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Picture Window Pro Changelog

What's new in Picture Window Pro 8.0.427

Mar 23, 2024
  • Composite transformation: fixed problem of In/Ov tool bar not being displayed in some unusual cases.
  • Mask: removed two of the options in the Settings Menu for initial display (Output Image Only and No Change).
  • Batch operations: fixed problem of error messages being hidden by the batch progress dialog box in some cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.426 (Mar 17, 2024)

  • Fixed problems with probes initiated from the main tool bar (Magnifier, Readout, etc.) accidentally introduced in 8.0.424.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.425 (Mar 15, 2024)

  • Fixed problem with certain probes not working accidentally introduced in 8.0.424

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.423 (Mar 12, 2024)

  • Batch Operations: when paused at a breakpoint, making changes to the settings and then clicking Cancel and restoring the original settings lets the batch operation continue normally. Otherwise, canceling terminates the batch process.
  • Fixed problems with zooming images using the mouse scroll wheel in some cases.
  • Test pattern transformations: output images are now created in the working color space (or gray working color space for B&W images).
  • Composite transformation: the menu you get when right-clicking on the input or overlay image now lets you copy the locations of the alignment points to the other image. If the two images are about the same size and are approximately aligned to begin with, this lets you place alignment points in one image and then copy them to the other image, quickly giving you a starting point for further refinement.
  • Canceling the recalculation of a Precise Gaussian transformation now displays a dialog box to either set the output image to Error which then propagates to any downstream transformations. Or, you can bypass the transformation which will cause it to be ignored until you un-bypass it later.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.422 (Mar 8, 2024)

  • Compare Transformation: rearranged controls to eliminate duplicate Image B label.
  • When a transformation is open and you switch between split screen and non-split screen display, the image is now always zoomed to fit unless you hold down the Alt key when switching.
  • Mask Tool: fixed problem with freehand tool being clipped incorrectly at the top and right edge of the input image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.421 (Feb 29, 2024)

  • Increased the number of situations in which the workspace is autosaved. This means that in the event of a crash you are likely to be able to recover more of your work.
  • Resize Transformation: now reports old and new size in megapixels and added the option to set the image size in megapixels.
  • Export command and transformation: added option to set image size in megapixels.
  • Histogram Tool: if a transformation dialog box is open and just the input image is being displayed, the histogram is computed from the input image. Otherwise, the histogram is computed from the output image. This lets you compare the transformation’s input and output histograms by using the display tool bar, the Ctrl-D keyboard shortcut or by Shift-clicking on the Amount control mask box to toggle between the input and output image.
  • Text Transformation: add Location and Border Width controls to let you place captions on images that have a border. This can be used to automatically center the text in the top or bottom image border.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.420 (Feb 24, 2024)

  • Clone Tool: Undo now resets the cursors.
  • Reworked the Readout Tool to show colors from both the input and output images
  • when a transformation dialog box is open and synchronized scrolling is enabled. Also
  • reorganized the user interface.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.419 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • In the interest of creating a stable release, I have temporarily removed a feature added 13-Oct-2023 that allowed toggling between zoom to fit and zoom to 1:1 to preserve the
  • zoom and scroll position of the 1:1 view.
  • Card to Folder: if Merge folders is not checked but all the images on the card are contained in one folder, this scenario is now treated as though Merge folders was checked, thus preventing the creation of an unnecessary Folder 1.
  • Clone: when selecting a new source image and switching to a split screen display, both the source image and the output image are now zoomed to fit.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.418 (Jan 29, 2024)

  • Mask: fixed problem with incorrectly drawn overlay in some cases

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.417 (Jan 28, 2024)

  • When a transformation is active and you use the tool bar to select whether to display
  • the input image, the preview image, or both side by side, you now have the option of
  • holding down the Alt key when you click on the tool bar. If the Alt key is not depressed, Picture Window does a zoom to fit when switching side-by-side display on or off. If the Alt key is depressed, the current zoom factor is preserved.
  • Adjust transformation: added commands to reset the settings in each of the four tabs without affecting the other settings.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.416 (Jan 25, 2024)

  • Fixed a problem with toggling between Zoom to 1:1 and Zoom to Fit within some transformations.
  • Dehaze: made strength = 0.0 leave input image unchanged.
  • Card to Folder command: added the option to merge or not merge image folders. See the updated help file for examples of why you would not want to merge folders.
  • Advanced Sharpen: when showing the difference between the preview and the input image, now what is displayed is preview minus input instead of input minus preview.
  • Decommissioned the Android version of DoF – unfortunately Google kept making changes to Android that broke the app and it was getting to be too much work to keep updating it. The Windows version is still active.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.415 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Added a new Operation setting to the Blend and Composite transformations called Increase Difference. If this operation is selected, the output image is computed such that it is lighter where the input image is lighter than the overlay image and darker where the input image is darker than the overlay image. This operation can, for example, be used to sharpen the input image if the overlay image is a blurred version of the input image.
  • Masks: for linear and oval gradients, numbered intermediate control points are now displayed and can be dragged corresponding to intermediate control points in the color line.
  • Fixed problem with zooming a splitter or side branch to 1:1.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.414 (Jan 20, 2024)

  • Dehaze transformation: added the ability to add haze as well as remove it and an exposure compensation slider to adjust the brightness of the output image.
  • Multipoint Gradient transformation: adding a new control point if Match Input Image is unchecked now assigns it the same color as the previous control point. Fixed problems with all the interpolation methods except Shepard and made the method list match the one in Composite Multi-point alignment. This involved removing Hardy and adding Thin Plate, Inverse Multi-quadratic, and Sinc.
  • Batch operations: fixed problem with scripts generated by File Export transformation. Also fixed a problem with the first image not being restored correctly at the end of a batch process.
  • Mask Control: added the ability to create rotated rectangle or ovals. Fixed problem with dragging oval gradients by their center point.
  • Color Lookup transformation: moved load/save/create cube file commands from Settings menu to a tool bar. Added an amount control. Fixed some minor issues.
  • Color Primaries transformation: fixed a problem with new settings not being applied after loading a saved settings file. A new settings file: Warming.primaries is now included with the install – these settings work well for bringing out fall foliage.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.413 (Jan 12, 2024)

  • All transformations that support the Vivid Light blend mode: fixed possible crash when using Vivid Light.
  • Fixed problems with Amount control not properly returning control to the current
  • transformation dialog box in some cases

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.412 (Jan 12, 2024)

  • All transformations that support the Vivid Light blend mode: fixed possible crash when using Vivid Light.
  • Fixed problems with Amount control not properly returning control to the current transformation dialog box in some cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.411 (Jan 6, 2024)

  • Magnify transformation: add Square and Diamond shape options.
  • Lens Distortion: the 5 control points in the overlay that define a line are now numbered and you can quickly scroll to one of them by typing its number.
  • Composite: re-implemented Multi-point alignment similar to the way it was implemented in PWP 7. Changed the way you specify how control points are dragged since Shift and Ctrl are sed to insert and remove control points in multi-point alignment mode. A full install is required to get 3 new bitmaps.
  • Updated to ExifTool version 12.72.
  • Added support for Nik 6 Plug-ins.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.410 (Dec 31, 2023)

  • Show Dependencies: added a Back button and made other cosmetic changes to the
  • user interface. A full install is required to get some updated bitmaps.
  • Added new Magnify transformation – similar to Stretch but radial instead of horizontal
  • or vertical. See the updated help file or Transformations.pdf for details

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.409 (Dec 26, 2023)

  • Show Dependencies: reworked this command. See the updated help file for details.
  • Paint tool: added Add and Subtract modes. Subtract mode works well for painting out
  • flare light and raindrops.
  • Updated LibRaw to Version 0.21.2.
  • Updated ExifTool to 12.71

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.408 (Dec 21, 2023)

  • Crop transformation: fixed a problem with proportion changes not happening in certain
  • cases. Also, changing proportions or orientation now maximizes the crop rectangle.
  • Added new Show Dependencies command to the Edit submenu in the main menu (also
  • accessible by right clicking on a thumbnail in the image browser). This lets you select
  • (displayas yellow check marks in the thumbnail caption), various transformations
  • depending on their relationship to the current transformation. You can select upstream
  • (transformations the current transformation depends on) and/or downstream
  • (transformations that depend on the current transformation). In addition, you can select
  • transformations that depend via auxiliary inputs or via masks. This selects just the
  • transformations that have a first level dependency – not those that are more than one
  • level removed from the current transformation. You can use this, for example, to show
  • which transformations use the current transformation as an auxiliary input
  • (upstream/input), or which transformations depend on one of the masks in the current
  • transformation (downstream/mask). For details, see the updated help file.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.406 (Dec 13, 2023)

  • Extended the recent changes to the left and right arrow keys to apply to full-screen display mode as well.
  • Ctrl-click on a thumbnail no longer scrolls the thumbnails in the image browser. Also, clicking buttons in the image selection tool bar in the image browser no longer scrolls the thumbnails.
  • Add a setting to File Preferences (Hide Progress Bars) to control when progress bars are displayed.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.405 (Dec 8, 2023)

  • The left and right arrow keys now work differently if two or more thumbnails are selected (e.g. via Ctrl-click on their thumbnails). In this case they cycle through the list of selected images either forwards or backwards, making the next or previous selected image the current image. This makes it easier to compare two or more images in different parts of the workspace by quickly flipping between them.
  • Stretch transformation: added an Aspect Ratio readout as an aid if you want to adjust the output image to specific proportions.
  • Updated to lcms 2.16 color management engine.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.404 (Dec 2, 2023)

