LaternaMagica 0.5

LaternaMagica is the image viewing and exporting tool of the GNUstep Application Project.
Quickly create a list of images and export it by converting the file type and resizing the images to a uniform size, to prepare your next slide show, a folder of thumbnails or the folder to give your local printer and print out pictures.

The new 0.5 version comes with a lot of fixes and improvements.

• Improved drag&drop support
• Improved recursion of folders, including drag&drop of folders
• Rotation has key shortcuts
• Image rotation is remembered for export
• Code cleanup, optimization and minor bug fixes 
• Exporting (including Scaling and Rotation) have many fixes:
• Better support of Alpha images
• Resolution and Size are better interpreted and preserved. 
• better scaling algorithm imported from PRICE

PRICE 1.2.0

After 10 Years with PRICE a Christmas Anniversary release! 1.2.0 is out!

This new version sports JPEG saving along with TIFF! Thus PRICE rgisters itself as editor both for TIFF and JPEG files. Compression factor is of course user selectable.

Along with many bugfixes, the Curves function is now improved in usability: the transformed histogram is drawn specular on top instead of right. Furthermore bug fixes should make the display more reliable and faster.

Of course, for GNUstep and Macintosh.

PRICE 1.1.0

PRICE 1.1.0 is out!

It has been a long hiatus, I essentially skipped a release and made two in one. What's new?

Curves: this was a lot of work (and will need more). Smooth way to correct highlights and shadows with an S-curve. Source and resulting histograms are displayed.

Bilinear filtering: scaling will now look better!

Minor tweaks to the interface, like the filters that on cancel while previewing or on GNUstep the convolve matrix reacting on end editing.

Furthermore a plethora of bug fixes and portability enhancements.

Get it here from SourceForce, in form of sources for all platforms (GNUstep or Cocoa) or as Macintosh binary.

It has been 10 years I've been working on PRICE. This is kind of an anniversary release. It has been a long time and it has been fun and I hope it will continue! But it is an amazing long time. There have been ups and downs, and some melancholy creeps in! I think I will blog more about some past and future ideas about GNUstep.

bilinear filtering

Finally PRICE got proper Bilinear filtering.

This was surely long due! The previous linear h+v filter was little more than a quick hack.

Bilinear filtering is quick, good and quite sharp and works well with scaling between the 50% and the 150% range. It is quite good when downscaling while upscaling beyond a certain range surely has better algorithms.

LaternaMagica and its export tool with automatic constraining will benefit from this new filter too.