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My examples attached show improvements to old 1-megapixel, 4-megapixel and Canon CR2 images.
Here is the release summary:
Major Changes
Added shortcuts to all masking related actions
Made masking brush show changes live
Made masking brush in subtraction mode remove the overlay/sharpened area live
Overlay is now always shown while making brush strokes
Overlay color is now configurable
Side panel sections can now be collapsed
Motion blur very blurry and Too soft very blurry models got updated
Added new status to status indicator for downloading optimized models
File list got redesigned to be cleaner and smaller
Added better handling for RAW color support
Option defaulted to true in preferences
Currently does not get saved to DNG output
Added auto lens correction using lensfun database (can be disabled in preferences)
Changes
Warning dialogs no longer open when running in silent plugin mode
Total progress bar hides when processing completes
Improved ETA display
Add borders to various menus
Moved update preview button when in manual update mode to bottom of side panel
Clicking the manual update preview button while the preview is being updating will cancel the action
Made the navigation window bigger, removing undo/redo buttons (you can still use those functions from the edit menu or via shortcuts)
Added indicators to view and zoom menus for the current selection
Disable the “Show Original Image” menu item when in split view
Using the mouse wheel to change zoom levels is enabled in mask mode again
Added shortcuts to zoom in and out using + and - keys
Added support for metadata from CR3/HEIC images
Closing the file saving view resets the application title bar
Updated Motion Blur tutorial to reference changes to the program
Fixes
Fixed DPI issues for DNG/PNG/TIFF
Fix alpha channel being ignored in 4-channel DNGs
Fixed crash when loading 4-channel TIFF files
Fixed saving to TIFF/DNG crashing on certain tags
Fixed scrolling horizontally causing the preview to re-process
Fixed save as dialog silently defaulting to previous selection
Fixed entering mask mode automatically running the detect objects process
Fixed images failing to save when zoomed far out
Fixed some situations causing old images to still appear after switching images
Fixed first stroke in mask mode not being undo-able
Fixed a couple icons appearing low resolution
Using Preserve Source Format with batch processing no longer saves non-JPEG images as JPEG
