The gallery platform with a real editor inside

Every other client-gallery platform assumes the editing was finished somewhere else. Obscura puts a develop-and-retouch editor in the same browser tab as the gallery, so the photos being culled, edited and delivered never leave the app.

Everything between the shoot and the send

Upload straight from the card, including camera RAW formats like Canon’s CR3, then cull the take down to the selects, edit them, and deliver a branded gallery, all in one pipeline. There’s no intermediate export step and no second piece of software involved at any stage.

A real develop module

The editor is not a filter strip on a gallery viewer. It includes:

• RAW develop from the original camera file, not a rendered preview
• Exposure, contrast and full color grading controls
• Tone curves for precise tonal control
• HSL color bands to push individual hues independently
• Clarity and sharpening
• Vignette
• Noise reduction, luminance and color
• Dehaze and glow
• Subject light and sky light from the built-in masks
• Auto crop, auto straighten, and match look between frames
• Preset amount dial
• One-click auto-enhance for a fast first pass
• Presets to apply your look across a session in one step

Retouch without round-tripping

Distraction removal and AI-assisted portrait retouch run in the browser, on the same photo about to be delivered. Blemish and distraction removal happen in the same place as the grade, so a retouch pass does not mean opening a different application.

Skip the two-app workflow

The default workflow everywhere else is Lightroom, then export, then upload to a gallery tool that only displays what you hand it. As of July 2026, none of the major gallery platforms (Pixieset, Pic-Time, ShootProof, Zenfolio, CloudSpot) include an editor in their gallery plans. Pixieset comes closest and still sells editing only as a separate product, at $12–18/month on top of gallery hosting. Obscura includes the editor on every plan, at no extra cost: free at 10 GB, or Pro at $20/month ($192/year) for 1 TB.

Questions

Does it handle RAW files?

Yes, including formats like Canon’s CR3. Develop adjustments are applied to the original RAW data, not a pre-rendered JPEG.

Do I still need Lightroom?

No. RAW develop, tone curves, HSL, clarity, noise reduction, healing and portrait retouch all run in the browser on Obscura. There’s no export-and-reimport step.

Does editing cost extra?

No. The full editor is included on every plan: free at 10 GB storage, and Pro from $20/month for 1 TB. See pricing for the full breakdown.