Photo·AIrt v0.4.0

Highlights

The style gallery is now curated around what algorithms do best. The AI Studio handles loose painterly reinterpretation; the built-in styles stay instant, adjustable, repeatable and faithful to your photo, including exact print and pixel structure. There are now 10 built-in styles instead of 15.

• More vibrant Watercolour: a new Vibrance setting and a lower default transparency, so washes look vivid instead of matte.
• Rewritten Graphite Sketch, after Lu, Xu & Jia, "Combining Sketch and Tone for Pencil Drawing Production" (NPAR 2012): direction-aware pencil strokes, pencil-like tones and diagonal hatching.
• New Ink & Toon: it replaces Ink & Wash and Cel Animation. Its Colour slider goes from a sepia ink wash to cel shading with bold outlines.
• Kept: Oil on Canvas, Impressionist Strokes, Watercolour, Scratchboard, Stained Glass, Low Poly, CMYK Halftone and Pixel Art.
• Retired: Starry Flow, Pop Art Quad, Pointillism and Risograph. The AI Studio now does these looks better.
• README screenshots are retaken on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Upgrade note: AI recipes and settings that refer to the retired or merged styles (flow, popart, pointillism, riso, ink, toon) no longer apply.

Downloads

Archive	Platform
photo-airt-v0.4.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64 (glibc 2.35+)
photo-airt-v0.4.0-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS, Apple Silicon
photo-airt-v0.4.0-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS, Intel
photo-airt-v0.4.0-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

Verify downloads with SHA256SUMS.txt. These are unsigned executable archives with no installer.

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

Photo·AIrt v0.3.0

Highlights

• New style: Scratchboard. A night-ink engraving look: light scratched out of a navy-black ground, with a glowing sun, sun rays, stars in open sky and warm cream highlights. It's the fifteenth built-in style, in the Drawing & Ink group, and is laid out like an external plug-in.
• Better algorithms:
  • Cel Animation and Ink & Wash: outlines no longer turn skin, foliage and clouds into speckle, and Ink & Wash has a deeper, contrast-stretched wash.
  • Stained Glass: panes now follow the edges of the scene (SLIC superpixels), and rendering is faster.
  • Oil on Canvas: the impasto reads as coherent brushwork.
  • Pointillism: dabs keep the photo's lightness, so they blend in the eye instead of reading as noise.
  • Pop Art Quad: posterises into clean shapes.
  • CMYK Halftone: cleaner, less muddy colour.
• Retuned defaults for Ink & Wash, Oil on Canvas, Starry Flow, Stained Glass, Pointillism, Impressionist Strokes, Watercolour, Pixel Art, Risograph and Low Poly. Setting keys and style ids are unchanged, so saved AI recipes keep working; output with default settings looks different, as intended.
• New README screenshots, taken on Linux, Windows and macOS with public-domain (CC0) photos. Credits are in docs/screenshots/CREDITS.md.

Downloads

Archive	Platform
photo-airt-v0.3.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64 (glibc 2.35+)
photo-airt-v0.3.0-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS, Apple Silicon
photo-airt-v0.3.0-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS, Intel
photo-airt-v0.3.0-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

Verify downloads with SHA256SUMS.txt. These are unsigned executable archives with no installer.

Full Changelog: v0.2.2...v0.3.0

Photo·AIrt v0.2.2

Photo·AIrt v0.2.2 gives the app a clean welcome screen.

• A clean welcome screen. Until you open a photo, the style gallery and the Atelier stay hidden, so the start screen shows just the welcome, your recent photos and the collection strip, instead of style settings with nothing to apply them to. Both panels appear as soon as a photo loads.

Downloads

Choose the archive for your computer, extract it, and run photo-airt (photo-airt.exe on Windows). Rust is not required.

Archive	Computer
photo-airt-v0.2.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer; Ubuntu 22.04 baseline
photo-airt-v0.2.2-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS on Apple Silicon; built on macOS 14
photo-airt-v0.2.2-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS on Intel; built on macOS 15
photo-airt-v0.2.2-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

These are portable executable archives, not installers. macOS binaries are not signed or notarized. Linux needs its desktop graphics libraries and XDG desktop portal. HEIC decoding uses ImageMagick, libvips, or heif-convert when installed. The Windows executable links to VCRUNTIME140.dll; install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64) if it is not already present.

Each archive includes the application and font licenses. SHA256SUMS.txt provides checksums for all four downloads.

What's Changed

• BL-001: plug-in system design record (D1–D10), done in v0.2.0 by @JCallico in #3
• A clean welcome screen: side panels only with a photo; v0.2.2 by @JCallico in #8

Full Changelog: v0.2.1...v0.2.2

Photo·AIrt v0.2.1

Photo·AIrt v0.2.1 polishes the Windows experience found while testing v0.2.0.

• Plain Windows paths. Plug-in folders and opened photos now show as C:\… instead of \\?\C:\…. Plug-ins you approved with v0.2.0 stay approved.
• A top bar that fits. In narrower windows the photo's name is shortened and less important details are dropped instead of overlapping the view buttons, and the Claude and Codex badges become compact (hover them for details).
• Fresh panels each session. The Atelier panel no longer reopens scrolled to where it was last time, and each style keeps its own scroll position. Window size and position are still remembered.

