Launching today
Redlamp
Native, open-source RAW Lightroom alternative editor for Mac
31 followers
Native, open-source RAW Lightroom alternative editor for Mac
31 followers
Redlamp is a native, open-source RAW photo editor for Apple Silicon, built from scratch in Swift and Metal. Lightroom's workflow, with no subscription and no cloud.
I'm surprised no one made this sooner! I will be testing this out tonight.
I have longed for a Lightroom Equivalent without the cost.
@reuben_hodgkins Thanks! As it turns out, there are a few options out there, Darktable in particular is extremely powerful but it's not known for being particularly easy to use. My approach here was really to go after familiarity - if there's nothing new to learn there's no friction to adoption.
Hope you enjoy it - keep in mind this is still in pre-alpha so rough edges and bugs are to be expected.
built from scratch in Swift/Metal rather than wrapping an existing engine is the part that surprises me, RAW decoding is the kind of thing I'd expect to outsource to libraw or dcraw and spend your own time on the UI instead. what made you go all the way down to writing your own decoder - was it a performance ceiling with the existing libraries, or more about not wanting a GPL dependency sitting under an MPL project, or something else entirely
@galdayan
Handling raw files is only a small part of the rendering pipeline and does not constitute the engine. Redlamp does use LibRaw, and this is described prominently on the website and github. The actual engine is fully custom though.
(note that your comment has been flagged as likely AI)