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sudo snap install focale

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Details for Focale

Package name

  • focale

License

  • Proprietary

Last updated

  • 7 November 2026 - latest/stable

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Retouch, compose and create with precision

Focale is a photo and vector editor for people who care about detail. Retouch a photograph, assemble a composition, paint on a blank canvas or draw an illustration: photo and vector documents stay open side by side, with tools that adapt to your work.

Start from a photograph. Develop your camera RAW files, correct lens distortion, then retouch: remove a distracting element, refine the edge of a selection, or merge several shots into a panorama or an HDR image.

Or start from an idea. Stack layers, mask them and blend them, and keep your adjustments editable instead of baking them into the pixels. Paint with brushes that follow your hand and set text exactly where you want it.

Create editable vector artwork. Draw Bézier curves, adjust anchor points, combine shapes and vary stroke widths. Arrange illustrations across artboards, flow text along a path or through linked frames, and reuse your colors, styles and symbols.

Your work stays with you. Processing runs on your device, and .focale and .fvector projects preserve your layers, objects and resources so that you can pick up where you left off. Focale also opens and exports common image formats, layered PSD and PSB documents, and supported SVG and PDF artwork.

FEATURES

  • Layers, groups, masks, blend modes and adjustment layers.
  • Selection, healing, cloning and content-aware tools.
  • Brushes, gradients, paths, vector shapes and rich text.
  • Vector drawing, anchor editing, shape building and variable-width strokes.
  • Artboards, text on paths, linked text frames and reusable symbols.
  • Image tracing, vector brushes and gradient meshes.
  • Camera RAW development, panorama and HDR merges.
  • ICC color management, RGB and CMYK, up to 32 bits per channel.
  • Reusable brushes, patterns, styles and swatches, actions and batch jobs.
  • Autosave and recovery, custom workspaces and shortcuts, light and dark themes.
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