The powerful toolkit for image compositing Create and enhance with VEGAS Image

Create pro-level composites with unlimited layers, automatic keying and zero baked-in changes. VEGAS Image is the first photo editing software to keep your image data RAW and your layers self-contained. No more switching between different software!

Built-in Keying | Filters & Effects | Working with Layers

Built-in Keying

Place your images in front of a completely new scenery! The keying tools contained in VEGAS Image help replace any background cleanly and precisely – as easy as ABC.

Automatic Chroma Key

Need to remove a green screen or other background? Automatic Chroma Key takes care of it quickly and easily, doing all the hard work for you. Never spend hours erasing fine hairs or other elements again!

Luminance Key

A powerful, instant tool for removing backgrounds based on luminance – perfect for removing black backgrounds from stock footage fire, where some of the image needs to be semi-transparent.

Light Wrap

Bend your backgrounds around your keyed elements for an even more seamless integration in your composite effects. Light Wrap creates a very natural keying effect for much more convincing keying.

Spill Suppression

Neutralize and remove unwanted green screen spill and get much more natural, cleaner keys for better compositing. Pull great keys from footage you didn’t think was useable.

Edge Softening

Take the hard edges off your keyed elements. Combined with Spill Suppression and Light Wrap, get fantastic, natural keys that no one will ever know is really a composite.

Filters & Effects

VEGAS Image includes 38 powerful filters that give you all you need to create the perfect mood for your videos or to rescue images. Easily adjust the color, sharpen details or remove fog.

Multiple image effects

Quickly apply different effects like Vibrance, Dehaze, Sharpen, Exposure, Shadows & Highlights, and the new Light rays. Use them either to repair the image or highlighting it.

NEW! since April 2020

LUT support

A real time-saver - import your color grading settings as a LUT from VEGAS Pro for easy application to other files in the project, or use them in other projects!

Color Adjust

Pinpoint single colors for change or adjust the overall color of any image with Color Adjust. Now you can perform curve adjustments in the YUV, HSV, CMYK and LAB

NEW! since June 2020

Multi-point gradient effect

This effect lets you create colored points gradients using an unlimited amount of points to create smooth transitions between multiple colors.

NEW! since April 2020

HDR Merge

Align and merge multiple bracketed exposure images to create a single HDR image. This looks more realistic due to more details in the dark and bright areas of the image.

NEW! since June 2020

Focus Stacking

Easily create a single focus merged image by merging multiple bracketed images with different focal lengths.

NEW! since June 2020

Dynamic contrast effect

This effect allows you to add different amounts of contrast to any level of detail. For example, small details in the landscape, medium details in the sky, or large details it the foreground.

NEW! since August 2020

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Brush masks and effects

Brush in/out effects or layers using brush masks with control over the radius, opacity, softness, spacing and smoothing. That allows you to quickly remove unwanted objetcs or textures like skin blemishes.

NEW! since June & August 2020

Halftone effect

Quickly produce a halftone look, like a newspaper print or pop art. This tool provides plenty of options to customize the effect as you want.

NEW! since April 2020

Split toning effect

Subtly add different colored tones to the bright and dark regions of your image. So you can create a unique looking black and white image, for instance.

NEW! since August 2020

RAW Denoise

Remove large noise patterns from RAW images caused by any reason. You can also remove defective pixels with one easy click.

NEW! since April 2020

Lens distortion effect

Correct any lens distortions, such as barrel/pincushion distortion or chromatic aberration. Or use this tool to create a fish-eye effect.

NEW! since April 2020

Font options per character

Visualize your text creatively. Set a unique font size for the first character or bold certain words to bring the message across in the most impactful way possible.

NEW! since August 2020

Working with Layers

Access and adjust flexible layers in real-time and as many times as you need, without disturbing anything else in the image. Now hidden mistakes or later strokes of genius won’t cost you time.

Flexible Layers

Work on complex images and sequences with confidence using Flexible Layers that you can move, rotate, and scale. Your image layers are live and fully adaptable and you can adjust them independently as many times as you need – for an uncompormised, procedual workflow. Additionally, resize your canvas to the bounds of multiple selected layers.

NEW! since April 2020

Layer Presets

Save layers into presets and create custom layer types with auto applied effects or masks. To import and export them quickly, there is now a tab in the settings section listing all of your custom presets and any removed default presets.

NEW! since June 2020

Insert Objects

Use the Insert Objects menu to search for and choose elements, effects, and masks which you can apply directly to any selected layer. Easily target the component of a complex image that you want to receive the object.