What's new in Imagina 1.9.5145.29032
Feb 26, 2014
- New FFMPEG-powered movie playback system.
- New XAudio2-powered audio processing system for playing movies.
- Movie playback controls for forward, rewind, pause and play.
- Movie playback now remembers last-viewed position when reloading a movie.
- Video / audio offset to counter Bluetooth delay when playing movies.
- Video frame interpolation for smooth animation when playing movies.
- Monitor never sleeps when playing movie.
- 3GB compilation switch reducing memory allocation failures and enhancing stability.
- Full-screen mode for both movie playback and image viewing.
- Latest libraw support for raw images.
- Latest jhead library for JPG file header manipulation.
- Thumbnails are generated even when the UI is continuously busy.
- Fixed bug with colour management profile loading.
New in Imagina 1.8 (Dec 22, 2012)
- Initial implementation of various period-style editing features.
- New style windows in the main working area.
- Sizeable thumbnails window.
- Better visuals for cropping.
- Much faster copying to the clipboard.
- Progress dialog for copying to the clipboard.
- Faster thumbnail generation.
- Sped-up movement in the 3D view.
- User preferences now remembered between incremental installations.
- Default gamma of 2.4 and toe slope of 12.92 for RAW development.
- Cleaned up file associations and browsing of file types.
- Improved the performance of image loading.
- Improved the performance of the image caching for even faster image load times.
- Improved the performance to image rendering.
- Improved the rendering performance further when switching pixel anti-aliasing off.
- Improved output range scaling in the Curve Transformations screen.
- Improved HDR development options with manual exposure.
- Improved HDR development options with smoothed low-end gamma.
- Latest libraw support for raw images.
- Major performance improvements when rereading folder after contents have changed.
- 3D rendering device now setup in a more robust manner.
- Decreased CPU usage when idling due to user inactivity.
- Auto-update feature on the free version of the software as well as the donation version.
- GPS track time can now be biased to align with the picture taken time in photographs.
- Whites can now be preserved when changing colour temperature.
- Fixed problem with thumbnails not being generated when the mouse is over the thumbnails window.
- Fixed crash-bug with dialog preview rendering.
- Fixed crash-bug with dialog preview generation.
- Fixed crash-bug with invalid picture taken time.
- Fixed crash-bug with rendering zoom navigator for very long or very wide images.
- Fixed bug with cropping and resizing rotated images to the screen size.
- Fixed bug with cropping rotated images when setting them as the desktop image.
- Fixed bug with undoing operations and rotation of images.
- Fixed bug with red and blue being mixed-up when loading TIF images.
- Fixed bug with updating image histogram with some pixel operations.
- Fixed bug with changing the viewing channels and then navigating to the next image.
- Fixed bug with visual rotations in the 3D view for images that have been losslessly rotated.
- Fixed bug with Save As and the image cache recording the wrong image for the original file name.
- Fixed bug with colour management not working correctly after using the slide show.
- Fixed bug with incorrect error reporting when saving an image.
- Fixed bug with resizing images to not quite the size that was being requested.
- Fixed bug with embedding GPS data into images.
New in Imagina 1.7 (Dec 22, 2012)
- GPS track support for embedding GPS information into images.
- Latest libraw support for raw images.
- Latest exiv2 support for EXIF information.
- Fixed toolbar placement in image processing dialogs.
- Fixed image orientation when saving orientation changes first followed by a full save afterwards.
- Added several processing dialogs to replace unresponsive application behaviour.
- User customisable colour management options.
- Increased the performance of colour management changes.
- Extended shot information for photographs taken from their EXIF data.
- Thumbnails are now generated even when the application does not have focus.
- Improved the speed of the image caching to often switch to the next image more swiftly.
- Thumbnails now continue to render when their source images are modified outside of the application.
- User interface improvements for different font sizes.
- Faster startup and rendering resource recreation.
- Improved gamma encoding and decoding.
New in Imagina 1.6 (Dec 22, 2012)
- New Ribbon-style user interface with ease-of-use enhancements.
- Latest libraw support for raw images.
- We now expose the toe slope and wavelet noise reduction parameters for raw image development.
- We now expose some PNG and TGA file saving options.
- Fixed gamma correction in raw images.
- Fixed memory management flaw when using the slideshow.
- Fixed 16 bit pixel format TGA file support.
New in Imagina 1.5 (Dec 22, 2012)
- Support for reading GPS coordinates from images and displaying them with the other image properties.
- Dynamically view images with GPS coordinates at their location within Bing Maps or Google Maps.
- Windows colour management now uses embedded ICC profiles within images to correctly display them.
- Images using the Adobe RGB colour space are now correctly displayed.
- Enhanced colour processing now using the CIELAB colour space.
- Support for loading the GIF file format added.
- Support for Unicode (foreign characters) added for most file formats.
- Inclusion of latest libraries for loading / saving jpeg and raw files.
- Much better memory management when working with large images, enabling the display and editing of images up to 50 mpx in size.
- Colour management warning when attempting to edit the colour of images when colour management is switched off.
- Fixed bug with lossless rotations and jpeg images, where rotations were not always set to the correct orientation.
- Can now optionally use the orientation tag in EXIF information to auto-rotate images to the camera's original orientation.
