New in Version 1.3
Summary
- The ability to exclude individual images from the composition has been added.
- Variable levels of zoom are now supported.
- Various fixes and improvements.
Details
The ability to exclude individual images from the composition has been added.
Multiple zoom levels are now supported from “Fit” to 8x actual pixels. The ‘z’ key still toggles between “Fit” and “Actual Pixels.” Cmd- ‘-‘ and Cmd - ‘+’ now zoom out and zoom in respectively.
The way that the edges of the final image are composited if alignment is performed has been changed. The edges might have looked strange before, especially with hand-held images. The edges look much more natural now.
A stronger warning is now issued if the input files have an unknown color profile. Under rare circumstances unusual profiles can cause a crash.
The metadata in the output tiff files is now cleaner and more complete. It had been distorted to work around a bug in Affinity Photo that has now been fixed. If you are unable to load file written by Long Exposure Stacker into Affinity Photo, try upgrading to the latest version of Affinity Photo.
A problem that was preventing all the metadata from being copied from the input files to the output files has been fixed. In particular, the XResolution and YResolution values which are often reported as PPI or DPI are now correctly copied.
Improved performance of scrolling. For Mac OS 10.13 and earlier, performance of scrolling and window resizing is very good. For Mac OS 10.14 after changing zoom level or resizing the window scrolling can be slow and jerky. After several seconds it usually becomes very smooth and fast. Window resizing tends to be jerky with significant hesitations. A future release should improve scrolling, zooming and window resizing for 10.14 and later.
Changed the UI to make it more difficult to accidentally repeat the Composite step or accidentally Quit without first saving the result.