PhotoScape X Pro 4.3 — Mac version

If you know your way around a photo editor, you'll spot that PhotoScape X Pro shares some DNA with tools like Photoscape of old, but tuned fully for Apple Silicon.

Colour Picker — grabs a precise colour value from any pixel on screen, handy for matching tones across a collage.

Batch Format Conversion — converts a folder of RAWs or TIFFs into JPEG or PNG in one go, with resizing applied at the same time.

Batch Rename — strips camera file names and replaces them with a sequence or custom text, saving a tedious manual job.

Photo Merge — stitches photos vertically or horizontally into a single wide image without messing about with a canvas size dialog.

Animated GIF Maker — stacks still frames into a looping GIF, with control over timing and repeat count. Useful for quick how-to clips.

Screen Capture — built-in screenshot tool so you can grab, edit, and save without opening another app.

For print, the layout tools let you place multiple images on one sheet. The split tool does the reverse, slicing a large scan into separate prints. Everything runs natively, keeping the fans quiet.

Batch resizing for estate agents and eBay sellers

People who juggle a lot of images quickly — estate agents snapping property details, ebay sellers shooting stock, teachers assembling classroom resources — get the most from PhotoScape X Pro. The batch tools save them hours. A single drag-and-drop can rename, resize, and convert a hundred product shots before their tea's gone cold.

Collage-makers, whether for family albums or social media grids, find the templates do the heavy lifting. You pick a layout, drop photos in, and tweak the spacing. It's less fiddly than building one in a full-fat editor. GIF creators, too: anyone making short tutorial loops or reaction clips for forums will use the animation panel more than they expect.

It's less suited to colour-critical print proofing or heavy compositing with dozens of layers — that's Lightroom and Photoshop territory. But for straightening, cropping, filtering, and outputting finished files without fuss, it fits a gap. If you already reach for Preview to resize or rename images one at a time, this replaces that habit with something faster.

Small tricks worth knowing

A few conveniences hide in plain sight. The loupe view in the browser isn't just for peeping pixels — hold it over a batch of photos and you can flag or rate them with a single keypress while inspecting detail. Tap 1–5 for star ratings, or P to flag a pick. It turns culling into a quick two-handed job: one hand on the mouse, one on the keyboard.

In the editor, the Clone Stamp and Healing Brush work with a right-click to set the source point. If you hold Shift while dragging, the brush line stays perfectly horizontal or vertical — dead handy for tidying edges along skirting boards or horizon lines without a wobbly wrist ruining the fix.

The Photo Merge tool has a quiet superpower: it respects the order you select files in the browser. Select a set of screenshots top-to-bottom, then merge vertically, and they'll stack in the right sequence without dragging thumbnails around afterwards.

When you're deep in batch renaming, the Custom Text field accepts more than a prefix. Type holiday-{N} and the {N} becomes a running number. Adding {D} pulls in the original capture date. A whole folder of phone snaps can become cornwall-2025-03-12-001.jpg and so on, in seconds.

Switch the default save format to PNG before editing

Open preferences before you do any real work. Three tweaks make a difference.

First, the Default save format. It ships set to JPEG at 90% quality. If you edit PNG screenshots or want lossless exports, switch it to PNG. The quality slider for JPEG sits right there — bumping it to 95% adds little file size but keeps compression artefacts away from fine text or logos.

Second, Colour Profile handling. In the Editor section of preferences you'll find an option to embed sRGB on save. Leave it on unless you know you need Adobe RGB or ProPhoto for print work. It stops your images looking washed out when you upload them to the web.

Third, the Clipboard behaviour. By default, copying a selection in the editor pastes it centred. You can switch it to paste in place — same coordinates as the original — which matters when you're cloning a watermark across a batch of images and want it to land in exactly the same spot every time.

• A fix-build for version 4.3.

• macOS: 13 Ventura or later
• Architecture: Apple Silicon