Immage

Release notes

The section for each version is the text of its release on GitHub, and what Immage’s update banner shows under Release Notes.

Unreleased

Improvements

  • A Linux AI diagnostic script collects model-loading logs and file checksums into one report without requiring an application rebuild.

0.41.1

Improvements

  • Paste Settings applies the copied groups to every selected local photo, including virtual copies, while keeping the active photo and selection. Looks retain their strength. One undo or redo restores the whole batch; failures report recovery and sidecar write problems.

Bug fixes

  • Select Object correctly recognizes installed AI models, including downloads made during the current session, fixing loading errors and repeated downloads.
  • Linux AppImages use compatible system WebKitGTK with GBM disabled on NVIDIA/X11, fixing the startup failure and slow rendering seen on Mint. Wayland and other GPUs keep bundled WebKitGTK 2.54.2. Automatic selection falls back to the bundle if needed; environment switches override the WebKit selection and enable or disable GBM.

0.41.0

Improvements

  • Preferences > Modules adds Contrast equalizer as a Contrast option, replacing the Contrast slider with a draggable graph for luminance, chroma, edges and noise thresholds across coarse-to-fine detail bands.
  • Preferences > Modules offers Contrast & Texture alternatives for Clarity and Texture, with the module’s native controls in adjustments and masks. Medium and Fine details stay visible; an Advanced chevron reveals the remaining controls in both adjustments and masks. Existing defaults remain in place.
  • Optional compact 100% loupes above the Detail and Presence controls show the same selected area. It defaults to off; enable it in General > Workspace. Use its point picker, then click the photo to choose the area; Escape cancels picking. Disabling the loupe also disables its rendering. Detail and grain drags preview the selected area directly when the loupe is enabled; otherwise, they keep the visible image at full preview resolution while dragging, including Texture, Sharpening, and luminance and color Denoise. Release updates the full visible view. Contrast and tone adjustments keep their normal whole-image previews.
  • Panorama Merge supports JPEGs and other non-RAW photos, including mixed RAW and non-RAW selections, and saves an editable DNG beside the first photo. A preview above the projection choices lets you compare projections, see which one Auto chooses, and toggle Auto Crop to see the edges it removes before merging.
  • Adjust Capture Time in the photo context menu or Metadata panel shifts selected photos by the same amount to synchronize camera clocks. Preview and confirm the adjustment before saving it to XMP sidecars; the context menu can undo the last batch. Photos without a recorded time are skipped.
  • Metadata adds Location: enter coordinates or drop and drag a pin on an optional OpenStreetMap map, then Apply to save GPS information to the photo’s XMP sidecar. Remove location clears GPS coordinates and altitude. Maps offer dark and standard styles and require no API key.
  • Negative adds Export to Library to save a separate positive beside the original, with the conversion and current edits baked in and normal editing tools available. Preferences > General > Workspace chooses losslessly compressed DNG (16-bit float, the default) or TIFF (32-bit float).
  • Filters adds a Rejected category with All photos, Hide rejected and Only rejected options. The selection counts as an active filter and resets with Clear all.
  • Filters adds Camera body: distinguish identical camera models by their body serial numbers, independently of the lens, or find photos without a serial.
  • Immich search results add Import Parent Folder to the right-click menu: add a locally available result’s folder to Folders and browse its photos. The action appears only when Immich is configured in Preferences.
  • Generated HDR merges, panoramas, AI denoise results, positive exports and the first result from a plugin open for editing automatically. Preferences > General > Workspace can disable this. Successful completion notifications close after 30 seconds, or immediately when Open or OK is selected.
  • Preferences > Modules groups settings under collapsible Global and Masks sections that follow Focus mode; Alt-click keeps both open. Custom module choices are independent, including contrast equalizer for masks while using AgX globally. Existing adjustments keep their modules.
  • Windows downloads now provide a single .exe installer, with a choice of installation for your account or for everyone on the computer.
  • The user guide now includes compact screenshots of the workspace and Basic adjustment controls, with links to the full-size images.
  • User and developer guides now cover all module choices, the contrast equalizer graph, detail previews, metadata editing and generated-photo workflows.

