# Design workflows and file formats

| Task                                 | What Rasterloom provides                                                                                                      |
| ------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Compose and retouch images           | Image layers, folders, blend modes, opacity, painting and retouching tools                                                    |
| Isolate part of an image             | Editable masks and background removal                                                                                         |
| Adjust color and appearance          | Adjustment layers, filters, shadows and glows                                                                                 |
| Set and refine type                  | Installed fonts, mixed character styles, kerning, tracking, baseline and line spacing                                         |
| Draw and style vector artwork        | Editable shapes and paths, fills, strokes, and linear, radial and mesh gradients                                              |
| Build several layouts in one project | Multiple artboards, canvas presets, guides, snapping, alignment and exact transform values                                    |
| Present artwork in a device frame    | Device mockups linked to a source artboard                                                                                    |
| Collect references                   | Moodboards containing images, saved links, notes and color swatches in an arranged grid                                       |
| Reuse artwork                        | Local asset collections, search and filters; insert original artwork into an editor document or add references to a moodboard |
| Find images by their contents        | Search indexed descriptions, tags and readable text detected in images                                                        |
| Create an image                      | Apple Image Playground, subject to Apple Intelligence availability                                                            |
| Work with an assistant               | A bundled MCP server exposing document inspection and supported editing operations                                            |

## Working with artboards

Choose White, Transparent or Custom Color when creating an artboard. With the
Artboard tool active, use an edge + button to add a matching board above, below
or beside the active one. Click an artboard name to select it; Shift-click names
to select several and move them together using the shared selection outline.
Right-click a board or its name for Rename / Resize, Duplicate and Delete.
Delete or Backspace removes the selected boards; Undo restores their contents
and selection.

## Import and export

Import JPEG, PNG, HEIC, TIFF, WebP and RAW/DNG supported by macOS. Develop keeps
the original photo and provides live exposure, white balance, RGB tone curves
and color mixing on the canvas. Compare before and after with a wipe or
side-by-side view. Library assets retain their original photo data.

Compatible PSD and SVG content can import
as editable layers; unsupported content may require a raster fallback.

Export PNG, JPEG, TIFF, WebP, SVG, PDF and layered raster PSD, plus HEIC and AVIF
where macOS provides an encoder. Export controls include size, quality, color
profiles, metadata, watermarks, print resolution and proofing. PNG and TIFF
support 16-bit output for supported photo compositions. Photo contact sheets
export as PDF.

Compatible text and
vector content remains native in SVG and PDF exports. Some effects and
composites require raster fallbacks. PSD export retains raster layers and
supported layer structure; it does not turn Rasterloom text and vectors into
editable Photoshop text and vector layers.

PDF editing covers ordinary horizontal text and selected page, link and
annotation operations. It does not provide full PDF editing, OCR for scanned
PDFs or redaction.