Loupe

Non-generative · non-destructive · shows its work

Everything a professional
editor does, except
you can just ask.

Say what you want in plain words. It works the same controls a retoucher would: exposure, highlights, white balance. Then it tells you why it moved each one. Your photograph is never redrawn, only developed, so nothing is invented and the original is always underneath.

Your photographs never leave your device.

Why it behaves differently

01Loupe · 400

It cannot invent anything

Every move is a value in a document. A stop of exposure, a highlight recovery, a point on a curve. No model redraws your pixels, so faces do not shift, skin does not turn to plastic, and detail that was never in the frame does not appear in it. Nothing to check afterwards, because it is a property of the renderer rather than a promise about a prompt.

02Loupe · 400

It learns how you like your photographs

It learns from what you do, not what you say. The look you settle on, and which suggestions you reach for, are choices made in the same controls it uses, so your taste is legible to it, not a shrug. The more you edit, the closer its first pass lands to yours. No generative editor can learn this way: it hands you pixels, and there is nothing of your taste in a pixel.

03Loupe · 400

It tells you why, every time

Each adjustment arrives with a reason in photographic terms and lands in the history as its own labelled step. Undo a single move or the entire run in one click. When it is genuinely unsure, it asks you rather than guessing.

What a session looks like

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A snow peak in cloud, graded to a cold, dark tone.
The frame, after both turns

can you make this a really cold looking picture so i can post on ig

The numbers were clean — no clipping, no noise — so it was all mood. I cooled the frame toward icy blue and deepened the sky, then eased the highlights back when the snow began to clip.

Temperature−28Blue+25Clarity+15

okay wait i meant more like a darker tone

Darker and moodier rather than bright and crisp — I dropped the exposure, sank the blacks, and added a soft vignette to pull the eye into the peaks.

Exposure−0.40Blacks−12Vignette−25

Bring one photograph. See what it says.

Loupe — the photo editor you can just ask