  • Macros: “filename” now gets the filename without an extension. Added new macro “extension” which gets the extension only.
  • Export: fixed some issues with entering long templates and changed some of the text prompts. The macros for image size now return the exported size and not the size of the output image.
  • Warp: there is now a new tool bar at the top of the dialog box that lets you prevent the corners of the overlay grid from moving beyond the edges of the input image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.403 (Nov 26, 2023)

  • Macros: added macros for image width, height and dpi.
  • File Export: added a template option to let you define custom filenames using macros.
  • Composite transformation: as before, you can drag all the alignment points at once by holding down Shift. Now you can also rotate all the alignment points in either the base or overlay image (assuming there are at least two alignment points) at once by holding down Ctrl. The center of rotation is the center of average position of all the alignment points and is marked by a cross in the overlay

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.402 (Nov 20, 2023)

  • Amount controls: when you click on the Amount square at the right of the control, the mask menu that drops down is now initially positioned to the second item. If there is no mask, this corresponds to New Mask… If there is a mask but no mask dialog box, this corresponds to Re-open Mask Dialog Box. If there is a mask but there is a mask dialog box, this corresponds to Reset. These common items are now easy to choose you can just double click on the mask menu to select them. When launching Picture Window via a command line, if the exit_when_done keyword is present, the program will exit after processing the last file in the command line. The Export transformation also has a new item in its settings menu to force its execution when it is run while loading a script or workspace script. These features combined are meant to allow Picture Window to be run from a Windows batch (.bat) file unattended.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.401 (Nov 19, 2023)

  • Grid: fixed problem with Omit Edges and minor grid lines.
  • Mask: fixed problem with loading saved polygons or splines not returning them to their original locations.
  • Fixed problem causing multiple recalculations when bypassing/un-bypassing multiple transformations at once.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.400 (Nov 4, 2023)

  • Ruler: fixed problem with incorrect angle if the input image was not square.
  • Layout: fixed typo in panel size display when units were set to mm.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.399 (Oct 29, 2023)

  • Mask: fixed problem saving Spline (.spine) files.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.398 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Curve Controls: improved the way markers (lines highlighting the histogram when you
  • click and drag on the input image) are displayed to make them more visible in areas
  • where the histogram is near zero.
  • Crop: fixed problem with size of crop rectangle sometimes changing slightly when
  • dragging its interior.
  • Composite, Blend, Paint, Tint, Gradient (Linear, Oval, Sweep, Multipoint), Watermark
  • Transformations: added Linear Light, Vivid Light and Pin Light blend modes.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.397 (Oct 20, 2023)

  • Color Remap: fixed several problems and changed wording of the dialog boxes and help to be more consistent.
  • Kaleidoscope: you can now move both control points at once using shift-click and drag.
  • Crop, Grid Button: added Dynamic Symmetry as a built-in grid type DL-C web site gallery page now links to more images.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.68.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.396 (Oct 15, 2023)

  • Fixed problems using the zoom tool bar on the left half of the split screen.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.395 (Oct 14, 2023)

  • When switching between zoom to fit and zoom to 1:1, the scrolling location of the 1:1 view is now preserved.
  • You can now press the Enter key to simulate clicking OK and Esc to simulate clicking
  • Cancel in the File Save Options dialog boxes as well as various other dialog boxes.
  • Color Remap: updated help file and Transformations.pdf to better explain how it works.
  • Fixed red highlighting of current color.
  • Selective Color Correction: As before, if you click on a palette color a new control point is created for the selected color. However, if you shift-click on a palette color, it now sets the other end of the arrow for the current control point (if any) to the selected palette color.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.394 (Oct 8, 2023)

  • Color Remap: modified the user interface to make it easier to understand and use.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.67.
  • Slide Show Viewer: added 3 missing bitmaps.
  • Watercolor Transformation: fixed problem with typing a new Max Dimension not triggering an update.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.393 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Clone, Detail, Levels and Color, Smudge tools: implemented the recent brush enhancements similar to those in the Paint tool.
  • Levels and Color Tool: added new Apply To and Threshold controls that work like the similar controls in the Mask Paint tool.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.391 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • Paint Tool: added the ability to adjust brush width and angle continuously and to display custom brush shapes as outlines surrounding the cursor. Brush angle is adjusted by a Compass control or by Shift-Mouse Wheel. Brush width is adjusted by a slider or by Ctrl-Mouse Wheel. Outlines of custom brushes show contour lines at 25%, 50% and 75%. Once this new code is stable, I will propagate it to the other transformations that use brushes.
  • Clone Tool: fixed a problem with the brush shape rotated or flipped in some cases.
  • Stretch Transformation: swapped the positions of the Top and Bottom sliders.
  • Custom Brush Shapes: Added a note to documentation -- to avoid clipping rotated custom brush shapes, custom brush shape images must be black everywhere outside the largest circle that fits in the 2000 x 2000 pixel image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.390 (Sep 22, 2023)

  • Fixed some problems with automatically restoring control to transformation dialog boxes after using Alt-Mouse Wheel or Alt-Drag to zoom or scroll the image.
  • There is a so-called feature of Windows that requires you press the Alt key a second time after an Alt-Zoom or Alt-Scroll to restore normal cursor tracking. The same problem with the Alt key affects many other Windows programs including Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. The problem is caused by a somewhat useless feature of Windows, namely if you press Alt and release it, the menu bar is enabled and if you then press a letter key, the corresponding menu item is executed. Fortunately, there is a way to disable this Windows behavior via a freeware program called AutoHotKey in combination with a script that remaps certain uses of the Alt key. Starting with the next version, this fix is automatically installed in your Windows Startup folder as the file:Alt_menu_acceleration_disabler.exe. You will need to restart your computer to get it to load the first time it is installed. By default, the fix is enabled, but if for some reason you want to restore the way the Alt key worked before, you can toggle it on or off by pressing both Alt keys at the same time.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.389 (Sep 15, 2023)

  • Full Screen Display: fixed problems with displaying certain image types

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.388 (Sep 14, 2023)

  • Clone Tool: fixed backward incompatibility problems with custom brush shapes causing errors when loading some pre-existent scripts.
  • Full Screen Display now applies the proofing profile and gamut alarm, if they are turned on.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.387 (Sep 10, 2023)

  • Clone Tool: temporarily reverted to earlier version without custom brushes as there was a serious problem with the new version.
  • A number of transformations such as File/New, Resize, Watercolor, Layout, etc. let you enter an image size manually. Accidentally entering a very large number, can cause Picture Window to crash or create a very large, unwanted image. There is now a limit (which you can set in File Preferences as Image Dimension Warning) for manually entered image widths or heights above which Picture Window will issue a warning so you cancel the entry if it was made in error. The default value is 20000, but if you have a
  • limited amount of memory you might want to use a smaller value. If you have lots of memory and routinely work with very large images, you might want to use a larger value.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.385 (Sep 7, 2023)

  • Added the ability to create and use custom brush shapes to the Paint transformation. Please see the revised help file for details. Future releases will extend this feature to the Clone, Detail, Levels and Color and Smudge tools. A full install is required to get one new bitmap.
  • Autorange transformation: removed RGB color space option – any existing scripts that use it will default to HSV.
  • Fixed problem that could cause a crash when processing 16-bit black and white images in some rare cases.
  • Made a code change that should fix a problem with PWP 8 not reading or writing some image file types on Windows 7.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.384 (Aug 26, 2023)

  • When loading a script file or running a batch process, the main image area is now redrawn each time a new transformation is recalculated, so you can see the images pass through all their intermediate states as they load.
  • Also, progress bars are now suppressed when loading scripts.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.383 (Aug 21, 2023)

  • Image Browser: changed click and drag scrolling to no longer require holding the Alt key down. You can now scroll the image browser by clicking and dragging on the blank space between thumbnails

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.382 (Aug 17, 2023)

  • Stretch Transformation: fixed problem that could cause the transformation to crash in some cases. Added a marker line overlay to the output image to show where the region boundaries are. Clicking on the output image displays the marker lines until you release the mouse button.
  • Lines and Arrows Tool: if the Snap button is depressed, adding a new control point now immediately snaps it. Previously you had to move the new control point slightly.3
  • Mask: fixed problems with dragging rotated oval gradient control points.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.381 (Aug 11, 2023)

  • Right-click menu on a side branch now includes Favorites submenu.
  • Scratch Removal Tool: you can now select a scratch by clicking anywhere inside its outline.
  • Image Browser: as an alternative to using the scroll bars, when you hold down the Alt key, you can scroll the thumbnails by clicking and dragging.
  • Updated ExifTool to version 12.65.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.380 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Scratch Removal Tool: fixed problem with parts of scratch path not being removed in certain cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.380 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • Scratch Removal Tool: fixed problem with parts of scratch path not being removed in certain cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.379 (Aug 5, 2023)

  • Fixed virus detected issue when downloading Picture Window.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.378 (Aug 4, 2023)

  • Fixed problem of image browser not being redrawn correctly after canceling a top-level transformation if the image browser was configured as a separate window.
  • Minor changes to Crop transformation context menu

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.377 (Aug 2, 2023)

  • Crop Transformation: fixed problems with dragging the sides of rotated cropping
  • rectangles and with dragging the output image to move the center of the cropping rectangle. Added a list of common proportions to the popup menu displayed when right-clicking on the input image.
  • Added File submenu to right-click popup menu on thumbnails in Image Browser.
  • Speck Removal Tool: fixed problem of not reporting a size mismatch if input image has different pixel dimensions than the last time.
  • Fixed problem of main window not being redrawn correctly in some cases after
  • canceling a top-level transformation

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.376 (Jul 30, 2023)

  • Hue Saturation Transformation: fixed incorrect placement of color balance controls in some cases.
  • Two Zone and Three Zone Transformations: added color balance controls (if the input image is color).

