Bitpainter75/FerrumPix 0.9.3

FerrumPix 0.9.3

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0.9.3

Viewer

• Replaced the previous video backend with libmpv for viewer playback and video thumbnail generation. Windows packages now bundle the mpv runtime, while Linux packages use the system libmpv.
• Removed the old VLC/LibVLC dependency and cleaned up the previous native video host.
• Improved slideshow video handling: videos autoplay, advance to the next item after playback.
• Added Windows packaging support for bundled mpv runtime files and third-party license notices.

Gallery

• Improved gallery scrolling behaviour and scrollbar autohide.
• Improved video startup from the gallery play badge by delaying file loading until the native video host is attached, fixing black first playback with audio only.
• Added direct video opening from the gallery play badge, video navigation in the viewer filmstrip, and fullscreen navigation between images and videos with the cursor keys.

Editor

• Fixed the default editor tool selection.
• Changed preview debouncing so live editor previews update more predictably without over-triggering.
• Added textured brush variants to the editor: a visual brush picker lets you choose between a soft round brush, grained presets (pencil, marker, textured acrylic and sandpaper), a directional dry-brush smear and a paint-spatter brush (streaky 3D base line with scattered droplets). Each tile shows a rendered sample stroke, all variants are fully localized, and the eraser keeps using the soft round brush.
• Gave the brush tool the same colour wheel (ColorMixer) as the text and insert tools for picking the paint colour, and reorganised the draw panel into separate framed groups (colour, brush, eraser, retouch) like the text-object panels.
• Brush strokes can now carry a drop shadow and an outer glow, with the same shadow/glow panels used for text and shape objects.

0.9.2

Editor

• Added a repair brush for retouching and object removal, alongside the existing blur/smudge and clone stamp tools.
• Improved live retouch feedback and stroke handling for brush, eraser, clone stamp, smudge and repair workflows.
• Added more shape and symbol tools, including straight lines, trapezoids, droplets, stars and speech bubbles.
• Reworked the editor tool panels: shapes and symbols are grouped more tightly, frame controls have their own panel, and sharpness/blur/detail/effect controls are reorganized.
• Improved selection tooling with move mode inside the selection panel, object selection from the selection tool and right-button panning on the editor stage.
• Added transparent erasing support for PNG workflows and improved brush/eraser live preview behavior.
• Fixed initial sizing for newly created text objects.
• Invalidated edited images and thumbnails after saving so gallery and viewer previews refresh correctly.

0.9.1

Immich

• Immich photos can now be updated in place when this is enabled in Settings.
• Immich photos and albums can now be deleted from FerrumPix when deletion is explicitly allowed.
• Immich integration is more reliable, including asset replacement on Immich v3 and concurrent downloads.

Editor

• Objects now support blend modes and can be adjusted directly.
• A dedicated move tool improves object selection and movement.
• Paint tools now support flow.
• Rotate and flip actions also work on selected objects.
• Ctrl+S falls back to Save as when direct saving is not possible.

Selection

• Selection handling is much faster and more accurate.
• Added feathering for softer selection edges.
• Copied and filled selections become movable objects immediately.

Fixed

• Hidden Immich motion-photo assets no longer appear as empty gallery tiles.
• Very short videos can now produce thumbnails more reliably.

0.9.0

Editor

• Added film negative conversion.
• Cropping now works in image pixels instead of percent.
• Text objects can be much larger, up to 5000 px.
• Text and shape glow is much faster.
• Noise reduction and dust and scratches are much faster.

Gallery

• Added batch filtering with built-in filters, Lightroom .xmp presets and .cube LUTs.
• Added a footer menu button for batch actions.
• Search input no longer rebuilds the whole folder view on every keystroke.

Fixed

• Pasting a gallery selection no longer creates duplicate copies.
• Failed previews now report the error instead of leaving the old preview on screen.
• Text object selection frames, mouse-wheel slider steps and shadow light angles behave correctly.
• Search and Immich tree expand states are stored correctly.

