RasterWave Change Loga lightweight photo editor focused on performance and ease of use
Version 2.6 Mar 24 2015
Changes and new features
- Added new selection tools: magic wand, lasso, and polygon
- Added Automatic updates, including delta patches for smaller files (like languages). Customize the new update options from the Tools–>Options menu.
- Numerous interface improvements, including new tab strip, text up/down, image buttons, and other controls created specifically for RasterWave
- Improved file format support, including RAW support for 200 new camera models (via LibRaw), WMF and EMF metafile support, improved PNG compatibility, and many metadata improvements.
- New tone-mapping dialog for HDR and RAW images. Tone-mapping is also provided for high bit-depth variants of common formats, like 48- and 64-bit PNGs.
- Adaptive supersampling is now available for all Distort and Transformation tools
- Added
Cross-Screen
tool - Overhauled the following tools:
Lens Flare
,HDR
,Channel Mixer
,Surface Blur
,Unsharp Masking
, and more. - Performance, accuracy, and interface improvements to
Curves
,Levels
,Green Screen
(Chroma Key),Color Balance
,Kaleidoscope
,Zoom Blur
,Motion Blur
, and many others. - Improved performance program-wide, including a new viewport pipeline, improved image compositor, updated localization engine, and new internal image manager.
- Improved localization and translation support
- Many improvements to the main editor screen, including a resizable and customizable left-hand toolbox, auto-hiding of the options toolbox, and new quick-access buttons for
Save Lossless Copy
andFade Last Effect
. - New Fit Image, Fit Width, and Fit Height
smart zoom
options.
Fixed
- Fixed progressbar not disappearing after image quantization
- Fixed statusbar messages overlapping coordinate display
Version 2.4 Sep 9 2014
Changes and new features
- Added comprehensive layer support: variable opacity, custom blendmodes, on-canvas moving and resizing, and editing without flattening, etc.
- Added non-destructive quick edit options under
quick fix
button on toolbar - Numerous interface improvements: new slider, radio button, and check boxes
- Added
Fade
andStraighten
tools - Added auto-correct and auto-enhance options for color, contrast, and lighting
- Added
Split-toning
,HDR
, andRemove Noise
(bilateral filtering) tools - Added
Colored pencil
,Glass Tiles
,Stained Glass
,Fragment
,Kuwahara
,Lens Flare
, andSunshine
filters - Improved
Curves
tool with per-channel support and a greatly improved interface - Overhauled
Levels
tool with per-channel support, click-to-set color options, best-in-class Auto levels option, and a redesigned interface - Improved
Color Balance
tool by adding tonal range adjustment - Overhauled
Comic Book
filter with new options for ink density and color smoothing - Overhauled
Relief
filter with new options for angle, thickness, and relief depth - Overhauled
Emboss/Emgrave
filter with new options for angle, thickness, and depth - Overhauled
Edge Enhance
filter with new options for edge detection mode, direction, and strength - Overhauled
Find Edges
dialog with new edge operators and directional support - Overhauled
Rainbow
filter with new options for offset, angle, strength, and saturation boosting - Overhauled
Fog
filter with new options for scale, contrast, density, and render quality - Overhauled
Ignite
filter (formerlyBurn
) with new options for intensity, flame height, and strength - Added
Undo History
browser - Added new Performance options category
- Added
Move
cursor tool - Greatly improved
Paste
functionality with web browsers - Improved Drag/Drop for importing images
- Improved reliability of clipboard URL parsing
- Overhauled canvas custom cursor framework
- Greatly improved Undo/Redo engine (diff-based for faster performance and less disk space)
- Optimized image thumbnail generation
- Optimized unsaved changes dialog image preview
- Many improvements to import/export color depth handling
- Added
Autosave
feature - Improved shell pipe handling for ExifTool
- Added placeholder text and icon to Canvas when no images are loaded
- Improved drag/drop support, including support for dragging images from web browsers.
