See the settings
behind the photo.

Learn to edit like your favorite photographers.
Explore their camera settings and Lightroom edits, then create presets for your own photos.

Inspect a photo Try a sample ↓
Sample photo: 20180826-DSC07924.jpg
Sony ILCE-7M2 55.0 mm · f/2.0 · 1/100 · ISO 200

Lightroom edits

Embedded
Exposure
+0.40
Contrast
0
Highlights
0
Shadows
0

Tone curve RGB

Color mixer Hue

Red
-10
Orange
0
Green
+26
Blue
+13
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Sample 1 of 4 · Actual embedded settings

Every photo has a story.
Start with what’s in the file.

01 / Embedded metadata

Recover the edits.

When a photo contains Lightroom metadata, see its saved adjustments—from exposure and color to tone curves. Download those settings as an XMP preset to explore in Lightroom.

Read from the photo’s embedded XMP data.
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02 / Look Match

No edits in the file?

Try a Look Match. Our custom machine-learning model suggests Lightroom adjustments based on the photo’s appearance, giving you a starting point to explore a similar look.

Estimates, not recovered settings. Results vary by photo.
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PixelPeeper × your AI assistant

The photo starts
the conversation.

Bring PixelPeeper into Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex. Ask about camera settings, explore embedded Lightroom edits, or compare photos from a website—all in your conversation.

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A red coffee cup beside flowers, an open book, and a camera
“What can the embedded settings tell me about how this photo was edited?”
An example question · Answers depend on the metadata in the file.
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