Extensions

Everything here is an extension.

Safelight ships with the tools below, and the community adds more. Every one is an extension you can turn off, swap, or build yourself. Only the Core stays put.

Built in

Ships with every copy. Disable or replace any of it.

Develop

15 extensions The tonal, colour, detail and geometry tools, plus local adjustments.

White Balance

Temperature and tint.

Basic

Exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows and presence.

Tone Curve

Parametric and point tone curves, per channel.

HSL

Per-colour hue, saturation and luminance mixer.

Color Grading

Shadow, midtone and highlight colour wheels.

Detail

Sharpening and noise reduction.

Effects

Vignette, grain and dehaze.

Lens Correction

Distortion and vignette correction.

Transform

Perspective, upright and geometry corrections.

Crop & Straighten

Crop, straighten and aspect ratios.

Masking

Local adjustments with brush, linear and radial masks.

Heal

Spot removal and healing.

Presets

Save and apply develop presets.

Histogram

Live RGB histogram of the rendered image.

Edit

Undo, redo and reset for the current edit.

Library

4 extensions Organise, filter and inspect the photos in a project.

Folders

Project folder tree.

Filters

Filter the grid by rating, flag and label.

Keywords

Every keyword in the project, with counts. Click to filter.

Info

Metadata and EXIF for the selected photo.

Export

1 extension Render finished images through the same GPU pipeline.

Export

Export with format, size and quality options. JPEG, PNG, WebP and 8 or 16-bit TIFF.

System

3 extensions The pieces that make the rest possible. Core can't be removed; the others can.

Safelight Core

Always on

The heart of the app: the extension manager, the stock Neutral, Dark and Light themes, the Classic layout, and the base render pipeline.

Accessibility

On by default

High-contrast and colour-vision overlays, larger text and controls, reduced motion, and opt-in keyboard editing for the canvas tools.

Developer Tools

Off by default

In-app inspector: console, errors, system and WebGL info, and storage tools.

From the community

Verified extensions, installed from the store inside Safelight. Reach for one when a job needs it, then set it back down.

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Build one yourself.

Every extension here is a folder with a safelight.json manifest. Publish yours to GitHub, tag it, and it appears in the store. Open a pull request to earn the verified badge.

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