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- All pages checked against the v0.7.1 tag and its release assets; verified: bumped to 0.7.1. - Install: 32-bit Windows (x86) installer and portable build; pre-0.6 upgrades keep their install folder. - Import: Recently Deleted photos are restored by default; progress shows in the activity stack. - Edit: HDR button next to B&W. - Export: JPEG XL Effort and Progressive, lossy JPEG XL colour space note, Add to Apple Photos on macOS. - Lightroom import: activity stack progress and stopping with its X. - Raw troubleshooting: Adobe RGB fix now released, monochrome picture style tone, EOS R5 Mark II C-RAW decodes, Leica DNG and dark scenes still open; drop "import again" (duplicates are skipped). - docs/user/CLAUDE.md is a regular file instead of a symlink. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| title | description | order | verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edit a photo | Open a photo in the Edit panel, adjust Light, Color and Effects sliders, compare with the original, and undo or reset. | 30 | 0.7.1 |
Double-click a photo in the grid, then press E to open the Edit panel. Drag a slider to change the photo. Your original file is never changed, because edits are stored in the library.
Steps
- In Photo Grid or Square Grid, double-click the photo. It opens in the Detail view.
- Press
E, or choose Window > Edit, to open the Edit panel. - Click Auto for a first pass, or skip this step and start with the sliders.
- Open the Light section and set Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks.
- Open the Color section to change Vibrance and Saturation. Open Effects for Texture, Clarity and Dehaze. The panel also has Detail and Optics sections.
- Check your work against the original. Hold
\to peek at the original. PressY(View > Compare Before and After) to see before and after side by side. - To go back a step, choose Edit > Undo. To drop all edits on the photo, click Reset at the top of the Edit panel.
Black and white
Click B&W at the top of the Edit panel to turn the photo monochrome. Click it again to return to colour.
HDR
Click HDR, next to B&W, to edit the photo in HDR, with highlights brighter than SDR white for HDR exports. LightCraft cannot show HDR on an HDR screen yet, so you edit without seeing the extra brightness.
Other edit tools
Open them from the Window menu, or press the key shown next to each one:
| Panel | Key |
|---|---|
| Crop & Rotate | C |
| Remove | H |
| Masking | M |
| Presets | Shift+P |
Good to know
- A raw photo that LightCraft cannot decode yet is edited from the camera's embedded JPEG. The Edit panel then shows Preview only. See A raw photo opens as "Preview only".
- When you zoom in on a large raw, the view can look soft for a few seconds while LightCraft renders the full-resolution pixels.
- To save the result as a file, see Export photos.