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Heightmap
Depth Map Maker — photos into printable relief
Heightmap turns any photo into a clean, printable height map — a 16-bit grayscale image where brightness equals height. Feed it to a UV printer, laser engraver, CNC router or 3D printer to produce tactile relief from a single image. An on-device depth model does the estimating, so nothing leaves your Mac.
Requires macOS 15 or later.
See it work
Photo to printable relief, in one pass
A 35-second walkthrough — on-device depth, live 3D, relief textures and print-ready export.
Why Heightmap?
Three core arguments
On-device depth
An on-device model estimates the relief from a single photo — nothing leaves your Mac.
Shape the relief
Edit brushes, robust normalization, gamma and large-structure compression bring subjects forward and flatten the background — fully localized in 17 languages.
Print-ready export
16-bit grayscale PNG or TIFF (white = highest), plus a JSON sidecar with height, base thickness, DPI and Z-layers.
Screenshots
A look inside
Click to enlarge — arrow keys to flip through, Esc to close.
Features
What’s inside
Drag in any photo
Open or drop an image; the depth estimate appears in seconds — entirely on your Mac.
Relief edit brushes
Smooth, lighten, darken or restore any area by hand in a movable tool palette — paint the height directly.
Face-aware smoothing
Softens pores and wrinkles on detected faces while keeping eyes, nose and mouth crisp.
Robust normalization
Outlier compression keeps a close hand or a hot spot from flattening the whole relief.
Set the print size
Dial the longest side in millimetres — fit your printer’s build volume and see the exact height-to-size ratio.
Live 2D and 3D
Height map and a real-time 3D render side by side, with a movable light to judge the relief.
RIP-safe values
16-bit PNG or TIFF carry raw height values your RIP or slicer can trust — no guessing.
Built for makers
UV-DTF and UV flatbed prints, laser depth engraving, CNC bas-relief, 3D-printed reliefs.
Price
€2.99, one-time.
Pay once, use forever. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. A fast, commercially licensed depth model is bundled, so the app works the moment you open it; additional models are optional downloads.
Privacy
Private by design
No account, no tracking, no data collection. Everything runs locally on your Mac. Full details in the dedicated Heightmap privacy policy.
Questions? Get in touch