Perspective correct images, crop, adjust, and export
Requires macOS Sequoia 14.6 or later
Last updated: 2026-04-17
Fix perspective distortion in your photos and images in a few clicks.
Vanishing Point straightens, crops, cleans up backgrounds, and adjusts colour so your images look clean.
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Perspective CorrectFour different perspective correction modes
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Auto-Detect ObjectsAutomatic edge and rectangle detection
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Background RemovalAutomatic cutout with additional colour sampling
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256+ PresetsAuto crop with aspect ratio for a wide range of objects
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Colour AdjustmentsLevels, brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness
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Batch ExportExport as PNG, JPG, or TIFF at multiple sizes in one go
Perspective Correction
- Four correction tools: 4-Point, Vertical Lines, Horizontal Lines, and 8-Point
- Drag corner handles or draw edge lines on the image
- Select corners with
1234keys, multi-select with Shift, nudge with arrow keys - Auto-Detect finds rectangles using Apple Vision
- Pick Mode lets you view and cycle through multiple detected rectangles
- Fine-tune with Intensity, Up/Down, Left/Right, and H/V Ratio sliders
Presets
- 256 built-in presets with real-world aspect ratios
- Automatically locks crop to the selected preset dimensions
- Covers floppy disks, optical media, tapes, game cartridges, vinyl records, photo and print formats, film and slides, cards, and more
- Common aspect ratios as presets
- Create your own custom presets with millimetre dimensions
- Favourite your most frequently used presets
Transform
- Rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise
- Flip horizontally or vertically
- Honours current preset aspect ratio
Cropping
- Drag handles to define the exact region to export
- Aspect ratio locks to the selected media preset
- Auto Crop detects content boundaries automatically
- Pixel dimensions and aspect ratio displayed while cropping
- Fit image to crop, or crop section out of image
Background Removal
- Vision-based foreground detection with morphological refinement
- Threshold, straightening, and feathering controls for clean edges
- Colour-based removal: click to sample colours with tolerance control
- Multiple colour samples with contiguous region toggle per sample
- Layer Vision mask and colour removal together
- Nudge colour samples with arrow keys, delete with
⌫ - Exports as PNG with transparency
Colour & Tone Adjustments
- Exposure, Levels (black and white points), Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Shadows, Highlights, Gamma, Sharpness
- Auto Levels with per-channel histogram analysis
- Real-time preview on the canvas
Export
- PNG with transparency, TIFF, or JPG
- Define multiple export sizes and batch export in one operation
- Individual format selection per size
- Aspect ratio locking when a preset is selected
- Preview exports in-app before you commit them to disk
- Export size presets for quick reuse
- Export single, or from all open documents
- Auto-open in Preview after export
Viewing & Navigation
⌘+Zoom In,⌘-Zoom Out,⌘1Actual Size,⌘0Fit to Window- Hold spacebar to pan, or
⌥+click+drag - Press
Gto toggle the original image,Hto hide overlays XCorrect,CCrop,VCutout,⇥to cycle modesRto reset all corrections- Per-mode zoom levels
Good Behaviour
- Native .vanishingpoint packages store image and settings together
- Opens a wide range of image file formats
- Full Undo/Redo and Auto-Save support
- QuickLook preview and Finder thumbnails for .vanishingpoint files
- Multi-window, document, and tab support
Optimised
- Only 777 KB app download size
- Less than 100 MB base memory footprint
Comparison
| Vanishing Point | DxO Perspective | DxO ViewPoint | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4-point correction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Line-correction | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 8-point correction | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Auto-detect | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Background removal | ✓ | – | – |
| Aspect ratio presets | 256+ | – | 8 |
| Custom presets | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Colour adjustments | ✓ | – | – |
| Batch export sizes | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| Volume deformation | – | – | ✓ |
| Native Mac app | ✓ | Hybrid | Hybrid |
| Receives updates | ✓ | – | ✓ |
| App size | 777 KB | 42 MB | 1 GB |