Ansel
Ansel is an open-source photo-editing software for digital artists, designed to help you achieve your own interpretation of raw digital photographs.
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- RAW Photo Editors
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- Photo Editing
- raw-image-editing
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Developed by
Aurélien Pierre Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is Ansel?
Ansel is an open-source photo-editing software for digital artists, designed to help you achieve your own interpretation of raw digital photographs.
It is grounded in the legacy of Ansel Adams, pianist and photographer, who pushed darkroom craftsmanship like never before to serve his photographic vision.
Ansel allows you to manage your collections of pictures, to edit your raw digital photographs and film scans non-destructively and to export the result to common file formats. It stores your editing histories as text and lets you go back in time at any editing step you like, anytime.
Ansel ships a recent color science, compatible with HDR : the chromatic adaptation CIE CAT 2016, the HDR color space JzAzBz (2017) and the perceptual color space darktable UCS 2021, developed specifically to manipulate color saturation without the fluorescent effect.
The tonal working methods are designed to manipulate luminance without affecting hue nor saturation, in order to respect the color work, done apart.
Comments and Reviews
Website has broken links to downloads and my antivirus software reports compromised web pages. Can't even contact the developer. Maybe he'll stop by here eventually when he sees that no one is downloading anything.
Edit: Finally able to download the software. The "no manual needed" claim isn't accurate by a long shot. Feels more like a crippled Darkroom than a re-imagined one. Could not find a way to alter the almost-zero-contrast UI. Too tough to even see properly. Perhaps all this will improve.