NegPy 0.53.0

0.53.0

• New: Capture date and place — a Metadata panel card for when and where a frame was shot, with a map picker; searchable as shot: and place:.
• New: Peek Negative — view the negative as loaded, un-inverted and un-toned, to judge exposure or color cast before any edits; color-managed so the orange mask reads correctly, and the density histogram splits into R/G/B and luminance while peeking. @seanharding @thetalkingdrum
• New: NegPy gets a macOS menu bar — Window (minimize, zoom, close, window list) and Help (tour, shortcuts, guide, update check, report an issue). @seanharding
• New: Choose what sits on the toolbar — drag to reorder the toolbar and the Favourites pickers, plus an Edit Toolbar… entry.
• New: Mask tint steps aside while you adjust it — Burn, Feather and Grade sliders are no longer judged through the tint overlay; overlapping masks fade too. @Icodextrin
• New: Preview resolution is configurable — preview_render_size under [performance] in override.toml sets the interactive preview's long edge, between the 1600 px default and a full HQ decode.
• New: Single-shot scan preview for scanners with no motorized frame feed (Plustek and similar) — a lightweight preview-and-crop dialog before the full scan. @cymbal221
• Change: Export and preview performance — batch export overlaps decode, render and encode across files instead of running them strictly in sequence; slider drags on Process and Sensor, and other worst-case interactions, no longer pay settled-frame cost.
• Change: Canvas zoom reads real scan pixels — 100% now means one scan pixel per screen pixel in every mode, and a HUD pill flags when 100% is showing an upscaled preview. @seanharding
• Change: Save Edits action removed — edits already autosave on every change, so the explicit command was redundant. @seanharding
• Fix: Auto Crop and Batch Autocrop fixed across seven edge cases — dark subjects, portrait frames in a batch run, slides with true-black shadows, RGB triplets and rolls with no bed to detect all crop correctly now. @seanharding
• Fix: Exports round to the nearest level instead of truncating — every export, and the canvas itself, was up to half a level too dark. @seanharding
• Fix: RGB triplets group correctly regardless of filename order — captures are grouped and verified by capture order and scene content, not filename sort, and a folder that assembles nothing now says why. @seanharding
• Fix: Matrix/TRC ICC input profiles no longer double-apply their tone curve — the bypass gate never fired, and the primaries transform is now built and applied correctly for D50-, D60- and D65-native profiles alike. @thetalkingdrum
• Fix: ETTR clipping no longer trusts a generic sensor white level — camera-scan calibration used a camera's published ADC ceiling instead of its calibrated one, letting a saturated channel read as clean. @light-sntchr
• Fix: A stitch or an HDR merge survives a folder switch — composite membership is now stored independently of the open-file list. @seanharding
• Fix: Metadata is carried into every export format — JPEG XL and WebP previously dropped every field; punctuation NegPy writes now survives EXIF's 7-bit limit, and a JPEG XL source's own metadata is read correctly. @Icodextrin
• Fix: Linear Output's triplet merge is clamped before it can overshoot — ringing from the alignment warp could push values past 1.0 uncaught in the float32 decode path.
• Fix: Linux app icon resolves correctly — follows the AppImage icon-theme spec, and fixes the taskbar icon under Wayland compositors. @kinnajowa
• Fix: EXIF parsing no longer runs inside a finally block — a malformed block silently returned empty metadata instead of surfacing the real error. @MohammedAlkindi
• Fix: IR TIFF sidecar description no longer carries the source filename. @MohammedAlkindi