Light controls
Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks shape the tonal range without a trip through Curves.
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Lightroom-Style Develop
Tone, colour, detail and effects in one focused workspace — with a real before/after.
The Develop workspace is built for the pass that happens after the cull: fix exposure, recover highlights, set white balance, add contrast and colour, then sharpen for the output. The controls are grouped the way photographers expect, and the preview updates as you move them.
Presets cover cinematic warm, blue hour, silver gelatin, Portra-inspired colour and more. The before/after toggle compares the original with the current grade without destroying either state.
No image uploads WebAssembly engine Works in the tab
What you can do
Develop, in detail.
A Lightroom-style develop workspace in the browser: exposure, highlights, shadows, white balance, vibrance, clarity, dehaze, grain, sharpening and presets with before/after.
Colour controls
Temperature, tint, vibrance and saturation adjust the mood while protecting already-saturated colours.
Detail and effects
Clarity, dehaze, sharpening, noise reduction, vignette, grain and lens blur finish the frame.
Presets that are editable
Apply a preset as a starting point, then keep moving individual sliders. Nothing is locked behind a look.
Wedding recipes and prompts
Twenty wedding recipes across ten scene groups — ceremony, portraits, reception, details, golden hour, getting ready, black tie, documentary, black and white and flash reception — plus a local prompt parser for “bright airy”, “moody reception”, “clean skin” and similar requests.
Local AI suggest
Histogram, skin-pixel and sharpness analysis chooses a starting recipe and reports a quality score. The analysis runs locally; no photo is uploaded.
Before/after
Toggle the original at any time to check whether the grade is helping or just different.
Apply back to the document
Commit the developed pixels to an editable layer, then continue with masks, retouching or compositing.
How it works
From file to finish in three moves.
No install step and no import queue. Open the editor, work on the document locally, and export the file your next tool expects.
Try it now- 1
Open a photo
Start from a JPEG, PNG, TIFF, HEIC or RAW file. The Develop workspace uses the current document composite.
- 2
Grade the frame
Work top to bottom: exposure, tone, colour, detail, effects. Use a preset if you want a known starting point.
- 3
Apply or export
Apply the grade to the document for further layer work, or export directly to JPEG, PNG, WebP or TIFF.
Who it is for
Built for real photo work.
These are the workflows the tool is designed around — not a list of theoretical features.
- Wedding photographers applying a consistent warm, airy look across a ceremony set.
- Event shooters recovering mixed lighting without leaving the browser.
- Portrait photographers adding clean contrast and gentle sharpening before delivery.
- Anyone who wants a fast grade on a tablet without a desktop subscription.
Questions
Develop FAQ
Straight answers about formats, privacy and limits.
Is the develop edit non-destructive?
The live preview and settings are non-destructive until you choose Apply to edit the document. Applied changes become pixels on a layer and remain undoable through history.
Can I save my own presets?
The current build ships a curated preset set and remembers the active look for the session. User-defined preset libraries and XMP import/export are not yet implemented.
Does it support XMP sidecars?
No. Develop settings are not written to XMP sidecars. Export a rendered file or a layered PSD when you need to hand off the result.
Does the preview match the export?
The live preview uses CSS filters for speed, while Apply and Export run the per-pixel Canvas2D pipeline. Highlights, shadows and local contrast can differ slightly; check the applied result before delivery.
What are the wedding recipes and prompts?
A set of twenty develop recipes across ten scene groups (ceremony, portraits, reception, details, golden hour, getting ready, black tie, documentary, black and white and flash reception) plus a local parser that maps phrases such as “bright airy”, “moody reception” or “clean skin” to editable settings.
Put develop to work.
Open the editor and bring a real file. Your photo stays on your device.