v0.0.1-alpha — The download caught up

omadesign v0.0.1-alpha — Four studios, one place to make things

This release brings the current studio to ARM64 and x86_64 Linux. It includes the design, painting, photo, motion, library, and workflow improvements made since the September 2 v0.0.1-alpha.rc packages.

Download and install

• ARM64 / Apple Silicon running Linux: omadesign-0.0.1-alpha-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
• Intel / AMD Linux: omadesign-0.0.1-alpha-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz

Each archive has a matching .sha256 file. Download both, verify with sha256sum -c omadesign-0.0.1-alpha-*.tar.gz.sha256, extract the archive, and run its ./install.sh. Installation is per user; relaunch omadesign to use the new binary. omadesign --version reports the installed version.

The automatic installer detects your architecture:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michaelmonetized/omadesign/master/scripts/install-remote.sh | sh

What’s new

More precise design. Drag guides from rulers, choose units and origins, and snap to edges, centers, guides, or equal spacing. Convert artwork into editable, nonprinting object guides and release it again with its style. Shift constrains Pen points, handles, brush strokes, and movement to 0°, 45°, or 90°; Ctrl can reverse snapping during the same drag. Distort, Skew, Perspective, and Warp mesh sit alongside free transform. Pathfinder includes Divide; stroke outlining, Select Same, compound paths, gradients, and undo now handle more real geometry correctly.

Paint and repair. The Healing brush samples clean texture and blends it into the destination’s local color and shading. Editable layer masks can reveal, hide, start from a pixel selection, invert, or apply to pixels. Masks follow transformed images and survive project saves and SVG export. Painting and erasing target the chosen layer, and interrupted strokes cancel or undo cleanly.

A calmer Photo studio. Light, Color, and Detail panels group exposure, curves, color mixing, grading, clarity, and vignette controls. Before, histogram, crop, fit, actual size, pan, and zoom work together. JPEG export runs in the background; Place in Design brings the developed image into your composition.

Motion you can edit. Thirteen presets create ordinary timeline keys, with duration, delay, stagger, and intensity controls. Draw stroke and Fill up are real reveals. Animate transforms and opacity, retime keys, and export animated SVG or supported Lottie shape animation. Design remains the rest pose.

A library that travels. Fifty-two original, editable templates reflow across all 20 document presets and custom dimensions. Personal and project palettes support named collections and transparent hex colors. Brand banks offer searchable folders, previews, and undoable drag-to-place assets. Project font roles keep live type editable across Save As, copied projects, brand assets, and recovery. Kits use .omacolors, .omatype, and .omabrand/; they need no cloud account.

Less friction. Ctrl shortcuts and native clipboard events work through fast modifier releases. Text fields keep their own editing keys. A contextual Shortcut HUD shows tools and held modifiers. The inspector is cleaner, expanded controls retain the chosen sidebar width, and visible color labels use US spelling. Document ownership, background jobs, caches, recovery, and export fixes remove unnecessary work and several data-loss or rendering edge cases.

The redesigned website includes five chaptered recordings of the actual native interface, an interactive artwork gallery, and a searchable feature catalog. The recordings use seeded example documents and real egui input; they are demonstrations, not performance benchmarks.

Alpha boundaries

This remains an alpha. Use .oma to preserve editable design layers and motion. Photo library and development settings are session-only; export JPEG or Place in Design before closing. RAW development, advanced publishing/text layout, reusable symbols, and collaboration are not implemented. Reshape converts live text and parameterized shapes to paths when a handle moves; Undo restores them.

Affinity files are not supported directly. Export SVG or PDF first. SVG and Lottie import support subsets; PDF, PDF-based AI, EPS, and PSD may need external conversion tools and may lose editability. Lottie export explicitly rejects unsupported pixels, layer masks, and effects; animated SVG preserves more of those compositions. Portable fonts must travel with their project files.

Packages target glibc 2.35 or newer and require a working Linux graphics environment. Omarchy theme and desktop-font integration are native features; other desktops use the available configuration and fallback styling. There are no macOS or Windows packages in this release.

Current source validation includes 272 passing tests, real egui input regressions, and native visual checks. Physical keyboard layouts, OS file dialogs, and additional GPU/distribution combinations still need human testing. Builds and packages are produced locally; no billed GitHub Actions runners are used.

The packaged x86_64 executable passed version, scene-list, and PNG-export checks using Ubuntu 22.04's glibc 2.35 under QEMU, then ran native Wayland captures on an x86_64 Linux machine. The ARM64 package also passed both version flags with Ubuntu 22.04's ARM64 glibc 2.35 loader. Both packages passed the glibc symbol-ceiling audit; this checks the compatibility baseline without claiming every Linux/GPU combination has been tested.

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Release source: 72b878d65b9b306b1847f812278d2009cde722a5, merged in PR #39. Its source tree is identical to the validated package build.

Publication checks: the public automatic installer selected this release, verified its archive, and installed the exact validated ARM64 binary. Both version flags and a native Pen/Shift HUD capture pass after installation. The deployed website FAQ and download buttons now reference this release.