SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro is a RAW development and photo adjustment application for Windows. It turns supported camera RAW files into finished photographs, with controls for exposure, color, detail and local corrections. It also combines multiple shots and exports adjusted images individually or in batches.
RAW development and image selection
SILKYPIX keeps RAW development settings separate from the camera file. Changing a setting recalculates the image from the source data, and saved parameters let you reopen a photograph and continue adjusting it later.
Files can be opened individually or through folders, including their subfolders. Removable-media import copies photographs to a chosen destination, with folder sorting and renaming rules. Marks, ratings and filters narrow the pictures displayed for selection.
The Select workspace uses embedded previews for browsing, while Adjustment displays the developed result. Alongside supported-camera RAW and compatible DNG files, RAW Bridge brings JPEG, TIFF and 8-bit HEIF images into the adjustment workflow. These processed formats have less correction latitude than original RAW data.
Exposure, white balance and tone
Exposure bias changes overall brightness through a slider or numerical adjustment. Automatic exposure analyzes the photograph, while an eyedropper sets exposure from a selected area. Highlight and shadow controls adjust the brighter and darker portions separately.
White balance can start from a lighting preset, automatic analysis or a sampled gray area. Temperature and tint controls refine the result. Auto Absolute compensates for the light's color cast, while Auto Natural retains more of its atmosphere.
Tone controls change contrast and the relationship between dark and light values through curves. The Soft adjustment blurs light sources and highlights to change their appearance. Edited settings can be saved as a taste and applied to other photographs, alongside the supplied presets.
Detail and lens correction
Sharpening and noise reduction
Sharpening provides separate control over outlines and fine detail, with controls for false edges around strongly sharpened subjects. Increasing detail emphasis can also emphasize noise, so the noise controls remain part of the same adjustment category.
Noise reduction separates color distortion, colored fringes, banding and fine texture. Shadow settings strengthen correction in dark areas. Fine Detail mode preserves more detail during reduction but takes longer to process than Standard mode.
Lens and perspective correction
The Lens Aberration Controller corrects edge darkening, distortion and chromatic aberration. Its shading controls adjust the amount of light correction and its center; distortion and lens-profile controls address changes in image geometry.
Rotation straightens an inclined image, while the perspective tool uses horizontal and vertical references specified on the preview. These adjustments precede local masks and retouching because those regions do not follow subsequent lens transformations or rotation.
Local adjustment and retouching in SILKYPIX
Partial correction areas
Circular and gradual filters define regional corrections, while brushes, curves and polygons follow a chosen area. Each region has its own brightness, contrast, color and clarity settings. Blur and sharpening can also be applied within the selection.
A correction can be restricted by color instead of affecting every pixel in the region. This allows a selected area's color or brightness to change without applying the same settings across the whole photograph.
Retouch brush
The Retouch Brush replaces an unwanted area with material from elsewhere in the same photograph. After painting the target, a source handle selects the replacement area. Copy mode transfers it directly; Retouch mode adapts its brightness and color to the surrounding target.
Opacity changes the strength of the replacement. Brush size and feathering determine its coverage and edge softness and are set before drawing the region; they cannot be changed after that brush area is created.
Combining multiple photographs
SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro combines selected images using a mode chosen for their content. The available methods perform different operations:
- Multiple exposure combines equal contributions from the selected shots; repeated views of the same scene can reduce noise.
- Multiple exposure for night views adjusts the combination for night-scene noise and color, with a black-level control for dark areas.
- Multiple exposure with moving objects retains the moving subject from the representative frame while combining the surrounding scene.
- Lighten composite keeps the brighter portions of the images, allowing separate light trails or fireworks to appear together.
- Moving object removal combines repeated views of a scene while excluding moving subjects; removal strength controls the effect.
- Stroboscopic motion combines successive positions of a moving subject into one image, with adjustable composite strength.
- Depth of field composite combines photographs focused at different distances to produce an image with a wider area in focus.
- Super resolution aligns and combines shots while enlarging the output, with a choice of enlargement factors.
- Pixel Shift shot RAW composite assembles a compatible camera's pixel-shift series; the available output choices depend on the source frames.
Ordinary composites require matching output-area pixel dimensions, including any cropping. Optional alignment compensates for shifts between handheld shots. Composite results can be saved as 16-bit TIFF or linear DNG, with DNG available only when every selected source is RAW.
Pixel-shift compositing requires the corresponding frames to be available. It assembles them without applying their development adjustments, so exposure, color and other editing are applied to the composite afterward. Some pixel-shift output choices restrict the available formats.
Image export and batch development
JPEG and TIFF settings
Develop renders the adjusted photograph as JPEG or TIFF. JPEG settings control compression quality and color sampling. TIFF offers RGB output at 8-bit or 16-bit depth, with uncompressed or lossless LZW compression; ordinary development does not export CMYK or DNG.
Output dimensions can preserve the cropped size or fit a chosen pixel area. Additional output sharpening is applied after development and resizing. ICC profile and Exif controls determine which color and photographic information accompanies the exported image.
Background development jobs
Selected or marked photographs can be registered as batch jobs and processed in order while image adjustment continues. A batch has its own destination, naming and format settings. Existing filenames can trigger automatic renaming, a confirmation, overwriting or skipping.
The job display separates waiting and completed work, and processing can be paused and resumed. SILKYPIX Developer Studio Pro is sold as a one-time licence with a full-function trial; one licence can be registered on up to three PCs.