0.8.0

Immich

• Added direct browsing of self-hosted Immich servers.
• Added Immich album browsing, thumbnail caching and fullscreen viewing with filmstrip support.
• Ratings, favourites and keywords can sync with Immich.
• Search lists can search Immich, including semantic search where available.
• Albums can be created and renamed, and photos can be uploaded.
• Photos can be moved between local folders and Immich with copy/paste and drag and drop.
• Immich photos can be opened in the editor in save-as-only mode.

Gallery

• Delete now moves files to the trash by default.
• File conflict dialogs now support "Overwrite all" and "Skip all".
• Embedded ICC profiles are shown in gallery metadata.
• Metadata overlays now show the fields that FerrumPix actually uses for search and filtering.
• RAW metadata import was fixed for aperture, ISO, exposure time and lens data.

Editor

• Added free selection with rectangle, ellipse, lasso and magic wand modes.
• Active selections can limit adjustment tools to the selected area.
• The HSL mixer now has luminance sliders.
• Brightness, contrast and exposure no longer clip harshly.
• Several adjustment and Lightroom preset import issues were fixed.
• Added an ICC tab to the info sidebar.

Localization

• New strings are covered in German, English, Spanish, French and Italian.

0.7.0

Platform

• Updated to AvaloniaUI 12.
• Replaced the LibVLC Avalonia control with a custom video view.
• Fixed broken tone curves and Highlights/Shadows/Whites/Blacks sliders after a SkiaSharp upgrade.
• The image pipeline now uses all CPU cores.

Viewer

• Fixed fullscreen video freezes and replay issues.
• F11 now toggles fullscreen in every mode.

Editor

• Added rulers and a configurable pixel grid with draggable guides.
• Added an Insert image button.
• Paint tools now keep their own settings.
• Shapes and symbols open much faster.
• The eraser panel and colour mixer were cleaned up.

Gallery

• Fixed an empty gallery grid on startup.
• Improved selection rating/favourite behavior in the footer.

0.6.0

Editor

• Added the clone stamp tool.
• Added a colour mixer with fill/background swatches, hex input and eyedropper.
• Cropping is repeatable again.
• Retouching, object dragging and preview rendering were improved.
• Several object, layer and watermark bugs were fixed.

Settings

• Added font scaling without restart.
• Settings are now written atomically.
• Cancel no longer reverts unrelated changes.

Gallery and viewer

• File operations now run in the background.
• Folder watcher reliability was improved.
• ICO files are displayed.
• Focal length can be used as 35 mm equivalent in search, sorting and file-name patterns.
• The settings dialog opens faster.

0.5.0

Added

• Added watermark creation and batch watermarking.
• Added batch resize and metadata removal.
• Added metadata badges for EXIF, IPTC and XMP.
• Added Lightroom .xmp preset and .cube LUT import.
• Added new editor effects, including dust and scratches, haze, noise reduction, structure, glow and aged photo.
• Added gradients, more frame styles and typed slider input.
• Added keyword suggestions in the info panel.

Changed

• Reworked the vignette tool.
• Improved mouse-wheel slider adjustment.
• Metadata is now read from more file formats.

Fixed

• PNG metadata is stored in the catalogue.
• Search list selection is preserved when returning from the viewer.
• Undo works correctly after applying Lightroom presets.
• Shape selection, glow clipping and info-panel scrolling were fixed.

0.4.0

Added

• Added image dimensions, file size and dates to the catalogue.
• Added gallery sorting for the new catalogue fields.
• Added configurable fit zoom behavior.
• Added live mouse coordinates in the viewer and editor.

Changed

• Thumbnail cache size is limited to 5,000 images.

Fixed

• Viewer scrolling stops cleanly.
• Cropping no longer jumps to the Adjust tool.
• Tool tab activation and the eyedropper cursor were fixed.

0.3.0

• Initial alpha release.

See also the package in the AUR

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ferrumpix-bin