Extraction quality that rivals the best cloud services — unlimited, private, and entirely on your machine.
Your images never leave your machine. Shed delivers cloud-quality results with zero cloud exposure.
See Performance DataBatch-process a full session in minutes, not hours. ~6s per full-res image on NVIDIA, ~12s on Apple Silicon.
Preserves hair and fine detail so your final composites need less manual cleanup.
Processing happens directly on your GPU. No waiting for cloud queues, no bandwidth bottlenecks.
Cloud services charge $0.10–$0.45 per extraction. Shed is unlimited after purchase — your 10,000th image costs the same as your 1st: nothing.
Tuned for Apple Silicon on macOS and NVIDIA GPUs on Windows for maximum throughput.
No analytics, no telemetry, no cloud sync. Shed only phones home once to verify your license — your images never leave your machine.
Side-by-side with the leading cloud service on the same portraits. Hard to tell the difference — easy to see the savings.
A photographer processing 20,000 school portraits per year typically spends $2,000–$9,000 on cloud extraction services. Shed is unlimited — your hardware is already paid for.
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Solo studio operators and freelancers doing volume work
Studios with 2–3 shooters, school photography companies
Cloud extraction services process student photographs on third-party servers — creating compliance obligations, data breach exposure, and legal risk. School photography companies have already been sued for processing student photos through facial recognition systems.
Median processing time over 3 full runs using the same 200-image dataset.
Median processing time over 3 full runs using the same 200-image dataset.
Yes. Shed runs entirely on your machine with no internet connection required. The AI model is bundled with the app — no cloud calls, no API keys, no data leaving your computer.
Shed accepts JPEG, PNG, and TIFF inputs. Outputs can be saved as WebP, PNG, or TIFF with full alpha transparency, ready for compositing in Photoshop, Capture One, or any editor.
Each license covers up to two machines — so if you work across a Windows desktop and a Mac laptop, you're covered. Volume pricing is available for studios.
Pay once ($699 Pro / $1,199 Studio), own Shed v1 forever — including all v1.x updates. Major version upgrades (v2, v3) are available at a discounted upgrade price for existing license holders. Lifetime pays for itself in year 2 vs the annual plan.
Yes. Shed works with green screen, gray, white, Lastolite, and natural backgrounds. It automatically handles green screen color cast on hair — the #1 quality complaint in school photography — so your extractions are composite-ready without manual cleanup.
On Windows, an NVIDIA GPU with 8GB+ VRAM (RTX 20-series or newer); RTX 3060+ with 12GB is recommended for production volume. On Mac, any Apple Silicon chip (M1 or later) with 16GB+ unified memory — no dedicated GPU needed, the unified memory architecture handles it; 32GB is recommended for high-volume 30+ MP work. AMD and Intel graphics cards are not supported (there's no viable AI compute path for them), and neither are Intel-based Macs — on those machines Shed falls back to CPU processing at 15+ minutes per image, which isn't practical for real work. The app warns you at launch if no supported GPU is found.
Shed processes everything locally on your computer — images are never uploaded to third-party servers. For school districts or organizations with specific compliance requirements, please consult your legal counsel to confirm local processing meets your needs.
We want you to be happy with Shed. If it doesn't meet your needs, reach out and we'll work with you.
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