RapidRetouch v1.0.3 - JPEGs Upright, Better Face Detection, Rotate 90° & Camera Info in Exports

A JPEG update, shaped by testers' photos. RapidRetouch was built around RAW and TIFF, but lots of you are bringing JPEGs, so version 1.0.3 makes them first-class: they now open the right way up, show their true colours, and keep their camera information on export. It also finds faces it used to miss, adds a Rotate 90° button, and lets Relight follow each face when you paste settings or apply a preset.

As always, everything runs on your own computer: no uploads, no accounts, no credits.

JPEG Fixes

• Portrait JPEGs open upright: cameras and phones store most portrait photos sideways, with a note saying which way to turn them. The thumbnails followed that note but the opened photo didn't, so portrait JPEGs opened on their side, faces weren't found and the face tools did nothing. They now open upright (TIFFs too).
• True colours: JPEGs in Display P3 (iPhones) or Adobe RGB (many cameras) looked washed out in the app. The preview and thumbnails now show their real colours. Exports were always right, and still keep the photo's own colour profile.
• Camera information kept: exports now carry the original's camera, lens, capture date, exposure settings, author, copyright and location (if it had one), so they sort by capture date in Lightroom or your photo library. This works from RAW files too. 16-bit TIFF exports carry it as XMP, which Lightroom, Capture One and Bridge read.
• Only RAW, TIFF and JPEG open: other files (such as PNG) are skipped with a message, rather than opening and misbehaving.

New Features

Rotate 90°

A 90° button in the Crop bar (press C) turns the photo a quarter clockwise, for a photo that still opens sideways. The face tools, masks and export all see it upright. Turning a photo starts its crop, relight circle and brush work afresh, as they were placed on the old orientation, so it's best done straight after opening.

Relight follows the face

Pasting settings, or applying a preset, now carries the Relight panel's Exposure, Warmth and Feather, and places the circle on each photo's own face. Batch jobs need no extra time, since the face is found anyway. Pasting back onto the photo you copied from keeps your hand-placed circle.

Face Detection

• Full-length portraits: the face finder looks at a small copy of the photo, so in a full-length shot the face was only a few pixels and was missed. It now also searches the photo in overlapping close-ups, and double-checks anything it finds there, so leaves, grass or a shoulder aren't mistaken for faces. On our test set, ten more photos now find their face and none found a false one.
• Low-key photos: when no face turns up, it tries once more on a brightened copy, which finds faces in dark, moody shots.
• Still a limit: a face turned fully side-on (with only one eye visible) can't be mapped, so the face tools can't work on it. Everything else still does.

What to Download

OS	Architecture	Format	Download Link
Windows	x64	.exe	RapidRetouch for Windows
Windows	x64	.msi	RapidRetouch for Windows (MSI)
macOS (Apple Silicon)	ARM64	.dmg	RapidRetouch for macOS
Linux	x86_64	.AppImage	RapidRetouch AppImage
Linux (Debian / Ubuntu)	x86_64	.deb	RapidRetouch .deb
Linux (Fedora / openSUSE)	x86_64	.rpm	RapidRetouch .rpm

Intel Macs aren't supported: the AI library RapidRetouch uses no longer makes Intel Mac versions.

First Launch & Installation Notes

First launch

On first launch RapidRetouch downloads its AI engine once, showing its progress as it goes: about 3 GB on a PC with an NVIDIA graphics card (which it then uses for speed), about 1 GB otherwise. After that it starts straight away and works offline. Updating from an earlier version refreshes the engine automatically.

Unsigned installers

The installers aren't code-signed yet, so your computer will warn that the publisher is unverified the first time:

• Windows: SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC". Click More info, then Run anyway.
• macOS: run this once in Terminal, then open RapidRetouch as normal:

  xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/RapidRetouch.app

  Or try to open it once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to the note about RapidRetouch and click Open Anyway.
• Linux AppImage: make it executable (chmod +x RapidRetouch_1.0.3_amd64.AppImage), then open it.

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