SilverNode

The last RAW photo editor you'll ever need.

Photo editing software today is painfully inefficient for photographers taking several hundreds or thousands of pictures on an event. Many hours are lost sitting behind a computer editing the albums we shoot. Me personally, would like to take more pictures, and edit less.

SilverNode will take away frustration, and give you back the freedom to shoot photos, without worrying about editing them.

I want SilverNode to …

be an extremely fast photo editor on every computer.
have an elegant workflow.
predict your desired edit settings by learning your style.
produce high-quality photos.
be intuitive, yet powerful.
reduce your editing time by 80% or more.

See the Features section for more details.

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Development

This project started in 2016, during my university years as a proof-of-concept. Today, SilverNode is under full-time development since Januari 2024! New devlogs will start again sometime soon! Since I started full-time, these notable things have been done:

Fast high-quality RAW denoising.
Overhauled the color processing pipeline.
Fast sharpening & chroma denoising.
Crop & straighten.
Regular fully cross-compiled builds for macOS, Linux, Windows for both x86-64 and arm64 (thanks to the zig compiler toolchain).
Core engine architecture cleanup & performance improvements.
Full GPU support for most computational workloads.
UI rendering system overhaul for greatly improved performance.

This, and many more things have been done, and will be done. To stay tuned, check out the mailing list or the social media platforms below.

Screenshots

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SilverNode Develop Workspace while Cropping

SilverNode Develop Workspace while Zoomed In

Features

Extremely Performant

SilverNode's primary goal is and always will be to deliver high-quality and fast software. It should run on almost all hardware from 2014 and onwards, delivering unprecedented performance, resulting in a joyful and refreshing user experience. We get the most out of your hardware, by carefully crafting handmade software!

Most of SilverNode's image processing tasks are powered by hand-optimized Halide pipelines, which were built from the ground up with speed in mind. If you have a GPU supporting CUDA, OpenCL, Vulkan, or Metal, SilverNode will take advantage of that in an unprecedented way.

Artificial Intelligence Guided Editing

The SilverNode AI will learn your style and will make better and better initial guesses for your adjustments. You will cruise through your photos with unprecedented speed, as the amount of manual tweaks required diminishes dramatically. SilverNode's auto-edit abilities are all carefully hand-crafted and engineered by Martijn.

Catalogueless

SilverNode intentionally does not build a catalogue from your photos. You are in complete control of your photos and folders. SilverNode creates one additional (plain-text) file next to the original RAW file, containing all necessary information (which you can even check in in git!).

Blender and Vim-style controls

Elegant controls have the potential of speeding up your workflow a lot. SilverNode offers three ways to edit and navigate your photos:

Blender-style: one hand on the keyboard, one hand on the mouse.
Vim-style: both hands on your powerful keyboard!

Fully Cross-Platform

SilverNode is built to run on all platforms: Linux, macOS, and Windows. It has support for OpenGL, Vulkan, Direct3D, and Metal (thanks to bgfx and Halide). Finally a high-quality fully cross-platform RAW photo editor!