Version Changes

Version 2.2.4 changesSep 28th 2020

🚀 Improvements for macOS 11.0 (or 10.16).
🚀 Hue filter now supports gradient masking.
🚀 Edge defocus now has a couple more modes.

Version 2.2.3 changesMay 18th 2020

⚠️ Recommended update for all users running macOS Catalina.

🛠 Worked around an issue with logging that was causing issues with operating on files.
🛠 Worked around an issue that was caused a performance degradation with aligning images.

Version 2.2.2 changesApril 24th 2020

🚀 Improved the time it takes to open documents, especially ones auto reopened when launching the app.
🛠 Fixed a bug where the Exposure extra wasn't storing the selected method.
🛠 Fixed a crash on macOS 10.11 with the Extra editors.
🛠 Added a workaround for the error while HDRtist (all versions) are unable to update the document icon while the application is in the background on macOS 10.15.3 and newer.

Version 2.2.1 changesFeb 24th 2020

🚀 File, Open can now be used to select image files as well as HDR documents.
🚀 Now accepts HEIC images dropped onto the application icon in the dock.
🚀 Stores last export location to use with new documents.
🚀 Stores last compression settings to use with new documents.
🚀 Added a "CreatedWithBuild" tag, to help with future changes.
🚀 1-Click Styles list can now be navigated with the cursor keys.
🚀 Save history list can now be navigated with the cursor keys.
🚀 Improved the 1-Click Styles Favorite icon to make it clearer between states.
🛠 Improved some control enable/disable issues
🛠 Extra editor should be more stable across all macOS versions, instead of different hacks for different versions.
🛠 Worked around a problem with aligning images from an iPhone 11 Pro Max
🛠 No longer disappears when moved into the background with no windows open on macOS 10.14 or newer
🛠 Export settings are now auto saved correctly
🛠 Having no styles visible and changing the size now works correctly when they're visible again.
🛠 NOE @ penXStylePreviewGenerator.EventRun
🛠 NOE @ NX2CropAndHDRList.NX2CropAndHDRList.metaDataEditButtonAction
🛠 NOE @ penXdocument.savePenXDocument
🛠 Side-By-Side with wide images displays controls on wrong image.
🛠 When resetting the style to default; we now clear the last selected style.

Version 2.2 changesDecember 20th '19

🌟 Keywords to the Meta Data.
🌟 Gradient masking to Split Toning, Contrast, Black & White, Exposure, Sharpness, Unsharp Mask
🌟 16 more blend modes are now available.
🌟 New Noise Suppression extra filter.
🌟 New Color Gradient extra filter.
🌟 New Local Contrast extra filter.
🌟 New White Balance extra filter, which uses a brand new algorithm for color correction.
🌟 New Split ND extra filter.
🌟 New Haze Gradient extra filter.
🌟 New Defocus Gradient extra filter.
🌟 New options for choosing the rendering hardware, including an automatic option.
🌟 Ability to disable images from the Exposures List.
🌟 Cut, Copy & Paste extra layers from one document t'other.
🌟 Option to ignore the original camera meta data on export.
🌟 Option to compress TIFF images on export.
🌟 New sidebar mode "Blackout", makes most of the interface black and removes as much transparency as possible.
🌟 Denoise and Sharpen now added to the main interface.
🌟 Gradient masking (12 supported filters) support linear or radial gradients, allowing for spot alterations.
🌟 Added an extra 7 1-Click Styles.
🚀 Several minor improvements to the HDRtist Pro importer
🚀 The delete confirmation dialog now looks better.
🚀 The Extra selector is now larger.
🚀 The default groups on the main interface are now collapsable.
🚀 The action icon in the short toolbar now shows a drop down icon.
🚀 Made other interface adjustments to improve the visibility of the Extra filters interface.
🚀 Tab switcher at the top of the window uses a different style.
🛠 Switching from the cropping interface to styles or edit correctly updates the preview.
🛠 Failing to open an existing document no longer generates two error messages.
🛠 Duplicating a layer correctly copies across settings again.
🛠 Fixed a NOE @ penXimageProcessor.=styleData.
🛠 Fixed a bug that was preventing the RAW expansion from working for some customers.
🛠 Fixed a NOE @ HDRDocument.EventexportPrepareMetaData
🛠 Fixed a bug in the Preferences Window, toolbar item is correctly set on window re-open.
🛠 Fixed some issues with image files or HDR files that contain a "/" in the file name.
🛠 Fixed a NOE @ HDRToneMapperPolaris.Eventprocess
🛠 Fixed a NOE @ penXDocumentWindow.penXDocumentWindow.notificationReceived
🛠 Fixed a ISAE @ NX2HDRThreadedGenerator.taskCompleted
🛠 Workaround for the Delete confirmation dialog not accepting keyboard input.
🛠 Fixed a couple of minor issues that occurred on macOS 10.15.
🛠 Workaround for an issue with the Save Panel when running under macOS 10.15.1
🛠 Fixed the HDR Exposure function causing corruption on some installations of macOS 10.14.
🛠 Workaround for corruption caused by the Unsharp Mask filter on macOS 10.14
🛠 Fixed a missing icon in the prefs window on macOS 10.14 that occurred because the system no longer supports low resolution icons included within the macOS.
🛠 Workaround for the exporting code failing on macOS 10.14 systems that have been running for more than 10 days.
🛠 Workaround for a problem whereby the OS atomic saving routines do not clean up correctly on macOS 10.14, which could lead to the inability to save your work.
🛠 Workaround for CISoftlight causing corruption when exporting via the CPU on macOS 10.14 or newer

