Radiant Imaging Labs

Radiant Photo 2 uses AI to judge and correct pixels you already captured, and the company explicitly avoids generative models. Nothing is invented, no clouds get added, no faces get rebuilt. For photographers who need authentic files for editorial or print clients, that constraint matters more than any novelty feature.

The app reads a frame on load and sorts it into portrait, scenic, bird, or pet categories, then applies matching develop settings. The optional workflow modules go deeper with genre-trained presets and tools, and the Birds module alone carries 94 recognized scenes. You need the base application to run any of them.

Radiant Tone analyzes each pixel independently and blends the corrected values back into their neighbors, so bright passages recover without losing shadow detail. Radiant Color removes casts and lifts dull skies. In practice this is the feature most users notice first, because a flat phone photo comes out looking like it was shot on better gear.

Every adjustment stays editable, and sidecar files let you start work from a memory card and finish later on another machine. Automatic saving means a crash does not cost you the session. Round-trip editing through Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, and Apple Photos keeps the workflow you already use.

Face Light brightens faces found automatically, and the portrait toolset covers skin smoothing, eye enhancement, contouring, and teeth whitening. The controls are tuned to stay subtle, which suits headshots and family sessions where heavy retouching reads badly at print size.

The standalone app processes whole folders at once with consistent settings, including drag and drop of subfolders. That is the feature that changes the economics of volume work: a wedding gallery that took an evening to grade can come down to a coffee break.

Adjustments run through a 16-bit pipeline with live previews, so stacking film looks and color grades does not introduce banding. Twenty-six film emulations and a black and white tool with zone control sit in the color grading panel for creative passes.