Radiant Photo 2 is designed to help you edit photos with less effort and more fun. It’s built by photographers who know the challenges of getting an image just right and want to make the process smoother for everyone, whether you’re a pro or just love great pictures.
Why Radiant Photo 2 Stands Out
Personalized AI that works for you
Photography is personal. Your style, your vision—it’s what makes your images unique. Radiant Photo 2 allows you to adjust AI workflows to match your preferences. Start with customizable develop settings that respond to each photo, tweak them to fit your taste, and combine them with creative color grading tools. It’s not about forcing you into a box; it’s about giving you the flexibility to edit how you want.
Control color and tone independently
Many editing tools bundle color and tone adjustments together, which can lead to unnatural results. Radiant Photo 2 separates these controls so you can fine-tune light and color without compromising. Brighten shadows, restore highlights or adjust hues—all while keeping your image true to life. It’s precision editing, made accessible.
Live effects for efficient editing
Radiant Photo 2 processes image edits as a single operation. As you improve your photo, all of our tools combine into a single image process. Where other tools make interim renders and cache files, our tools smoothly concatenate for perfect 16-bit color and accurate details. You’ll see perfect details and changes without the need for masks of selections.
Plus, your edits can be stored in sidecar files that take only kilobytes of space. When you’re ready, it’s easy to output (or even batch process) all the files you need. Whether you’re editing one photo or a whole card full, it’s fast, efficient, and intuitive.
Technical Details
- Works as a standalone application
- It also includes a Photoshop and a Lightroom Classic plugin
- No changes to file formats supported
- If your computer can run version 1, you'll be able to run version 2 (the system requirements are the same)
- It is fully compatible with the latest macOS and M4 processors
Key Improvements Compared to Radiant Photo 1
We've improved the workflow so you can enhance your images. The application's ease of use has also been improved, and we think you'll find it a significant upgrade.
Key improvements include:
A new Radiant Photo pipeline
We've changed the way that you'll work with the app. Instead of choosing a collection of Smart Presets, the application lets you analyze each photo and compare it against a collection of recommended improvements. AI recognizes the type of content of your image and chooses and offers multiple ideal starting points. Note - all analysis happens on your own computer, and no personal details are ever transferred from the app.
The Radiant Photo - Core workflow offers multiple suggested starting points. Where you begin will be your personal choice. You can use a recommended setting or easily create your style. Once you have a favorite, you can assign a default starting point for each type of image.
Develop Settings
These are built on our Smart Tools technology. They each respond to the exposure and color in the image and intelligently adjust your photos for consistent results. Each will adjust to a target exposure value, meaning dark images are gently brightened, overexposed photos are recovered, and on-target images are left alone.
You'll find a robust collection included in the app, with more available through Radiant Toolkit or our marketplace. Plus, you can fully customize the included ones or build your own smart settings from scratch.
Live Effects
Other editors need to generate preview images and pixels with each tool added; this leads to cached previews and interim copies... often with quality loss. Other apps lead to a need for lots of undos and reprocessing steps.
Radiant Photo 2 treats all tools as live effects. All tools communicate with each other so that you can adjust any property through the entire pipeline and fine-tune your results. You'll continue to have a 16-bit workflow the entire time.
100% Nondestructive Editing
All your edits are automatically saved when you switch to the next photo. You can optionally choose a manual save to capture a favorite edit. You no longer need to render out images to save your edits until you're ready.
But there's no need to change your workflow. All edits are stored in a small Siddecar file (.radiant), about 16 KB in size. This means you can edit from your camera memory card and seamlessly move edits between computers. There's no catalog file and no special project files, either. You can reopen an image from where you left off - typically in 2-3 seconds.
Workflows
Besides the AI scene detection offered by Radiant Photo-Core, four additional workflows are available at launch. These optional add-ons are much more than preset packs... each customizes your application for a specific photography genre.
- Recognizes key image details such as
- Subject
- Environment
- Lighting conditions
- Developing settings are then intelligently suggested
- Multiple editing styles to choose from
- Additional Looks and Film stock emulations
RADIANT PORTRAITURE
- 10-point skin detection
- Intelligent color cast removal for all scenes
- Custom film and color grading Looks
- 11 intelligent scenes, including new ones for outdoors & groups
- Included Develop Settings for Essentials, Color Grading, Film Emulation, Retouching, and Black & White Photography
RADIANT LANDSCAPES
- Landscape workflow to customize the user interface to show only Landscape tools
- Over 300+ Hand-tuned develop settings by Elia Locardi
- 16 intelligent scenes - including:
- Astrophotography
- Beach
- Cityscape Day
- Cityscape Golden Hour
- Cityscape Blue Hour
- Cityscape Night
- Desert
- Fields
- Forest
- Landscape Golden Hour
- Landscape Blue Hour
- Landscape Night
- Mountains
- Waterfall
RADIANT BIRDS
- World’s first dedicated, intelligent software for bird photographers
- Included Develop Settings for Sharpen, Relight, Film Simulations, Color Grade, Black & White, and more
- 14 intelligent scenes- including
- Birds of Prey
- Flamingos
- Fowl & Gamebirds
- Herons
- Cranes & Pelicans
- Hummingbirds
- Kingfishers & Woodpeckers
- Ostriches & Emus
- Penguins
- Pigeons & Doves
- Shorebirds
- Silhouettes
- Songbirds & Perching Birds
- Tropical Birds
- Waterfowl
RADIANT PETS
- For those who consider their pets to be like children
- Several styles of technical and creative edits for popular photography category
- Detailed Scenes including
- Birds
- Cats
- Dogs
- Fish
- Frogs and Toads
- Horses
- Lizards
- Pigs
- Rabbits and Rodents
- Snakes
- Turtles
Customizable Workspaces
We've made more room to view your image. Gone is the tabbed interface, and now you can choose just which tools are shown. Easily switch between sets with the number keys, and design your own workspaces.
- Task-based. Eight workspaces for common tasks to see just the tools you need.
- Create your own. Build custom workspaces with just the tool groups you want.
- Hide unwanted options. Disable workspaces you don’t need to make the app your own
- Filtered. Use FILTER on any workspace to see only the active tools from the develop settings
- Responsive. A dedicated workspace that reacts to Develop Settings and Legacy Presets
- Solo. Tool groups automatically close when switching to reduce user interface clutter.
Improved tools
We have shipped two new tools... with more in the works.
- Straighten tool. Easily rotate your image with decimal point accuracy. We know this is no big deal, but you kept asking for it, so we added it to the app.
- Face Light. Easily relights your subject's face. As you adjust the exposure, the skin tones are preserved. Plus, there's independent control over light, shadow, and feathering.
- Additional Film Simulations. More included film stocks.
- Additional Color Grades. New creative options for color.
- Batch Processing Improvements. New options to size on export.