Developing your photos

Double-click a photo, or select it and switch to the Develop tab, to open the editor. The photo fills the centre; the histogram and the editing panels are on the right; the filmstrip along the bottom lets you move between photos.

Note

All editing in pxlmonk is non-destructive — your RAW file is never overwritten. Edits are stored separately, so you can change or reset them at any time.

The Develop tabs

The vertical rail on the right switches between editing tools:

• Info — metadata and triage (see below).
• Transform — crop, straighten, correct perspective, rotate and flip.
• Develop — the main adjustments: white balance, tone, colour, detail and effects.
• Mask — edit selected regions independently.
• Touchup — heal, clone and remove dust or spots.
• Presets — save and apply looks.

Tip

Analog scans get an extra Film tab for negative/slide conversion — see analog film development. (Pro feature.)

The Info panel

The Info tab shows the shot’s metadata and lets you triage it:

At the top is the histogram (toggle between luminosity and RGB). Below it:

• Camera, Lens and Exposure read from the file’s EXIF.
• Rating, Flag, Color label and Tags — the same triage you can do in the Library, kept in sync.
• This is an analog scan — turn this on for film scans to unlock the Film workflow and relabel the camera/lens rows as the scanning rig.
• Capture date — corrected here if needed; reset to the EXIF value with one click.

Next steps

• White balance & tone — your first real adjustments.