Image editor

Screenshot taken. Fix it here.

Cropping the edge off a screenshot, drawing one arrow on it. That isn't worth opening a dedicated app for. So there's a full set of tools inside TieTie, and you save it back when you're done.

The TieTie image editor: tools on the left, canvas in the middle, filter row below
The image editor. Press ⌘E on any image card
Tools

All of it is here.

Built to follow the same logic as editing photos on an iPhone, so you already know how to use it.

Crop

Drag the corner handles, with rule-of-thirds guides to help you frame it. Fixed ratios if you need a square.

Rotate and flip

90 degrees at a time, plus horizontal and vertical flips. A sideways screenshot takes two clicks to fix.

Resize

Type in the numbers, or hit 50% or 75%. The aspect ratio is locked so nothing gets squashed.

Eight filters

Mono, vivid, vintage, cool, warm and a few more. One click to apply, one click to go back to the original.

Markup

Pen, highlighter, arrow, rectangle, ellipse and text. 7 colors, 3 line widths, and undo. Anything you've drawn can be selected again and changed.

Remove background

Apple's Vision framework finds the subject and cuts the background out. It all runs on your Mac, so the image never leaves.

Details

Three things we didn't cut corners on.

Full resolution

It edits the original, not the thumbnail

What you see in the panel is a thumbnail, but the editor opens the full-resolution file. Crop it, save it, and the quality matches what you copied in. Nothing degrades because you edited it once.

After saving, the thumbnail, the dominant color and the OCR text all get recalculated, so the edited image is still searchable.

Esc

It backs out one layer at a time

There's a lot of state in an editor: a color popover is open, you're typing, you're mid-crop, you have an annotation selected. Each Esc undoes one of those. It never closes the whole editor out from under you.

Only when everything's backed out does it ask whether to save. One stray keypress won't cost you the work.

Other people's files

Your originals stay untouched

An image card you copied from Finder points at a file on your disk, and that file isn't TieTie's. So pressing ⌘E on it asks first: do you want a copy inside TieTie to work on?

Say yes and it duplicates the image and edits the duplicate. The file on your disk doesn't change by a single byte.

One click

Background gone in one click.

Vision finds the subject and cuts everything else away. The white backdrop in the shot below is already gone, and that gray checkerboard is the transparency. Save it and you have a PNG with an alpha channel.

The editor after removing the background: the dog's white backdrop is now a gray checkerboard
After hitting Remove background. Gray checks mean transparent

It all runs on your Mac, so the image never leaves this computer.
And if that's all you wanted, it's in the right-click menu too.

Install it, then take a screenshot.

TieTie 1.0 · macOS 15 and up · one-time purchase