LightCraft
LightCraft is a macOS photo library and non-destructive raw editor for organizing, developing, and exporting digital photos.
What is LightCraft?
LightCraft is a native photo library and non-destructive raw editing app for macOS that helps photographers organize, adjust, and export their images. It is designed for workflows centered on importing photo libraries, browsing collections, rating and flagging shots, and developing raw files without permanently changing the originals. Users can make tonal and color adjustments, apply crops and masks, manage metadata, and export finished images in several common formats. The app also includes catalog-style library tools such as albums, collections, keywords, and search for managing larger photo sets. LightCraft is published by Learning Machines LLC as part of the ArtCraft creative app lineup, and official releases are available for macOS as signed and notarized downloads.
Key features
- Import photos into a library and organize them with albums, folders, ratings, flags, and keywords.
- Edit raw and standard image files with non-destructive exposure, color, tone, and detail adjustments.
- Use masking tools such as brush, linear, radial, and range masks for selective edits.
- Crop, straighten, and apply geometry and lens corrections during photo development.
- Search and filter large photo collections by metadata, dates, ratings, camera details, and keywords.
- Export finished images in formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, AVIF, DNG, and original files.
- Read and write XMP sidecars and work with presets for repeatable editing workflows.
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
LightCraft is a legitimate photo-editing application for managing and developing image libraries. Access to your Pictures folder, imported photos, and metadata is normal for its purpose. Removing the app will stop access to its editing tools and may leave behind library data, logs, or settings until those are removed separately. If you use it for active photo work, keep backups of important originals and catalogs before making major changes or uninstalling.
Recommendation: Keep LightCraft if you use it to organize or edit photos on your Mac. Remove it only if you no longer need the app, and expect any unfinished libraries, presets, or local settings tied to your workflow to become unavailable until reinstalled.
Common paths
/Applications/LightCraft.app
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/LightCraft
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