RAWmakase 0.1.11

RAWmakase 0.1.11 adds virtual copies you can create, rename, promote and remove, Lightroom's Remove Chromatic Aberration, a Fringe Color Selector with a Defringe that now matches Camera Raw, and an XPan 65 × 24 crop. The Library opens and shows thumbnails much faster from network shares. RAWmakase also asks once whether you'd like to share an anonymous weekly usage report; it stays off unless you agree.

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New

• Virtual copies. Create Virtual Copy (⌘' / Ctrl+', or the thumbnail menu in Library and Develop) makes a copy of any photo that starts from its current edit, rating, flag, label and keywords, named Copy 1, Copy 2 and so on. In Develop the new copy opens straight away. The thumbnail menu also has Set Copy as Master and Remove Virtual Copy…, which asks first and never touches the file. Copy names can be edited in the Metadata panel. Each copy now has its own Library thumbnail. Stacking copies under their master isn't supported yet (#31).
• Remove Chromatic Aberration. Lens Corrections has Lightroom's checkbox. It measures colour fringing in the photo itself, so it also works with adapted manual lenses. Lightroom edits and catalogs with it turned on, which were previously rejected, now import and render with it, and XMP export writes it (#30).
• Fringe Color Selector. An eyedropper at the Defringe heading sets the Purple or Green hue range from a fringe you click, as in Lightroom (#33).
• XPan crop. The crop Aspect list has 65 x 24 (XPan) (#29).
• Optional anonymous usage stats. After first-run setup, RAWmakase asks once whether to send one anonymous report a week: the version, operating system and release, CPU architecture, how it was installed and the graphics backend, plus the distribution and display server on Linux. There's no identifier, and no files, photos or settings. The question shows the exact report, nothing is sent unless you choose Share, and Preferences > General changes the answer. DO_NOT_TRACK=1 turns it off. Totals are public at stats.rawmakase.com; see docs/usage-stats.md (#44, #45).

Improved

• Defringe matches Camera Raw. At the same settings, Defringe now removes purple and green fringes about as strongly as Camera Raw. Before, Amount 5 barely changed a fringe Lightroom removes (#33).
• Faster Library on network shares. A cached thumbnail is now checked with a single file stat instead of re-reading part of the original, and the Library opens straight away, marking offline originals once a background check finishes. On a Synology share with about 8,000 photos, checking a cached thumbnail went from 60–74 ms to 5–9 ms per photo, and a catalog with 208 folders no longer waits 5.4 s to open (#35).
• Smoother cropping. Opening the Crop tool shows that photo's own aspect (Original, the matching preset, or its exact ratio as Custom) instead of the last photo's. When the crop changes, the previous picture stays in place, clipped to the new frame, until the new render is ready, instead of briefly stretching (#29).

Changed

• Edits with Defringe render differently. Because Defringe is stronger, photos that already use it now look closer to Lightroom than in 0.1.10.

Fixed

• Subfolders of folders added on Windows show as a tree in the Library instead of one flat entry, and restoring a saved folder includes its subfolders.

Thanks

• @scottsmith5 asked for the XPan crop (#28).

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Windows downloads are for 64-bit Windows 10 and later (x86_64). Linux packages are for x86_64 and ARM (aarch64): Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, or Fedora 43+; the Arch Linux package is x86_64. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. Homebrew users update with brew upgrade --cask rawmakase. On Apple Silicon Macs and with the Windows installer, 0.1.10 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.10 → v0.1.11

RAWmakase 0.1.10

RAWmakase 0.1.10 brings Lightroom's Upright to the Transform panel, so both new and imported edits can straighten horizons and converging verticals, and the Transform sliders now match Camera Raw. Auto white balance now lands where Lightroom's does, and the Auto button sets tone only, leaving your white balance alone. Lens profiles apply to more camera and lens combinations, compressed Fujifilm and Canon raw files open faster from the Linux packages, and Macs can install and update RAWmakase with Homebrew.

