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.

Editing happens on your machine: your images, catalog and edits never leave your computer.

PxlMonk Develop panel

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. Your images, catalog and edits never leave your computer — only licensing talks to our server.

Why PxlMonk

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.

2-in-1 RAW + film, one pipeline
How it works

Everything you need, nothing you don’t

A lean, single-purpose editor — not a bloated all-in-one suite.

The standout feature

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
PxlMonk film negative conversion

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