- Improved statusbar with clickable
resize image
button andfit image on-screen
button - Added Malay and Swedish language support
- Improved support for using arrow keys to modify various settings
- Improved image metadata handling with asynchronous processing (loading/saving are much faster)
- Improved mousewheel zoom
- Added Select->Erase selected area option
- Greatly improved
Content-Aware
resizing with faster performance, symmetrical seam removal, and ESC-to-cancel functionality. - Improved image load time
Fixed
- Fixed progressbar not disappearing after image quantization
- Fixed statusbar messages overlapping coordinate display
- Fixed status bar rendering on high-DPI displays
- Fixed cursor issue with check box control
- Fixed memory leak in Image->Rotate Arbitrary
- Fixed FreeImage JPEG loading quality
- Tools can now live-preview effects while color dialogs are active
- Fixed minor arbitrary rotation tool issues
- Fixed File->Revert to work with new Undo/Redo engine
- Fixed filename issue with Save/Save As dialogs
- Fixed extra space appearing in auto-incremented filenames
- Fixed nasty bug when double-clicking file dialogs
Version 2.2.1 Apr 27 2014
Fixed
- Fixed severe error in the Image -> Canvas Size dialog
- Fixed various problems in locales where “,” is used as a decimal separator
- Fixed some controls not displaying correctly on Windows XP
Version 2.2 Mar 13 2014
Changes and new features
- Updated all language files
- Updated ExifTool plugin to version 9.54
- Updated FreeImage plugin to version 3.16.0
- Improved perlin noise generation
- Improved spatial accuracy and design of Figured Glass algorithm
- Improved accuracy when determining monitor physical display size
- Increased accuracy of unit measurement
- Allow user to change size unit directly from status bar
- Added support to launch Resize dialog when double-clicking size status bar panel
- Added Spanish language translation
- Added fully automatic machine translation for languages (using Google Translate)
- Greatly improved dithering for Black and White dialog
- Completely reworked Black and White (Grayscale) dialog
- Added
JPEG XR
import/export support - Added
WebP
import/export support with live previews when saving - Added
WebP
saving support - Redesigned
JPEG-2000
export dialog to match JPEG one - Added screen color picker to color selector
- Added inch, cm, and resolution support to
Image Resize
- Added support or percent based resize
- Greatly improved image DPI detection
- Greatly improved image load performance
- Added click-to-drag Nav tool
- Allow user to set custom composite color for 8bpp reductions
- Remove old thumbnail-specific EXIF tags when preserving metadata
- Improved handling of technical JPEG metadata
- Added seperate metadata panel to JPEG export dialog
- Added various metadata handling improvements
- Added automatic JPEG quality calculation when saving
- Updated JPEG export dialog to utilize preview window
- Added special handling for multiline EXIF comments
- Made
About
window URLs clickable - Added small list of last-used colors in color selector
- Added
Chrome Blur
tool - Minor improvements to
Film Grain
tool - Greatly improved performance of
Trace Contour
tool - Added custom center-point selection to
Vignetting
,Rotate (distort)
,Lens Distort
,Kaleidoscope
,Pinch/Twirl
,Distort Poke
, andRipple
tools - Added click to select coordinate feature to preview windows
- Added pan/zoom support for preview windows
- Added
Content-aware resize
tool (smart resize) - Converted update checks to be asynchronous
Fixed
- Fixed issue with loading size unit drop-down on main canvas
- Fixed various high-DPI issues
- Fixed status bar rendering on high-DPI displays
- Many high-DPI fixes for UI
- Fixed potential freeze when unloading “
import from internet
dialog - Fixed critical error in Selection->Export menus
- Fixed invalid radius calculation on initial
Oil Painting
loading - Added fail-safe termination for long-running metadata parsing
- Fixed minor issues on
Resize
dialog - Fixed issues with screen capture
- Fixed potential viewport error on Windows XP
- Fixed broken tooltip theming for color selector
- Fixed DPI metadata parsing issue
- Improved failsafe against image tabstrip corruption
- Fixed strange behavior when switching to/from line selections
- Fixed floating toolbars appearing over
Save
dialog - Fixed erroneous image unload behavior
- Added safe shutdown detection for Autosave dialog
- Fixed
Curves
dialog presets to account for comma as a potential decimal - Fixed error if clicking on the canvas while an image is unloading
- Fixed canvas background color when changed from
Options
dialog - Fixed critical command-line image loading bug
- Fixed 32bpp issues with new JPEG export features
- Fixed several tabstrip issues
- Fixed multiple floating toolbar issues
- Fixed bad tooltip on command bar
- Fixed live translation updates for various toolbars
- Fixed alpha handling on Crop to Selection when feathered or antialiased is used
- Fixed batch processor
- Fixed various issues when minimizing main window
- Fixed visual artifacts on main window after changing image tabstrip alignment
Version 2.0 Sep 30 2013
Changes and new features
- Removed old auto-enhance filters
- Added dialog for selection tool settings
- Added full selection menu
- Removed real-time selection feathering on Windows XP/Vista due to absence of GDI+ (can still be accessed from Selections->Feathering)
- Added
Curves
tool - Improved rendering of image histogram
- Improved
Perspective
tool UI - Added
Resize
option to Batch Wizard - Added
Fix lighting problems
option to Batch Wizard - Disabled auto-adjust zoom after resize (image or canvas)
- Added
Alt+T
as universal toggle for original/preview image - Converted all program settings to use XML files
- Converted Custom Filter saved files to XML format
- Improved validation when loading custom convolution filters from file
- Converted macro files to XML format
- Improved saving of selections in macro files
- Improved selection file format
- Image layer data is now compressed when saved to undo file, decreasing size.