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.375 (Jul 26, 2023)

  • Stretch Transformation: there are now three Scale sliders so you can adjust the scale factors for the areas on either side of the marker lines as well as for the area between the marker lines.
  • Fixed problem with installer asking to remove previous version before installing new one.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.374 (Jul 24, 2023)

  • Added new Stretch transformation. It lets you expand or compress a selected horizontal or vertical strip of an image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.373 (Jul 22, 2023)

  • Warp Transformation: fixed problem causing overlay not to be displayed when transformation starts up if only the input image is being displayed.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.372 (Jul 16, 2023)

  • Monochrome Transformation: fixed problem exiting from transformation dialog box not restoring the normal scroll and zoom mouse operations.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.371 (Jul 7, 2023)

  • Ruler Transformation: menu item was supposed to be grayed out if the workspace is empty.
  • When changing the current image, the image browser now brings both the image
  • thumbnail and any related input and mask mini-thumbnails into view. Previously the inputs and masks could be clipped.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.370 (Jun 23, 2023)

  • Match Reference: added the missing commands to the settings menu to save color
  • curves or selective color correction settings.
  • Fixed problems with saving image files whose filenames include more than one period.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.369 (Jun 17, 2023)

  • Two Zone and Three Zone transformations: reversed the meaning of the transition sliders (100% <-> 0%). Pre-existing scripts reverse the slider values when they are loaded.
  • Match Reference: updated the descriptions in the help file and Transformations.pdf to be less confusing.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.368 (Jun 10, 2023)

  • Fixed problem reading certain image file metadata.
  • File Export: fixed problem with restoring the Folder control when editing the
  • Transformation.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.63.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.367 (May 24, 2023)

  • Added support for Nik version 6 plug-ins.
  • Fixed multiple warning messages when closing multiple transformations in some cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.366 (May 18, 2023)

  • When loading a script which has one or more missing files, the dialog box (Select a replacement file/Edit pathname/Change drive letter to) remembers your last selection.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.365 (May 11, 2023)

  • Blur/Blur More: fixed problem causing error message when transformation was used with a mask.
  • Various transformations (Adjust, Brightness Curve, Color Curves, Color Zones, Conditional Color Curve, Monochrome, Stack Images) with histogram displays and Amount controls: when Autopreview is off, updating of histograms is now deferred until Autopreview is turned back on.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.364 (May 7, 2023)

  • When saving and loading scripts, the information about whether an image has been saved or saved and modified is no longer reloaded. All images after loading a script therefore come up as unsaved.
  • Removed changes to File/Save Back introduced in 8.0.361 version as they were causing possible problems with saving files with incorrect metadata.
  • Speck Removal: fixed problems causing screen not to update correctly in some cases if only the input image is displayed.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.363 (Apr 28, 2023)

  • Masks and Amount controls: fixed problem with incorrect menu displayed when clicking on Amount image box in some cases where the Amount control has no sliders. Also fixed problems with displaying incorrect mask dialog box in some cases when a transformations has more than one mask and you switch between them.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.362 (Apr 26, 2023)

  • After editing a File Open or Paste transformation to load a different image, the transformation and all downstream transformations are marked as un-saved (the S or M icon in the thumbnail is removed) since the underlying image has been replaced.
  • Hue Saturation transformation: reduced the minimum dialog box height so you can shrink it to fit some low resolution displays.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.361 (Apr 19, 2023)

  • Advanced Sharpen: fixed problem of histograms not being updated in some cases.
  • File/Save Back: changed the definition of the “original folder”. If the current image or any image above it has been saved, the corresponding folder is used. If no image has
  • been saved, the top-level image’s folder (if any) is used. Eventually, it defaults to My Pictures.
  • Mask dialog box: tool tips for Mask Add/Subtract buttons now include keyboard shortcut.
  • Proofing main tool bar button tool tip now includes the name of the proofing profile

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.360 (Apr 13, 2023)

  • Updated to ExifTool 12.60.
  • Light Falloff transformation: fixed problem in some cases producing an all-black output image – also updated help file to add an example
  • Curve controls: fixed problem of grid not being displayed if there is no histogram.
  • Scripts: fixed problem of certain masks not being correctly regenerated if the corresponding transformation was bypassed when the script was saved.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.359 (Apr 7, 2023)

  • Color Zones transformation: made Amount controls visible on both screens for each zone.
  • Displace transformation: renamed Horizontal Shift and Vertical Shift to Shift and Perpendicular Shift.
  • Added a description of Hue-Brightness histograms to help file. Improved the display to make histograms easier to see.
  • Image Browser tool bar: changed the close selected transformations X button to a trash can icon to reduce confusion with a similar button on the main tool bar

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.358 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • Changed up arrow cursor to a 4-way arrow cursor in most cases. This cursor usually indicates that you can move some object by dragging its interior.
  • Updated to ExifTool version 12.59.
  • Displace transformation: added an Angle control for Rectangular displacements.
  • Hue-Saturation transformation: added color balance Remove/Add controls and fixed problem with brightness histogram expansion. Brightness histogram now has colored bars. Fixed some minor issues.
  • Color Zones transformation: fixed problems with 48-bit color input images and some other minor issues.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.357 (Apr 1, 2023)

  • Two Zone and Three Zone Adjustment: the histogram now has colored bars.
  • Mask: fixed problem of freehand mask tool outline not showing up in some cases. Color Balance now shows up as Balance in the Color menu.
  • Fixed problem in HSV hue histograms with mask and colored bars.
  • Histogram Tool: added HSV-HB and HSL-HL hue-brightness histograms.
  • Added a new Color Zones transformation. This transformation lets you define up to three zones in an image based by selecting a brightness range and/or a hue range. Then you can make independent adjustments to each zone’s brightness, saturation and color balance. See the updated help file and Transformations.pdf for more information.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.356 (Mar 19, 2023)

  • Lines, Arrow, Text Tool: You can now drag the entire current line to a new location by Ctrl-Shift dragging it.
  • Gray histograms now display with bars that represent their brightness level. Fixed some problems with displaying RGB histograms. Histogram grids are now displayed behind the histogram, so they do not obscure any of the bars. Histogram backgrounds for gray histograms are displayed as a gradient which provides better with the histogram bars, and grid lines are drawn in a color that contrasts with the background. Histogram bars for hue, saturation, red, green or blue channels are now displayed in a color scheme compatible with the gradient strip just below the histogram. Histogram smoothing now works on histograms with colored bars. Updated help and various pdf files to include new features.
  • Curve controls: added an option to suppress the histogram grid

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.355 (Mar 15, 2023)

  • Brightness Curve: Color Balance now has both Add and Remove colors.
  • Wave and Tile transformations now issue an error message if the output image width or height would exceed 40,000 pixels.
  • The Cancel button in progress indicators should now work on the first click.
  • Multipass Sharpen: clicking Cancel button now stops the current sharpening pass and all succeeding passes

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.354 (Mar 13, 2023)

  • Brightness Curve: added saturation and color balance controls for color images.
  • Fixed some shutdown problems when closing Picture Window.
  • Expand Dynamic Range: fixed memory leak for Exposure Fusion method.
  • Speck Removal: fixed some problems with changing speck radius.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.353 (Mar 4, 2023)

  • Updated to latest lcms 2.15 color management system.
  • Updated Slide Show Viewer to version 1.0.10. Fixed numerous problems including clicking on thumbnails sometimes selecting the wrong image, incorrect transition displayed for the first slide displayed, incorrect fade to black transition algorithm, speeded up transition computations, reduced flashing when dragging thumbnails, incorrect display of multiply selected thumbnails, and deleting thumbnails only working on the current slide and not on all selected slides.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.351 (Feb 23, 2023)

  • Improved accuracy of colored bar histograms.
  • Add colored bars to hue and saturation histograms as well as HSV-V and HSL-L
  • Histograms and all tools and transformations that display them.
  • Made colored histogram bars the only option for No Histogram Smoothing, so there are
  • Now only three Smoothing options instead of four. Colored histogram bars are thus the
  • Default now.
  • Expand Dynamic Range: fixed several problems with case of no over- or under-exposed
  • Image. Final curve was not being applied and histogram was not being displayed.
  • Changed the way RGB histograms are displayed.
  • Updated help file and various pdf files to reflect new color histograms.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.350 (Feb 17, 2023)

  • Histogram Tool: speeded up colored HSV-V and HSL-L histogram display.
  • Curve Controls: added the option to display colored brightness histograms via the Curve Settings Menu. The colored bar option is implemented as a variation of histogram smoothing since smoothing cannot be combined with colored bars. You can set the default curve settings under File Preferences so curve controls will initially come up solid
  • or colored. This feature is implemented in most transformations that have curve
  • controls, including Adjust, Brightness Curve, Color Curves, Conditional Curves, Expand Dynamic Range, Raw Develop, Orton Effect and Halftone. The Mask Curve tool also now works with colored histogram bars.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.348 (Feb 6, 2023)