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New

• Upright. The Transform panel's Off, Auto, Level, Vertical and Full buttons now work, laid out in two rows with an Update button as in Lightroom. RAWmakase finds straight lines and vanishing points in the photo and corrects for them at the lens's focal length. Presets that set only an Upright mode are analysed for each photo they are applied to. Guided and Constrain Crop are not available yet.
• Lightroom's Upright edits open as Lightroom made them. Photos edited with Upright in Lightroom or Camera Raw, including Guided, were previously rejected on import. They now render as Camera Raw renders them, and switching between modes needs no new analysis. Upright settings are written back when you export to XMP or a catalog.
• Homebrew for Mac. Install with brew install --cask pch/tap/rawmakase and update with brew upgrade --cask rawmakase.

Improved

• Auto white balance that matches Lightroom. WB → Auto used to come out noticeably cooler than Lightroom's Auto, sent shade and overcast scenes far too blue, and left tungsten or neon night scenes orange. It now follows Lightroom's Auto closely, and stays within the 2850–7500 K range Lightroom's Auto keeps to. Lightroom edits saved with Auto white balance but no stored temperature use the same estimate.
• Transform sliders match Camera Raw. Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate, Aspect, Scale and the offsets now produce the same geometry as Camera Raw, including on photos the camera turned to portrait, where they could previously be far off.
• Lens profiles for more lenses. A profile made on another camera make now applies when there isn't one for your camera's make, such as Adobe's Sigma-made profile for a Sigma lens on a Panasonic or Leica body. Profiles from a make sharing your camera's mount are preferred, and full-frame profiles are scaled to smaller sensors. Thanks to @ilookee for reporting this (#23).
• Faster opening of compressed Fujifilm and Canon files on Linux. The Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora packages and the Linux archives now unpack compressed RAF and CR3 files on all CPU cores. On an 8-core Ryzen desktop, 40 MP Fujifilm X100VI files opened about 2.7× faster and Canon PowerShot V1 CR3 files about 1.5× faster; the exported pixels are identical.

Changed

• Auto sets tone only. The Basic panel's Auto button (⌘⇧U / Ctrl+Shift+U) now sets Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks for the photo's current white balance, as Lightroom's does, and no longer changes white balance. Use WB → Auto for that. The WB menu shows Auto while the photo keeps Auto's result and Custom once you change it, and pasted settings and presets carry the values as Custom.
• Transform sliders follow the displayed photo. As in Lightroom, Vertical and Horizontal act along the photo as you see it. RAWmakase edits made earlier with Transform sliders on portrait photos will look different.

Fixed

• The 100% view no longer flickers while panning. For a frame or two the photo could jump back to where it was before the drag.

Thanks

• @LamplighterPaul made the Linux packages decode compressed raw files in parallel and measured the speed-up (#13).
• @ilookee reported lens profiles missing for a Sigma lens (#23).

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Windows downloads are for 64-bit Windows 10 and later (x86_64). Linux packages are for x86_64 and ARM (aarch64): Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, or Fedora 43+; the Arch Linux package is x86_64. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. On Apple Silicon Macs and with the Windows installer, 0.1.9 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.9 → v0.1.10

RAWmakase 0.1.9

RAWmakase 0.1.9 comes to Windows and to 64-bit ARM Linux, and it is ready to use from the first launch: it now has camera profiles and presets of its own, so there is nothing to import before you start editing. A new Auto button sets white balance and tone in one click, and the white balance picker now shows a Lightroom-style loupe.

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New

• RAWmakase for Windows. A Windows 10+ installer that sets the app up for your user account, with no administrator rights needed, plus a zip for those who prefer to unpack it themselves. Installed copies update themselves from the next release on. The downloads are not code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen asks for confirmation the first time you run them.
• Linux on 64-bit ARM. Debian/Ubuntu and Fedora packages and the Linux archive now come in an ARM (aarch64) version as well, for machines like Apple Silicon Macs running Asahi Linux. Arch Linux ARM users can build the package from the included recipe.
• Auto white balance and tone. The Auto button at the top of the Basic panel (⌘⇧U / Ctrl+Shift+U) sets white balance, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks for the photo, and leaves every other setting alone. White balance also has an Auto entry of its own. Auto looks only at what is inside your crop, and it is one step in History, so it is easy to undo.
• RAWmakase's own camera profiles. Every supported camera now gets two profiles with nothing to import: RAWmakase Standard, a faithful starting point, and RAWmakase Color, which adds a gentle, pleasing look much as Adobe Color does. New photos start on RAWmakase Color. Photos you have already edited keep the profile you chose, and imported Adobe profiles work as before.
• 26 built-in presets. Color looks (Warm, Cool, Punch, Muted, Matte), two creative looks, six Black & White treatments, tone curves, grain and vignetting are in the Presets panel from the start, listed before your own. They are ordinary Lightroom presets, so they can be favourited like any other.

