Documentation
The whole application, one topic per page: what each part does, what it is for, and the handful of rules that explain the rest. Written against the current private beta — if something here disagrees with the app in front of you, the app is right.
The five things that explain the rest
- Nothing is uploaded. Every tool, including the six AI models, runs on your own Mac. There is no account, no queue and no credit to buy.
- Your originals are never rewritten. An edit is a recipe kept in the catalog. Export writes a new file; the file you imported stays exactly as the camera wrote it.
- The folders stay where they are. Importing a folder catalogs it in place. Nothing is moved into a walled garden — unless you ask for it, in which case the App Library holds the copies.
- Three modules, one catalog. Library is what you have, Edit is what you do to it, Print is what you make out of it. They share the same photos, the same filters and the same selection.
- A tool is a decision, a layer is an instance. Something you want at most once per photo is a tool with a panel; something you might want twice, masked or blended, is a layer in the Montage. That one rule is why the app has both.
What is in the manual
Five sections, in the order somebody meets them. The pages still being written are listed in the sidebar without a link — the shape of a reference is worth knowing before all of it exists.
Getting started
Installing, the macOS security gate, the invite code, the demo catalog, and the shape of the window: the module rail, the two side columns and the ⌘K palette.
02Library
Photographs you already have: importing, searching, filtering, culling three hundred frames down to the keepers, the map, and merging brackets into panoramas, HDR and focus stacks.
03Edit
The non-destructive editor: the three layouts, the twenty-six tools, masking regions several tools can share, the Montage stack, presets and profiles, and the on-device models.
Photo books, calendars, postcards and posters out of the same catalog — themes, automatic layout, pages, elements and the print-ready PDF.
Being writtenReference
Export settings, where files live on disk, every preference, the keyboard shortcuts, and the full list of what the app sends over the network.
Being writtenStart here
Three pages cover the first hour: how to get the app running, how the Library is arranged, and what every develop panel is for.
- Installing Lensmith
- The disk image, the macOS security gate, and the invite code the private beta asks for on first launch.
- Browsing & rating
- The Library: your folders catalogued in place, the grid and the loupe, stars, flags and colour labels.
- The tools
- The twenty-six develop panels, family by family, with what each one is for.