Opens and saves PSD and PSB with the layers intact.
Masks, adjustment layers and live type come along. Layered 16-bit TIFF saves back in place.
Actions
Your recorded actions, played back.
7,848
of 8,007 recorded steps across 11 of Glen's action sets run today. One Ctrl+Z undoes a whole action.
Watermarking
Watermark Gienie's engine, built right in.
0
samples different from Watermark Gienie, across 5.2 million, in PNG, JPEG, WebP and JPEG XL.
JPEG XL
Smaller files. Zero quality loss.
19%
smaller when existing JPEGs repack to JPEG XL, and the original rebuilds bit for bit.
Library
Thousands of thumbnails, kept warm.
4,000
thumbnails held in memory, so revisiting any part of the grid is instant.
Safety
Your originals are never written to.
The Library reads raw files where they live and keeps every edit in its catalog. Compositor PC keeps backup versions before any overwrite.
Compositor PC
A photographer-first Photoshop replacement.
Compositor PC is a full layered editor for Windows that opens and saves real Photoshop files and works in
32-bit float from the first pixel to the last. Built around a studio's day: camera RAW in, retouch, grade, watermark, deliver.
One portrait, five editable layers: Photo Filter, Remove, Curves, Vignette and Histogram Tone.
3.4 s
Select Subject, every repeat
Down from 234 seconds before tuning, on a GTX 1070.
50
levels of undo
Whole actions undo as a single step.
8, 16, 32
bit JPEG XL, open and save
With transparency, animation and HDR.
2nd
display, full screen
Follows every edit, with its own zoom, file info and histogram.
Retouch and grade
Drag the line. See the work.
The retouching kit a portrait studio reaches for: Remove, Spot Healing, Healing Brush, Patch, Clone Stamp, Frequency Separation,
Dodge and Burn, Liquify and skin tools. Then grade it, or take it to the B&W Studio with 38 presets and a before and after divider.
↔
BeforeAfter
Warm Grade
A look layer plus Vibrance, both editable afterwards.
↔
BeforeAfter
High contrast B&W
B&W Studio, one preset, re-editable from the layer.
B&W Studio: presets, colour filters, film grain, levels and curves in one workspace.
Deliver
Marked, named and ready to send.
Export with Watermark runs Watermark Gienie's own engine: text, logos, borders, Camera Info and Clean Digi Marks,
plus an invisible brand marker that still reads back after JPEG quality 50, a resize to 320 px or a WebP conversion.
Export with Watermark: preset, live preview, format and the marker in one dialog.
Batch with a paper trail.
Whole folders or open tabs, SEO file names, a ZIP of every output and an audit log.
Check any image.
Check Image for Marker recognises both Compositor and Watermark Gienie marks.
Credit in the file.
Creator, copyright and contact written into every export.
Camera RAW, two ways.
Develop RAW files inside Compositor PC, or hand off to Adobe Camera Raw when Photoshop is installed and pick the result straight back up.
HDR ready.
Opens PQ, HLG and 32-bit float HDR, shows it on an HDR monitor and saves HDR JPEG XL.
Made with Compositor
Real sessions. Real edits.
Finished work from Glen's studio, edited start to finish in Compositor. Drag any divider to see the frame straight out of camera.
Image slot 1: before and afterLandscape 3:2, hero edit. Supply the before and after files.
Edit title
Tools used, for example Frequency Separation and a Warm Grade.
Image slot 2: before and afterPortrait 2:3
Edit title
Tools used.
Image slot 3: finished imagePortrait 2:3
Edit title
Tools used.
Image slot 4: finished imagePortrait 2:3
Edit title
Tools used.
Image slot 5: before and afterPortrait 2:3
Edit title
Tools used.
Compositor Library
Every photo. Right where you left it.
Compositor Library is a photo library and raw developer built to replace Lightroom Classic in Glen's own studio.
Native Windows, written in Rust, with Classic panels laid out the way a Lightroom user already works, and non-destructive editing from the first slider.
Develop: presets, Basic tone and Color Mixer, laid out the way Lightroom Classic users already work.
Instant
grid revisits
4,000 thumbnails kept in memory.
~4 s
to fill unseen cells
On a full-size library grid.
3 s
to a live histogram
When a photo opens in Develop.
0
writes to your originals
Edits live in the catalog, never in the raw file.
A real studio session in the Classic grid: folders, histogram and full metadata at a glance.
Big photos, always.
The grid, loupe and filmstrip never shrink a photo to fit something else. Photos fill their tiles, as large as Lightroom Classic shows them.
Familiar panels.
Folders, metadata, histogram and Develop panels at Lightroom Classic density, one text size and one row pitch across every panel.
Portable by design.
One folder holds the app, its settings, logs and models. Copy the folder and the whole app comes with it. Nothing hides in system folders.
Recoverable by design.
Every build is kept in its own dated folder, the catalog has a backup, and a written recovery guide covers a bad build, a damaged catalog or lost source.
Which Compositor does what.
Two apps that work side by side. Use one, or both.
Glen E. Grant
