Heron

Heron Edits Raw with Opengl Natively

Contents

• Contents
• About
• Features
• Usage
  • Keyboard shortcuts
• Download
• Building from source
  • Requirements
  • Windows
  • Linux
• Documentation
• Contributing

About

Heron is an open source, free to use, raw image editor prioritising performance and ease of use, written in C++.

Features

• Tone-curve based editing
• Intuitive colour wheels for advanced colour grading
• OpenGL shader based editing for ultra-fast performance
• Histogram, vectorscope and waveform graphics
• Automatic settings saving
• Local catalog to store edited photos

Usage

Keyboard shortcuts

Key	Action
B	Show image before edits
ALT	Highlight image peaking/crush
SPACE	Toggle black/white background
SHIFT+SCROLL	Horizontal image pan
SHIFT+Hue select	Precision movement

Download

Binaries coming soon...

Building from source

Requirements

• OpenGL 4.3
• Windows
  • Visual Studio 20xx
• Linux
  • G++ ...
  • CMake 3.0.0+

Windows

Open & run visual studio solution

Linux

Update repos - apt-get update

Cmake 3+ - apt install cmake pkg-config

OpenGL 4+ - apt-get install mesa-utils libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev

GLFW 3 - apt-get install libglew-dev libglfw3-dev libglm-dev

Libraw - see installation docs. The library must be installed locally (within /usr/local/...) for compilation to work.

To build from root dir, run:

cmake --build build

To run (MUST BE FROM BUILD DIR):

./Heron

Documentation

Contributing