Performance

  • Linux AppImages bundle WebKitGTK and JavaScriptCore 2.54.2 while keeping the Ubuntu 22.04 runtime baseline, including Linux Mint 22.x, on x86-64 and ARM64. Fractional-scale drag previews remain supported.
  • Detail and Presence loupes pause while browsing or selecting photos in grid view and refresh on return to the photo view, avoiding extra detail renders.
  • Thumbnail loading follows the visible grid or filmstrip as you scroll, rendering on-screen photos before checking the rest of the folder.
  • Deleting rejected photos removes their thumbnails immediately after confirmation while the files move to the Trash in the background.
  • Preview layers reuse canvas allocations and already uploaded frames, skip unchanged placement updates, and defer navigator drawing to reduce work when an exact frame arrives.
  • Histogram, scope and clipping calculations run in background workers, with a fallback where workers are unavailable. Histogram input copies wait until after drawing to reduce work on the window’s main thread.
  • The engine retains scaled preview checkpoints on the GPU for reuse by downstream edits. Three recent scaled checkpoints survive ordinary cache replacement, while upstream changes and memory cleanup still invalidate them. This avoids retaining full-resolution demosaiced GPU buffers.
  • Slider drags avoid redundant panel updates. Histograms and scopes update at a reduced cadence during interaction and refresh on release. Slider drags and wheel gestures combine engine edits once per display frame and skip unchanged values, while release immediately submits the final edit.
  • Opening folders reads TIFF-based RAW metadata from small prefixes where possible. Grid thumbnails read suitable embedded JPEGs directly and decode them closer to the grid size, reducing file reads and temporary memory. Other preview layouts retain the full-read fallback.
  • Balanced previews add a 75% size. The tuner uses median timing from the middle 10–90% of frames, defaults to an 80 ms latency target, and groups setup, targets and recommendations with advanced comparisons folded away.
  • Preferences > Performance adds a tuner that starts at full preview quality and finds the highest tested quality meeting your FPS and latency targets. Review its recommended changes, apply them, and verify with another run. Load a representative RAW and use your usual window size for useful results. Other performance settings support measured comparisons and relaunch verification; AI and thumbnail caches are excluded.
  • GUI benchmarks now record CPU usage per core and process, RAM and swap, supported GPU/VRAM counters, and the busiest Linux threads to help identify single-thread bottlenecks. The dashboard shows resource use by step, frame pacing, UI stalls and rendering-path evidence.
  • GUI benchmark diagnostics trace input-to-frame latency, render queues, engine mutex waits, module timings and raw checkpoint cache reuse and eviction. Reports include the build commit and tracked-change status; a bottleneck analysis tool helps interpret the collected traces.
  • Preferences > Performance has a Window renderer choice: Automatic, Mesa or NVIDIA. Relaunch to switch paths, then run the GUI benchmark to compare them on the same build. Photo processing keeps its own GPU setting. Automatic uses the system default renderer on all GPUs, removing the forced Mesa override on NVIDIA.

