What's new in Photivo 2020-11-19
Feb 9, 2021
- Packaging related bugfix release. The 6 April 2020 Windows version was packaged with an incomplete GraphicsMagick, leading to an error when trying to load a bitmap file. Also at least in some situations saving was not possible.
New in Photivo 2014-01-18 (May 20, 2014)
- Locale related bug fixes.
New in Photivo 2013-12-09 (Dec 11, 2013)
- Fixed creation of TIFFs with metadata. Files were slightly broken and could not be read again by some programs, including Photivo.
- Fixed a crash when loading an image with PTS autoloading activated and another image already being loaded.
New in Photivo 2013-10-30 (Nov 1, 2013)
- Features:
- Undo/Redo for most operations (Ctr+Z, Ctrl+Y)
- When loading an image auto-load associated settings (i.e. when a .pts with the same name as the image exists in the same folder).
- Ctrl+Shift+C and Ctrl+Shift+V to copy/paste settings to/from clipboard.
- Reset settings to startup default (Ctrl+Shift+R) or last saved (Ctrl+Shift+U).
- Previous/Next buttons in bottom panel to switch to previous/next image in the current folder.
- Options to show only raw files/only bitmaps in the file manager.
- Fixes:
- Fixed "File not found" error when opening image files with non-latin characters (issue 131)
- ImageView reloads last image when the file manager is reopened.
New in Photivo 2013-07-01 (Jul 8, 2013)
- Features:
- Major overhaul of the file manager
- Added aspect ratio options for 2560x1080 wallpapers
- When resizing width and height can now be set individually
- Thumbnail images can be loaded like “full” images
- Translations:
- Added Danish.
- Update to Czech.
- Update to Spanish.
- Update to Russian.
New in Photivo 2013-03-17 (Mar 18, 2013)
- Features:
- Updated dcraw to version 9.17/1.454.
- Batch manager: new “Reset status” button and a “send to batch manager” entry for the Save button's context menu.
New in Photivo 2012-12-12 (Dec 14, 2012)
- Features:
- Added output file name suffix that gets appended to the name of a processed image file or job file. Can be configured in Output › Output Parameters.
- Introduced a batch processing manager accessible via Ctrl+B, bottom bar button or the image right-click menu.
- Filters:
- After a long development and test phase spot tuning (formerly known as “local spot adjust”) is officially released. Find it on the new Local edit tab.
New in Photivo 2012-11-23 Beta (Nov 25, 2012)
- Beta version with the new spot tuning tool:
- This tool allows you to correct only specific parts of the image.
- All filters on the other tabs principially work on the whole image, though they might be constrained by global masks (like a luminance mask in Gimp). The difference with this tool is, that the masks used for calculation are local. So, when you add a new spot, you click on the image and Photivo gets the position and the color values of that pixel. Starting from these two values a local mask is calculated and the luminance curve as well as the saturation and hue adjustments are only applied on pixels which are in that mask. The mask consists of all pixels that have similar color values as the starting pixel and can be connected to the starting pixel on a path of only such pixels.
New in Photivo 2012-10-06 (Oct 8, 2012)
- Updated dcraw to version 1.452.
- New supported cameras (through dcraw):
- Canon EOS 5D Mark III
- Canon EOS 650D
- Canon PowerShot SX220
- Fuji F77
- Fuji HS3
- Fuji X-Pro1
- Fuji X-S1
- Nikon D3200
- Nikon D4
- Nikon D800
- Olympus E-M5
- Panasonic DMC-GF5
- Samsung NX1000
- Samsung NX2
- Sony SLT-A37
- Sony SLT-A57
- Prevent Photivo from starting on monitors that are not there anymore.
- Fixed broken job mode.
- Filters:
- Updated internal CImg to v1.5.1
- Curve files (.ptc) can be opened again via the context menu in the curve filters if they are anchor-based curves. The fully precalculated curves (mainly the "Sigmoidal_xx.ptc" files) were removed from the Curves folder.
New in Photivo 2012-08-05 (Aug 6, 2012)
- Features:
- Two decimals for BWStyler
- Updated white balance presets, thanks to ufraw
- Fixed a bug where crop did not work when loading an image via the File Manager
- New Czech translation
New in Photivo 2012-06-13 (Jun 25, 2012)
- New option to remember the pipe config between sessions. When you select Latest.pts as as your startup preset in “Settings › Startup settings” Photivo saves the current pipe configuration to that preset on each program exit and loads it again on next start. When you want to store a preset permanently do not use Latest.pts! Photivo may change that file at any time without warning.
New in Photivo 2012-05-21 Experimental (May 22, 2012)
- Filters:
- Completely new architecture for filters. Basically a filter now is a well encapsulated, reasonably independent component with a standard interface to the rest of Photivo.
- Big long-standing feature requests like a flexible pipe or undo are now possible (though still a lot of work, so don’t expect any of them in the near future).
- Much cleaner code throughout Photivo.
- Flexible filter config and GUI creation. GUI creation can be fully automatic from a single list of config items, or fully customised including Qt Designer .ui files and any bells and whistles you want, or anything in between.
- Added a second luma denoise curve on the “Lab Sharpen/Noise” tab. It’s hidden by default. Use the tab’s context menu or the “UI settings” config to make it visible.
- Features:
- Added an option to disable auto-opening the file manager when Photivo is started without an image.
- Old stand-alone curve files (the ones from the “Curves” folder) are deprecated. They cannot be opened or saved via the GUI anymore but .pts presets using them still work and will continue to work in the future.
