CHRO-MA-SMITH
GALLERY. STUDIO. FILM LAB. Raw photo library and editor.
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Details
- External ID
- 1265952
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- CHRO-MA-SMITH
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7689975364790601
- Tags
- Photoshop, Photography, GitHub, Photo editing
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Gallery. Studio. Film Lab your photos. your workflow. your app. Make a look in a click or take control of every detail. Chromasmith is a free photo studio with 133 calibrated film looks, real grain, halation and bloom, RAW development, masks and retouching, a local photo library and full-resolution export — running entirely on your own device. No account, no upload, no subscription. The web version is a single HTML file with no build step and no server behind it.
Enrichment
- Niche
- visual design and editing software
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Workflow automation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- raw photo library and editor for photographers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Developing a non-destructive RAW photo development engine with film halation, real optical grain synthesis, and high-performance pixel-level masking requires advanced graphics programming and color science expertise.
What it would actually take: The stack needs a native C++/Rust or WebGPU/Metal graphics pipeline capable of decoding proprietary camera RAW formats (via LibRaw or custom decoders) into 32-bit linear color spaces. Features like halation, bloom, and calibrated analog film curves require custom GLSL/Metal compute shaders modeling physical light diffusion and photographic dye layers. Building this necessitates specialized color scientists and low-level graphics engine developers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 44 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 45 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Lupo · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Lightmeter · ph · 2026-09-23 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- StudioCollage · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Shader Lab, like Photoshop but for shaders · hn · 2026-04-16 · 160 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- filmcraft · github · 2026-09-30 · 212 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Frames · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- The Photo · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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