Immage 0.37.0

Downloads

macOS (Apple Silicon)	Immage-0.37.0-macOS-arm64.dmg
Windows (x64)	Immage-0.37.0-Windows-x64-setup.exe, or Immage-0.37.0-Windows-x64.msi
Linux (x86-64)	Immage-0.37.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage
Source	immage-0.37.0-source.tar.gz

Immage is in alpha. Large changes are made often, from one release to the next, so keep copies of photos you care about, and expect parts of the interface to move.

Improvements

• exports leave out the camera's and lens's serial numbers, which sites such as Flickr show to everyone. The export dialog's Privacy section is now Metadata, with a box for each part of what a file carries: camera and lens, serial numbers and owner name, location, title and caption, keywords, and darktable's edit history. Presets keep the boxes
• the navigator stays the same size whatever the photo's shape: a portrait photo no longer makes it tall enough to push the panels below it down
• the crop frame is easier to take hold of: its corners can be grabbed further out, and an edge anywhere along it rather than only at its middle bar
• on the Mac, the first click in Immage while another app is in front goes to the photo or control under it, rather than only bringing Immage to the front
• film negatives: the Negative panel, on the film strip button in the rail, turns a photo of a color or black and white negative into a positive with darktable's negadoctor. Pick the film border, then the photo area, and the rest is set for you; each control has an eyedropper of its own. A converted negative turns off Temp, Tint, Exposure, Whites, Blacks, Dehaze and the tone mapper, which work before the inversion, after a warning, and runs Contrast, Saturation, Highlights and Shadows after it. Copy Settings' Negative group converts a whole roll from one frame
• the crop frame and its grid, and the other guides over the photo, have a thin dark edge, so they show on a light photo or a White canvas, and Preferences › General › Guide color sets their color: white, yellow, red or your own
• the toolbar's file type button is now Filters, which narrows the folder by file type, camera, lens, keywords (a keyword includes those under it), capture date (or a recent span, year or month), ISO, aperture, focal length and shutter speed, then shows the result in the grid. Each list holds only what your other choices leave: pick a camera and Lens lists the lenses used on it. On Immich results it holds the search's filters, which were under Advanced on the Immich card, and the stars filter the search too, so they cover all of Immich's photos and not only those loaded
• Preferences has a Performance tab, with the settings that were spread through General: Preview, the frame and disk caches, AI acceleration, the performance overlay and the GUI benchmark
• new in Performance: darktable memory, how much of the computer's memory darktable may take; Thumbnail memory, which caps what the library's thumbnails hold (a large folder could take gigabytes); and Read ahead, how many photos, ahead and optionally behind, are decoded while you edit so the arrow keys open them sooner, up to three at once
• a Frame cache setting, in Preferences › Performance under Memory, sets the memory kept for frames already shown, so zooming back out or returning to a view needs no render. On a 4K screen or larger it starts at 512 MB, double what 0.36.0 kept
• the Zone System's zones, and the overlay of a Color or Luminance Range mask, show as soon as they are ready, rather than after the render of the whole photo that follows an edit, which could take several seconds zoomed in
• H steps the scope over the photo's histogram: histogram, waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope, and waveform with vectorscope; ⇧H steps back
• opening another photo from Masks, Heal or the Zone System returns the right-hand panel to the adjustments; Presets stays open
• a mask made by an AI selection shows its overlay straight away, so you can see what was selected, until you press O or move one of its sliders
• a mask's handles and guides show while the pointer is over the photo, and step aside while it is over the panels, so the adjustment can be seen
• Whites reaches much further under AgX: it also brightens or darkens the photo's brightest tones, as a mask's Whites does, where it only reshaped the top of AgX's curve. Photos edited before keep their look until Whites is moved
• Clarity is fine near zero: ±1 already flattened the photo's contrast, more than ±10 did, and now each step adds a little. ±100 looks as before, and photos edited before keep their look until Clarity is moved
• Lens Corrections has Hot Pixels, which removes the stuck and hot pixels of long exposures and high ISO, with Strength and Threshold; raws only, and off until turned on
• the Export dialog's preview renders several times faster on an edited photo, and shows again at once a frame or preset you have already tried; under it is the name the file will be exported with, not the original's

Bug fixes

• zoomed in, moving or reshaping a drawn mask shows it in its new place; since 0.36.0 the view could keep showing it where it had been, or not at all
• after a quick slider move, zoomed in especially, the photo sometimes stayed soft until the next change or zoom; it now always renders sharp once the slider is let go
• Compare works from the grid: it shows the two photos side by side, and with two photos selected, compares them, the first opened for editing
• hiding a mask with its eye no longer makes it vanish from the Masks panel after the import screen has been opened; the mask was never deleted, and shows again in this version
• Crop, Masks, Zone System and Heal in the tool rail no longer go dim and stop responding while a photo is open, as they could when the folder shown no longer listed it
• the History card's rows are no longer at times drawn over each other
• Before/After shows the Before at the same size as the After on a photo with lens corrections or Transform; before, it came out larger
• HSL / Color acts at Lightroom's colors: Blue on blue, which Purple used to gray, and Green on foliage. Saturation -100 turns its color gray and no more, where -50 already did and -100 grayed the colors around it too, so with Blue at -100 Aqua did nothing to the blues between them. Luminance and the B&W Mix at -100 darken a vivid color without turning it black. The same goes for HSL on a mask, and for saved presets, whose values are brought to the new strength. Photos edited before look as they did; their HSL sliders can read spread over neighboring bands, or past the end of a slider

Installing

These builds are not signed with a developer certificate, so each system warns when Immage is opened for the first time. Updates after that install from inside Immage, without the warning.

• macOS (Apple Silicon, macOS 15 or newer): open Immage-0.37.0-macOS-arm64.dmg and drag Immage to Applications. Open it once; when macOS says it cannot check it, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. Or, in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Immage.app
• Windows (x64): run Immage-0.37.0-Windows-x64-setup.exe (or Immage-0.37.0-Windows-x64.msi). When SmartScreen stops it, click More info, then Run anyway
• Linux (x86-64, glibc 2.35 or newer, such as Ubuntu 22.04): make Immage-0.37.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage executable (chmod +x Immage-0.37.0-Linux-x86_64.AppImage) and run it

Immage checks for a new version once a day (Preferences › About › Updates), and offers to install it.

Known issues

• Linux with an NVIDIA graphics card: NVIDIA's driver holds Immage's window to a few updates a second, on Wayland and X11 alike (WebKit bug 303811). Immage works around it by having Mesa draw its window on the processor, when Mesa is installed, as it is on most distributions. On a fast processor that is about ten times faster, but it may be slower on a 4K screen or a slow processor; to compare, start Immage with __EGL_VENDOR_LIBRARY_FILENAMES=/usr/share/glvnd/egl_vendor.d/10_nvidia.json for NVIDIA's own drawing. A real fix has to come from NVIDIA's driver or WebKitGTK
• Linux on Wayland with fractional scaling (125%, 150%, ...): sliders can be 2-3 times slower to update. The web view Immage is built on draws such a window at 200% and the desktop shrinks it, so it draws far more pixels than the screen shows. At 100% scaling, or started with GDK_BACKEND=x11, it is about as fast as elsewhere

Source

immage-0.37.0-source.tar.gz is the source of this release: Immage, with darktable and Immporter at the commits it was built from. The libraries bundled from Homebrew, MSYS2 and Ubuntu are listed in Preferences › About with the version shipped and where their source is published. For at least three years after this release, anyone may also ask for the complete source of any GPL or LGPL library in these binaries, at the version shipped, free of charge: open an issue at https://github.com/Rhettus/immage/issues.