Color.io - Online RAW Image Editor
The color grading tool for photographers.
Color.io is an online color grading application that puts photographers in complete control of the grade. Powered by industry leading color science and a processing engine with built-in analog film response models, photographic look development has never been more powerful.
Analog Color Processing Engine
Controls that respond like film.
For painterly colors.
Every control in Color.io is driven by an engine that models the complex, non-linear response behaviours of analog film. Easily bring out dense, painterly colors from your images with beset-in-class cinema color science, a huge preset library and powerful color transformation tools you will not find anywhere else.
Color Science for Photographers
Analog color science. For deeper pixels.
Color.io combines analog color modelling with the ease and flexibility of digital color grading. Powered by the VisionColor Halide™ Engine and an ACES © color managed workflow, it is now easier than ever to bring out highly dense colors from your images.
Film Halation Effect
Film Halation. Another highlight.
Color.io comes with an optical film halation module that recreates the effect of very bright light causing orange-red highlight flaring on analog film. It's an important characteristic of many film stocks that can not be created through color grading alone.
Online RAw Image Editor
Cinema Raw™
for more than 600 cameras.
Color.io allows you to develop raw photos from over 600 cameras directly in your browser. A powerful VisionLog™ RAW interpreter paired with a custom wide-gamut ACES © IDT enables cinema color management for digital photography with a logarithmically encoded base image - an ideal starting point for grading in SDR and HDR.
Images developed from camera .dng originals and 16-bit .tiff composites using VisionLog ACES IDT workflow in Color.io.
Color.io debayers and interprets raw image data in a wide-gamut color space with a logarithmic gamma called VisionLog. The resulting image contains all shadow and highlight information and is an ideal starting point for creative color grading and look development. Cinema Raw describes the non-destructive conversion from VisionLog Raw through ACES to the output device transform.
3D LUT Export
The same color. Everywhere.
Export 3D LUTs to use your color grades in third party workflows. LUTs are like universal presets that ensure the grades you create in Color.io look the same across applications, photos, videos, 3D renders, game engines and more. Color.io LUTs work everywhere and are also fully color managed if you need it.
Level up your color.
Color.io is a tool for natural color grading, driven by an engine that models the response behaviour of analog film. Most features of Color.io are free to use. Upgrade to the pro plan when you need more.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In case you missed anything.
How does Color.io help with photo editing?
You can use Color.io to develop and color grade images and to create 3D LUTs for use in Adobe Photoshop, Darktable, Affinity Photo and more. Color.io is also a complete, cinema-log based RAW processor that can develop RAW files from over 600 cameras. The unique color manipulation tools and analog color grading engine make Color.io a powerful extension to any photo editing software that doesn't come with advanced 3D color visualization, film halation and deep gamut shaping tools.
What image formats are supported for preview?
Color.io is an online raw editor and can read raw data from many cameras. Here's a list of the image file formats you can expect to open and develop with Color.io:
.jpg, .png, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, .dpx, .dng, .cr2, .cr3, .arw, .nef, .raf, .dc2, .rdc, .bay, .crw, .cap, .dcs, .dcr, .drf, .eip, .erf,.fff, .iiq, .k25, .kdc, .mdc, .mef, .mos, .mrw,.nrw, .obm, .orf, .pef, .ptx, .pxn, .raw, .rwl,.rw2, .rwz, .sr2, .srf, .srw, .x3f, .3fr
How does Raw editing work?
Raw development in Color.io is powered by VisionLog - an ultra-wide-gamut, log-encoded color space compatible with built-in ACES © color managed. The image above shows the VisionLog, ProPhotoRGB and sRGB gamut for size comparison.
After loading a raw image into Color.io, all you have to do is select "VisionLog" from the camera dropdown at the top.
The VisionLog curve has a wider dynamic range than a standard linear encoding, which means that it can capture all detail in both the highlights and shadows of an image. Compared to traditional raw development workflows you can think of the logarithmic encoding step as an automated shadow and highlight recovery that creates a low-contrast base image with all image details non-destructively compressed into a very wide tonal range. VisionLog encoded raw images are an ideal starting point for creative color grading and look development.
Is Color.io a complete photo editor?
It depends on what you need from a photo editor. Instead of doing many things, Color.io is focused on color grading for natural photographic look development. Fully fledged photo editing apps usually do a lot of things like cropping, rotating, flipping, adding text, masking out areas, smoothing skin tones, warping faces and more. Color.io does none of these things. If you have an idea for a feature you'd like to see in the app you can submit feature requests and bug reports directly in the app.