Bug fixes

  • Fix Windows engine linking with the bundled OpenCV used by HDR alignment and Panorama Merge.
  • Fix conflicting Linux build dependencies for the bundled webview on x86-64 and ARM64.
  • Windows icon buttons use a consistent arrow cursor so toolbar icons no longer appear to overlap the hand pointer.
  • Windows builds correctly detect the bundled static OpenCV libraries, enabling Panorama Merge and its projection preview. Builds fail if stitching is missing.
  • Opening Crop preserves portrait orientation, so resizing from the top edge no longer snaps a vertical photo to a horizontal crop.
  • HDR, RAW panorama and AI Denoise DNGs retain their format and color calibration metadata, so thumbnails display and the generated photo opens for editing in Immage and darktable.
  • Reset All clears native module settings as well as sliders, including edits imported from darktable that Immage has no controls for. Legacy Filmic and Base Curve tone mappers switch off so they cannot compress highlights after Immage’s tone mapper. The reset remains undoable.
  • Histogram graphs give clipped black and white peaks their full bin width, keeping endpoint spikes visible in scopes and tone curves.
  • Preview and final frames stay aligned on scaled displays when adjusting sliders, including 75% previews with odd pixel dimensions.
  • Expanding a folder shows its subfolders without waiting for other expanded folders on slow or disconnected drives to finish loading.
  • Closing Immage stops an unresponsive engine after five seconds, even if it never answers the quit request. On Linux, an Immage crash also stops its engine so it cannot keep the library locked and block relaunching.
  • Folder reads report an error after 30 seconds without an engine batch reply instead of waiting indefinitely. Switching folders ignores the previous read’s progress and results.
  • Changes in Preferences > Modules apply to unused tools on the current photo when Preferences closes, without restarting. Tools with edits keep their module.
  • Object mask backdrop ranges use double precision when read back to avoid intermediate overflow with large boost values.
  • Opening a generated positive or other local result from an Immich search switches the grid to its local folder, so the new image is visible there. Generated images also retain their information while the folder loads.
  • Crop corners respond to the first inward drag with a locked aspect ratio, including pulls that are mostly horizontal or vertical.
  • Windows builds compile positive export with or without panorama support and with Exiv2 builds that use UTF-8 paths.
  • Crop guides appear immediately when entering crop and selecting an aspect ratio, including on photos that have not been cropped before.
  • Clipping overlays and histogram/scope updates discard results from replaced frames, including same-sized frames and GPU/CPU transitions. Old clipping overlays clear as their source frame changes.

0.40.0

This release comes early, for one bug big enough to have a release of its own: in a big folder, editing a photo all but stopped while its thumbnails were made. It is the last of the bug fixes below.

Improvements

  • the folder tree’s drive headings have a dot, green while the drive answers and red while it doesn’t, as when a network share has been disconnected. Its folders show their subfolders again when it comes back
  • Preferences’ Cache card shows a bar of how much of its limit each cache holds, red once it is full and letting the thumbnails or originals not looked at longest go

Bug fixes

  • a folder on this computer opens while a network share is disconnected: if a photo had been sent to Edit In on that share, every folder stayed at “Reading folder…” until Immage was quit and the share reconnected
  • Immage no longer waits for ever on a network share whose server has gone away, or a disk that stops answering: opening one of its folders says it isn’t answering after a few seconds, and the folder tree, the drive headings and thumbnails carry on without it
  • a photo can be edited while a big folder on a network share is read: the filmstrip redrew after every photo or two the share gave, and sliders and zoom barely moved until the folder was read
  • a photo can be edited while a big folder’s thumbnails are made: with the filmstrip hidden, its thousands of cells were still laid out again at every change on screen, seconds each, and sliders hardly moved

0.39.1

Improvements

  • a folder you’ve opened before shows its photos at once, even on a NAS: the thumbnails, ratings and labels from last time fill the filmstrip in their final order, and the filters work on them, while the folder is read again behind them. A photo changed since is updated when the read reaches it, and you can open any photo before then
  • reading a folder on a network share asks the share less on macOS and Windows: the folder is listed, and its thumbnails checked against their files, without a request for each file
  • Select Subject, People and Select Object leave less halo on a plain, vivid background such as water or blue sky: a new mask over one goes just over the subject’s edge and stops at the background’s color, so a bird over water lifted a stop shows almost no glow around it, and its rim keeps the lift, even where its own colors match the background. Over a busy, gray or pale background the mask is made as before. The shape’s Fit to Background switch turns it off, to the outline it would have had
  • on Linux, sliders answer sooner: a slider’s change now goes to the engine with the frame it asks for, in one request instead of one for each tool it moves, where each request could take 20 ms or more while the window was drawing
  • sliders early in darktable’s pipe, such as Exposure, White Balance, Highlights and noise reduction, follow the mouse more closely while dragged: where darktable takes longer than 60 ms on a frame, the next ones render smaller, down to 70% each way, and the size is remembered for that slider’s next drag. The frame after letting go is full size as before. Preferences, Performance sets the time and how small the frames may get, or turns it off
  • editing runs on the GPU where there is one: a slider’s frames while dragged, and the frame after letting go, come about one and a half to three times sooner than on the CPU, and look the same. Measured on a Mac M4 and on an NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti SUPER under Windows and Linux. Preferences, Performance, Edit on the GPU turns it off, for a GPU that is slower than the computer’s CPU

