I tried LightCraft, a free open-source photo editor that looks like Lightroom, and had my…
📷 I tried LightCraft, a free open-source photo editor that looks like Lightroom, and had my AI agent edit my photos
Architecture means sorting site photos, model photos and event photos. This week I tried LightCraft v0.14.0: free, open source, from the same team as the CADCraft I tried last week. No account, no subscription, nothing goes to the cloud.
To be clear: I didn't edit these by hand. My AI agent drove LightCraft on my PC, and every step it took is one undo.
What it did:
・One photo: light, white balance, curve, then one command to select the sky and darken it. Full-size export in 2.8 seconds
・A batch of 19 of my own photos (no people): it reviewed one contact sheet of small previews, chose an edit for each and exported full size. The whole batch took 2 min 51 s, about 9 seconds a photo. On the interiors it chose Upright to straighten the verticals
・A test tweak, "photo 10 brighter, more sky": redone in 5.6 seconds. The originals were not changed by a single byte
What it did: ・One photo: light, white balance, curve, then one command to select the sky and darken it.
👍 Good
・Looks and works like Lightroom: masks, curves, HSL, presets, crop, history
・Free, runs on your own machine, no sign-in
・Every edit is saved as a recipe; a re-run gives the identical file
👎 Not yet
・Its Auto button made my phone photos darker and flatter
・Object masks need an extra model
・I haven't tested RAW files
・Still alpha, changing fast
Who it's for: anyone with batches of site, model or event photos who wants AI to do the first pass.
My verdict: the tool is fast, but taste is still yours.
Download only from the official GitHub (storytold/lightcraft).
Would you let AI do the first edit of your site photos? Tell me what you think in the comments 👇
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