SilverNodeA fast, catalog-free RAW editor that respects your hardware and money.
Designed for high-velocity photographers looking to spend less time in post.
FeaturesPress E and move the mouse: exposure follows. C drives contrast, T temperature and tint together. A click confirms. No hunting for sliders, no aiming at tiny handles: your eyes stay on the photo.
Select photos in the Grid and use the very same keys as in Develop: E for more light, C for more punch. Every selected photo gets the change, live, right there in the thumbnails.
Too dark, too bright, the wrong white balance: select them and pick AutoEdit from the pie menu. It learns your style, so the starting point gets closer to your own edit, and you make the final call.
Space pops the photo up large, with its rating and shot info, and the arrow keys flip through the shoot. Rate with 1 to 5, reject with X, and filter the Grid down to the keepers.
Ctrl+C asks which groups of settings to copy; paste them onto the rest of the series. Or save the look as a preset and apply it to the whole album with a double click.
A linear gradient darkens a bright sky; a radial one brings a backlit face out of the shadow. Each takes the same keys as the whole photo: E for exposure, C for contrast, T for white balance.
Split-tone shadows and highlights with the color wheels, shape the contrast curve, and pull a single hue's saturation down with the hue curves.
Press R and the mouse rotates the photo over a rule-of-thirds grid; a click confirms. C, G and S switch to perspective, move and crop-in in the same go.
The scopes follow every change in real time: the histogram slides with the exposure, the vectorscope swings with the white balance and the hue curves, so you judge color and clipping while you edit.
Under the hood
The image processing is written in Halide and tuned by hand, on the CPU and on the GPU. SilverNode picks the fastest compute it finds on your machine, and on the CPU it uses the widest vector instructions your processor has. No hardware upgrade required.
SilverNode only reads them. Every edit goes to a small JSON sidecar next to the photo, saved the moment anything changes, presets included, so the look travels with the file.
Open a folder and start. Thumbnails are cached in that folder too, as a cache you can throw away; nothing lives in a database somewhere else.
Background workers decode and prepare while you edit, the photos before and after the one you're on are kept ready on the GPU, and exports queue up without stopping you.
It looks for faces, people and neutral tones, and combines what each of those says by how sure it is. The Edit Quality dial tells you how confident the result is.
A hundred steps by default, up to a thousand. A change to fifty selected photos is one step, so one undo takes all of it back.
NeonEXIF reads the metadata of your RAW files in well under a millisecond, and writes it into your exports. It is open source, under the MIT license.
Windows, macOS and Linux, on Intel/AMD and ARM, from the same code, in 19 languages.
SilverNode is smaller than 20 MiB. Use your space for pictures instead!
ScreenshotsRAW files used in the screenshots above are from Signature Edits.
Camera SupportSilverNode relies on LibRaw and RawSpeed to decode RAW files. Most cameras these libraries support will work, but not all! SilverNode additionally requires your camera to have square pixels and 3 color channels with the RGB color model.
darktable uses the same decoders, so its camera support list gives a good first indication.
How SilverNode reads your camera, and what to do when a photo doesn't load →
To be fully sure, download the SilverNode beta and try it before purchasing!
Development StatusBelow you can find a table of the most important photography-related features and their development status.
⭐: Feature only included in SilverNode Pro
| Area | Feature | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Develop | Basic Editing | Color Correction Curves RGB Curves (Local) Contrast Color Balance HSL Primary Calibration Improve UI |
| Presets | Done | |
| RAW Luma Denoising | Done Improve Quality | |
| Sharpening | Done Improve Quality | |
| Chroma Denoising | Done Improve Quality | |
| Highlight Reconstruction | Mostly working Improve Quality Improve Reliability | |
| Crop & Straighten | Done Improve UI | |
| Lens Corrections | Distortion Vignetting TCA Save Your Own Lenses Apply in Batch | |
| Local Adjustments | Linear Gradient Radial Gradient Brushing Improve UI | |
| Chromatic Aberration Reduction | Planned | |
| Histogram | Done | |
| Grid | Grid Functionality | Grid Rate Reject |
| Develop from Grid | Rotate Basic Editing Apply Presets Lens Corrections | |
| Filtering | Basic Rating/Reject Advanced | |
| Viewing Options | Burst Stacks Date Headers | |
| AutoEdit | Color Correction | Mostly working Improve Reliability |
| Straighten | Planned | |
| Gradient Placement | Planned | |
| Selection Suggestion | Planned | |
| Core | EXIF Metadata | Export to JPEG Load Standard Tags Nikon Makernote Canon Makernote Sony Makernote |
| RAW File Loading | Bayer Sensor X-Trans Sensor Non-Square Pixels Monochromatic Pictures | |
| Export | JPEG PNG TIFF WebP Naming Resize Watermark | |
| Platform Support | Windows macOS Linux x86_64 arm64/aarch64 | |
| GPU Support | Vulkan Metal OpenCL CUDA Direct3D 12 | |
| Thumbnail Database | Done | |
| Custom Ultra-Fast RAW Loading | Nikon NEF Canon CR2 |
Many more things have been done, and many more are coming. For more details, check out the CHANGELOG. To stay tuned, subscribe to the newsletter, join Discord, or check out the social media platforms below.
DownloadSilverNode is still in development, but is already a usable product. This version is currently still available for free. If you wish to support the product and my work, you can already buy a license in your name and activate it in SilverNode.
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Intel / AMD uname -m says x86_64 for Intel / AMD, aarch64 for ARM.Picked the wrong one? Apple Silicon Macs and ARM PCs can still run the Intel / AMD version, only slower. The other way around does not work.
New to SilverNode? The quick start takes you from opening a folder to your first export.
Vision
Martijn
The sole developer
Photo editing software today is painfully inefficient for photographers who take hundreds or thousands of pictures at an event. Many hours are lost sitting behind a computer editing the albums we shoot. Personally, I would like to take more pictures and edit less.
SilverNode will take away the frustration and give you back the freedom to shoot photos without worrying about editing them.
I want SilverNode to …
This project started in 2016 as a proof of concept during my university years. SilverNode has been in full-time development since January 2024!
PricingI respect your freedom and your money. SilverNode is available for a one-time purchase, after which you own it forever.
Pay once, and own SilverNode Basic forever. Comes with two years of updates. Install on 5 computers simultaneously.
Does not include the Pro features.
early-bird price €149 after launch
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Tick the box above to accept the terms first. Pay once, and own SilverNode Pro forever. Comes with all future updates. Install on 5 computers simultaneously. Includes all the ⭐ Pro features.early-bird price €399 after launch Buy License Tick the box above to accept the terms first.The ⭐ Pro features are marked in the table above.
Bought Basic, but want to upgrade to Pro?
Requires a Basic license. Includes all the Pro features. Does not grant updates. Includes all the Pro features. Comes with all future updates.early-bird price €259 after launch
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