  • High Contrast (special effects transformation): Added new Settings menu items to provide the ability to set the threshold automatically using any of several methods. See the help file or Transformations.pdf for details.
  • Mask Separate Tool: increased the maximum number of white and black color samples from 4 to 8. Also, labeled control points are now overlayed on the input image at the locations where you clicked to set the current color. For other changes, see the updated help file or Creating and Using Masks.pdf.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.347 (Jan 22, 2023)

  • Frame transformation: fixed problem with editing an existing transformation in some cases causing program to hang.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.346 (Jan 20, 2023)

  • Layout and Frame transformations: fixed problems with maximizing and restoring the transformation dialog box.
  • Added two new ICC profiles for the DCI-P3 color space – DCI P3 D65 and DCI P3 DCI.
  • The old DCI-P3 profile is retained for compatibility – the two new ones are more recent
  • versions with two different white points. These new profiles are installed automatically
  • when Picture Window starts up.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.345 (Jan 14, 2023)

  • The Mask Freehand Outline tool now clips automatically when you try to draw outside the edges of the input image.
  • When a size-preserving transformation starts up, if the entire input image is visible, the display is now zoomed to fit if the initial display is split screen. As before, if the input image is zoomed in, both halves of the split screen are also be zoomed in to the same level as the input image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.344 (Jan 8, 2023)

  • Speck Removal: fixed some issues with displaying control points when dragging or resizing them.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.341 (Dec 28, 2022)

  • Fixed problem in Combine Channels transformation causing it to crash on startup.
  • Added a new Dehalo transformation to reduce halos in oversharpened images. See the updated help file or Transformations.pdf for details. While it seems to work fairly well,
  • this transformation is still a bit of a work in progress – I hope to improve the halo detection algorithm in the future.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.339 (Dec 22, 2022)

  • Workspace scripts are now autosaved right before and after reading a script or workspace script file. This helps keep the autosaved files up to date.
  • Added a pre-check before loading script or workspace script files to look for File Open commands for which one or more of the referenced files does not exist. This gives you the option to continue and ask for replacement pathname(s) or to cancel and not attempt to load the script file. The pathname of the first missing file detected is displayed in the dialog box.
  • Pressing the Left or Right arrow keys when the current image is top-level now move left or right among the top level images. Previously it moved to the bottom of the branch instead

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.338 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Color Picker: instead of using Shift and Ctrl to limit moving the control point in the color hexagon, there is now a separate tool bar with buttons labeled HS, H and S. You will need to do a full install to get the new bitmaps.
  • Selective Color Correction Transformation: Similar to the color picker, a tool bar was added at the top of the dialog box to let you adjust hue and saturation, hue only or saturation only. Similarly for the Selective Color Correction Control (as used in the Adjust
  • Transformation).
  • A workspace autosave is now performed just before you load a script or workspace script or just after you save a script or workspace script – either explicitly or as a side-effect of saving and image file. This should improve restoring a workspace after a crash.
  • The default settings for the Card to Folder command are now stored in the same folder as Session.state, no longer in My DocumentsCard to Folder. This means that if you run Picture Window on different computers, the Card to Folder settings will be independent,
  • Even if you synchronize My Documents between the computers. This change takes effect the next time you save default settings in Card to Folder. Until then, the default settings will continue to be retrieved from My Documents.
  • In full-screen display (Ctrl-F) mode, the left and right arrow keys are now active as well as up and down.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.337 (Dec 13, 2022)

  • Picture Window Pro 8.0 Update Log
  • 13-Dec-2022 – Picture Window 8.0.337
  • Color Picker: instead of using Shift and Ctrl to limit moving the control point in the color hexagon, there is now a separate tool bar with buttons labeled HS, H and S. You willneed to do a full install to get the new bitmaps.
  • Selective Color Correction Transformation: Similar to the color picker, a tool bar was added at the top of the dialog box to let you adjust hue and saturation, hue only or saturation only. Similarly for the Selective Color Correction Control (as used in the Adjust transformation).
  • A workspace autosave is now performed just before you load a script or workspace script or just after you save a script or workspace script – either explicitly or as a side-effect of saving and image file. This should improve restoring a workspace after a crash.
  • The default settings for the Card to Folder command are now stored in the same folder as Session.state, no longer in My DocumentsCard to Folder. This means that if you run Picture Window on different computers, the Card to Folder settings will be independent,
  • even if you synchronize My Documents between the computers. This change takes effect the next time you save default settings in Card to Folder. Until then, the default settings will continue to be retrieved from My Documents.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.336 (Dec 7, 2022)

  • All transformations except those that are top level or whose output image size may differ from their input image size now start up with the same zoom and scroll settings as their input image. When you double click to edit a transformation however, the output image is zoomed to fit the available space. Previously only a few of the retouching tools worked this way.
  • Detail Tool: added a button in the upper right corner of the dialog box to display the blurred input image in place of the output image. This makes it easier to select a Blur Radius for the level of detail you want to remove.
  • Batch Operations – if a batch operation runs to completion, the current file is set to the first one in the list. If a batch operation is terminated before completion, the current file is set to the file being processed when the bath process was terminated

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.335 (Dec 4, 2022)

  • Added a new tool similar to Clone, which copies only details and texture from one place in an image to another. It works by separating the input image to high pass and low pass versions. The high pass information is copied from one place in the image to another. This replaces the texture at one point in the image with the texture from another point, similar to Photoshop’s healing brush. There is an adjustable Blur Radius which controls the level of detail copied. This tool is good for retouching skin blemishes or removing dust spots and scratches.
  • Terminating a batch job that is paused at a breakpoint now cancels the transformation before it terminates the batch job.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.334 (Nov 30, 2022)

  • Clone: fixed several problems including inconsistent display of the Synchronized
  • Scrolling tool bar, Undo not restoring the state of synchronized scrolling and switching
  • Display mode clearing the Source Image setting and breaking the link between the Source and target images.
  • Composite, Blend, Difference, Filter, Match Reference, Stereo, Watermark
  • Transformations: fixed various issues with displaying and implementing synchronized Scrolling.
  • Right clicking on the File Open file list pops up a menu letting you select all or none of the files in the list.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.333 (Nov 24, 2022)

  • In the menu displayed when you click on the Amount box, the list of images and masks that can be used to initialize the Amount Mask is now sorted with the most recent transformations first and with masks associated with a transformation following the transformation in ascending order.
  • The Enable Proofing and Enable Gamut Alarm buttons are now displayed with a yellow background when they are depressed. A full install is required to get the new bitmaps.
  • In the Color Picker, if a color wheel is being displayed, holding down the Shift key will lock the hue and holding down the Ctrl key will lock the saturation when you are dragging the control point.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.332 (Nov 22, 2022)

  • Added a confirmation message when enabling the gamut alarm if proofing is disabled. This lets you choose to enable proofing at this time or not.
  • Fixed problem when loading a script or workspace script file and trying to open a file that no longer exists – the change drive letter options was not working.
  • In transformations with Curve controls (e.g. Brightness Curve, Color Curves, etc.), a single click on the input or output image now displays a red marker on the curve histogram. Previously, it was necessary to move the mouse cursor slightly to get a red marker to display.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.331 (Nov 20, 2022)

  • Mask Tool: the current mask is no longer finalized by Alt-double clicking on the input image.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.50.
  • Installed new code signing certificate to replace one that was about to expire

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.330 (Nov 7, 2022)

  • Mask Tool: the current mask is no longer finalized by using the mouse wheel to zoom the image. Also, when using mask tools except those that use the mouse wheel for other purposes, it is now unnecessary to hold down the Alt key to zoom by rotating the mouse wheel.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.329 (Nov 3, 2022)

  • Print: fixed problem with Windows Print Setup dialog box not being presented before the PWP Print dialog box

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.328 (Nov 1, 2022)

  • Scratch Removal Tool: fixed problem causing random crash when adding new control points.
  • Removed File/Print Setup command since it is unnecessary and was not working.
  • Unsharp Mask: fixed problem with threshold slider being redrawn incorrectly when dragging dialog box from one monitor to another.
  • Mask lasso tool: temporarily removed out of bounds checking since it was not working when the image was zoomed it

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.327 (Oct 23, 2022)

  • In the Image Browser, the captions of auxiliary input images are now displayed as the
  • Image number and transformation name and no longer as the generic name of the
  • Input. This makes it easier to see which image is selected – since the transformation
  • Number is displayed first, even if the rest of the command is truncated, you can still
  • Identify which image is being referenced.
  • Fixed problem with Apply button when dragging transformation dialog boxes from one
  • Monitor to another.
  • Multipass Sharpen now remembers which tab is currently selected when you close and
  • Then reopen the dialog box.
  • Updated color management system (lcms) to version 2.14.
  • Expand Dynamic Range: added a Strength slider when using the Exposure Fusion option

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.326 (Oct 20, 2022)

  • Added support for Topaz Gigapixel AI plug-in.
  • Fixed problems with scrolling the main image area in certain cases

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.325 (Oct 18, 2022)

  • Composite transformation. Hovering over the Ov button now displays the thumbnail caption for the overlay image, if any.
  • Readout tool: fixed Lab readout values which were being displayed based on the wrong
  • gamma correction.
  • When dropping files on a File Open dialog box, the dropped files are now initially
  • selected – previously they were initially de-selected.
  • Added a Gamut Alarm button to the Proofing tool bar at the top of the main window. You will need to do a full install to get the new bitmap.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.324 (Oct 15, 2022)

