Tone Caliper
Color grade photos on an interactive color wheel
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Tone Caliper is a photo editor built around an interactive color wheel. Pick colors directly from your photo and move them where you want, then refine the grade with masks, curves, B&W controls, film grain and more. Build looks visually, work with reference images, and import or exportcube LUTs for your video workflow. Available for Windows and macOS.
PH · launched Sep 26, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: color grading and picker software · 30 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Design Tools
- Photography
- Photo editing
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Could you build this?
Partial While basic web image manipulation is easy, creating an interactive color grading suite with 3D color wheel coordinates, mask layers, film grain simulation, and 3D LUT (.cube) export demands high-performance GPU shaders.
What it would actually take: Requires WebGL/WebGPU or native Metal/Vulkan compute pipelines with custom fragment shaders for color space conversions (e.g., RGB to HSL/OKLab), curve adjustments, and 3D tetrahedral LUT interpolation. Exporting valid, accurate .cube files and handling high-res RAW/TIFF buffers smoothly without UI thread lag demands specialized graphics programming and color science knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 260 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 261 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.
- Color Picker from Image · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ImageColorPix · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tones Vibe · ph · 2026-11-05 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- CinemaLut · ph · 2026-10-15 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Chromatic Gallery · ph · 2026-10-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Image Color Palette Generator · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- The Photo · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- LUTRipper · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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