Improved

• Lightroom edits look right without Adobe's profiles. A photo edited in Lightroom with Adobe Standard or Adobe Color now falls back to the matching RAWmakase profile (or the DNG's own profile) when Adobe's isn't imported, instead of adding contrast and colour the photographer never chose. A missing creative look, such as Adobe Vivid, is reported on its own and no longer stops the rest of the edit from applying.
• A white balance picker you can aim. While picking white balance, the pointer becomes an eyedropper with a magnifying loupe beside it, showing the surrounding pixels and the picked pixel's values, as in Lightroom. The picker now sits at the start of the WB row.
• A tidier Basic panel. Auto and a Black & White switch sit at the top of the panel. Slider values have a fixed-width field, so typing or dragging a value like -100 no longer pushes into the slider.

Fixed

• The app recovers from an internal error while rendering. Previously a failure while rendering, loading or making a preview could leave the spinner running and the photo stuck. That step now fails on its own and the next one works.
• A stalled network drive no longer piles up background work. RAWmakase checks your drives every few seconds; while one hangs, it now waits for that check instead of starting more.
• Brushed masks on a different photo draw correctly. A brush or Auto Mask could reuse the coverage from another photo with the same strokes.
• Library previews are kept when the catalog is busy. A good preview is no longer thrown away because the catalog was briefly locked, and failures to save previews are shown in the Library's status line.

Thanks

• @lukewalker2010 wrote Auto white balance and tone (#6, merged in #7).
• @andrzejdus made the Arch Linux packages build on ARM and tested RAWmakase on Asahi Linux (#8).

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Windows downloads are for 64-bit Windows 10 and later (x86_64). Linux packages are for x86_64 and ARM (aarch64): Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, or Fedora 43+; the Arch Linux package is x86_64. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. On Apple Silicon Macs, 0.1.8 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.8 → v0.1.9

RAWmakase 0.1.8

RAWmakase 0.1.8 gives the app a new face and a calmer, more focused workspace. It has a new icon, and on macOS 26 it is drawn with Liquid Glass. Photos are now always edited through the Library, and dropping a photo onto the window adds it there. Stepping through the filmstrip is quicker, and the interface no longer jumps around as you move from photo to photo.

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New

• A new app icon. A maki roll seen end-on, its salmon centre cut into aperture blades. On macOS 26 the Dock and Finder draw it with Liquid Glass; earlier macOS versions and Linux show the flat version. The Dock now shows RAWmakase's own icon while the app runs, instead of a generic one.
• Dropped photos join the Library. Dropping a RAW file onto the window, or passing one on the command line (rawmakase photo.dng), adds its folder to the open catalog and opens the photo in Develop.

Improved

• Stepping through the filmstrip is faster. While you edit a photo, the next one in the filmstrip (or the previous one, if you are stepping back) is decoded in the background, so moving to it opens straight away instead of decoding first.
• A cleaner top bar and toolbar. Library and Develop are now a switcher like macOS's segmented controls, with the selection sliding between them. The top bar's text and icons are smaller, and the catalog menu sits right beside the window buttons. In Develop, the Navigator column runs the full height of the window, the toolbar starts at the photo, and Export stands out as the main button.
• Consistent controls throughout. The flag filter, Navigator zoom, preset filter, Color / Black & White and the mask and retouch options all share the same sliding control, and labels are never cut off.
• The layout stays still. Selecting a photo with a colour label, switching to a photo from another camera, or clicking a thumbnail in the filmstrip no longer shifts the rows and panels around. Colour labels in the grid and filmstrip are shown by the cell's tint alone.
• The histogram describes the whole photo at 100%. Like Lightroom's, it no longer changes as you zoom and pan.