  • If a transformation only takes control over one half of a split screen display, the other half can now be zoomed or dragged without holding down the Alt key.
  • When loading a script or workspace script file and trying to open a file that no longer exists, you now have the option of editing the pathname directly. This is useful if you have, for example, renamed the folder containing the image file and just want to edit the name manually instead of selecting the file using the Windows File Open dialog box.
  • Fixed problems with Texture, File New, and Size to Fit transformations not always updating correctly to changes in the size or type of their Reference Image.
  • Spiral transformation: added checkbox to freeze the edges of the output image.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.48

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.323 (Oct 12, 2022)

  • Linear Gradient Transformation: changed the default Type to Skew. Holding down the shift key while dragging the first or last control point now forces the gradient to be horizontal or vertical, whichever it is closest to, regardless of the current Type setting.
  • Card to Folder command: added an option to verify each file copy by comparing the original file to the copy. Also added an option to delete the DCIM folder on the camera card after all the files have been copied. Files are not deleted if there was any error while copying. A warning is issued if only some of the files were copied.
  • Mask freehand tool: modified to restrict drawing to the rectangle currently occupied by the input image.
  • Added support for Topaz Photo AI plug-in.
  • When synchronized scrolling of a split screen display is enabled, both zoom tool bars
  • are now enabled and you can use either one to zoom both halves of the split screen.
  • Scroll bars are now displayed for both the input and output image and the two sets of scroll bars both scroll both halves of the split screen. Also fixed problems with the output image scroll bars when synchronized scrolling was turned off.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.322 (Oct 9, 2022)

  • File Export command and transformation: if you opt to export as a specific file type and then click the button to select the default file save options, the tab for the selected file type (if any) is now automatically selected.
  • Mask freehand tool: modified to try to avoid wrap-around when drawing outside the image in some cases.
  • Fixed problem causing crash when saving script files via the Script/Save As command.
  • Clone tool: fixed problem causing input image display not to update in some cases when selecting a new source image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.321 (Sep 21, 2022)

  • Crop and Warp now number their 4 control points. Similar to Composite and Level, you
  • can recenter the display on a control point by typing its number on the keyboard.
  • Typing the same number multiple times zooms the display each time.
  • Level now works consistently with Crop, Warp and Composite in that typing a number
  • multiple times zooms the display each time. Fixed problem in Composite causing the
  • number keys to remain active when only the output image is being displayed.
  • Updated to ExifTool 12.45.
  • Closing the File/Preferences dialog box now closes Font and Theme dialog boxes if they
  • are open. Added Verdana to the list of available UI fonts.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.320 (Sep 19, 2022)

  • File/Re-Save can now be used immediately after a File Save that creates a script file.
  • Previously, it only worked after loading a script file, which continues to work as before.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.319 (Sep 11, 2022)

  • Added an OK button to the dialog box that asks for an image type when saving scripts with image copies. Clicking OK is the same as closing the dialog box as there is no cancel option.
  • Changed the way the Left and Right arrow keys work. If the current image is a side branch or a top level image, as before they select the previous or next image at the same level. Otherwise, they select the last image in the previous or next branch, not including splitters. This provides a convenient way to quickly flip back and forth between the results of two or more different branches representing different ways of processing the same image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.318 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • Layout: fixed problems with panels set to Panel Matches Image Dimensions or Panel Matches Image Size in Pixels, when the image is too large to fit in the output image without cropping. This now automatically crops the input image if necessary if you resize the input image after placing it in a panel, if you shrink the output image size or if you load a new settings file.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.317 (Aug 31, 2022)

  • Fixed problem in Theme dialog box causing incorrect colors for some controls when re-opening the dialog box after loading a new theme.
  • Color Primaries:
  • added a new Method setting that lets you choose between Matrix andProfile. The new Profile setting works by creating a color profile with the new primaries and using the color management system to convert the image data to that color space. When using Profile, changes to the white point are ignored

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.316 (Aug 28, 2022)

  • Fixed minor spacing error when displaying the comment icon.
  • Advanced Sharpen: fixed crash in some cases when adjusting dialog box separator position. Also fixed problems making it very difficult to adjust markers displayed under histograms.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.315 (Aug 17, 2022)

  • Monocolor: added a Method setting (Soft or Hard).
  • Readout Tool: closing Color Picker now unchecks Show Color Picker in Settings menu.
  • Added check for coordinates outside the current image.
  • Brightness Curve: fixed problem with Amount slider not working right after starting up the transformation.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.314 (Aug 13, 2022)

  • Clone, Paint, Smudge, Levels and Color Tools: fixed problem causing all strokes to be erased when moving the transformation up or down using the Shift-Up or Shift-Down keyboard shortcuts.
  • Hue Saturation: fixed several problems with Show Affected Region, especially for 48-bit color images.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.313 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Readout Tool: The Readout Settings Menu now has a new item at the bottom to bring up a color picker window that updates as the readout changes. This color picker is for
  • display purposes only – it is disabled to prevent you from selecting colors or modes other than the color wheel.
  • Print: fixed problem with crop box not being editable.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.312 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Readout Tool: The Readout Settings Menu now has a new item at the bottom to bring up a color picker window that updates as the readout changes. This color picker is for display purposes only – it is disabled to prevent you from selecting colors or modes other than the color wheel.
  • Print: fixed problem with crop box not being editable.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.311 (Aug 10, 2022)

  • Favorites button: the last favorite transformation selected (if any) is now remembered between sessions and its button text is displayed in red in the Favorites dialog box.
  • For most transformations that have Amount controls, the Settings Menu now has two reset options: Reset All and Reset All But Masks. The second option is new and resets everything except the Amount controls which it leaves intact, including their associated mask, if any.
  • Expand Dynamic Range: fixed problem with 8-bit images giving an error message in some cases.
  • Fixed problem with red markers in Curve controls not being erased when you release the mouse button and being drawn to the wrong height if histogram expansion was enabled.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.309 (Aug 7, 2022)

  • Export command and transformation now support a new resizing method which makes the output image fit within a bounding box of given pixel dimensions and fills in any blank space with a solid border color you can select.
  • Right-clicking on the Favorites button in the main tool bar, instead of displaying the Favorites dialog box, immediately selects the last transformation you selected from the Favorites list, if any. Left click works as before.
  • Curves and Histograms.pdf: added new examples at the end of the document
  • illustrating several useful contrast enhancement techniques. Recommended reading.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.308 (Aug 1, 2022)

  • The popup Amount menu that appears when you click on the white box to the right of the Amount sliders now displays mask thumbnails (if any) as well as their names

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.307 (Jul 29, 2022)

  • Optimized Count Colors command and fixed potential stack overflow crash for certain large images with a small number of colors.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.305 (Jul 23, 2022)

  • Preview Tool: fixed error message when closing Picture Window with a Preview window open, and made Preview window respond immediately to Show Clipped Pixels changes.
  • Adjust transformation: optimized performance for the case of just adjusting the Amount control.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.304 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Precise Gaussian Blur: fixed problems when setting amount mask slider to anything other than 0% .. 100%. Also fixed problems specific to this transformation with using 16-bit masks.
  • Expand Dynamic Range: reworked code for greater efficiency and added an Exposure Fusion option as an alternative to HDR. Please see the updated help file or Transformations. pdf for details.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.303 (Jul 17, 2022)

  • Readout tool no longer repositions the cursor to the last readout point when the current image changes.
  • Line and Arrow tool now limits control points to being no more than half the width or half the height of the image out of bounds.
  • Brightness Curve, Color Curves, Mobius transformations – fixed problem of double amount slider being displayed when the dialog box initially comes up, even if the black settings are reset.
  • Mask: fixed numerous problems with Mask Undo.
  • Preview windows: fixed

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.302 (Jul 10, 2022)

  • Color Balance – added vertical separator between controls and color curves. If you
  • widen the dialog box, you can now drag the separator to widen the Amount control.
  • Multi Color Balance – If you widen the dialog box, you can now drag the vertical
  • separator to widen the Amount control.
  • Slide Show Viewer – now works if some or all of the image files are shortcuts. You can
  • use this to create a slide show of selected files from various folders without having to
  • make redundant copies of them.
  • Added support for Nik plugins version 5.
  • Restored Apply buttons in all transformations in order to make Preview windows work
  • smoothly.
  • Preview windows now replace clipped highlight and shadow pixels with colors as
  • defined in File Preferences.
  • Readout Tool: fixed Lab readouts for images with gray profiles.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.301 (Jul 6, 2022)

  • Compare – reduced flashing when switching images in Blink mode. Changing the
  • Output setting now updates the output image displayed in the main image area as well
  • as the thumbnail image in the image browser.
  • Closing all images now resets the current mode to Scroll.
  • When zooming or scrolling the main image area by holding down the Alt key while a
  • transformation is active, control is now automatically returned to the transformation
  • when the zoom or scroll operation is finished. For example, you can now use the Alt key
  • to zoom and scroll and then resume cloning without having to click on the Clone
  • transformation dialog box.
  • Hue/Saturation transformation now starts up in split screen mode, letting you use the
  • probe on the input image without having to change the display.
  • Amount controls: fixed problem of mask menu being displayed even when you click
  • outside the mask box to the right of the sliders.
  • Removed Apply button from all transformations.
  • Editing a bypassed transformation now works a little differently. Previously, this always
  • triggered a recalc of any downstream transformations before the transformation started.
  • Now, once you start editing, if you click the Cancel button, the transformation exits and
  • remains bypassed and there is no recalc. If you click the OK button, the transformation is
  • un-bypassed and a recalc is initiated.
  • For transformations that have their own probe, fixed problems with closing the
  • transformation dialog box with a Mask dialog box open.
  • Readout Tool now updates correctly when using the Ctrl-D keyboard shortcut and in
  • other situations where the display is updated. This lets you compare readout values
  • from the same part of the input and output images.
  • Fixed internal error message when closing program with a mode window open
  • (histogram, readout, magnifier, etc.)

