Cretweb

Account & library

  • Sign in with e-mail and password, or with Google
  • Clear messages for sign-up, sign-in and password reset
  • Upload by drag and drop or browse, with automatic thumbnails
  • Albums, date groups, lightbox viewer with keyboard navigation
  • Favourites, archive and trash
  • Search by file name
  • Storage meter for your library
  • Isolated libraries for every account
  • RAW support: CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, ORF, RW2, RAF, DNG, PEF and many more (embedded preview)
  • Mobile responsive on phone, tablet and desktop

Sharing & proofing

  • Private album links with expiry date, download and ZIP switches, and a text watermark
  • Client selection: choose photos and submit
  • Client comments up to 500 characters on each chosen photo
  • Notification by e-mail and inbox message on submit
  • CSV export of chosen photos and comments
  • Album activity: opens, 7-day opens, downloads, most-chosen photos
  • ZIP and single downloads for clients (you decide whether they are allowed)
  • Save to phone from the shared album page

Workspace

  • Menu bar (File, Edit, Select, View, Tools, Help)
  • Pan and zoom, pinch zoom, fix the photo in place
  • Histogram (RGB, luma, channels) with clipping warnings
  • Composition guides: thirds, grid, golden ratio, diagonals, centre
  • Rulers, draggable guides and snapping
  • Pixel read-out under the cursor
  • History with named steps and checkpoints
  • Before / after and split view
  • Keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet
  • Hover demos that preview what a tool does

Tone & colour

  • Basic sliders: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, clarity, dehaze, vibrance, saturation, temperature, tint, vignette, noise, sharpness
  • Levels and curves (RGB, R, G, B)
  • Parametric tone curve
  • 8-colour HSL mixer
  • Colour grading and film grain
  • Selective colour, channel mixer, photo filter, gradient map
  • LUT looks (.cube plus built-in looks)
  • Threshold, posterize, invert, black & white mixer
  • Local masks: brush, gradient, radial, light range, colour range
  • Presets of your own and copy-to-many

Layers & selections

  • Layer types: photo, text, image/logo, adjustment, pixel, solid and gradient fill, group
  • 16 blend modes, opacity, fill opacity, Blend If
  • Masks with paint, invert, density and feather
  • Clipping masks, groups, stamp visible
  • Layer effects: outline, outer glow, drop shadow
  • Transform: numeric position and size, skew, perspective, six alignments
  • Selection tools: marquee, lasso, polygon, wand, quick selection
  • Refine edge, expand, contract, smooth, border, invert
  • Saved selections (channels)
  • Pen tool, paths, vector masks and SVG export

Retouching

  • Skin Retouch Pro with smoothing, skin mask, skin colour & light
  • Skin smoother with natural, soft and strong modes
  • Dark spot remover (auto and brush)
  • Clone stamp, healing brush, spot remove
  • Patch tool and content-aware fill
  • Dust and scratch removal
  • Frequency separation with real low and high layers
  • Dodge and burn on their own layers
  • Teeth and eye whitening, red-eye
  • Liquify and puppet warp

Text, shapes & branding

  • Text layers with 21 font styles, colour, shadow, bold
  • Typography: kerning, tracking, line spacing, justify, paragraph box, indent
  • Text on a path (arch, smile, wave or your own path)
  • Vector shapes (13 kinds) with gradient fill and outline
  • Design templates
  • Logo library and watermark placement presets

Automation & files

  • Edit many photos together with a photo strip
  • Copy edits to selected
  • Action sets and batch run with naming templates, retry, CSV report
  • Projects: save, reopen and autosave
  • Print and colour management: ICC profiles, soft proof, dpi, paper fit
  • TIFF, JPEG and PNG with embedded profile
  • PSD import and export
  • Export options: JPG/PNG/WebP, quality, longest side
  • Plugins in an isolated sandbox

Websites

  • Portfolio website from your albums
  • Your own domain with DNS help and a connection check
  • 12 themes (including a custom-colour theme), 3 layouts, 10 page designs and 4 animation styles
  • Packages and prices (up to 8), testimonials, booking requests and a contact form
  • How to find us with address, phone, e-mail and a map pin; optional Our values block
  • Social links for 8 networks, logo, accent colour and photo watermark
  • Individuals welcome: the business options stay folded away until you open them
  • Search-friendly pages and sitemap
  • Visitor statistics: visits, devices, sources and top albums, with no IP address or cookie stored

Admin & safety

  • Admin panel: every account in one table with search, filters (active, suspended, Google or e-mail, has website, no photos yet…) and sorting
  • Suspend (reversible, hides the website and shared albums), enable and delete accounts, reset-password links
  • Per-account storage and activity overview
  • AI features off by default with a single admin switch
  • Server-side checks on every request, signed image links, upload content checks, rate limits

What is not included

Free-form corner dragging (Distort) on the canvas, brushes beyond size, hardness and opacity, inner shadow and bevel effects, smart objects and a full CMYK workflow are not part of Cretweb today. PSD export flattens text, shapes and adjustment layers. AI features exist but are switched off unless the administrator turns them on.

Ready to try it?

Log in to your Cretweb account, or create one and upload your first album.