PixelFx

PixelFx is a fast, friendly photo editor for the Linux desktop. Make every photo better while you watch: pick a look and see it on your own photo, fine-tune light and colour with the controls photographers expect, and finish a whole folder of photos in one go. Your originals are never changed.

Looks: one click, shown on your own photo

• Built-in looks such as Vivid, Warm, Cool, Film, Faded, Golden hour, Teal and orange and Noir, each tile previewing your photo.
• A strength slider for every look, live while you drag.
• Make your own looks from steps, or bring your .cube and HaldCLUT LUTs. Export a look to share it, or bake it to a .cube.

Presets: hundreds ready to go

• More than 400 built-in presets in 12 categories: film, black and white, cinematic, portrait, landscape, seasons, places, vintage and more.
• Preview by resting on a preset, with an amount from 0 to 200, favourites and recent ones.
• Bring your Lightroom and Camera Raw presets (.xmp), with a list of anything left out.
• Save your own from the whole edit or only the parts you choose.

Every control you expect

• Light: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites and blacks, plus one-click Auto.
• Colour: white balance (as shot, auto, picker, temperature and tint), vibrance and saturation.
• Colour mixer for eight colour bands, with a picker that adjusts the colour you click on the photo.
• Curves, colour grading, detail (clarity, texture, sharpening, noise reduction, dehaze) and effects (vignette, grain, fade).
• Lens corrections from the Lensfun database.
• Live histogram with clipping warnings.

Crop, straighten and fix

• Crop with common ratios, rotate and flip.
• Straighten with a dial or a drawn level line.
• Fix leaning buildings, or square a page or a wall from its four corners.
• Heal blemishes, dust and small objects with a spot or a brush.

Compare and undo with confidence

• Before and after with a draggable divider, side by side, or hold Space for the original.
• Undo, history and named snapshots for every photo.
• Copy and paste settings across many photos at once.
• Non-destructive: edits are remembered for every photo, even after renames and moves.

Batch: many photos at once

• Process whole folders with stacked presets and looks, Auto, a size, a watermark and a format, in the background.
• Convert and resize only, for jobs like HEIC to JPEG or shrinking photos for email.
• Make files smaller with a report of the space saved for each photo.
• Rename with tokens such as {name}, {date} and {camera}, with a live preview.
• Pause, stop and retry, and a notification when a batch finishes.
• Save batch recipes and run them again, even from the command line.

Export the way you need

• JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, JPEG XL and more, with quality and 16-bit options.
• Size presets for Instagram, stories, the web and print, with output sharpening.
• Colour spaces: sRGB, Display P3 and Adobe RGB.
• Keep or strip metadata, with location removed by default.
• Watermark with text or a logo, and an estimated file size before you save.

Opens what you shoot

• Camera RAW, HEIC, AVIF, JPEG XL, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and WebP, with embedded colour profiles honoured.
• Drag and drop photos and folders, or paste an image from the clipboard.

Made for the desktop

• Dark, light or follow the system theme.
• Full screen and a distraction-free view.
• Keyboard shortcuts for everything, listed with F1.