- Updated zLib to version 1.2.8
- Added
Normalize
option for custom filters (automatically calculates divisor and offset based off current matrix entries) - Improved filter interpolation on edges
- Rewrote exposure tool algorithm
- Added
Sharpen
dialog (removed old sharpen items) - Added
Oil Painting
effect - Separate language folder added to
/Data
- Busy cursor now displays while changing language
- Improved ClearType type handling for interface fonts
- Added
color selection
ability to preview windows - Enabled preview color selection on relevant tool dialogs
- Automatically select
to color
when new color is selected - Added green screen tool (Image->Make color Transparent)
- Changed program settings to write only relevant metadata by default
- Added
Command Bar
control to all tool/filter windows which allows saving/loading of presets - Added allowPreview control to Brightness/Contrast
- Removed
/Filters
folder (presets made obsolete) - Removed Despeckle and Orphan Pixel tools (made obsolete)
- Added
Rotate
distort effect - Improved mousewheel handling
- Improved
Tile
tool performance - Moved manual color reduction functions to
Posterize
tool - Added
Motion Blur
andRadial Blur
tools - Reorganized artistic and distort filters in Effects menu
Fixed
- Fixed severe Undo bug when no selections are active
- Fixed edge behavior of antialiased elliptical selections
- Fixed critical PNG save bug if colors must be counted
- Fixed Fade Last Effect not enabling correctly
- Fixed ESC key handling (undo data properly resets now)
Version 1.2.5
Changes and new features
- Major improvement in selection handling
- Undo/Redo now supports selections
- Added loading/saving of selection files
- Renamed Color menu to Adjustment and reorganized
- Added
Vibrance
tool - Added new selection tool options window
- Added Select menu with full support for selection adjustment
Version 1.2.3
Changes and new features
- Vastly improved resize tool (integrated smart resize)
- Added canvas resize tool
- Shift key can now be used for 1:1 (square) selections
- Added
Maximum
andMinimum
channel tools - Added new window for
remove alpha channel
- Added
Line Selection
tool
Fixed
- Selections can now lie off the image
- Fixed error when combining selection–>resize–>undo
- Selection pixels on image border are no longer missed
Version 1.2.1
Changes and new features
- Improved
Film Noir
output - Optimized
Spherize
distort filter - Improved thumbnail loading for RAW format images
- Re-ordered batch wizard pages
- Added
Channel Mixer
filter
Fixed
- Fixed button image center-alignment issue
Version 1.2.0
Changes and new features
- Renamed
Mosaic
Pixelate
- Removed
Soften
,Soften More
,Blur
, andBlur More
filters (now obsolete) - Redesigned central graphics processor
- Added new option to distort filters to erase pixels
- Added
Poke
andSpherize
distort filters - Added
Photo filters
tool - Added
Miscellaneous
distort tool - Updated master language file
Fixed
- Fixed word wrapping of labels for language translation
- Fixed validation error in
Lens Correction
tool
Version 1.1.6
Changes and new features
- Re-designed About window and splash screen
- Removed metadata extraction of thumbnails
- Minor cosmetic adjustments
- Updated language files
Fixed
- Fixed bounding values for feathered selections against image
edge - Fixed translated text that extends beyond label width
Version 1.1.5
Changes and new features
- Changed min value of
Zoom
parameter inPan and Zoom
tool - Improved selection feathering performance
- Converted
Pan and Zoom
zoom scale to (-10, 10) - Added
preserve image metadata
user preference to preserve
tags in saved images. - Added privacy option for metadata handling
- Improved ExifTool data handling
Version 1.1.4
Changes and new features
- Renamed perspective tools to
Squish
