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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: Edit a photo
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description: Open a photo in the Edit panel, adjust Light, Color and Effects sliders, compare with the original, and undo or reset.
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order: 30
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verified: 0.7.1
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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.
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## Steps
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1. In **Photo Grid** or **Square Grid**, double-click the photo. It opens in the **Detail** view.
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2. Press `E`, or choose **Window** > **Edit**, to open the **Edit** panel.
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3. Click **Auto** for a first pass, or skip this step and start with the sliders.
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4. Open the **Light** section and set **Exposure**, **Contrast**, **Highlights**, **Shadows**, **Whites** and **Blacks**.
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5. Open the **Color** section to change **Vibrance** and **Saturation**. Open **Effects** for **Texture**, **Clarity** and **Dehaze**. The panel also has **Detail** and **Optics** sections.
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6. Check your work against the original. Hold `\` to peek at the original. Press `Y` (**View** > **Compare Before and After**) to see before and after side by side.
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7. To go back a step, choose **Edit** > **Undo**. To drop all edits on the photo, click **Reset** at the top of the **Edit** panel.
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## Black and white
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Click **B&W** at the top of the **Edit** panel to turn the photo monochrome. Click it again to return to colour.
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## HDR
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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.
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## Other edit tools
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Open them from the **Window** menu, or press the key shown next to each one:
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| Panel | Key |
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| **Crop & Rotate** | `C` |
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| **Remove** | `H` |
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| **Masking** | `M` |
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| **Presets** | `Shift`+`P` |
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## Good to know
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- 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"](../troubleshooting/preview-only-raw.md).
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- When you zoom in on a large raw, the view can look soft for a few seconds while LightCraft renders the full-resolution pixels.
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- To save the result as a file, see [Export photos](export-photos.md).
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