Drop in a scan and NegBreaker removes the orange mask, crops to the frame and flips it to a positive — colour and black & white, 35mm and medium format, whole rolls at a time. No Lightroom, no lab, no subscription.
You shot the roll and scanned it. NegBreaker converts the negatives — orange-mask removal, colour and black-and-white inversion, auto-crop and straighten — so your evenings go to photographs, not sliders.
The orange mask disappears and colors come back the way the film intended — every stock, color or black & white.
Drop in the whole roll — 36 raws import, convert and preview in one go. Batch the entire shoebox while you make coffee.
Finds the frame inside the film border, trims to the image edge and levels the horizon — even on crooked scans. 35mm and medium format alike.
Camera raws are decoded at full bit depth and processed in high-precision floating point, so nothing clips before you decide. Export finished positives as JPEG or 16-bit TIFF.
Dust, scratches and drying marks vanish before export — retouch right on the positive with a clone stamp and a content-aware heal mode.
White balance, CMY enlarger dials, tone curves, per-channel colour, grading wheels for shadows, mids and highlights — plus local masks when one frame needs more.
Drop a raw scan in and watch NegBreaker find the frame inside the film border, straighten it and flip the negative to a positive — no marching ants, no manual crop. This is a real import, in real time.
Six real conversions — 35mm and medium format, straight out of NegBreaker.
When one part of the frame needs more, paint a mask and grade just that — brighten a face, calm a sky, warm a shadow. Every local edit stays non-destructive, and the rest of the image is left exactly as the film rendered it.
NegBreaker ships the same instruments colorists use — live, on every frame. Open the scopes window next to your image and see exactly what the conversion is doing.
Drag a frame, a strip or the whole roll into NegBreaker. It sorts itself out.
Negatives become positives before your eyes — cropped, straightened, color-balanced.
Export full-resolution files or a contact sheet of the roll. Your archive, finally visible.
If you scan your own film, the tedious part was never the shooting — it's turning the negative into a positive. Removing the orange mask, inverting the channels and colour-correcting every frame by hand in Lightroom or Photoshop can take longer than the roll took to shoot.
NegBreaker does it in one click. Point it at a flatbed scan, a dedicated film-scanner file, or a camera scan of your negatives on a light table, and it inverts the negative, removes the orange base, crops to the frame and balances the colour automatically — for colour and black-and-white film alike. No plugins, no round-trips, just finished positives.
Because it's a standalone macOS app with a one-time €19.99 price, NegBreaker is a straightforward alternative to subscription editors and Lightroom plugins such as Negative Lab Pro — and you don't need Lightroom at all. Everything runs offline on your Mac, and whole rolls of 35mm or medium-format film convert in a single batch.
New to it? Read the step-by-step guide on how to convert film negatives to positives.
Feed NegBreaker the file straight off your card or scanner — it reads the RAW directly, no conversion step first.
Not shooting RAW? NegBreaker also opens the everyday formats: TIFF (.tif/.tiff), JPEG (.jpg/.jpeg), PNG and TGA — ideal for flatbed and dedicated film-scanner output.
The Mac app is here today, and a native Windows build is in the works — same one-click conversion, same one-time price. Leave your email and you'll be the first to know when it ships.
One email when the Windows version lands — nothing else. See our privacy policy.
Like a good camera: you buy it, it's yours. No rental darkroom here.
Drag your scanned negatives into NegBreaker. It removes the orange mask, inverts the image, auto-crops and straightens each frame, and balances the colour — one click per frame, or a single batch for the whole roll. Export full-resolution positives when you're done.
Yes. NegBreaker is a standalone macOS app, so you don't need Lightroom or any plugin to convert your negatives. It's a one-time €19.99 purchase with no subscription and works completely offline.
Yes. NegBreaker automatically removes the orange film base — the orange mask — and returns natural, true-to-film colour for every stock, plus clean inversion for black-and-white negatives.
Camera RAW from every major brand — Canon (CR3/CR2/CRW), Nikon (NEF/NRW), Sony (ARW), Fujifilm (RAF), Panasonic (RW2), Olympus/OM System (ORF), Pentax/Ricoh (PEF), Leica (RWL/DNG), Sigma (X3F), plus Hasselblad, Phase One, Mamiya/Leaf, Kodak, Epson, Samsung, Minolta, Casio and Adobe DNG (including Apple ProRAW). It also opens TIFF, JPEG, PNG and TGA for scanner output.
No. Any digitized negative works — flatbed scans, dedicated film scanners, or photos of your negatives taken with a digital camera on a light table (camera scanning / DSLR scanning).
35mm and medium format (6×4.5 up to 6×9), in color negative and black & white. Single frames, strips, or whole rolls.
Yes. €19.99 once and NegBreaker is yours, updates included. There is no subscription.
Completely. NegBreaker runs entirely on your Mac — no account, no cloud, no upload. Your photographs never leave your desk.
Of course. Download the free trial — it lets you convert a couple dozen of your own images before you decide.
€19.99 once. Every roll you've ever shot.