Bug fixes

  • Auto in the Basic panel works again with editing on the GPU, the default since 0.39.0: it stopped with “the working-space image is not at hand”. Picking a color or luminance range for a mask, the Zone System and Upright failed the same way
  • AI selections give their memory back: after Select Subject, Immage held on to as much as 18 GB until it was quit. The AI models are now let go half a minute after the last selection, which takes no longer to make again
  • O shows and hides a mask’s overlay straight after a switch in the Masks panel, such as Invert, is clicked: until something else was clicked, the switch took every key
  • the photo no longer shifts by a pixel or so when a slider is let go: the smaller frames shown while dragging were placed half a pixel or more off the full frame that follows

0.39.0

Improvements

  • a folder you’ve opened before shows its photos at once, even on a NAS: the thumbnails, ratings and labels from last time fill the filmstrip in their final order, and the filters work on them, while the folder is read again behind them. A photo changed since is updated when the read reaches it, and you can open any photo before then
  • reading a folder on a network share asks the share less on macOS and Windows: the folder is listed, and its thumbnails checked against their files, without a request for each file
  • Select Subject, People and Select Object leave less halo on a plain, vivid background such as water or blue sky: a new mask over one goes just over the subject’s edge and stops at the background’s color, so a bird over water lifted a stop shows almost no glow around it, and its rim keeps the lift, even where its own colors match the background. Over a busy, gray or pale background the mask is made as before. The shape’s Fit to Background switch turns it off, to the outline it would have had
  • on Linux, sliders answer sooner: a slider’s change now goes to the engine with the frame it asks for, in one request instead of one for each tool it moves, where each request could take 20 ms or more while the window was drawing
  • sliders early in darktable’s pipe, such as Exposure, White Balance, Highlights and noise reduction, follow the mouse more closely while dragged: where darktable takes longer than 60 ms on a frame, the next ones render smaller, down to 70% each way, and the size is remembered for that slider’s next drag. The frame after letting go is full size as before. Preferences, Performance sets the time and how small the frames may get, or turns it off
  • editing runs on the GPU where there is one: a slider’s frames while dragged, and the frame after letting go, come about one and a half to three times sooner than on the CPU, and look the same. Measured on a Mac M4 and on an NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti SUPER under Windows and Linux. Preferences, Performance, Edit on the GPU turns it off, for a GPU that is slower than the computer’s CPU

Bug fixes

  • AI selections give their memory back: after Select Subject, Immage held on to as much as 18 GB until it was quit. The AI models are now let go half a minute after the last selection, which takes no longer to make again
  • O shows and hides a mask’s overlay straight after a switch in the Masks panel, such as Invert, is clicked: until something else was clicked, the switch took every key
  • the photo no longer shifts by a pixel or so when a slider is let go: the smaller frames shown while dragging were placed half a pixel or more off the full frame that follows