- Orientation tag in EXIF information now cleared when images are rotated within the software.
- Manual slideshow mode based purely on keyboard control.
- Smoother user interface with intelligent thread and memory management.
New in Imagina 1.4 (Dec 22, 2012)
- Windows colour management now used to render and preview images.
- Set as Desktop Background now saves colour managed images for Windows to display.
- New intelligent noise reduction algorithm.
- All processing screens now update using a background thread, making their user interfaces more responsive.
- Processing screen loading no longer waits for the preview to appear as it is put on a background thread.
- Processing operation screen now present with a Cancel button for long operations like Noise Reduction.
- Actual Size / Best Fit buttons now available in processing screens preview toolbars.
- New Restore option to recover files from a backup location.
- New Quick Fix option for image exposure.
- New Freeze Exposure option for HDR images.
- Improved start-up time.
- Mipmaps are now always used as they are considered a mandatory quality feature.
- The Illumination screen has been renamed to Curve Transformations.
- In the Curve Transformations screen the histogram upper and lower bounds detection now uses a more intelligent metric.
- Mouse drag margins on the Curve Transformations screen histograms has been increased.
- The histograms on the Curve Transformations screen now have improved visual appearance.
- Improved the curves for shadows and highlights in the Curve Transformations screen.
- Top and bottom histogram expansion is now separate in the brightness / contrast and Curve Transformations screens.
- Removed range and position sliders from the Curve Transformations screen as they are now rendundant with the interactive histograms.
- Ctrl U keyboard shortcut for Colour Saturation / Temperature screen.
- The Colour Saturation / Temperature screen now remembers the advanced / basic setting.
- The Brightness / Contrast screen now remembers the advanced / basic setting.
- The Brightness / Contrast screen now allows you more control over the Input histogram.
- Cropping finalisation has now been made more obvious and easy.
- Processing screens now detects when an image is still loading and prevent entry.
- Shift click dialogs for repeating last operation.
- Default when first run for the thumbnails windows is left hand side, always on.
- Thumbnails are now shown even if there is only one image in the folder.
- More CPU time given to thumbnail generation when the application is generally idle.
- User confirmation dialog now used when destroying thumbnails.
- Thumbnails are now selectable with the mouse.
- The main screen is no longer continuously updated when it appears not to be necessary (saving CPU power).
- EXIF properties disappear immediately if not used upon application start-up.
- EXIF information is now saved with various image files if it didn't already exist.
- Title, author and comments to be recorded in EXIF information which is now user editable.
- Ctrl Z stops an operation like straightening, in the same way as the Escape key.
- Median filtering noise reduction now performed on multiple threads.
- Undo history is now kept when saving an image, allowing undo / redo afterwards.
- The image properties histogram now reflects the last image when using the image comparator.
- Histograms for HDR images are no longer displayed as they are irrelevant.
- Sped up image saving in the undo system prior to image processing operations.
- Sped up the compare operation on the last change when memory is plentiful.
- Sped up image loading with a specific focus on jpeg images.
- Sped up rendering of main screen and slideshow with better managed 3D resources.
- Sped up pre-loading of next image in the image cache by generating textures for the source bitmap in the background.
- The Resize screen now remembers percentages and restores those when re-entering.
- Sweep effect in 2D visuals now reflects the navigation direction.
- Tagged images are now untagged when opening a new folder.
- Selecting Duplicate Tagged Images when duplicating to another folder now opens that other folder.
- Only displays the properties window by default (at first time use) if loads of screen space is available.
- Automatically choose by default faster (but still safe) options on slower computers.
- No longer navigate previous or next if only one image in the folder.
- Image compare to the initial image, not just the last change, now available when using the Shift key.
- New pixel probe when using the mouse and the Ctrl and Shift keys.
- Choosing custom colours in the Preferences screen is now a bit more intuitive.
- Shift mouse drag now rotates and straightens an image, with a checkerboard overlay for lining up.
- Ctrl mouse drag now rotates an image through the cardinal axes.
- 3D visuals surface is now rendered more intelligently, and with a more abstract texture.
- The Exposure and raw Development screens are now easier to understand.
- The exposure and raw development is now performed in the background if the relevant screens have been turned off.
- The last picture in a slide show is now faded off before returning to the main screen.
- Slide show now cancels screen saver and monitor sleeping.
- The slide show is now faster on low performance machines.
- New libraw library integration.
- New exiv2 library integration.
- Fixed rare crash bug in UpdateCache when referring to a null pointer.
- Fixed development screen for raw image when initiated from its equivalent jpeg.
- Fixed duplicate file save checking when entering into / returning from the slide show.
- Fixed zooming centre point on + and – keys.
- Fixed glitchiness in slide show.
- Fixed various issues with the rendering of the tag icon.
- Fixed file associations when running in a non-privileged environment.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
- Fixed rendering of histogram when image is not yet ready to be blank rather than full.
- Fixed bugs with resource management.
- Fixed the management in the image cache.
- Fixed rotation on the undo stack when switching between 2D and 3D visuals.
- Fixed thumbnail generation when thread conflicts occur.
- Fixed bug that prevented saving to PNG files when you are working with high accuracy floating-point images.