Version 2.1 changesSeptember 23rd '19

🌟 New Booster & Richness color options.
🌟 New RAW Expander, extracts more detail from single RAW images.
🌟 New "Blend with unprocessed image" Extra.
🌟 New Option to create Progressive JPEG images.
🌟 Can now be used as an "External Editor" in Apple's Photos application.
🌟 New HDRtist Pro importer.
🚀 Improved the "Magic" extra, newer processing coupled with combined filters.
🚀 Improved the color throughout the program.
🚀 Improved the consistency with "Add to Photos" across different macOS versions.
🚀 Now provides a warning when dragging in files from Photos and the image size is that of a thumbnail.
🚀 Workaround to show file icons for image stored in Apple's Photos on macOS 10.14.
🚀 Replaced a section of our HDR generator to help with larger images.
🛠 Fixed an exception that could occur when selecting a white balance point, and no where near the window.
🛠 Fixed a NOE exception on save.
🛠 Clickable activation links now work more consistently.
🛠 Panoramic images now show their tiles correctly in the HDR options.
🛠 Fixed the application icon showing up tiny in the About Box.
🛠 Alignment failure no longer produces multiple error dialogs.
🛠 Fixed a bug where flipped export sizes could be incorrect.

Version 2.0.3 changesAugust 21st '19

🛠 Fixed the Auto Save issue some customers were getting.
⏰ Temporarily disabled Metal as we continue to solve the inconsistency issues that some of our customers are experiencing.

Version 2.0.2 changesAugust 8th '19

Improvements

🚀 The overall slider now uses less Saturation.
🚀 Default colorSpace is now Apple's Display P3.
🚀 New Color Settings on the Edit menu, allows different color profiles to be specified.

Fixes

🛠 Now works on macOS 10.15 Catalina.
🛠 The internal image converter now uses a far stricter list of compatible types.
🛠 Added a workaround for a problem auto saving files on macOS 10.14.5.
🛠 Altered alignment handling to reduce false positives.
🛠 Added a workaround for an issue with 10.15 that was preventing documents from being saved.
🛠 Started workarounds for some performance issues on macOS 10.15.
🛠 Share menu on the Toolbar now display correct service icons.
🛠 Replacing system level constants that have changed for macOS 10.15.
🛠 Source image files are now copied into the HDR document.
🎛 Zoom to Left & Zoom to Right are hidden on macOS 10.15, as the OS now does these.

Version 2.0.1 changesJuly 19th 2019

🚀 Generating the HDR is now done on the CPU rather than the GPU.
🚀 Certain RAW files go through additional conversion to be 100% compatible with the rest of the workflow.
🚀 Improved the performance of aligning JPEG images.
🚀 Aligned JPEG images are now stored as lossless JPEG, rather than TIFF files.
🐞 Fixed a bug whereby the "Regenerate HDR" button was active when it shouldn't be.
🐞 Fixed a bug in the "1-Click Styles" menu item on the "View" menu.
🐞 Fixed a bug where the "Smoothing" slider in Highlights & Shadows Pro wasn't updating when undoing.
🐞 Fixed a bug where the document window wasn't disconnecting from the internal notifications system.