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Pu-erh Lab

Cross-Platform RAW Editor & Digital Asset Manager

Now supports Windows/CUDA and Apple Silicon

v0.2.1 Windows / CUDA Apple Silicon

Key Features

Windows/CUDA & macOS/Metal Dual-Platform GPU Backend

Delivers 2K 300 FPS preview and 6K 60FPS rendering on modern GPUs while maintaining low memory footprint.

HDR Workflow & Modern Color Management

Supports HDR image editing on macOS and exporting Ultra HDR format JPEG files.

ACES 2.0 & OpenDRT

Supports ACES 2.0 and OpenDRT with one-click switching of 'color science'.

LUT Support

Supports .cube LUTs for creative color grading.

Responsive Library Workflow

Thumbnail waiting animations, faster high-resolution loading, folder browsing, filters, and in-project deletion make managing large collections smoother.

Versioned Editing

Reset adjustments for each image, branchable history, aspect-ratio selection, and the export queue form a complete non-destructive iteration path.

Roadmap

Recent milestones on main after v0.1.2, plus what is still ahead

Mar 2026

v0.1.2 Shipped

  • OpenDRT support and rendering-transform selection UI
  • Project image deletion
  • Filter UI improvements
  • Core color-management fixes
Mar 2026

Workflow Polish on main

  • Reset adjustments in the editor
  • Aspect-ratio selection
  • Waiting animation for thumbnails
  • Faster high-resolution camera loading
Mar 2026

macOS / Metal Bring-up

  • macOS compile support
  • Initial Metal image processing
  • Metal RAW processing utilities
  • Metal resize and lens calibration
Mar 2026

Metal Pipeline Integration

  • Metal integrated into the pipeline
  • Geometry pipeline fixes
  • Shader compilation cleanup
  • macOS packaging logic and follow-up fixes
Next

Forward Path

  • Preset export
  • HDR workflow and output
  • Semantic search and AI-assisted tagging
  • Panorama integration
  • Continued parity between Windows/CUDA and macOS/Metal

Built With

A cross-platform stack built around dedicated Windows/CUDA and macOS/Metal paths

Platform

Windows / CUDA macOS / Metal

Core

C++20 Qt 6 CMake

Imaging

OpenImageIO LibRaw OpenCV

Color

OpenColorIO ACES 2.0 OpenDRT

Storage

DuckDB

Lens & Metadata

Lensfun Exiv2 OpenImageIO

Performance

CUDA Metal

Get Started

Build the current Windows/CUDA or macOS/Metal tracks from source

Contribute

Pu-erh Lab is an open-source project and contributions are welcome. Open issues, submit pull requests, or share your ideas.