01LightCraft

04LightCraft

Your photos. Your pixels. Your machine.

A fast photo library and non-destructive raw developer, written from scratch in pure Rust. No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no subscription.

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Develop — The Tetons and the Snake River

Screenshot

LightCraft developing Ansel Adams' The Tetons and the Snake River with light and effects sliders

02Highlights

What's inside.

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    Non-destructive by design

    A scene-referred, wide-gamut, 32-bit float pipeline. Your originals are never touched.

  2. 02

    Every control you reach for

    Light, color, effects, tone curve, an 8-band color mixer, 3-way color grading wheels and 18 built-in presets.

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    Precise masking

    Brush, linear and radial gradients, luminance and color ranges, plus sky, subject and background masks.

  4. 04

    Native raw decoding

    Pure-Rust decoders for DNG, CR2, ARW, NEF, RAF (including X-Trans), RW2, PEF and ORF, with more on the way.

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    A library that keeps up

    Albums, ratings, flags, field search and virtualized grids built for big catalogs.

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    Instant feedback

    The GPU develop pipeline updates a 24 MP raw in about 4 ms per slider move.

03Screenshots

LightCraft color grading wheels applied to Dorothea Lange's Migrant MotherFull size
Color grading wheels — Migrant Mother02
LightCraft masking panel with a radial gradient mask warming a sunset skyFull size
Sky and radial gradient masks03
LightCraft library grid with albums, ratings and the develop panelFull size
Library with albums and ratings04

04Get LightCraft

Installers

Installers are on the way.

Native installers for macOS, Windows, and Linux are coming. Join the ArtCraft Discord to get them first, try early builds and talk with the team building LightCraft.

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Build from source

Run it today.

Needs Rust 1.90 or newer. New to Rust? Install it with rustup, then run:

Terminal
git clone https://github.com/storytold/lightcraft.git
cd lightcraft
cargo run --release -p lightcraft
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05The family

More from the family.

All Crafting Apps
01

Image editor

PhotoCraft editing The Great Wave off Kanagawa with a Curves adjustment and type layers in the Layers panel

PhotoCraft

The open-source image editor you already know how to use.

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02

Vector illustration

DrawCraft editing a synthwave poster titled Neon Drive with an outer glow in the Appearance panel

DrawCraft

Fast, open-source vector illustration, reimagined in pure Rust.

Explore DrawCraft
03

Video editor

FilmCraft with video scopes, the program monitor showing Charade (1963), and a multi-track timeline

FilmCraft

Professional, open-source video editing, rebuilt from scratch in Rust.

Explore FilmCraft
05

PDF workbench

PrintCraft showing a showcase PDF cover with the tools sidebar and threaded comments

PrintCraft

The open-source PDF workbench: read, organize, combine, split and secure.

Explore PrintCraft

Open source · Free

Help shape LightCraft.

Report bugs, request features and get early builds of LightCraft in the ArtCraft Discord.

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