Develop a whole shoot, pick the sky or the subject with one click, heal and clone, merge brackets and restore old prints. One press of Save writes the web copy and the print copy. Every edit stays open, so you can change it long after you made it.
One photo in three looks, each made in Kinematic. Drag across to compare it with the photo as shot.
The jobs that come in week to week, and how each one is done here. Every step stays a node, so you can open it again when the client writes back.
Build the look on one photo: exposure, white balance, a color mix, split toning and grain. Copy the edits and choose Paste edits here on the next photo, and the crop stays behind. Save it as a Look and it waits for the next shoot, with its own Amount.
Level the horizon and crop to 3:2. Click Sky and the sky is found for you, so it can cool down and keep its highlights while the land opens up. Dehaze and clarity sit on the same Develop, and a gradient darkens the foreground.
Subject, Object, Sky, People, Skin, and the eyes, lips and teeth are in the selection menu. Shift adds, Ctrl carves. Then retouch inside the selection with heal, clone, frequency separation, dodge and burn and liquify. The selections run on your own machine, so the photos stay with you.
Click Subject, select the inverse and fill it white. Pull the edge in a pixel and soften it, so no trace of the old backdrop shows on the rim. Resize to 1800 and add a 100 pixel margin, so the edge never touches the product.
File > Merge brackets lines up two to nine frames shot by hand, reads the shutter, aperture and ISO from each file, and keeps the middle frame where something moved. Then take the lens bend out, stand the walls up straight and paint out the outlets.
Crop the scanner bed away, bring the faded color back and clear the dust. A torn corner and a scratch are filled from the picture around them. Grain, haze and blur come out in one pass, and a small print can go four times bigger. Each model runs on your machine.
Export presets put Web 2048, Print 300 dpi, At 1x and At 2x beside your Save, each with its own size, sharpening, format, print size and file name ending. One press of Save writes them all, and your copyright line and your name go into every JPEG, PNG and TIFF.
Each edit is a step in the Stack and a node on the canvas. The photo you started from is never changed: the edits live in the file beside it, so the first crop and the last grain can both be changed tomorrow.
If you already shoot for photogrammetry, bring the Gaussian splat into the app you grade in. Clean it, take out the light it was shot under, light it again, and grade it like a photo.
Shoot the product that is not made yet. Load the model, give it real materials, light it with a rig or a sky, and render the stills and the turntable from the same file.
The graph keeps running, so the file you graded in can also run the opening night: a projection on a wall, a slideshow on a second screen, a look on a live camera. Sound lives in the same file, so the pictures can follow the music.
Photos come in and go out in the formats the rest of the job already uses.
A photo's own color profile is read as it opens, so Display P3, Adobe RGB and ProPhoto pictures keep their color. Float pictures stay linear from the read to the write, and a save can carry a color note so other apps show it the same way. Work inside an OCIO config, or the ACES one that comes built in.
Run one look over every photo in a folder, four at a time. Name the save {source}_edit.jpg and each file keeps its own name. Before you start, probe tells you the color space, bit depth and HDR tags a photo carries.
$ kinematic run look.kin \
--each photo.file_path="shoot/*.jpg" --jobs 4
$ kinematic probe IMG_2041.jpgShort lessons that each end with a finished picture, and demos that come with the app. Take one apart and keep what you need.
Edit tutorialMake a photo popYour own photo, clearer and brighter, with a deeper sky, a level horizon and soft dark corners.
Edit tutorial · 8 minGive a photo a film lookWarm, soft color, fine grain and a red glow around bright spots, like a printed film frame.
Create tutorial · 8 minTurn a chrome ring into goldA polished gold ring floating in a real sky, with the sky turned so the light falls where you want.
Create tutorial · 10 minGive a 3D scan a golden glowA carved lizard statue, captured as a 3D scan, in warm late afternoon light. Scan by Niantic Labs, MIT license.
Perform tutorial · 7 minLine up a projection on a wall from the sideA picture that lands square on a wall even though the projector sits off to one side.
Play tutorialMake a visual that pulses to your musicA field of glowing bokeh that zooms in on every loud beat of a song you choose.
GPUSplat glTF roundtripA family of raccoons in a hollow stump, graded warm, and saved as a .glb that matches the screen. Scan by Niantic Labs, MIT license.In the Demos browser
GPUTwo scans merged into oneTwo scans of one basket, lined up and color matched into one clean cloud. Scan by Marc (superspl.at), CC BY 4.0.In the Demos browser
GPUSplat turntableA carved lizard on its plinth, turning slowly so the light slides across the stone. Scan by Niantic Labs, MIT license.In the Demos browser
Chrome torus lit by a real skyA chrome ring lit by a real sky, which shows in the background and in every reflection.In the Demos browser
WebcamHidden face effectThe graph remembers the empty room and paints it back over your face. A classic photo booth trick.In the Demos browser
WebcamFace parsing recolorLips and skin picked out on the live camera and tinted, with the clean mask beside it.In the Demos browserBetter to know before the shoot. Need one of these for your work? Reach out.
Free, even for commercial use. No account, no license key. macOS, Windows, Linux and Raspberry Pi. Bring a photo you are working on.
