Image Tricks Lite

Image Tricks Lite is a freeware application for editing your photos and images using Mac OS X Core Image filters and Quartz Compositions.

This program also contains a powerful random image generator for creating unique backgrounds and abstract images for business cards, Web design, print materials and more.

Watch a video about Image Tricks 3.

• Easy to use and friendly Interface.
• 107 Core Image effects and filters (149 in Pro version).
• 38 Quartz Compositions (43 in Pro version).
• 13 image generators (20 in Pro version).
• 12 photo frames (116 in Pro version).
• 12 vector borders (74 in Pro version).
• Over 70 unique masks can be applied to an image (225 in Pro version).
• Import over 20 image formats (TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PDF, EPS among them).
• Export to TIFF, JPEG, PDF, PNG and GIF formats.
• OpenGL acceleration supported.

Note: Now requires OS X 10.8 or later.

• Introduced "Use Background Color" in the Options dialog of Save/Export. Useful when a user doesn't want to preserve transparency, but use the background color instead.
• Added the ability to share an edited image to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and more.
• New background images added.
• Improved program UI.
• Filter effects were revised and fixed where necessary.
• Filter parameters (Width, Radius, etc.) adopt to image size automatically when the picture is changed.
• Fixed the problem with incorrect transparency for some borders, frames and masks.
• Photo Effects: Chrome, Fade, Instant, Mono, Noir, Process, Tonal, Transfer were grouped together.
• Similar filters were grouped as following:
• Kaleidoscope Tiles (Eightfold Reflected, Sixfold Reflected, Sixfold Rotated, Triangle Tile, Twelvefold Reflected)
• Rectangular Tiles (Glide Reflected, Fourfold Rotated)
• Acute Angle Tiles (Fourfold Reflected, Fourfold Translated).
• Fixed the problem with mouse/trackpad usage on Triangle Kaleidoscope filter.
• Removed filters: BL Sobel, BL Rectangular Splash, Accordion Ford Transition.
• Multiple other improvements.