Downloads

Choose the archive for your computer, extract it, and run photo-airt (photo-airt.exe on Windows). Rust is not required.

Archive	Computer
photo-airt-v0.2.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer; Ubuntu 22.04 baseline
photo-airt-v0.2.1-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS on Apple Silicon; built on macOS 14
photo-airt-v0.2.1-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS on Intel; built on macOS 15
photo-airt-v0.2.1-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

These are portable executable archives, not installers. macOS binaries are not signed or notarized. Linux needs its desktop graphics libraries and XDG desktop portal. HEIC decoding uses ImageMagick, libvips, or heif-convert when installed. The Windows executable links to VCRUNTIME140.dll; install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64) if it is not already present.

Each archive includes the application and font licenses. SHA256SUMS.txt provides checksums for all four downloads.

What's Changed

• Windows polish: plain paths, a top bar that fits, fresh panels (v0.2.1) by @JCallico in #7

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1

Photo·AIrt v0.2.0

Photo·AIrt v0.2.0 adds a plug-in system for painting styles.

• Plug-in styles in any language. A plug-in is a folder with a plugin.toml that describes it (name, gallery group, description and settings) and a program that renders. Photo·AIrt turns its settings into sliders, toggles and drop-downs, with live previews, finishing, export and Art Director recipes, like the built-in styles.
• Safe by default. Plug-ins are found in PHOTO_AIRT_PLUGINS, your plug-ins folder, or a plugins folder next to the app. Discovery only reads plugin.toml. Nothing runs until you approve the plug-in in the new Plug-ins panel, and any change to its files needs approving again.
• Built-in styles are plug-ins too. The fourteen styles still ship inside the single executable, with identical output, but each now lives in its own plug-in folder in the repository and can also run as an external plug-in.
• Two example plug-ins: Retro Print (Python) and Copperplate Engraving (Node.js), a new banknote-style line engraving.
• Tools for authors: photo-airt --plugins, --check-plugin <folder> and the plug-in authoring guide.
• Relative photo paths now work from the command line and in shared inputs.

Downloads

Choose the archive for your computer, extract it, and run photo-airt (photo-airt.exe on Windows). Rust is not required.

Archive	Computer
photo-airt-v0.2.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer; Ubuntu 22.04 baseline
photo-airt-v0.2.0-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS on Apple Silicon; built on macOS 14
photo-airt-v0.2.0-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS on Intel; built on macOS 15
photo-airt-v0.2.0-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

These are portable executable archives, not installers. macOS binaries are not signed or notarized. Linux needs its desktop graphics libraries and XDG desktop portal. HEIC decoding uses ImageMagick, libvips, or heif-convert when installed. The Windows executable links to VCRUNTIME140.dll; install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64) if it is not already present.

Each archive includes the application and font licenses. SHA256SUMS.txt provides checksums for all four downloads.

What's Changed

• Fix relative photo paths in CLI and shared inputs by @JCallico in #5
• BL-001: plug-in system for painting styles (v0.2.0) by @JCallico in #6

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.2.0

Photo·AIrt v0.1.0

The first release of Photo·AIrt, a native desktop studio that turns photographs into artwork.

• Fourteen built-in styles, including oil painting, watercolour, graphite, stained glass, halftone, and pixel art.
• Non-destructive finishing controls and full-resolution export.
• Open photos from files, web links, or the clipboard, and work with several photos in one session.
• Optional AI art direction and painting through separately installed, logged-in Claude Code or Codex CLIs.

Downloads

Choose the archive for your computer, extract it, and run photo-airt (photo-airt.exe on Windows). Rust is not required.

Archive	Computer
photo-airt-v0.1.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz	Linux x64, glibc 2.35 or newer; Ubuntu 22.04 baseline
photo-airt-v0.1.0-macos-aarch64.tar.gz	macOS on Apple Silicon; built on macOS 14
photo-airt-v0.1.0-macos-x86_64.tar.gz	macOS on Intel; built on macOS 15
photo-airt-v0.1.0-windows-x86_64.zip	Windows x64

These are portable executable archives, not installers. macOS binaries are not signed or notarized. Linux needs its desktop graphics libraries and XDG desktop portal. HEIC decoding uses ImageMagick, libvips, or heif-convert when installed.

The Windows executable links to VCRUNTIME140.dll; install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (x64) if it is not already present.

Each archive includes the application and font licenses. SHA256SUMS.txt provides checksums for all four downloads.

See the README for usage and the release guide for packaging details.

What's Changed

• Secure the repository: CI, Dependabot, cargo-deny, security policy by @JCallico in #1
• Open photos from files, links and the clipboard; collection bar; backlog by @JCallico in #2
• Add cross-platform executable release workflow by @JCallico in #4

New Contributors

• @JCallico made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/JCallico/photo-airt/commits/v0.1.0