One board for everything you look at.
Images, video, GIFs and PDF pages — laid out, compared and marked up right beside the apps you work in.
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The whole board
A board that stays out of your way.
Quiet when idle, never steals focus from Photoshop or Blender, plays only what you start.
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Generated ART
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Warm key, cold fill.
Keep the haze.
Keep the haze.
Shot list → frames 3, 5, 8
drag. drop. done.
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Video and GIF
Play it. Scrub it. Take the frame.
Clips and GIFs live on the board next to your stills — and they never slow the rest of your work down.
- Plays on your commandSpace or Play starts it, it plays until you stop; the last frame stays.
- Frame by frameHold Alt and move to scrub; the frame number shows as you go.
- Extract frameTake any frame as a picture, named by its timecode and linked to its clip.
- Together or in turnSeveral clips selected: play them side by side or one after another.
- Streamed from diskBig files are never loaded into memory; off-screen and minimised, nothing plays.
snail_rain.mp4TogetherIn turn00:00:07:14
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Alt + move: frame by frame
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Composition
Guides, safe frames and crop — in place.
Check the shot without leaving the board. Every change can be undone.
- Composition guidesThirds, golden ratio and spiral, triangles, diagonals, armature, centre, N×N grids.
- Safe area and aspect framesSee what survives a 16:9, 4:5 or any other frame.
- Crop on the boardCtrl-drag an edge or press C; presets: circle, 1:1, 3:4, 4:3, 16:9, original.
- Flip, rotate, black and whiteShift+H / Shift+V, 90° turns, and a tone check: grey and posterised.
crop right on the board
circle crop
rule of thirds →
Blend modes
Overlay ideas the way Photoshop does.
Lay one picture over another and see how they mix — right from the picture’s menu.
- Sixteen modesMultiply, Screen, Overlay, Soft Light, Difference, Color and the rest.
- In Photoshop’s groupsDarken, lighten, contrast, compare and colour — where your hand expects them.
- One step to undoBack to Normal any time.
the snail on top, in Screen
Draw and annotate
Mark it up like on paper.
Write over your references the way you would with a pen — then move, hide or undo it.
- BrushesPen, ink, marker, pencil, highlighter and painterly brushes — size, smoothing, opacity.
- Shapes and arrowsLines, arrows, rectangles, ellipses and triangles that snap to your pictures.
- Text and notesHeadings, notes with colour, bold, lists — and captions under pictures.
- Links between thingsDrag a dot to connect any two items; the curve follows when you move them.
Warm key, cold fill.
Keep the haze.
Keep the haze.
Pen
Ink
Marker
Pencil
Highlighter
Organise
Tidy a hundred pictures in a second.
Group, arrange and sort without dragging every picture by hand.
- GroupsA frame with a name; drop pictures in, fit it to its content, keep things together.
- LayoutsGrid, row, column or moodboard — for the selection or inside a group.
- Sort by colourAlso by brightness, saturation, shape, size or name. Select similar colours.
- Tabs, search and tagsMany boards in one project; find by name, filter by tag, save views and fly back.
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Sorted by colour
night×warm×iceland×hero shot×
tags: # · filter: Ctrl+Shift+F
Drag and drop
Drop in files and whole folders.
Bring references in the way you already work — and keep the originals where they are.
- From Explorer and FinderDrop pictures, videos, GIFs and PDFs; pages of a PDF come in as pictures.
- Whole foldersA folder becomes a Group that stays in sync with the disk.
- Linked, not copiedPictures from your disk stay where they are; the board remembers the path.
- From the browser and clipboardPaste or drop from the web — those are kept in the project folder.
Iceland
frame_03.webpPDF
storyboard.pdfSnails
snail_2.pngloop.gifPDF pages come in as pictures
Snails
a folder → a Group, kept in sync
Your files, safe
Nothing gets lost.
One project file and a media folder you can see. If a file moves, the board helps you find it again.
- Missing filesMarked on the board and counted in the status bar; relink one, or let it search a folder by content.
- Save your waySave by hand or autosave; a recovery copy every two minutes in case something goes wrong.
- CollectGather the board and its files into one folder or a single .refpack to send.
- PDF exportTurn a board into a PDF to share or print.
moved file: marked in red
Collect → one .refpack with everything
Window
Stays on top. Stays out of the way.
Keep references over Photoshop, Blender or Houdini — without them ever taking your keys or focus.
- Always on topThe board floats over your work; set opacity to see through it.
- Overlay modeThe window shrinks to the pictures themselves; on Windows it never takes focus.
- Click-throughClicks pass to the app underneath while the board stays visible.
- Light on your computerNear zero when idle; plays only what you start; a modest share of video memory.
Layers
always on top · 90% opacity
and it never takes your keys