New in Photivo 2011-11-28 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with the 27 Nov. installer that broke GraphicsMagick DLLs and made for example JPEG loading impossible.
New in Photivo 2011-11-27 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Features:
- Major changes to the file manager: The tree is replaced by a folder list view, added a simple bookmarks feature and a viewer for quick access to single images. Also various other fixes and improvements.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to input image files being deleted.
- Updated dcraw to v1.445
New in Photivo 2011-10-28 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Features:
- File Manager: For a while now a file manager/thumbnail viewer for Photivo has been in development and is now officially released. It opens automatically when you start Photivo without an image. You can also use the context menu on the image or Ctrl+M to access it. Please note that this is an early version of the file manager. It is definitely usable but not at all finished.
- Photivo now uses the Faenza icons by Matthieu James.
- Updated dcraw to version 9.10 (1.444). Redcine is disabled for now because Jasper decided to be a nuisance.
- New command line option --pts to load a settings file. Can also be combined with loading an image.
- Renamed command line option -g to --load-and-delete for more clarity.
- Added basic support for the Windows 7 taskbar features. The first application is Photivo displaying “busy” status in the taskbar while the pipe is running.
- And the usual bugfixing and polishing.
New in Photivo 2011-09-05 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Filters:
- New Gradual blur tool (Eyecandy tab) to creatively blur parts of the image, e.g. for miniature faking or simulating a tilt lens
- New Outline tool (Lab EyeCandy tab) to emphasise outlines. Especially useful in combination with GreyCStoration to create a painted/cartoony effect.
- Features:
- Write exif data in PNG files
- Crop tool: special exposure slider to adjust the exposure while cropping. Previously this was done automatically, especially to brighten usually too dark RAW images while cropping. The automatic failed on certain images, though. Please note: This is a temporary exposure adjustment for cropping only. It does not affect the final output image in any way.
- Updated enhanced color profiles
- Some bugixing and smaller stuff
New in Photivo 2011-06-24 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Features:
- Option to choose the startup tool pane view: tabs, favourites or all tools
- Mouse wheel moves curve points: Just the wheel moves vertically, also pressing Alt moves horizontally
- Export to other programs than Gimp is possible: Settings › Export command
- Zoom levels 200%, 300% and 400% are not smoothed anymore so you can see pixel boundaries clearly
- Crop: Works on all zoom levels, not only zoom fit as before. Also added a setting for the zoom level to switch to when you start a crop. In crop mode to drag the whole image instead of the crop rectangle hold down Ctrl.
- Spot WB selection, histogram selection and rotate angle line selection can be cancelled by pressing Esc
- New option for the initial pipe size when Photivo starts.
- New French translation.
- New Dutch translation.
- Various speedup optimizations and smaller bug fixes.
New in Photivo 2011-05-14 (May 19, 2011)
- Filters:
- Some small fixes esp. for dynamic range compression and perspective correction.
- Features:
- New slider widget
- Saving 16-bit PNGs is now possible.
- Loading an external CSS now adds the CSS to the selected theme instead of more or less replacing the theme completely.
- New German translation
New in Photivo 2011-04-30 (May 19, 2011)
- Filters:
- Seam carving tool (Geometry tab). Uses the liquid rescale library.
- Luminance denoise curve (Lab Sharpen/Noise tab)
- Defish tool (Geometry tab). It is a specialised convenience version of the Lensfun geometry conversion.
- Separated the Lensfun UI into proper separate tools. Added scaling option.
- Features:
- Some enhancements to the crop tool: switch crop rectangle (and AR values)between portrait and landscape orientation, center the rectangle horizontally or vertically on the image, combo box for the LightsOut feature.
- Photivo’s UI translation is user selectable instead of tied to the system language.
- Fixed broken writing of exif data into the output files.
- Some changes to the command line options. Type photivo -h for details.
New in Photivo 2011-03-27 (Apr 14, 2011)
- Filters:
- Perspective correction and scaling tools (Geometry tab).
- Lensfun integration (Geometry tab). Corrects lens errors (chromatic aberration, vignetting, geometric distortion) and converts between different lens geometries (e.g. fisheye to rectilinear). Full manual mode for now. Only focal length and aperture are automatically read from the image’s exif data (if present, so check them anyway!).
- Features:
- Photivo has a new icon!
- Interface to control the display setting (normal, favourite, hidden) of all tools: UI Settings on the Settings tab. You can also save a tool configuration as a display preset.
- The tool pane allows for a more flexible display of tools.
- Search bar to search for tools by name and display them in a single list.
- Tools can be “bookmarked” in a favourites list.
- Display all non-hidden or all currently active tools in a single long list.
- 1:1 detail view: When switching to 1:1 pipe in the confirmation dialog you can choose to only display a part of the image. This only affects the preview display.
- The image still is saved with its full dimensions (respecting crop of course).
- When opening files by drag & drop you can now drop them anywhere on the Photivo window instead of on the image area only.
- New welcome screen when starting Photivo without an image.
- Crop: Double click into the selection confirms the crop (same as Enter or the Confirm button).
- Italian translation
New in Photivo 2011-03-01 (Mar 24, 2011)
- Filters:
- Two more layer modes for Toning and Gradual overlay.
- New texture overlay tool (EyeCandy tab).
- New Hue curve tool (Lab EyeCandy tab).
- Speedup for rotation and blur.
- Features:
- Completely new Crop tool. Works a lot like Gimp’s crop tool, i.e. no more need to hold down the mouse button all the time.
- Updated dcraw to version 9.06 (1.440).