andPerspective Correction
- Added
Pan and Zoom
distort tool - Increased tooltip timeout to 10 seconds
Fixed
- Disabled
browse metadata
menu if metadata import fails
Version 1.1.3
Changes and new features
- Removed Photoshop thumbnails from extracted metadata
- Adjusted GPS map zoom level to 18
- Moved all ICC profile metadata tags into single category
- Enabled automatic font smoothing at start-up
- Added prompt for user to download ExifTool if missing
- Added translation support for metadata categories
Fixed
- Fixed parsing error with binary metadata tags
- Fixed handling of metadata list-type values
- Fixed tooltip theming bug
Version 1.1.2
Changes and new features
- Added ExifTool plugin support
- Added support for extracting metadata under
Image->Metadata
menu - Added
Map photo location
to metadata menu - Moved
Image->Mode
menu toImage->Transparency
Version 1.1.1
Changes and new features
- Adjusted selection nodes to be semi-transparent and antialiased
with white-on-black canvas rendering scheme - Increased size of on-canvas transform nodes
- Improved performance of selection feathering
Fixed
- Fixed bug when feathering was previously selected, but user
switched away from it. - Fixed alpha handling during 32bpp selection cropping
Version 1.1
Changes and new features
- Added option for exterior selections
- Added option for border-only selection
- Minor adjustments to batch wizard
- Added ability to copy/paste transparent image to/from clipboard
- Added ESC key cancellation to remaining filters
- Added rendering of feather selections
- Added full anti-aliasing for elliptical and rounded rectangle
selections - Added interface controls for antialiasing and feathering
- Improved selection mask rendering
Fixed
- Fix potential error when multiple image downloads in a row fail
- Fixed focus issues while switching between images with action
selection - Copy to clipboard now respects non-rectangular selections
- Crop to selection now respects non-rectangular selections
Version 1.0.7
Changes and new features
- Reworded labels on image levels filter options
- Added support for 32-bit cursors
- Custom tooltip handling is now supported throughout program
- Added ESC key cancellation for the following effects:
Gaussian Blur, Contour, Median, White Balance, Shadow/Midtone - Added support for many more camera raw formats
Version 1.0.5
Changes and new features
- Added nodes for active selections
- Added rounded rectangle selection tool
- Redesigned left and right toolbars
- Moved
Pixelate
filter to Blur menu - Added last used tool to settings file
- Improved image resize to account for new selection types
Fixed
- Fixed selection handling after image resize
- Fixed problems with selections while multiple images are loaded
- Fixed crash when
Fade Last Effect
is used on image with active
selection - Image thumbnail preview now displays selection mask
Version 1.0.3
Changes and new features
- Added new program icon
Fixed
- Allow selections to begin anywhere on viewport
- Fixed moving of active selections
- Disallow selections that lie completely outside the image
- Clear mouse coordinates when mouse leaves viewport
Version 1.0.2 Beta
Changes and new features
- Added “Ignore” option for all distortion effects (retains original image pixels for edge)
- Improved Free Perspective tool interface by smoothing lines of
drawing workspace.
Fixed
- Fixed tooltip error with line wrapping.
Version 1.0.1 Beta
Changes and new features
- Replaced all slider controls with new slider/textbox combinations.
- Re-tooled and optimized color balance
- Greatly improved image levels tool
- Restructered program folders
Fixed
- Fixed Gamma correction tool to reduce chance of error
- Improved a number of tools to provide for more accurate outputs for selections
Version 1.0.0 Beta
- Initial Release