Changed

• Photos are edited through the Library. Develop's Open menu and ⌘O / Ctrl+O are gone: add a folder to the catalog (or drop a photo onto the window), then pick a photo. Photos you edited outside a catalog in earlier releases keep their edits: when you add their folder, the edits saved beside them (photo.rawmakase.json) are brought into the catalog. Those files are left as they are, and edits are no longer saved beside photos.
• Zoom lives in the Navigator. The toolbar's Fit / 100% buttons are gone. Use the Navigator's zoom control, or press Z and F.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. On Apple Silicon Macs, 0.1.7 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.7 → v0.1.8

RAWmakase 0.1.7

RAWmakase 0.1.7 makes editing and browsing smoother and brings your Lightroom files over in fewer steps. Sliders keep up with the pointer while previews render, saving no longer interrupts editing, and whole folders of profiles, lens profiles and presets can be imported at once. On an Omarchy desktop the interface now follows the desktop's theme from the start.

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New

• Import whole folders of profiles, lens profiles and presets. The setup assistant, Presets › + › Import Folder…, the Profile menu's Import profiles from folder… and the Lens panel's Import Folder… scan a folder and its subfolders for DCP profiles and looks, LCP lens profiles or XMP presets. Files already imported are counted instead of duplicated, presets keep their folders as groups, and anything that can't be imported is summarised with the reason. File choosers also accept several files at once.

Improved

• Sliders follow the pointer while previews render. Dragging a slider such as Exposure could stop for up to a second and then jump, whenever a longer render was running on the GPU. The window now keeps drawing while the GPU works.
• Saving no longer interrupts editing. Edits are saved in the background shortly after you stop changing them, so a slow or busy disk can't pause the window. Switching photos, catalogs or closing still waits until your edit is saved.
• Browsing a large catalog stays responsive. Edited previews now render on two threads of their own, newest request first, and skip photos that have scrolled away. The status bar shows how many are left.
• Catalog imports show their progress. Importing or opening a catalog now says what it is doing, in the Library and in the setup assistant.
• Follows Omarchy's theme by default. On an Omarchy desktop, RAWmakase uses the desktop's theme and follows it when it changes, until you choose another in Preferences › Display › Theme. Other desktops and macOS keep RAWmakase's own greys. If you previously chose RAWmakase there on Omarchy, choose it again to keep it.

Fixed

• Resizing the window no longer crashes the app. Toggling a window between tiled and floating in a tiling window manager such as Hyprland could close RAWmakase when the GPU was busy at that moment.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. On Apple Silicon Macs, 0.1.6 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.6 → v0.1.7

RAWmakase 0.1.6

RAWmakase 0.1.6 brings the first, experimental versions of spot removal and masks. You can remove dust and blemishes with Heal and Clone, and brighten, darken or recolour parts of a photo with brush, gradient and range masks. Spots and masks from Lightroom now come along when you apply its edits. Both tools are early: they work, but are not yet measured against Lightroom, and details may change.

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New

• Spot removal (experimental). Press Q or choose Remove in the tool strip under the histogram. Click a spot to heal it from a source RAWmakase picks nearby, drag to paint over a larger area, or Cmd-drag (Ctrl-drag on Linux) to choose the source yourself. Drag a spot or its source to move it, press / for the next best source, and switch between Heal and Clone. Visualize Spots (A) shows fine detail in black and white so dust stands out. Spots are applied to the full-resolution photo before every other edit, so exports keep full quality.
• Masks (experimental). Press Shift+W or choose Masking. Create a Brush (K), Linear Gradient (M), Radial Gradient (Shift+M), Color Range (Shift+J) or Luminance Range mask, then add, subtract or intersect more of them. Each mask has Lightroom's local sliders: Temp, Tint, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Texture, Clarity, Dehaze, Hue, Saturation, Sharpness, Noise and a colour tint, plus an Amount. Brushes have Size, Feather, Flow, Density, Auto Mask, A/B brushes and an eraser (Option/Alt); O shows the selected mask in red.
• Lightroom spots and masks on import (experimental). Applying Lightroom edits from an imported catalog or an XMP file now also brings Heal and Clone spots and brush, gradient, radial and luminance range masks with their sliders. Masks that need AI (Subject, Sky, Objects, People, Depth) and colour range masks are listed as not imported. Positions and sizes of spots were checked against Camera Raw; some gradient details are assumptions (see the parity notes).