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.300 (Jun 12, 2022)

  • Added new transformation – Extend Dynamic Range. This helps you recover highlight and/or shadow detail by combining an image with underexposed and overexposed versions. This new transformation is easier to use than Stack Images for this purpose. See the updated help file or Transformations.pdf for details and examples.
  • For transformations that have their own preview area, you can again click on either the input or the output image to re-center the preview

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.299 (Jun 8, 2022)

  • Fixed problem causing image dragging via the hand cursor to be deactivated in the
  • main image area in some cases when it should have been active.
  • Improved recovery if preferences, theme or favorites file is corrupted.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.298 (Jun 4, 2022)

  • Hue Saturation Transformation: fixed problem with processing 100% red in input
  • images.
  • Changed Show Affected Area to reflect affected areas in the output image instead of the input image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.297 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • Hue Saturation Transformation: fixed problems with right-click context menu in the hue-saturation histogram.
  • Fixed problem when saving image files – when switching file types, the version numberwas assigned based on the old file type and not the new file type.
  • Fixed problem that caused some probes that were intended to be used only on the input image to also operate on the output image, when not in split screen mode.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.296 (May 31, 2022)

  • Stack Images: fixed problem causing the Final Curve histogram not to be displayed when editing the transformation. Updated help file and Transformations.pdf to add that you can photograph the test pattern on your monitor when you use the Build Curves command from the Settings Menu.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.295 (May 29, 2022)

  • Image Info: fixed problem causing Date Taken to display the wrong month in some cases.
  • Transformations with dual Amount sliders (currently only Brightness Curve, Color Curves, Mobius) now gray out the lower (black) Amount slider if the corresponding settings have no effect on the image. Since this is the default initial condition, it grays out the black slider on startup. As soon as you make a change to the black settings, the black slider is restored.
  • Mobius transformation: fixed problems with 48-bit color images when used with a mask.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.294 (May 25, 2022)

  • Drop Shadow, Masks, Transparent PNG and Wave transformations:
  • Fixed problem with Amount controls without sliders sometimes displaying sliders anyway.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.293 (May 24, 2022)

  • Layout: fixed crash on startup.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.292 (May 23, 2022)

  • Watercolor: fixed problems with preview area when resizing transformation while the input image is being displayed.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.291 (May 23, 2022)

  • Fixed another crash when selecting existing masks and a problem causing a slider to be displayed for certain Amount controls that are not supposed to have a slider, such as those in the Masks transformation.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.288 (May 1, 2022)

  • Added support for opening (but not saving) WEBP files – an image file format created By Google as an alternative to JPEG for use on the web. To get this to work on older Versions of Windows, you may need to download and install Webp
  • Image Extensions:
  • From the Windows Store.
  • Increase maximum mask blur radius from 1000 to 2000 pixels

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.286 (Apr 28, 2022)

  • File Resave:
  • Now works on older script and workspace script files.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.285 (Apr 24, 2022)

  • File/Save Back: fixed problem of sometimes proposing to save in the wrong folder after
  • loading a script.
  • File/Resave: fixed problem of sometimes proposing to save in the wrong folder after
  • loading more than one script. Unfortunately, fixing the problems required adding new
  • information to script files, so it will not work with pre-existing scripts or workspace
  • scripts.
  • Added warning of File/Save commands if the current image is not at the end of its
  • branch.
  • Transformations.pdf: added an example of using the Channel Mixer in the Monochrome
  • transformation.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.284 (Apr 17, 2022)

  • Fixed problem with dragging main window to another monitor canceling split screen mode.
  • Monochrome Transformation: added buttons to quickly scroll through different
  • channels when using Extract Channel or Hue Saturation Method.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.283 (Apr 6, 2022)

  • Print Dialog Box: increased initial dialog height to prevent truncating the bottommost control

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.282 (Mar 28, 2022)

  • Gradient Transformations: Added most of the blend modes from Composite, Blend, etc. to all the Gradient transformations. Fixed problems with Color Burn, Color Dodge and Linear Burn blend modes for 16-bit images in these transformations. Added Exposure slider and Amount control to Multipoint Gradient transformation to make it consistent with the others.
  • Updated libraw.dll. This should add support for reading raw files from some newer cameras.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.281 (Mar 24, 2022)

  • Fixed several problems with File/Re-Save command. This command is intended to be used when you want to rework an existing image that you saved with a script and then save the modified version over the previous version instead of saving it with a new version number. Re-Save is now only allowed after loading a script created as a side effect of saving an image and the current image has the same original pathname as it had when the script was saved. The command is grayed out unless these conditions are met. This prevents overwriting the wrong image and script when you save. The new command will not work on old script files but will start to work with new script files created by this version (or later) since it requires additional information to be stored in the script file.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.280 (Mar 21, 2022)

  • Readout Mode: fixed problems with the display of long captions – they now scroll horizontally.
  • Raw Develop: fixed problems with processing monochrome files using a camera with a color profile.
  • Added a 2023 Moon Phase Calendar to the Downloads page of the web site.
  • Fixed problem causing crash when passing multiple files to PWP from FastStone using its Edit in External Program command.
  • Hot Spot transformation: fixed problems when using a custom curve and dragging control points that are very close together. Incidentally, I recently discovered this transformation can also be used to remove circular lens flare spots caused by shooting into the sun.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.279 (Mar 8, 2022)

  • Mask: added new items to the end of the Mask Settings Menu to let you control how the display is configured when a new Mask dialog box starts up – input only, output only, split screen, or no change.
  • Ruler Transformation: fixed problem causing last tic mark to disappear in some cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.278 (Mar 5, 2022)

  • Added new Special Effects/Ruler transformation which can superimpose a ruler over and image. Please see the help file or Transformations.pdf for details.
  • Fixed problems that could possibly cause a crash when compositing black and white images, depending on the image profiles.
  • Mask: attempted to make the difference between arrow and cross cursor when clicking or hovering over the input image more consistent.
  • Measure Tool: initial dialog box location is now in upper left of main image area. Added a button to snap angles to multiples of 45 degrees when measuring lines.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.277 (Feb 27, 2022)

  • Magnifier Mode: fixed problems with applying magnifier to the input image if it is not the same size as the output image. Display buttons are now hidden when there is no input image or the input and output images have different sizes.
  • Added a new mode button to the main tool bar for Measure Mode. This lets you
  • measure the distance between two points in an image as well as the slope angle of the line segment connecting the two points. It also lets you measure the angle between two intersecting line segments. You will need to do a full install to get the new bitmap.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.276 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • Mask: the Color Range tool now requires Shift-drag to expand the color range, as described in the help file and Creating and Using Masks.pdf.
  • Histogram Mode: clicking or dragging on the input image places markers over the histogram – these are now more visible.
  • Readout Mode: fixed blank caption readout when clicking or dragging on transformation’s input image.
  • Hue Saturation Transformation and Mask Hue Saturation Histogram Tool: fixed misalignment between range slider and brightness histogram.
  • Magnifier Tool: added a small separation between input and output images when split screen display is selected

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.275 (Feb 17, 2022)

  • Mask: fixed problem with mask operations performed immediately after using the hue-
  • saturation histogram mask tool being ignored, when editing a transformation

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.274 (Feb 15, 2022)

  • Brightness Curve: fixed problem with amount slider when no mask was present.
  • Lines, Arrows, Text Tool: fixed problem causing Snap to 45 Degrees button state not being preserved when editing transformation. The Text button now brings up a menu if there is already a text box -- the options are Remove Text Box or Edit Text Box. If there is no text box, a text box is added and a text control window is displayed. Closing the text control window no longer removes the text box.
  • Hue Saturation Transformation: added black/white buttons that appear when Show Affected Region is checked. Selecting the white button displays totally unaffected regions as white instead of black.
  • Paint, Smudge, Levels and Color, Clone Tools: Pressing Ctrl-Shift-R instead of Ctrl-R restores the last tool settings without reloading any of the strokes you painted on the image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.273 (Feb 13, 2022)

  • Mask: fixed problems with some mask tools drawing incorrectly when not in split screen mode.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.272 (Feb 9, 2022)

  • Color Curves Transformation: when used with a mask, converted to dual amount control and separate set of curves and other settings for masked and unmasked areas, similar to Brightness Curve.
  • Updated to lcms 2.13.1 color management engine.
  • Color Balance: the factory defaults for Dynamic Range and White Balance are now Reset and Auto White Balance.
  • Layout transformation: fixed problem causing crash on startup due to certain recent changes to Amount mask processing

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.271 (Feb 2, 2022)