0.38.0

Improvements

  • the Folders card tells drives apart: with folders on more than one drive, each drive is a heading over its folders, and a NAS share shows a network icon and its server’s name, so a 2026 on the Mac and a 2026 on the NAS no longer look the same. A folder on a share that isn’t connected stays under its share, dimmed. Double-click a server’s name or address to give it a name of your own
  • reading a large folder and loading its thumbnails no longer slow down editing: zooming, sliders and resizing the window stay responsive. The folder is read and its thumbnails load while you edit, beside the photo’s own rendering, so a big folder fills in without waiting for you to stop
  • exports run in the background: the Export dialog closes as soon as the export starts, and you go on editing while it runs. The bottom left of the photo shows how far it has got, with Stop, and then what it did. Each photo is exported as it was when you clicked Export, even if you edit it meanwhile
  • AI Denoise runs in the background too: you go on editing while it writes the DNG, and when it’s done, Open at the bottom left opens it. The DNG has the edit as it was when you clicked Denoise
  • AI selections (Select Subject, Sky, People, an object, Depth Range and the rest) no longer hold up editing while the model runs: sliders and zoom stay responsive during the seconds it takes to find the subject. A selection that finishes after you have moved to another photo is left out
  • AI selections fit more closely: the outline follows the photo’s own edges, such as a treeline against the sky or the rim of a subject, instead of rounding them off, so less of the sky is left out around trees and less of the background is taken in around a subject. Select Sky and the Landscape choices look at the photo in more detail, and take about half a second longer. A new Sky or Landscape mask starts with Edge Aware at 20, which takes in the sky between branches without a halo along the horizon, and its overlay shows once, as Edge Aware leaves it, rather than first without it. An adjustment on a selected subject or object no longer spills onto a band of the background around it, and still reaches the subject’s own rim, such as a bird’s crest or the edge of its beak
  • HDR Merge: select bracketed raws and press ⌃H (Ctrl+H on Windows and Linux), or right-click them, to merge them into one DNG with the range of them all, using darktable’s HDR merge. Auto Align lines up brackets shot handheld. The DNG is written beside the first bracket while you go on editing, with its progress and Stop at the bottom left of the photo, and edits like any raw
  • Panorama Merge: select overlapping raws and press ⌃M (Ctrl+M on Windows and Linux), or right-click them, to stitch them into one wide DNG, as Lightroom’s Photo Merge does. Choose Spherical, Cylindrical or Perspective, or let Auto pick, and Auto Crop cuts the empty edges. The DNG is written beside the first photo while you go on editing, with each stage’s progress and Stop at the bottom left of the photo, and opens like that photo’s raw, with the lens corrections made. It is stitched with OpenCV, as darktable has no panorama tool
  • Edit In › Macro Studio, for focus stacking: select a focus bracket, right-click and choose Edit In › Macro Studio. The stack opens in Macro Studio to check and retouch, and when you save it there it comes back beside the first photo and opens, even if you save it after closing Immage. Set it up in Preferences › Plugins, sending the raws (the stack comes back as a raw DNG) or 16-bit TIFFs with the edit
  • Linux on Wayland with fractional scaling (125%, 150%, …): sliders update about twice as fast. Such a window is drawn at 200% and shrunk by the desktop, and the photo was rendered for the 200% while a slider moved; it is now rendered for the screen’s own scale, which shows the same. The photo after you let go is as sharp as before. Preferences › Performance › Editing › “Drag drafts at the screen’s scale” turns it off

Bug fixes

  • AI Denoise’s small photo shows the part being previewed again: the box was drawn far too large, over the dialog and the photo behind it, instead of on the small photo
  • a new photo with the name of one deleted from the same folder, such as a panorama or HDR merged again, no longer comes back rejected and with the deleted photo’s edit
  • picking another folder clears the grid at once: on a NAS, the last folder’s photos stayed on show for seconds while the new one was read
  • Edit In’s Results folder is looked in again: a DxO PureRAW set to save somewhere other than beside the photo or its DxO folder had its DNGs never come back
  • the overlay of a selected subject or object has a smooth edge when zoomed in, rather than one in steps, and shows the mask’s soft edge
  • Linux: the filmstrip and grid keep their thumbnails once a photo is open, where they went blank, all but the open photo’s
  • Linux: Immage’s engine stops as soon as it is asked, where it was stopped only after five seconds, when quitting Immage
  • a photo with no capture time, such as one from a camera whose clock battery was flat, is placed in the filmstrip, and in the Filters’ Captured dates, by the date its file was last changed. It went to the end, and was left out of every date range

0.37.0

Immage is in alpha. Large changes are made often, from one release to the next, so keep copies of photos you care about, and expect parts of the interface to move.

