RAWmakase is a fast, non-destructive RAW photo developer. It uses LibRaw to open images from a wide range of cameras and exports finished photographs as JPEG or 16-bit TIFF files.
The application offers a Lightroom-style set of development controls together with an integrated image library. It can import a Lightroom Classic catalogue, including ratings, flags, colour labels, keywords and compatible development settings, without modifying the source catalogue or original photographs.
RAWmakase accelerates colour and tone processing on the GPU, using Vulkan on Linux, while retaining a CPU fallback. It also provides presets, camera profiles, masking and spot-removal tools, and a command-line interface for inspection, rendering and catalogue operations.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Non-destructive editing with adjustments stored in an SQLite catalogue while original photographs remain unchanged.
- Development controls include exposure, shadows and highlights, clarity, dehaze, point curves, levels, HSL colour mixing and three-way colour grading.
- Detail processing provides denoising and sharpening together with crop, straighten, perspective transformation and lens corrections.
- GPU-accelerated colour and tone processing uses Vulkan on Linux with a CPU fallback.
- Imports Lightroom Classic catalogues with ratings, flags, colour labels, keywords and compatible development settings.
- Supports Lightroom XMP presets and imported DCP and XMP camera profiles alongside RAWmakase’s own camera profiles.
- Experimental local editing includes Heal and Clone spot removal plus brush, gradient and range masks.
- Library facilities include folders, ratings, flags, colour labels and filtering.
- Command-line tools can inspect and render RAW files, extract thumbnails, import catalogues and profiles, and run benchmarks without the graphical interface.
Website: github.com/pch/rawmakase
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Developer: pch
License: MIT License
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