A companion for the photograph before it's taken

Luma is a photography companion for camera enthusiasts who want more from their gear — not a place to store photos, but a tool that helps you find your visual style, work with light, and grow as a photographer. It's live today at luma.craftedpxl.net, and it's free to start.

The recipe problem

If you shoot Fujifilm, you know the ritual. You find a film simulation recipe on a blog, screenshot it, dial seven settings into your camera in a parking lot, and then — three weeks later — you can't remember which screenshot made that photo you loved. The looks that define your photography end up scattered across camera rolls, bookmarks, and memory.

Luma started as a fix for exactly that. A recipe in Luma carries every dial — film simulation, white balance, tones — plus the place and light it was made for. Save the look, name the moment, and it's there the next time that light shows up. There are 240+ community recipes to start from, and you can post, rate, and collect looks from photographers shooting the same gear.

Six surfaces, one practice

Recipes are the noun. The Lab is the verb. Everything else is the context that makes each session count.

THE LAB — a small bench of working tools. Read a frame's EXIF. Meter the light. Scan a recipe QR. Track every camera you own for the next firmware drop.

AI HUB — generate, analyse, preview. Turn a brief into a recipe, a photograph into a critique, a film simulation into a live preview. Every output cites its inputs.

VAULT — every frame, filed. Upload your photographs and Luma auto-tags each one — film simulation, gear, EXIF, mood, light. Filter by camera, recipe, or tag in seconds.

Built around the way you actually shoot

The Lab earns its keep in the field. The light meter gives you a reading when you're shooting a meterless vintage lens. The EXIF reader tells you what settings made the frame you're trying to learn from. The firmware tracker quietly watches Fujifilm's release pages so you don't have to. And photo spots suggests shooting destinations when you're somewhere new and the light is about to get good.

The AI Hub is where Luma goes beyond a notebook. Describe the look you're chasing — "muted greens, lifted shadows, overcast harbor" — and it drafts a recipe you can refine. Upload a photo and get an honest critique of composition and light. None of it is a black box: every output cites its inputs, so you learn the why, not just the what.

Fujifilm & Sony

Luma is built for X-Series, GFX, and Alpha mirrorless photographers — firmware tracking, body-specific recipe defaults, and gear-matched EXIF labels. More systems are on the roadmap, but the goal isn't to cover every camera ever made. It's to be great for the cameras people actually obsess over.

One person, honestly

Luma is a solo project from CraftedPxl Studio. There's no growth team and no engagement metrics to feed — just a photographer-shaped tool that gets better every week because I use it every week. That's also why it looks the way it does: editorial type, darkroom palette, no clutter. A tool for the craft should feel like the craft.

Free to start. Light to carry.

The community library, the Lab tools, and recipe saving are free. Pro plans unlock the heavier AI work and RAW support in the Vault when you're ready — no card required to begin.

[Open Luma →](https://luma.craftedpxl.net)

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LUMA™ — for camera enthusiasts. Made by CraftedPxl Studio.