ILO RAW · 1.0

The photo editor
Illustrator never had.

A full Camera Raw developer that opens in its own window inside Adobe Illustrator. It works on placed and embedded photos, straight RAW files — and on your vector artwork, with the same controls.

5-day free trial — download it, open it in Illustrator and press Start the free trial. No card, no key.

Ilo Raw — sunset-poster.tif
The Ilo Raw editor with a developed RAW photo

WORKFLOW

Select. Develop. Done.

  1. 01

    Select anything

    A placed photo, an embedded image, a RAW file you open from disk, vector artwork — or all of them at once.

  2. 02

    Develop in a real editor

    Big preview, live histogram, before/after, zoom to 100% — every slider responds instantly on the GPU.

  3. 03

    Press Done

    The image goes back exactly where it was — same size, rotation and clipping. Select it again next week and continue.

EVERYTHING INSIDE

Twelve panels.
Nothing left out.

Basic

White balance with picker and Auto, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Vibrance, Saturation, Color / Black & White, and .cube Profiles with amount.

Tone Curve

Parametric curve you drag directly on the graph, plus point curves for RGB, Red, Green and Blue — with the histogram behind it.

Color Mixer

Hue, Saturation and Luminance for eight color bands, a targeted-adjustment tool you drag right on the photo, and Point Color for precise shifts of any sampled color.

Color Grading

Shadows, Midtones, Highlights and Global wheels with luminance, Blending and Balance — in a perceptual color space, so grades stay clean.

Masks

Linear, Radial, Brush, Luminance range, Color range, AI Subject, AI Sky — and Shape: any Illustrator path becomes a mask. Up to four per image, each with its own 15 adjustments.

Cut Out

Remove the background using Photoshop’s own engine when it’s installed, or the built-in quick AI. Refine, shift and feather the edge; export a transparent PNG.

Detail

Sharpening with radius and edge masking, plus luminance and color noise reduction that keeps real detail.

Optics & Geometry

Lens distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration and defringe. Vertical and horizontal perspective, rotate, aspect, scale and offset with a grid.

Effects & Calibration

Post-crop vignette, film grain with size and roughness, and red / green / blue primary calibration with shadow tint.

Harmonize

Pull the photo toward your document swatches or the colors of selected artwork — so photos live inside the illustration’s palette.

Print

Spot duotones as two grayscale plates colored with your real spot swatches, set to overprint — ready for screen print and offset.

Presets & LUTs

19 built-in looks previewed on your own photo, your own presets, .cube LUT import, and export of any look as a .cube for Photoshop, Premiere or Resolve.

ONLY IN ILLUSTRATOR

Your artwork is part of the edit.

Select photos and vector art together and they take the same grade. Fills, strokes, gradients — even each letter of multi-colored text — follow the look, and can always go back to their original colors.

  • Gradients keep their exact angle and position
  • Shared gradients outside the selection stay untouched
  • Spot colors are protected by default
Masks in Ilo Raw

RAW FILES

Open the file the camera wrote.

Canon CR3 · CR2Nikon NEFSony ARWFujifilm RAFAdobe DNGPanasonic RW2Olympus ORFPentax PEFHasselblad 3FRPhase One IIQSigma X3F1,000+ cameras

Illustrator can’t place RAW files. Ilo Raw can. It shows the camera preview instantly, decodes the full sensor data in the background, and places the developed photo on your artboard — linked to the RAW, re-editable any time. Also opens JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, PDF, WebP, AVIF and HEIC.

REQUIREMENTS

What you need.

Adobe Illustrator2023 (27) or newer
macOS11 Big Sur or newer · Apple silicon & Intel
Windows10 / 11, 64-bit
GraphicsAny GPU with WebGL 2 — every Mac and PC from the last 8 years
PhotoshopOptional — used for the best Cut Out edges
InternetOnly to activate your license

PRICING

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to the artboard.

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