A desktop darkroom that inverts, color-corrects, and grades your scans with a spectral engine tuned to real film.
Negative
PositiveDrag to compare. Sample shown for illustration.
Reads camera RAW directly. No TIFF round-trip, no lab scans required.
One window, four stages. The workflow follows how you actually shoot, scan, and deliver.
Group scans into virtual rolls, then rate and cull. Your RAW files stay where they are.
Pick a film stock and the spectral engine inverts the negative and balances color, frame by frame.
Refine with a white-balance dropper, crop, detail sharpening, and minilab-style looks.
Batch out to JPEG or TIFF at full resolution, ready for print or the web.
An advanced neutral-correction algorithm profiles the film's spectral dye response and rebuilds density channel by channel. It strips the orange mask, cancels color casts automatically, and lands skin tones, skies, and shadows exactly where the emulsion recorded them.
Calibrated recipes tuned to how each stock renders color, contrast, and grain, so every roll develops with a look that fits the film you actually shot.
Overprocessed
PositiverAnalog grain is the soul of a film photograph, so Positiver keeps it exactly as the emulsion laid it down. Nothing smeared away, nothing invented. An overprocessed conversion does the opposite: noise gets mishandled and the frame ends up buried under harsh digital speckle. Positiver protects the character instead of adding the mess.
Drag to compare. Sample shown for illustration.
Click a neutral and the whole frame corrects. Works even on the spectral conversion.
One-click grades inspired by classic lab scanners.
Amount, radius, detail, and masking, tuned so grain stays grain and edges stay crisp.
Lock color across a whole roll so frames match, then export the set in one pass at full resolution.
Same file, before and after. Drag the handle to see the inversion and color correction the engine applies automatically.
The competition
Our enginePositiver rethinks film conversion from the ground up, and gets three things right that matter most.
Profiles are built for a specific camera and scanning light, so the color is measured, not a one-size-fits-all auto-invert.
Cull, convert, edit, and export live in a single window. No plugins to wrangle, no exporting TIFFs back and forth.
Faithful spectral color paired with a grain and noise pipeline that keeps texture looking like film, not mush.
A desktop app that converts scanned color and black-and-white film negatives into finished positive images, with color correction, editing, and batch export built in.
It's a native desktop app for Windows and macOS. Everything runs locally on your machine, so your scans never leave your computer.
Camera RAW files straight off the card (ARW, CR3, NEF, DNG, RAF, and more). Digitize your negatives with a camera and it reads them directly.
The film profiles are calibrated for a camera-and-light setup for the most accurate color. A general auto mode works with any scan, and more profiles are on the way.
Pricing is still being finalized. Early-access members get first access and a say in how it's priced before launch.
Invites roll out in waves during early access. Join the waitlist and we'll email you when your spot opens.
Join the waitlist and be among the first photographers to develop a roll without touching a single slider unless you want to.