One editor for RAW and film. Properly.
pxlmonk is a fast, non-destructive RAW editor for photographers who shoot digital and film — with real film negative conversion built into the same pipeline, not bolted on as an afterthought.
Runs 100% locally on your machine — no account, no cloud, no forced sync.
Non-destructive RAW
Every edit lives on a stack — your original file is never touched.
Film negative conversion
Real film science for C-41, B&W and E-6, not a generic invert filter.
Local adjustment masks
Freely combinable masks that stick to your image through crop and rotation.
CPU-first & private
Fast on your own machine. No account, no server, nothing leaves your computer.
Built for the gap Lightroom leaves for film shooters
Most RAW editors treat film scanning as an afterthought — a generic invert filter, or nothing at all — forcing hybrid shooters to juggle two or three separate tools. pxlmonk treats film conversion as a first-class editing operation, in the same pipeline, the same edit history, the same export as your RAW workflow.
Everything you need, nothing you don’t
A lean, single-purpose editor — not a bloated all-in-one suite.
Film negative conversion that isn’t a gimmick
A dedicated film ingest stage — before white balance and everything else — so the rest of the develop workflow "sees" a normal positive image. Proper density-space inversion, per-channel level matching to remove the orange base mask, and a paper-grade tone curve modeling darkroom-style contrast grading.
- Color negative (C-41), black & white negative and E-6 slide film
- Automatic film carrier/frame detection and process detection
- Film stock presets: Portra, Ektar, Gold, HP5, Tri-X, Provia, Velvia
- Full 16-bit support for real scan files, not a downgraded 8-bit preview
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