What's new in FerrumPix 0.9.72
Changes
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Stronger luminance noise reduction with a working Detail slider: the luminance noise
reduction now smooths much more strongly at the same value; before, even 100 did little. The
Detail slider now keeps fine texture such as hair and fabric
while flat areas stay smooth, and it has a visible effect from about the middle of its range.
Presets with a luminance value now look as intended. Pictures you already edited with luminance
noise reduction come out smoother. -
Dragging in the viewer moves the picture: when you are zoomed in, dragging with the left
mouse button now scrolls the picture instead of drawing a crop frame. If you liked the crop
frame, turn on "Crop by dragging" in the viewer settings. -
Faster colour noise reduction: with colour noise reduction on, moving exposure, curves or
colour sliders no longer redoes the noise reduction each time, and the noise reduction itself
runs faster and on the graphics card when that is switched on. -
Next picture after rating: a new viewer setting moves on to the next picture as soon as you
give it stars, so you can rate a whole folder with the number keys alone. -
Colour mixer now acts before the curves: in presets that use both, the
colour mixer now acts before the curves, so the colour look the curves add stays as intended.
The colour mixer also picks its colour ranges more precisely, so strong colours such as stage
light react to the right slider, and lowering saturation also reaches muted colours.
Turning the hue of a colour range now moves greens, blues, aquas and purples towards the
colour you expect instead of a wrong neighbour, and saturation and luminance per range match
presets more closely. Pictures you already edited with hue changes in the colour mixer may
look slightly different. -
Temperature and tint of RAW photos on the standard scale: the numbers in the editor, in
saved edits and in XMP presets now mean the same thing, so a preset
with a green or magenta tint looks as intended. The tint shown for a photo "as shot" is now a
small, familiar value. When you set a very different light, colours now shift the way the
camera would have recorded them under that light, not just the white. Pictures you already
edited keep their look; only the numbers shown for them change. -
Shuffle the slideshow: a new viewer setting plays the slideshow in random order. Every
picture is shown once before the order is mixed again. -
Crisper sharpening: the Sharpening slider now brings out fine texture such as hair and
fabric, without sharpening pixel noise more. Pictures you already sharpened come out a little crisper. -
Liquify: the Distort tool has a fifth mode with a brush that pushes, bloats, puckers,
twirls, smooths or brings back the original. Like the other distortions it stays editable in
the recipe, and masks and inserted objects move along. -
Remove a plain background: a photo or image layer on a plain background, such as a
product shot on white, can have that background made transparent, for the photo from the
right-click menu, for a layer from the layer menu. Soft edges stay soft, without a light fringe.
For the photo, the result comes as a layer above it, the removed area is transparent, and the
photo itself stays unchanged.
Fixes
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Presets with split toning and tone curves look as intended: split toning in the shadows and
highlights no longer brightens the picture, and presets that use both the parametric and the
point curve keep more detail in the shadows. -
Camera calibration looks as intended: the hue and saturation sliders of the red, green and
blue primaries now act on all colours that contain them, so lowering blue saturation also
softens warm tones, and several sliders together no longer pile up. Calibration now acts on the
white balanced picture, and the shadow tint darkens slightly as it tints. Pictures you already
edited with camera calibration, and the setting that adapts colours to the camera model, may
look different. -
Strong white balance keeps bright areas clean: on raw photos, white balance and camera
calibration now act before the tone curve, so a strong warm or cool setting no longer tints
bright areas fully and presets with their own white balance look closer to how they were
made. Pictures you already edited with a changed white balance keep their look. -
Waiting indicator while the picture is computed: removing a plain background, and applying
a preset, LUT or filter, now show a progress indicator on the picture until the result is
ready, instead of looking as if nothing happened. While presets are computed you can still
pick the next one. -
Hiding the photo shows transparency right away: after hiding the photo in the layers panel,
the empty areas showed black until the next change. They now show the transparency background
at once. -
Clearer graphics card check: after a successful check, the performance settings now say
plainly that image editing uses the graphics card. On a Mac with an Apple chip, the card shows
up with the chip's name as a built-in graphics unit instead of a number. -
No more jagged edges around coloured stage light with presets: presets that tint the
shadows, such as a teal look, could leave a hard, jagged edge and a green fringe where red stage
light fades into the dark. The light now fades out smoothly. -
Presets only once in the list: importing the same XMP preset or LUT again, even from
another folder or under another name, no longer adds a second tile. Duplicates already in the
list are removed once. -
Camera, date and location for Huawei HEIC photos: HEIC pictures from Huawei phones now show
their camera, capture date and location in the info panel. -
Loading a folder of presets or LUTs: a large folder no longer freezes the window. A progress
bar shows while it is read. -
Canon EOS R8 Mark II colours: its RAW files were developed as if shot in daylight, because
the camera's white balance was not read. They now use the white balance set in the camera. -
Canon EOS R6 brightness: with the brightness matched to the camera model, its RAW files
were developed brighter than other cameras. The R6 now gets its own measured value like every
other model, so unedited pictures start a little darker. -
Soft transitions in coloured stage light: where strongly coloured light blew out skin or
clothing, the bright area had a hard edge against the coloured light around it and looked
washed out orange. RAW files are now developed with more room for strong colours, so the light
fades smoothly into the bright area. -
More natural strong colours: RAW files keep strong colours such as stage light, flowers
and saturated clothing intact further into the development, so they come out closer to what
you saw, with smoother gradations. -
Converted DNG files no longer too bright: a DNG made from another RAW file with a converter
or another photo program often started brighter than the original RAW. It now develops like
the original.