Photon Studio

This is a community package of Photon Studio, maintained independently. It repackages the official upstream Linux build unmodified.

Photon Studio is a free desktop photo editor. Edit photos, create layered designs, and open or save Photoshop documents. Everything runs on your computer: there is no account and no upload step, and even subject selection and background removal run locally.

• Layers, groups, masks, adjustment layers, smart objects and layer effects
• Retouching with healing tools and Liquify
• Text and vector shapes for design work
• Open and save PSD and PSB files
• Camera RAW, HEIF, AVIF and JPEG XL support
• Curves with a live preview, and a command search for every tool

This package can read and write your Pictures, Documents and Downloads folders, where Photon saves new documents by default. A Photon document is a folder rather than a single file, and edits to RAW photos are kept in a settings file next to the photo, so saving outside those folders needs a broader permission. To let Photon save anywhere in your home folder, as upstream's own Flatpak bundle does:

• flatpak override --user --filesystem=home com.tenzen.photon

Updates arrive through this remote. The in-app update notice links to upstream's download page and can be ignored.