Exposure, contrast, shadows, highlights, saturation, temperature-style warmth, tint, hue, monochrome and fast presets.
XALO STUDIO / CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY
XALO PHOTO.
Professional browser editing with the workflow of a serious desktop tool — Develop, Edit and Retouch — while keeping ordinary image processing on your device.
NO FORCED ACCOUNTLOCAL PROCESSINGMULTI-IMAGELAYERS + MASKSPROJECT SAVEOFFLINE SHELL AVAILABLE
WORKSPACESBuilt like an editor,
Built like an editor,
not a filter page.
XALO PHOTO separates photographic development, raster editing and portrait retouching while keeping a single project, history and export workflow.
Raster layers, image layers, blend modes, opacity, brush, eraser, marquee selection, text and transforms.
Local healing and clone workflows for practical cleanup, with portrait-focused tools expanding milestone by milestone.
Multiple documents, layer-aware project files, browser-local processing and JPEG/PNG/WebP export to your device.
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CURRENT BETAWorking tools now,
Working tools now,
not a mockup.
The current browser beta is intentionally progressive: features shown as available below are implemented in the editor; larger RAW and local-AI systems remain on the roadmap until they are genuinely ready.
| Capability | XALO PHOTO Beta | Processing model |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple images / filmstrip | Available | Local browser session |
| Layers + image layers | Available | Local canvas |
| Blend modes + opacity | Available | Local canvas |
| Layer masks | Available | Local canvas |
| Brush / eraser / heal / clone | Available | Local canvas |
| Develop adjustments + histogram | Available | Local browser rendering |
| Master + RGB channel curves + 8-band HSL mixer | Available | Local pixel processing |
| Non-destructive adjustment layers | Available | Local project layer stack |
| Smart local masks | Available | Luminance + deterministic local subject heuristic |
| Classic local denoise + 2× upscale | Available | Local browser rendering |
| Save / reopen .xalo project | Available | File stays with user |
| RAW preview + TIFF/DNG + Bayer CFA decode | Available | Local embedded-preview extraction, baseline RGB/gray decode, plus compatible uncompressed, Deflate, LZW, PackBits and compatible SOF3 Lossless-JPEG-subset 8/16-bit Bayer DNG strips/tiles with edge-aware or bilinear demosaic |
| Freeform lasso + portrait/edge mask refine | Available | Selection-to-mask, subject/person/face/hair/sky/background masks, clean/refine, feather, expand and contract |
| Portrait Lab | Available | Local skin-tone masks, Portrait Polish and frequency-separation-style Low / Detail layers |
| Local Pixel Model v1 runtime | Available | Compact segmentation packs run locally and create masks; compatible packs stay in IndexedDB on the user device |
| DNG camera color + compressed RAW routing | Beta | AsShotNeutral, AnalogBalance, CameraCalibration, ForwardMatrix/ColorMatrix and BaselineExposure beta pipeline for compatible Bayer DNG; strip/tile RAW can decode locally for uncompressed, Deflate, LZW, PackBits and compatible SOF3 Lossless-JPEG-subset routes, while unsupported compressed CFA falls back to an embedded preview when available |
| Local neural mask runtime | Beta | Pixel Model v1 plus compact Neural Mask Model v2/v3 run local segmentation; full ONNX/WASM deep-model inference, neural denoise and neural upscale remain in development |
| Installable offline app shell | Available | Service Worker caches XALO PHOTO interface assets; opened photos are not uploaded to Xalo Studio |
PRIVACY MODEL
Your ordinary edits stay on your device.
XALO PHOTO is designed around local browser processing. Opening an image in the editor does not create a Xalo Studio cloud photo library, and the core beta does not require an account.
No forced cloud libraryFiles are opened locally
Project file to deviceYou decide where it is stored
Export to deviceUser-controlled output
WORKFLOW
Develop. Edit. Retouch.
Switch between focused workspaces without leaving the document. Keyboard shortcuts, history, layers, selection-aware painting and multiple open images make the browser feel closer to a real editor.
NEXT MILESTONES
Large-document performance, broader RAW decoding and transparent local color telemetry.
The current beta focuses on stable large-document editing, local RAW development, production mask cleanup and transparent color telemetry. Broader vendor RAW variants, full DCP/ICC transforms and heavyweight neural denoise/upscale remain in development.
RELEASE ENGINEERING
Professional local editing, engineered for large documents and precise masks.
The editor combines adaptive previews, full-resolution export, memory-aware history, advanced masks and a growing local RAW pipeline. Broader camera RAW coverage, full DCP/ICC transforms and heavyweight neural denoise/upscale remain active development work.