Changed

• Older versions still open your photos. Spots and masks are saved beside the rest of the edit: in the catalog, or for photos opened directly in a photo.ARW.rawmakase-local.json file next to the usual sidecar. RAWmakase 0.1.5 and earlier open every photo normally, just without spots and masks. Edits saved by this version also keep settings added by future versions instead of rejecting them.
• Presets and Paste Settings leave spots alone, as in Lightroom. Presets you save can include masks.

Known limitations

Spot removal and masks are early. The local sliders, feathering, the automatic source choice and the heal itself are RAWmakase's own and have not been compared with Lightroom numerically. The AI Remove mode, AI masks, local Moiré, Defringe and tone curves are not available yet. While a photo has spots, previews keep an extra full-resolution copy of it in memory.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. On Apple Silicon Macs, 0.1.5 offers this update in the app.

Full changelog: v0.1.5 → v0.1.6

RAWmakase 0.1.5

RAWmakase 0.1.5 keeps itself up to date and looks more at home on your desktop. It tells you when a new version is out, and on Apple Silicon Macs it can download and install the update for you. The interface can follow a theme, including Omarchy's on Linux, and has sharper text and icons. Previews also respond faster when you edit at 100%.

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New

• Update notices. RAWmakase checks GitHub for a new release at launch and then hourly. When one is out, a small notice appears under the toolbar with Download and Skip This Version. Turn the check off, or run it by hand with Check Now, in Preferences › General.
• One-click updates on Apple Silicon Macs. Installed from the DMG in Applications, RAWmakase downloads the update, verifies its signature and restarts into the new version. If the new version fails to start, the previous one comes back. Intel Macs and Linux packages get a link to the release page instead.
• Interface themes. Preferences › Display › Theme offers RAWmakase's own Lightroom greys (the default), eight built-in themes including Nord, Tokyo Night and Catppuccin, and palette files you add to the themes folder. On Omarchy the interface follows the desktop's theme as it changes. The area behind the photo stays neutral grey in every theme, so colours are still judged against grey.

Improved

• Faster editing at 100%. More of the preview now stays on the GPU, including Clarity, Texture and the Shadows/Highlights map. On a 61-megapixel photo on an M1 Pro Mac, Clarity changes at 100% went from about 750 ms to about 70 ms. Exports are unchanged.
• Crisper text. The interface uses Inter, with fixed-width figures so slider values don't shift as they change, and follows your desktop's font smoothing. Names in other scripts use a matching installed font.
• New icons. The toolbar, panels and menus use a consistent set of Lucide icons.
• A Lightroom-style title bar on Mac. The window controls sit in RAWmakase's own top bar. Drag its empty space to move the window, and double-click it to zoom, as set in System Settings.

Changed

• Mac downloads have new file names. The disk images are now rawmakase-v0.1.5-macos-arm64.dmg and rawmakase-v0.1.5-macos-x86_64.dmg.
• Updating from 0.1.4 is still manual. 0.1.4 has no update check, so download this release once. Later releases will announce themselves.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above. Building from source now requires Rust 1.98 or newer.

Full changelog: v0.1.4 → v0.1.5

RAWmakase 0.1.4

RAWmakase 0.1.4 improves the editing workflow: app settings have their own Preferences window, History names each edit, and a new Export dialog remembers your choices. Exports run in the background so you can keep editing, with controls for file naming, image size and the metadata included in the result.

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New

• A dedicated Preferences window. Open the gear in the top bar, or press Cmd+, on Mac / Ctrl+, on Linux. Camera and lens profiles, presets, demosaic selection, caches, the monitor profile and catalog information now live together, leaving the Settings menu focused on the current photo.
• An Export dialog with remembered choices. Choose the destination, file naming, JPEG or TIFF settings, long-edge resizing and metadata before exporting. Open it with Shift+Cmd+E on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+E on Linux.
• Export with Previous. Repeat your saved export settings without reopening the dialog, using Option+Shift+Cmd+E on Mac or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+E on Linux.

