neochrome is a RAW development engine and a digital emulsion. Starting from your image's raw file, neochrome separates the light of the scene into its three components — red, green, blue — and turns it into three black-and-white images, which hold not a colour but the measure of the light that arrived, point by point.

Three monochrome images, one per colour, exactly like the three layers of Kodachrome. Onto each is then laid a transparent dye — a cyan, a magenta, a yellow. A white light then passes through the three stacked layers, and colour is born of that passage as through stained glass. It is laid nowhere: it emerges.

neochrome is neither a filter nor a LUT: no tint is laid over an already-cooked image. The computation starts from the raw light, particular to each scene. The real exposure, shadows and highlights of that photograph enter the chemistry. And because colour is born of an absorption, the more intense it is, the more it grows dense and deep.

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