2 shipped · 0 in progress · 4 planned

  • Marquee selection
  • AI background removal via Apple Vision (sub-second on Apple Silicon)
  • Lasso / polygonal lasso
  • Magic wand — select by color
  • Quick selection brush
  • Refine edge — feather, contract/expand, smart-edge

Transform

Move, scale, rotate, reshape.

4 shipped · 0 in progress · 2 planned

  • Move tool — drag, nudge, snap to canvas / center
  • Free transform — scale, rotate, with handles + numeric inspector
  • Flip horizontal / vertical
  • Numeric position / size / rotation in the Properties tab
  • Skew & perspective
  • Warp / mesh transform

Type

The thing thumbnails are made of.

7 shipped · 0 in progress · 4 planned

  • Text layers with rich-text editing (RichTextKit-backed)
  • Font, size, color, weight, italic, underline, strikethrough
  • Uppercase toggle
  • Alignment — left / center / right
  • Line height & tracking
  • Inline markup — multi-style runs within one layer
  • System font fallback chain for missing fonts
  • Text on path
  • Warp text (arc / wave / bulge)
  • Character / paragraph styles (saved presets)
  • Web font loading from a URL

Adjustments (color & tone)

Per-layer color correction.

5 shipped · 0 in progress · 5 planned

  • Brightness / contrast
  • Exposure
  • Highlights
  • Hue shift
  • Saturation
  • Curves — per-channel tonal control
  • Levels — black / white / gamma
  • Color balance — shadows / midtones / highlights
  • White balance picker
  • Black & white conversion

Effects (per-layer)

Glow, shadow, blur — the texture.

4 shipped · 0 in progress · 4 planned

  • Glow with color, distance, intensity, angle controls
  • Gaussian blur
  • Noise — monochrome and color, intensity slider
  • Drop shadow with full controls
  • Inner shadow / inner glow
  • Stroke / outline
  • Gradient overlay
  • Bevel & emboss

Creator-specific

The stuff Photoshop won't ship.

3 shipped · 0 in progress · 3 planned

  • Studio relighting — re-light a subject with directional lights, ambient color, dual-source angle (depth-aware)
  • Skin retouch — de-age, even tone, AI face-mask aware
  • Depth-aware compositing — depth estimate per layer for relight + matting
  • Style transfer — match a reference image's vibe
  • Auto-headshot crop with depth-of-field fall-off
  • Subject pop-out — automatic foreground-back-of-text composition

Generative AI

Woven in — not bolted on.

5 shipped · 0 in progress · 4 planned

  • Generative fill — Replicate (cloud) and Local FLUX-Fill (offline). Generate / Replace / Remove / Expand modes.
  • Generative expand — outpaint canvas around a smart-object layer
  • Generative remove — paint a region, replace with surroundings
  • Generative replace — substitute the region with prompted content
  • One-time bootstrap for Local FLUX-Fill (uv → mflux → HF auth → model fetch)
  • Intent bar — natural-language input at the canvas (v0.2)
  • Inline AI suggestions in the inspector
  • Smart Layers v2 — pixels defined by prompt + dependencies, re-render on change
  • Per-layer AI menu — Rewrite text / Regenerate image / Remove BG from layer-row sparkle

Painting & retouching

Hand-drawing tools.

0 shipped · 0 in progress · 5 planned

  • Brush tool with pressure / tilt (Apple Pencil + Wacom)
  • Eraser
  • Pencil
  • Clone stamp
  • Healing brush / spot heal

Vector / shapes

Resolution-independent geometry.

0 shipped · 0 in progress · 3 planned

  • Pen tool / paths — bezier with anchor manipulation
  • Shape primitives — rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, arrow
  • Custom shape library — icons, callouts, social glyphs

Document & export

Sized for every platform.

7 shipped · 0 in progress · 4 planned

  • Native .tiramisu document — JSON schema with embedded thumbnails
  • Auto-save, recents, security-scoped bookmarks
  • Canvas presets — YouTube 1280×720, FHD, 2K, 4K UHD, channel banner, profile, Story
  • Composition guides — rule of thirds, golden ratio
  • YouTube safe areas — time pill, duration badge, banner TV/desktop/mobile zones, rounded corners, PFP circle mask
  • PNG export with full canvas resolution
  • Drag-to-place images / webp from Finder, paste from clipboard
  • JPEG / WebP export with quality controls
  • PSD import (Photoshop migration path)
  • Per-platform export presets — IG / TikTok / X / LinkedIn / Discord / Twitch / Pinterest dimensions
  • Cross-post auto-relayout — intelligent reflow, not just resize

Workflow

The verbs you do every minute.

5 shipped · 0 in progress · 3 planned

  • Undo / redo with named checkpoints + coalescing
  • Recent files with security-scoped bookmark resolution
  • Multiple open documents
  • Photoshop keyboard parity — V / T / B / M / ⌘T / ⌘J / ⌘E / [ / ] / Space / ⌘0 / ⌘1
  • First-run welcome dialog + Help menu (GitHub, bug report, install)
  • History panel with named snapshots
  • Scripts / actions — record & replay
  • ⌘K command palette — search every action by name

Mac polish

Feels like macOS, not a port.

5 shipped · 1 in progress · 4 planned

  • Apple Silicon native — Swift 6 strict concurrency, Vision, Core Image, Core ML
  • Native document type with custom .tiramisu UTI & Quick Look hooks
  • Standard menus — File / Edit / View / Window / Help — all wired
  • Debug Console in detached window for development
  • Liquid Glass — modernized inspector / toolbar / popovers
  • 3-column HStack shell — Tools / Canvas / Inspector. Tried NavigationSplitView; reverted because its text-list-navigation semantics fight a tool palette.
  • Notarized DMG — Developer ID signed, Gatekeeper-clean
  • Homebrew Caskbrew install --cask tiramisu
  • Sparkle auto-updates
  • Apple Pencil pressure / tilt when painting tools land

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