Improved

• Keep editing while an export runs. Exports run in the background, with progress and cancellation in the top bar. They load the full-size source even when the editor has only loaded a quick preview.
• See what changed in History. Steps now show the control or action, such as Exposure, Sharpening, a preset or a crop, with the new value where applicable. Click a step to return to it; later steps remain dimmed and available until you make a new edit. Your local steps appear above imported Lightroom history.
• Choose how to handle an existing export. Overwrite it, use a unique filename or skip it, with a default behavior available in the Export dialog.
• Control the metadata in exported files. Exports can carry camera and capture EXIF, location data, Camera Raw XMP edit settings, and ratings, color labels and keywords. Camera metadata is read from the source RAW, including the preview JPEG inside Fujifilm RAF files.

Changed

• Reset All Settings is the single reset command. Use Shift+Cmd+R on Mac or Ctrl+Shift+R on Linux. The separate Reset to Lightroom Edit menu item has been removed; imported Lightroom edits are still applied when the photo opens.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above.

Full changelog: v0.1.3 → v0.1.4

RAWmakase 0.1.3

RAWmakase 0.1.3 makes switching between Fit and 100% smoother. The photo stays visible while you zoom or pan, and returning to a view can reuse its finished preview instead of stepping through lower-detail drafts.

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Improved

• Switch between Fit and 100% with fewer visible jumps. When the photo and edits are unchanged, RAWmakase reuses the last finished view. Zooming in renders the full-detail region over the enlarged photo instead of first showing a separate reduced-detail region.
• Return to Fit without waiting on a blank background. After an edit at 100%, the previous whole-photo preview stays visible while the updated Fit preview is prepared.

Fixed

• The photo no longer shrinks into a small rectangle surrounded by black when zooming out. RAWmakase keeps the whole-photo preview behind the detailed region, so zooming and panning keep the image visible while the next region renders.
• Edits made at 100% no longer briefly disappear behind an older Fit preview. The worker no longer republishes that stale view before the updated render.

Requirements

Mac downloads require macOS 15+. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+, Fedora 43+, or current Arch Linux. AUR publication remains paused; the Arch package is available directly above.

Full changelog: v0.1.2 → v0.1.3

RAWmakase 0.1.2

RAWmakase 0.1.2 focuses on faster photo browsing and more responsive editing. It adds a choice of RAW demosaic methods, reuses work between preview updates, and fixes color-mixer saturation and several Lightroom import issues. This release also adds signed, notarized Mac installers and ready-to-install Linux packages.

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New

• Choose how RAW photos are demosaiced. The Settings menu offers RAWmakase's faster demosaic method and LibRaw's method. Switching reopens the current photo, and your choice is saved for future sessions.
• Install on Mac without Homebrew. Separate Apple Silicon and Intel DMGs include the imaging libraries and are signed and notarized by Apple. Linux users get DEB, RPM and Arch packages alongside the portable archive.

Improved

• Faster photo browsing. A disk cache reuses decoded photo data, and neighboring photos are prefetched to reduce repeated work as you move through a folder or catalog.
• More responsive preview updates. Fit previews use smaller image levels when appropriate, and color and tone edits reuse cached processing stages. The per-pixel color and tone stage can run on the GPU, with a CPU fallback.
• Slider previews follow the same processing pipeline as the finished edit. Interactive previews now use the current pipeline instead of the older draft path, then refine after you stop dragging.

Fixed

• Reducing a color's saturation behaves more consistently. Negative color-mixer saturation now scales linearly, correcting the interpolation used for these adjustments.
• Older Lightroom edits retain their exposure. Catalog edits using process versions 2003 or 2010 now import Exposure. Other unsupported legacy tone controls are reported rather than silently dropped.
• Imported Auto Tone exposure stays consistent. When Lightroom saved an exposure value, RAWmakase keeps it instead of recomputing it during opening, reset, history or hover previews.
• RAW decoding can fall back to LibRaw correctly. Files that cannot use the new sensor-data path no longer fail because LibRaw was asked to unpack them twice.
• Invalid DNG crop and region bounds are handled more safely. Bounds checks now account for overflowing dimensions.

Requirements and limitations

Mac downloads require macOS 15 or later. Linux packages are for x86_64: Ubuntu 24.04+ or Debian 13+ for DEB, Fedora 43+ for RPM, and a current Arch installation for the Arch package. AUR publication remains paused; download the Arch package or the source recipe archive directly.

Preview speed depends on the photo, edits and hardware. These changes do not establish full rendering parity with Lightroom; unsupported legacy tone adjustments still need review after import.

Full changelog: v0.1.1 → v0.1.2