  • Color Balance Transformation: fixed curve painting issues when dragging curve control points.
  • Mask Dialog Box: fixed several problems with Mask Undo and Redo of certain mask tools in certain cases.
  • Mask Dialog Box: added new mask tool based on the hue-saturation histogram so you can now use this selection method with any of the transformations that has an Amount
  • control.
  • Hue Saturation transformation: simplified the process of placing red highlights on the brightness histogram by combining it with selecting colors. Extended the hue change
  • slider range to ± 180, but the scale is non-linear so the value changes slowly near 0.0 and faster for larger values. Fixed problem causing a crash when creating a mask that
  • uses the Hue Saturation Mask tool. Added Show Affected Region checkbox so you can see what part of the output image is affected by the current selections.
  • For all transformation dialog boxes with their own preview areas, the preview now updates when you press Ctrl-D. The main image area also updates, but only once you
  • have finalized the preview by clicking the red button just above the preview area.
  • Amount controls used by Brightness Curve and Mobius transformations now display as two separate sliders when you use a mask. This gives you a visual cue that the Amount
  • controls in these cases work differently. The help file and Controls.pdf have been updated with more of an explanation of the different types of Amount control.
  • Various transformations that do not take control of the main image area: clicking on the transformation dialog box now lets you zoom or scroll either half of the main image
  • area without holding down Alt. Clicking on any transformation dialog box’s title bar or anywhere in a blank area of the dialog box should now finalize any pending mask
  • operations and take control of the main image area.
  • Clone, Paint & Smudge tools: the arrow cursor is now hidden when dragging the tool to make it easier to see what you are doing. Same for the Mask Paint tool. The Mask Flood
  • Fill tool no longer displays a cross cursor.
  • The opening in the center of the cross cursor has been enlarged to make it easier to see what it is pointing to.
  • Reworked a number of the downloadable PDF files to reflect changes to controls and transformations are update obsolete material.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.270 (Jan 24, 2022)

  • Hue Saturation Transformation: added a brightness histogram and range slider so you
  • Can select colors based on brightness in addition to hue/saturation. Also added a button
  • To compute both histograms based on just the currently masked area, similar to other
  • Transformations. For details on the new features, see the help file or
  • Transformations.pdf.
  • Mobius Transformation: fixed problem causing incorrect application of amount mask
  • When no mask image was present and several other minor user interface issues.
  • Print dialog box: added a Printer Resolution readout. This displays the actual printer
  • Resolution as reported by the printer driver, which may be lower than the advertised
  • Printer resolution and may vary with the printer settings. The printer resolution limits the
  • Amount of image data the driver will pass through to the printer. Resizing the image to
  • The printer resolution before printing may, in some cases, produce slightly better results
  • Than letting the printer driver resize the image itself.
  • Changed the way File/Re-Save works so it now remembers the image file associated
  • With a saved script (or workspace script) until you either load or save a new script with a
  • Different associated image file or clear the workspace.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.269 (Jan 19, 2022)

  • Hue Saturation transformation: Hue Change readout is now in degrees instead of percent. Fixed bug causing crash when using probe in HSL mode. Added tool bars to set the selection color to red, green, blue or white and to set the selection display to
  • histogram only/histogram plus selection/selection only. Filled out the description in the help file and added a description of the transformation to Transformations.pdf. There are several new bitmaps so a full install is required.
  • Mobius Transformation: fixed problem causing shift-clicking on Amount mask box not resetting the output image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.268 (Jan 16, 2022)

  • Added a new transformation: Color/Hue Saturation. Please see the help file for details –
  • Transformations.pdf has not yet been updated. This transformation should be
  • considered experimental at this point and possibly subject to change in future releases.
  • It is based on the hue-saturation histogram and lets you make saturation, brightness
  • and hue changes to images based on selections within the histogram.
  • Mobius transformation: fixed bug in calculation of Mobius function, so the color wheel is
  • now distorted a little differently.
  • Added File/Re-Save command to main menu. This command is grayed out unless the
  • current image was previously saved along with its script file and the script was
  • subsequently reloaded. The command then saves the current image with the same
  • name as it was saved under the last time, overwriting the previously saved version. You
  • still get a confirmation message asking if you want to overwrite the file or choose a
  • different pathname. Use this command after you re-work an image and want to
  • overwrite the previous version with the new version instead of incrementing the version
  • number and saving another copy.
  • Fixed a problem with an incorrect “last saved as” pathname being stored in script files in
  • some cases. Consequently, when using pre-existing scripts, information about the
  • pathname and date of the saved image file is now discarded when loading a script. The
  • next time you save the image file with a script, however, the correct information will be
  • written out and File/Re-Save should work correctly from then on.
  • Clone tool: “Missing source image” warning message is now issued only once, even if
  • there are multiple missing images or strokes using the missing image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.266 (Jan 7, 2022)

  • Fixed problem causing color picker to always start with white, even when editing some
  • other color.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.265 (Jan 6, 2022)

  • When entering a number as a formula that is supposed to yield an integer result, if the result of the expression is not an integer, it is now rounded to the nearest integer instead of reporting an error. This comes up, for example, when resizing an image to a different width or height in pixels.
  • Fixed problems that could cause Clone to crash or behave incorrectly, especially when working on black and white images. Cloning a color image over a black and white image now clones the luminance channel of the color image rather than converting the output image to color. In order to clone color onto a black and white image, first convert it to a color image

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.264 (Jan 2, 2022)

  • Color Balance: fixed some problems with curve display and color balancing when a color to add or remove had one or more zero channels.
  • Color Picker: fixed problems causing the color to be reset when the color picker window was created. Fixed problems with selecting colors from a zoomed-in color wheel and some other minor user interface quirks

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.263 (Dec 30, 2021)

  • Color Picker: changed the user interface to make its window resizable and to allow zooming and scrolling of the color wheel. Also fixed a few other minor issues.
  • Line, Arrow Text Tool: you can now place control points outside the input image.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.262 (Dec 22, 2021)

  • Compass control – you can now enter an expression for the angle when you type it in.
  • File Open: if you delete all the files in the file list, you now get the default checkerboard image instead of an error message.
  • Multipass Sharpen: fixed memory leak – also a small memory leak in File Open.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.261 (Dec 16, 2021)

  • Guided filter: implemented fast guided filter for radius > 3 which speeds up the
  • calculation somewhat. The speedup is even greater if radius > 7.
  • Preview Tool: if the image being previewed changes size, it now does a zoom to fit.
  • Otherwise, the current zoom and scroll values remain in effect.
  • Brightness curve: eliminated unnecessary recalculation of the mean image in some
  • special cases.
  • Brightness Curve, Multipass Sharpen, Add Texture: fixed problem causing Cancel not to
  • correctly restore the initial settings when requested.
  • Fan: added rotation angle control in Full Circle mode.
  • File Open: you now get an error message if you try to delete all the files in the file list.
  • Curve control: the current control point on the curve is displayed as a square instead of
  • a circle.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.260 (Dec 12, 2021)

  • Brightness Curve:
  • Fixed problem with antialiasing in advanced mode

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.259 (Dec 12, 2021)

  • Brightness Curve: fixed problem with running transformation from scripts.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.258 (Dec 11, 2021)

  • Crop: fixed problem causing certain resize/resample changes not to propagate to
  • downstream images.
  • Fixed problems with recalculation order during a batch operation when multiple
  • breakpoints were set.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.257 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Multipass Sharpen: fixed problem with running transformation from scripts.
  • Fixed minor problem with shift-clicking the white Amount square.
  • Composite, Warp: minor adjustment to singularity check.
  • Resize: changing resampling method or bicubic sharpening slider no longer does a
  • zoom to fit.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.256 (Dec 6, 2021)

  • Multipass Sharpen, Sharpen/Sharpen More, Unsharp Mask, Adjust, Raw Develop: changed the Sharpen Threshold slider to let you specify a gradual threshold rather than a sharp cutoff. This involves the creation of a new Picture Window control called a Threshold Slider which is used in the relevant transformations. Sharpen threshold sliders now run left to right instead of right to left, consistent with the way they process differences between the input and sharpened images.
  • Removed threshold sliders from Blur/Blur More, Gaussian Blur and Precise Gaussian Blur as these were confusing and not particularly useful.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.255 (Dec 3, 2021)

  • Added support for DxO Filmpack 6 plug-in.
  • In full-screen display, you can now use the up or down arrow keys to navigate up or
  • Down the current branch while maintaining the full-screen display. If the current branch
  • Contains a splitter, it is indeterminate which branch of the splitter down arrow selects.
  • Add Texture, Brightness Curve and Multipass Sharpen: added optimizations to reduce
  • Unnecessary recalculations.
  • Slide Show Viewer: fixed problems with certain settings not being saved in index files
  • And problems with toolbar buttons not being ungrayed after loading an index file.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.254 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Composite – fixed problem with compositing 24-bit color images with the Hard Light blending mode.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.253 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Macros in text: fixed problem with Date and Time Taken showing as yyyy:mm:dd instead of yyyy-mm-dd.
  • Speeded up some internal conversion routines.
  • Masks: fixed problems with polygon and spline masks for large images.
  • Brightness Curve: fixed problems with the way black and white curves were handled if the black and white sliders were not set to 0% .. 100%. The black and white sliders now work differently and both default to 100% (see the help file and Transformations.pdf for details and examples). Now, the black slider modulates the effects of the black curve and the white slider modulates the effect of the white curve. For compatibility, the black and white sliders in pre-existing scripts are automatically updated to 100% .. 100%. This should produce the same results as 0% .. 100% previously. The previous results for
  • settings other than 0% .. 100% were invalid.
  • Right-click on the bypass icon of a thumbnail in the image browser now closes any open transformation dialog box before forcing a recalculation of the downstream images. This prevents a crash in transformations that have an Amount control, in some specific cases

