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+Ansel Adams, “The Tetons and the Snake River” (1942) — public domain, U.S. National Archives — developed in LightCraft.
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+| + +### ☀️ Light +**Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks** — with edge-aware local tone mapping (a guided filter on +log-luminance), so pulling −100 Highlights recovers a blown sky without the grey halos you'd get from a naive curve. + +### 🎨 Color +**White balance** by temperature & 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 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 — no accidental tone inversions, ever. + + | +
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+Dorothea Lange, “Migrant Mother” (1936) — public domain, Library of Congress.
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+![]() The Tetons and the Snake River — Highlights −45, Shadows +38, Clarity +28, Dehaze +18. Ansel Adams, 1942 (public domain). |
+![]() Migrant Mother — Shadows +42, Texture +18, split-toned grade, vignette. Dorothea Lange, 1936 (public domain). |
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![]() Earthrise — Dehaze +22, Highlights −30, warmer white balance, Vibrance +22. NASA / Bill Anders, Apollo 8, 1968 (public domain). |
+![]() The Blue Marble — Highlights −38, Blacks −20, Dehaze +15, Vibrance +30. NASA, Apollo 17, 1972 (public domain). |
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+| + +### ✂️ Crop, straighten & geometry +Free or locked aspect ratios (1:1, 4:5, 5:7, 2:3, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10, original), drag-to-rotate straightening that always +keeps the largest crop inside the image, thirds / grid / golden-ratio overlays, flips and 90° rotations, plus +manual Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Aspect, Scale and Offset transforms. + + | ++ +### ⚫️ Black & White +One click (V) to monochrome with an 8-band **B&W Mix** that lets you darken skies or glow foliage — then +tone it with Color Grading for selenium, sepia or split-tone prints. + + | +
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