Prep any image, fast.
Drop an image and ImageBuddy trims it to the artwork, keys the background out to transparency, wraps it in a sticker outline, pads it, recolors the backdrop, resizes it, and can trace it to a clean SVG — all over a live chroma-key preview so every cut-out is obvious at a glance.
macOS 13 Ventura or later · Apple Silicon & Intel · Free 7-day trial
Trim & crop
Auto-detect the artwork's bounding box and shave off the transparent and near-white border, or draw a manual crop with a loupe and arrow-key nudge. Rotate and flip in 90° steps.
Remove the background
Flood the near-white negative space out to transparency while interior whites (eye whites, letter counters) survive — or, on macOS 14+, lift the salient subject with an on-device Vision cut-out.
Sticker outline
Wrap the cut-out in a white stroke plus a soft drop shadow. The canvas grows to fit the shadow and crops tight to the result, so the sticker looks the same with trim on or off.
Pad & add a background
Grow a transparent margin (uniform or per-side), then composite over a solid color, a gradient, or an image — the inverse of keying, applied last.
Resize & vectorize
Scale to an exact width × height with an aspect lock, or trace the silhouette (or every flat color) into scalable paths and export or copy an SVG.
Batch & split
Drop several images — or a whole folder — to queue them in a sidebar and work through them one by one. Spot a collage? Split it into separate files in one click.
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Get ImageBuddy
Try it free for 7 days. Buy it on its own or as part of the Surprisingly Useful bundle. Available direct or on the store. Requires macOS 13 or later.
Support
Questions or bug reports? Email ben.dansby@gmail.com and you’ll get a reply, usually within a day or two.
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