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Find the light in every frame.

Open a supported DNG or camera RAW preview, then develop your image with precise tone and color controls. Your original stays untouched.

DNG (uncompressed Bayer), camera-embedded JPEG previews, JPEG, PNG & WebP
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RAW Studio — important details

Privacy: The editor runs locally in your browser. No image is uploaded by the included application. Do not add telemetry or CDN assets without updating this notice.

Supported DNG: classic TIFF DNG with uncompressed 8/16-bit Bayer CFA, 2×2 Bayer patterns and strip storage. Basic bilinear interpolation plus neutral white balance produces an approximate sRGB image. This is not a complete professional camera color pipeline.

Other RAW files: CR2/CR3/NEF/ARW/RAF and similar files are accepted only when a readable embedded JPEG is found. The badge will say “Embedded preview”; exported edits are based on that preview, not sensor pixels. Unsupported files fail visibly without replacing your active image.

Editing: Exposure is in stops (EV). The Pick neutral eyedropper estimates temperature and tint from an area in the image. White balance, highlights and shadows use approximate image-processing math and cannot recover already clipped preview pixels. Curves are editable. The histogram is based on the processed preview.

Framing: Cropping uses original-image coordinates. Rotation and straightening are non-destructive; straightening automatically fills the frame by trimming some edges.

Export: Exports are display-referred 8-bit JPEG/PNG/WebP. Source EXIF/ICC metadata is not preserved. Large files can exhaust browser memory. Preview and export use the same pixel pipeline but resampling may yield small differences.

Projects: Save a .pkraw archive containing the original file and adjustments, including nondestructive framing. Legacy v1 projects remain importable. Autosave is best-effort; keep a manual backup. An export does not modify the original photo. You can reopen a saved project from Open project.

Broader RAW support: A third-party WASM decoder such as LibRaw needs to be legally reviewed, pinned, self-hosted and browser-tested before it can be advertised as installed.

Using RAW Photo Development Studio

Open a supported DNG or raster photo and check whether the tool reports sensor decoding or preview-only editing. Adjust tone, color and framing, then export an image. Keep a PKRAW backup to retain original bytes and editable settings.

Genuine decoding is limited to supported classic TIFF, uncompressed 8/16-bit 2x2 Bayer CFA strip DNG up to 12 MP. Proprietary RAW formats may expose only embedded JPEG previews, without RAW highlight recovery. No compressed/tiled DNG, arbitrary camera decoder, calibrated wide-gamut workflow or 16-bit export is supplied. Output is 8-bit and does not preserve source metadata/ICC profiles; PKRAW contains the complete original image.

Choosing outputs and planning a RAW Photo Development Studio workflow

Develop supported DNG camera files and raster photos in a local editing workspace. Check whether a file is truly decoded or only opened through an embedded JPEG preview before judging its editable range.

An 8-bit exported image is a rendered result; PKRAW retains the original bytes and editing settings for reopening. Exported files do not preserve the source metadata or ICC profile.

Example workflow

  1. Open a DNG or raster photo and read the status that identifies sensor decoding versus preview-only editing.
  2. Adjust tone, color and framing while comparing the preview with the original.
  3. Export an 8-bit image and save a PKRAW backup when you need the original bytes and settings together.

Authored example: Use an authored example of a supported classic TIFF Bayer CFA DNG and check the decode status before adjusting exposure. This describes a review step; no camera file or fresh output is supplied here.

Scope: Sensor decoding is limited to supported uncompressed classic TIFF, 2×2 Bayer CFA strip DNG up to 12 MP. Other RAW files may expose only an embedded JPEG preview. There is no broad camera decoder, calibrated wide-gamut pipeline or 16-bit export.

RAW Photo Development Studio questions

Will every camera RAW file receive full sensor development?

No. True decoding is limited to the specified classic TIFF Bayer CFA DNG subset; other files may show an embedded JPEG preview only.

Does the exported image keep my RAW metadata and ICC profile?

No. Export is 8-bit and does not preserve the source metadata or ICC profile. PKRAW retains the original image bytes and settings.

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