What's new
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JPEG XL, reading and saving. Photos in JPEG XL show up in the gallery and open in the
viewer and the editor, with their colour profile, rotation and capture data. You can save as
JPEG XL wherever you can choose a format, with the same quality setting as JPEG; 100 means
lossless. When converting JPEG files to JPEG XL, they can be repacked without any loss: about a
fifth smaller, and the original JPEG can be restored exactly. The Windows downloads bring
everything along, on Linux the packages recommend libjxl. -
Clarity that works like clarity. The slider now lifts contrast in the midtones across a wide
area, without light or dark rims along strong edges, and brings up far less noise. Before, it
acted like a second sharpening. Edits with clarity look somewhat different than before. -
Paste pictures straight from the clipboard. A screenshot or an image copied in the browser
becomes a new layer in the editor, not only image files. What you copy in the editor now also
goes to the clipboard as a picture, so it can still be pasted later and in other programs. -
Black and white point on the tone curve. The end points of the curve can now be dragged
inward as well, on every channel, so you can set the black and white point or tone colours per
channel.
Fixes
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Projects with several masked adjustments open faster, most of all when the masks cover only part
of a straightened or rotated picture. -
Selecting a mask layer on a straightened, rotated or cropped picture shows its red overlay
almost at once instead of after a second or more. -
The depth blur is calculated about three times faster, and the healing brush repairs several
times faster, most of all with large brush sizes. -
The depth blur with an aperture of three or six blades no longer fails, and with four or five
blades the picture edges are no longer smeared wrongly. -
A cropped or straightened project opens in the editor as it was saved, instead of showing the
whole uncropped picture for a moment first. -
A layer mask now follows its layer while you drag, scale or rotate it, not only after you let
go. -
Erasing on an image layer removes the pixels for good. Before, the erased spot flashed back
while moving the layer and stayed behind as a hole when the layer was moved elsewhere. -
Copying a selection taken from a layer copies only that layer. Transparent and see-through parts
stay transparent instead of showing the photo underneath. -
Upscaling in the editor, and applying saved edits that need a model, show the progress display
with its cancel button. The picture stays locked while they run, so no change made in the
meantime is lost. -
HEIF photos with the endings .heif and .hif, as some Fujifilm and Canon cameras save them, now
appear in the gallery. -
Smaller things: the channel switcher of the tone curve also marks a channel whose end point was
moved, lens correction knows a few more cameras and lenses, and the bundled HEIC decoder on
Windows is up to date.