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.252 (Nov 22, 2021)

  • Color Picker: added support for tab keys, now set focus to the first text control on startup, and fixed problem with text entry delay always 1 sec instead of following the File/Preferences setting.
  • Text transformation: fixed problems with applying colored text to black and white images and possible crash when closing dialog box.
  • Level transformation: typing 1 or 2 while the input image is displayed scrolls the input image if necessary and moves the cursor to the left or right end of the reference line. This provides a quick way to fine tune the endpoints while the image is zoomed in. Also fixed a problem that could cause unexpected results when switching to an input image of a different size.
  • Fan transformation: fixed problem causing output to be reversed left to right for the Full Circle method.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.251 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • Added a Preview feature to let you display the results of one transformation while editing another. See the new help file under Preview Window for details and an example.
  • Multipass Sharpen: simplified the interface for selecting multiple passes. You no longer need to go to the Settings Menu to select the number of passes – it is now fixed at 3. Just use the pass enable/disable buttons to turn off the passes you don’t want. In addition, clicking on one of these buttons now selects the tab for the corresponding pass. Tabs for disabled passes are grayed out but can still be selected.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.250 (Nov 16, 2021)

  • Brightness Curve: fixed problem with Bilateral/Guided setting not being preserved when re-opening the transformation.
  • File/Save Back command: if you recently opened a script file, the starting folder for saving is set to the folder containing the script file. Otherwise, the folder holding the original file is used as before. Thus, if you open a file for editing by opening its script file, when you save an image, it will suggest the same folder as the script. If you create an image without opening a script file, it will suggest the folder from which the original image was derived, if any.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.249 (Nov 12, 2021)

  • Bilateral Sharpen transformation: added the choice of Bilateral or Guided Filter to the
  • Settings Menu. Guided produces the very similar results and is faster than Bilateral for
  • large radius settings. The Blur Threshold sliders for the two methods have been adjusted
  • to produce similar results, but there are subtle differences between Bilateral and Guided.
  • Guided should produce fewer artifacts when sharpening smooth gradients.
  • To reduce confusion, Bilateral Sharpen has been renamed to Multipass Sharpen. For
  • compatibility with pre-existing scripts, references to Bilateral Sharpen are automatically
  • renamed to Multipass Sharpen. When loading older scripts, the Bilateral option is
  • automatically selected for backward compatibility, but Guided is now the default when
  • creating new transformations. Pre-existing scripts will continue use Bilateral until you
  • update them.
  • Bilateral sharpening was also incorporated into the Advanced Mode of the Brightness
  • Curve transformation, the Adjust transformation and the Raw Develop transformation.
  • As in Multipass Sharpen, you can now use the Settings Menu in any these other
  • transformations to switch between Bilateral and Guided.
  • Added a new document to the Downloads page: Multipass Sharpen.pdf.
  • Compare transformation: selecting a new Image B no longer resets the scroll and zoom
  • positions or the location of the curtain. This makes it easier to compare Image A against
  • two different Image Bs.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.248 (Nov 9, 2021)

  • Fixed problem causing crashes related to mask images inherited from other transformations, accidentally introduced in previous release.
  • Color Line control: cursor now changes shape when you hover over a tic mark or number. You can now Right Click on a color line to get a menu to add or remove a control point. You only get the remove option if you right click near an existing control point other than the first or last which cannot be removed.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.247 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • Fan transformation: added a Method control with two options: Fan and Full Circle. Full circle is optimized for the special case of wrapping an image to a full circle.
  • Fixed problem causing crash when loading saved scripts that contain references to alpha channel masks in File Open transformations from other transformations.
  • Transformations.doc: updated description of Bilateral Sharpen and some of the other sharpening transformations to correct some minor errors and supply additional material.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.246 (Nov 4, 2021)

  • For certain transformations that support a preview area within the transformation dialog box, added a button just above the preview labeled 2:1 which doubles the magnification of the preview image to make it easier to see fine detail. The affected transformations are: Advanced Sharpen, Bilateral Sharpen, Denoise, Gaussian Blur, High Pass, Linear Blur, Precise Gaussian Blur and Unsharp Mask. You will need to do a full install to get the new bitmap.
  • Slide Show Viewer: fixed problem preventing Slide Show Viewer and Picture Window from running at the same time.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.245 (Nov 3, 2021)

  • Moved the Insert Snippet button from main tool bar to an Image Browser tool bar, next
  • to Save Snippet button.
  • Color Management: fixed problems with Profile Mismatch for Multiple File Open.
  • File/Preferences: added a setting under On Script Load to warn about or ignore color
  • mismatches between the color management settings when the script was created and
  • the current color management settings. Added the option to update color management
  • settings for future settings when loading a script and a color management settings
  • mismatch is detected. This changes the current settings to match those from the script
  • file.
  • Slide Show Viewer: Added transition options when advancing from one slide to the next
  • (see the Slide Properties dialog box), added caption size options, fixed several problems
  • and made several minor improvements

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.244 (Nov 3, 2021)

  • Linear Gradient Transformation: fixed problems with 16-bit B&W images for brightness
  • adjust modes.
  • Slide Show Viewer: Fixed some memory leaks and memory de-allocation errors that
  • could cause crashes in some cases as well as some other problems. Added multiple
  • image selection and cut/copy/paste of multiple slides.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.243 (Oct 25, 2021)

  • Image Browser:
  • Added a new button to show or hide thumbnail images in the image
  • Browser. This compresses the height of the image tree considerably and lets you see
  • More transformations on the screen at once. Click the button a second time to restore
  • The normal thumbnail view. You will need to do a full install to get the new bitmap.
  • Slide Show Viewer:
  • More progress – implemented some previously unimplemented
  • Commands, fixed a number of problems and updated the help file.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.242 (Oct 15, 2021)

  • Added a new Slide Show Viewer program to the downloads page. See its help file for details. This is an early version which is still a little rough around the edges and lacks some features I am still working on.
  • Fan transformation: fixed problem causing a line of background pixels to show even if the output image wraps all the way around. To get a seamless join, the ratio of the input image width to height may need to be slightly larger than pi.
  • Composite transformation: to drag all the alignment points at once, Shift-drag is now sufficient – it used to require Ctrl-Shift-drag.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.238 (Sep 12, 2021)

  • Mask: fixed problems with flood fill not working with shift-clicks in some cases when
  • Update transformation with mask was turned on. Turning on Update transformation
  • With mask now triggers an update of the transformation.
  • Chromatic Aberration: fixed problems with inadequate number of decimal places being
  • Used to record slider settings and incorrect display of slider readouts in some cases.

New in Picture Window Pro 8.0.236 (Aug 26, 2021)

  • File/Card to Folder: added yyyymm option when copying by date.
  • Updated Transformations.pdf and Curves and Histograms.pdf with new examples of lightening and darkening using HSV and HSL.
  • Brightness Curve: Color Space (HSV/HSL) is now be assigned independently to the Black and White curves. Previously there was a single setting which applied to both curves.
  • Two-Zone and Three Zone transformations: added an item to Settings menu to select HSV or HSL when adjusting highlights. Default is now HSL, but HSV will be used when processing old script files to maintain backward compatibility.
  • File/Preferences: added OK and Cancel buttons.
  • Clone: fixed problems with re-opening transformation after cloning with Recycle set to No.

New in Picture Window Pro 5.0.1.5 (Oct 22, 2009)

  • New Features for Better Prints:
  • Getting high quality prints that faithfully reproduce the image that you see on your screen continues to be a challenge. PWP 5.0 adds several features that make getting good prints easier and less frustrating.
  • Printer Proofing lets you simulate your printer on your display. In PWP 5.0, new toolbar buttons let you toggle between proofing and regular display modes, making this feature convenient enough to use routinely.
  • Monitor Curves is a new function that takes printer proofing to a new level. Printer proofing assumes standard lighting—lighting that is far brighter and more like sunlight than is normally encountered in typical indoor situations. Because of this, prints that you hang in your home may look disappointingly dull. The new Monitor Curves function uses your monitor to simulate your actual viewing conditions so you can it adjust for best appearance.
  • Quadtone Printing. Monitor curves can also be used to preview the tonality of blacks in black and white prints using ink jet printers, particularly with quadtone and other custom ink sets.
  • New Tools:
  • Histogram Tool A new Histogram tool lets you inspect the histogram of any image, any time. It gives you a choice of HSV, HSL and RGB color spaces. In addition to letting you examine any channel individually, it lets you also examine HS channels together.
  • A Floodfill Tool in the masking dialog lets you easily select areas with recognizable boundaries. The tool is similar to the magic wand in other programs.
  • A Texture Mask Tool applies a mask to textured area. Such texture masks are especially useful in selectively sharpening images.
  • Other Enhancements:
  • A Transformation Toolbar can now be used for selecting transformations for those who prefer this to using menus. The toolbar is configurable, so you can add buttons for the transformations you use most frequently.
  • Saving Tiff LZW Compressed images is now supported. Formerly, only reading LZW compressed file was supported.
  • New Raw Workflow:
  • The Raw processor has been entirely rewritten. The new dialog now gives you much more control over the conversion process. The raw dialog is tabbed. Tabs are dedicated to controls for Color, Exposure/Brightness/Contrast, Sharpening and Noise Reduction and Image Properties.