Drop an image and ImageBuddy trims it to the artwork, keys the background out to transparency, wraps it in an outline and a drop shadow, straightens a crooked shot, reframes the canvas, recolors the backdrop, resizes it, titles and captions it, stamps a watermark over the result, and can trace it to a clean SVG.
One sidebar of switches. Flip on what the image needs.
Every edit is a stage, and the stages run top to bottom. Turn one on and the preview updates live; turn it off and it’s gone without a trace. No layers, no undo archaeology.
01
Get to the subject
Lose the junk around the thing you actually want.
Trim & crop
Finds the artwork’s edges and shaves off the border, whatever color it is, not just white. Or draw your own crop, with a loupe and arrow-key nudges.
Straighten
Level a crooked horizon against a thirds grid, a tenth of a degree at a time. Crop in to the largest straight rectangle, or keep the whole frame with transparent corners.
Remove the background
Auto mode spots the real background color and knocks it out to transparency while interior detail survives. Or lift the subject with an on-device Vision cut-out.
02
Give it room
Put it on exactly the canvas it’s going on.
Canvas size
Add a transparent margin, even or per side, or reframe the canvas without scaling: pick an origin, a size, and an optional fixed aspect ratio.
Resize image
Scale to an exact width × height with the aspect locked, or unlock it to stretch on purpose.
03
Make it look finished
The polish that usually means opening a second app.
Stylize
An outline, a soft drop shadow, or both, each with its own controls. The canvas grows to fit, so nothing gets clipped.
Add a background
Drop the cut-out onto a solid color, a gradient, or a photo, filling every transparent pixel the earlier stages made.
Add text
A title above and a caption below, set in their own bands so they never cover the artwork. Pick the typeface, color and alignment; long lines wrap.
Watermark
Stamp text or your logo over the result, with your color, size, opacity and position. It’s remembered, so every new image arrives already marked.
04
Take it anywhere
Get the result out without a single save dialog.
Vectorize to SVG
Trace the silhouette, or every flat color, into clean scalable paths. Export a file or copy the SVG straight to the clipboard.
Copy it or drag it out
⌘C copies the finished PNG with its transparency intact, or drag it from the preview into any app as a properly named file.
Screenshots
On iPhone and iPad
The whole pipeline, in your hands.
ImageBuddy is a native iPhone and iPad app too, running the same stages over the same live preview — trim to the artwork, straighten, key the background out, pad the canvas, outline and shadow it, title it, stamp a watermark, trace it to SVG — and the same batch queue, so a folder of images is still one pass. On iPad it’s the Mac’s three‑pane layout verbatim: queue on the left, preview in the middle, stages down the right.
Get ImageBuddy
On the App Store for Mac, iPhone, and iPad — one purchase covers all three, on macOS 13 or iOS 17 and later. Or a notarized direct download for the Mac, free to try for 7 days, requiring macOS 13 or later. Buying more than one app? ImageBuddy is included in my bundles, along with over 30 other apps.
