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Getting closer…

A few screenshots for you…

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What’s completed:

  1. Basic catalog management, editing, and library view with settings persistence
  2. Basic shortcut keys (with plan to make all shortcut keys editable)
  3. Color management (all managed under the hood)
  4. All of NLP’s image editing sliders with GPU accelerated render (uses the same math from the plugin but with increased precision vs Lightroom plugin because I can do it all in 16-bit. If you want, you can still emulate the older versions though in the engine settings)
  5. Scopes tool with Histograms, “Chromagrams” (something new I’ve dreamed up), Waveforms, and Vectorscopes. I’ve also added a point sample tool with nameable samples and live readouts in RGB % and in LAB. I’ve also added clipping indicators into the histogram and a live photo clipping overlay.
  6. Fully customizable background canvases, with optional framing and grid mats. It helps SO much to be able to set up the proper context as you are editing and evaluating photos!
  7. Crop module with customizable overlay, draggable angle straighten tool, and fully customizable guide overlay.

In progress:

  1. Raw pipeline integration. I built this separate from the GUI because it was such a beast, but now I need to integrate it into the GUI.
  2. Proper image caching for the catalog (which will make it zippy - right now switching between photos or between editing and catalog view is a bit laggy).
  3. Import / Export flow (just the UI for it, the backend is already there).
  4. Grain diffusion & edge sharpening. (I’ve been researching this for quite some time and very close to finalizing, but just trying to find the right control parameters and defaults.)
  5. Full metadata display and editing
  6. Licensing and trial implementation.
  7. Testing cross-platform (Windows, Linux, Intel Macs, etc). This is always a pain.
  8. Transition plan for existing NLP edits from Lightroom to standalone. I’ve been experimenting with a few ways to do this and I think the most reliable will be to have a separate LR plugin to facilitate this process, but needs some work.

This is basically what’s left for V1.0, but I have an ambitious roadmap for additional features once this is out.

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