storytold / lightcraft

LightCraft 
 Your photos. Your pixels. Your machine. 
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 Photo library and raw development; an open-source, non-destructive photo library and raw developer, built in pure Rust. 
 Native on macOS, Windows and Linux. In the browser via WebAssembly. Drivable end to end by AI agents over MCP.
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 Ansel Adams, "The Tetons and the Snake River" (1942). Public domain, U.S. National Archives. Developed in LightCraft. 
> [!NOTE]
> **ArtCraft is a community of artists from all walks of life.** Digital, generative, music,
> games — if you make things, you're one of us. **Come say hi on Discord.**
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## Edit like you mean it
LightCraft is a complete darkroom in a single native app. Every adjustment is **non-destructive**, so your originals
are never touched. Every slider renders through a **scene-referred, wide-gamut, 32-bit float pipeline**: highlights
roll off like film, shadows open up without halos, and colour stays clean from capture to export.
### ☀️ Light
**Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks**, with edge-aware local tone mapping (a guided filter on
log-luminance). Pulling −100 Highlights recovers a blown sky without the grey halos you'd get from a naive curve.
### 🎨 Color
**White balance** by temperature and tint (Kelvin for raw, relative for JPEG) with presets, Auto and a
click-to-neutralise **eyedropper**. **Vibrance** that protects skin tones, **Saturation**, an 8-band **Color Mixer**
(hue / saturation / luminance) and 3-way **Color Grading** wheels with blending and balance. All of it is computed in
OkLCh, a modern perceptual colour space.
### ✨ Effects
**Texture** for fine detail, **Clarity** for mid-tone punch, **Dehaze** (dark-channel prior with guided refinement;
push it negative to add atmosphere), post-crop **Vignette** with highlight priority, roundness and feather, and
resolution-independent film **Grain** with size and roughness.
### 📈 Tone Curve
Parametric region curve with movable splits **plus** point curves for RGB, Red, Green and Blue. Curves are monotone by
construction, so you never get an accidental tone inversion.
 A gentle S on the RGB point curve, right under the Light sliders. Ansel Adams, 1942 (public domain). 
## Color grading, the cinematic way
Split-tone shadows, midtones and highlights independently with drag-anywhere colour wheels. Below, Dorothea Lange's
*Migrant Mother* gets a warm, print-like tone (highlights at 42°, shadows at 28°) in two drags.
 Shadows, midtones and highlights wheels in the Color panel. Dorothea Lange, "Migrant Mother" (1936). Public domain, Library of Congress. 
## Before & after
Press \\ to toggle the Before view, Y for side by side, or Shift + Y for a
split view. Every image below is a real screenshot of LightCraft, captured autom