This release opens FerrumPix to the formats a photo library really contains, gives the editor a proper Mask tool, and makes the batch functions work with your RAW edits instead of around them.
What's new
- HEIC, TIFF, BMP and GIF open now. The format your phone photographs in, and the one your scanner produces. They show up in the gallery, open in the viewer and editor, and can be exported and converted like any other photo. FerrumPix reads them; saving goes to a format it can write. HEIC needs the system's libheif, which most distributions ship.
- Export to… One dialog for a whole batch export: name pattern, a look or automatic enhancement, a watermark, a size, the metadata to carry along, and the target format including PDF -locally or to Immich. Your originals are never touched.
- A Mask tool with graduated and radial masks. Drag a linear gradient across the image to hold back a bright sky, or a radial one to lift a face out of its surroundings. Both stay editable: move the handles, turn them, change how softly they run out, squash the radial one into an ellipse. Each one becomes its own correction layer, so several can sit on the same photo. The mask brush moved here too.
- Carry your slider settings from one photo to the next. A new Adjustments group in the Adjust tool, next to the automatic enhancement: give the current sliders a name, save them, and put them on any other photo later. Everything from Adjust, Colour, Details and Effects travels; crop, size, objects and masks stay behind, because they belong to one particular picture. Keep as many sets as you like, saving under a name you already used replaces it, and the list is still there after a restart. This takes the place of the copy-and-paste buttons, which only ever held the last thing you copied.
- Batch functions use your RAW edits. If you developed a RAW in the editor, resizing, watermarking, filtering or exporting it now writes the photo the way you edited it. A filter adds to your development instead of wiping it. Whether untouched RAWs get developed too is a setting under RAW development.
- Cropping RAW and PSD works like a RAW developer. The crop tool shows the whole picture with the crop marked; every other tool shows the crop. So you can always widen it again - and there is nothing to confirm any more.
- Colours hold up better. Pushing a colour band no longer flattens a red jumper or a blue sky into one solid patch. Lifting shadows no longer greys them out or lifts true black. And the colour noise slider now reaches the coarse blotches of a pushed-up night sky, not just the fine speckle.
Smaller things
- Batch functions accept every photo format FerrumPix can read, including RAW, PSD and .fpx. Where a format cannot be written back, you simply pick a target instead of overwriting.
- A file name pattern for batch results, the same one batch rename uses - and it is remembered for next time.
- Image size does what it says: two values are a box to fit into, and Do not enlarge leaves small images alone.
- Batch watermarking lets you place the watermark and set its width for that run, without changing the saved watermark.
- The Auto button is now called Automatic image enhancement and sits with the sliders it moves. It is available in the batch filter dialog too.
- Text objects only break where you break them, with Ctrl+Enter or Shift+Enter.
- Selections stay visible on dark photos, drop-down lists are never narrower than their field, dialogs scroll instead of growing off-screen, and a double-click on the rotation handle straightens an object.
- White balance from presets lands more precisely on artificial-light and night shots.
- Fixes: clearing a number field no longer leaves an error message in it; the crop handles can be grabbed from outside the image again; objects with a locked aspect ratio no longer distort when you change width or height; percentage scaling works for RAW, PSD, .fpx and rotated JPEGs; a failed export reports itself instead of ending the program.