Hasselblad Phocus vs Photopea

Hasselblad Phocus is RAW image-processing software for Hasselblad cameras, available for Windows and macOS. It supports 3FR and FFF RAW files and is free. Local tools let you adjust exposure, white balance, colour and moiré with gradients or a brush. Hasselblad Natural Colour Solution is intended to produce reliable colour without multiple colour profiles. For perspective correction, the Keystone Tool offers guideline controls and manual sliders, including dual-axis correction. Phocus can detect moiré automatically and correct it across an image or locally with the brush. Digital Lens Correction addresses colour aberration, distortion and light fall off for supported Hasselblad H System and classic Carl Zeiss V System lenses. The Film Grain tool provides three simulations, with controls for amount, granularity, roughness and colour; Adaptive Chromatic Aberration can also correct images made with third-party lenses. Tethered focus bracketing through Capture Sequencer is supported for X, H and 907X cameras. The listed Mac update, Phocus 4.2.2, includes language switching in the app, smoother zoom and editing for re-imported exported HEIF files.

Photopea is a browser-based editor for raster and vector graphics, with tools for image resizing, webpage design, illustration, and photo processing. Its editing toolkit includes layers, masks, blending, smart objects, adjustment layers, channels, paths, filters, and vector tools. It opens and saves PSD files and lists support for formats including PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF, AI, HEIC, TIFF, MP4, INDD, and Figma. Photopea also offers one-click background removal and image-part replacement from a text description. It says files are processed on the user's device and can still be opened, edited, and saved offline. Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive can be connected optionally. Browser installation creates a homescreen icon but still runs the editor in a browser; a separate self-hosted package can run on a customer server or local network without internet access. The free editor has a free plan. School ad-free access costs $450 a year for the whole school. The self-hosted version is listed at $5,002,000 a month, paid a whole year in advance.