Improvements

  • exports leave out the camera’s and lens’s serial numbers, which sites such as Flickr show to everyone. The export dialog’s Privacy section is now Metadata, with a box for each part of what a file carries: camera and lens, serial numbers and owner name, location, title and caption, keywords, and darktable’s edit history. Presets keep the boxes
  • the navigator stays the same size whatever the photo’s shape: a portrait photo no longer makes it tall enough to push the panels below it down
  • the crop frame is easier to take hold of: its corners can be grabbed further out, and an edge anywhere along it rather than only at its middle bar
  • on the Mac, the first click in Immage while another app is in front goes to the photo or control under it, rather than only bringing Immage to the front
  • film negatives: the Negative panel, on the film strip button in the rail, turns a photo of a color or black and white negative into a positive with darktable’s negadoctor. Pick the film border, then the photo area, and the rest is set for you; each control has an eyedropper of its own. A converted negative turns off Temp, Tint, Exposure, Whites, Blacks, Dehaze and the tone mapper, which work before the inversion, after a warning, and runs Contrast, Saturation, Highlights and Shadows after it. Copy Settings’ Negative group converts a whole roll from one frame
  • the crop frame and its grid, and the other guides over the photo, have a thin dark edge, so they show on a light photo or a White canvas, and Preferences › General › Guide color sets their color: white, yellow, red or your own
  • the toolbar’s file type button is now Filters, which narrows the folder by file type, camera, lens, keywords (a keyword includes those under it), capture date (or a recent span, year or month), ISO, aperture, focal length and shutter speed, then shows the result in the grid. Each list holds only what your other choices leave: pick a camera and Lens lists the lenses used on it. On Immich results it holds the search’s filters, which were under Advanced on the Immich card, and the stars filter the search too, so they cover all of Immich’s photos and not only those loaded
  • Preferences has a Performance tab, with the settings that were spread through General: Preview, the frame and disk caches, AI acceleration, the performance overlay and the GUI benchmark
  • new in Performance: darktable memory, how much of the computer’s memory darktable may take; Thumbnail memory, which caps what the library’s thumbnails hold (a large folder could take gigabytes); and Read ahead, how many photos, ahead and optionally behind, are decoded while you edit so the arrow keys open them sooner, up to three at once
  • a Frame cache setting, in Preferences › Performance under Memory, sets the memory kept for frames already shown, so zooming back out or returning to a view needs no render. On a 4K screen or larger it starts at 512 MB, double what 0.36.0 kept
  • the Zone System’s zones, and the overlay of a Color or Luminance Range mask, show as soon as they are ready, rather than after the render of the whole photo that follows an edit, which could take several seconds zoomed in
  • H steps the scope over the photo’s histogram: histogram, waveform, RGB parade, vectorscope, and waveform with vectorscope; ⇧H steps back
  • opening another photo from Masks, Heal or the Zone System returns the right-hand panel to the adjustments; Presets stays open
  • a mask made by an AI selection shows its overlay straight away, so you can see what was selected, until you press O or move one of its sliders
  • a mask’s handles and guides show while the pointer is over the photo, and step aside while it is over the panels, so the adjustment can be seen
  • Whites reaches much further under AgX: it also brightens or darkens the photo’s brightest tones, as a mask’s Whites does, where it only reshaped the top of AgX’s curve. Photos edited before keep their look until Whites is moved
  • Clarity is fine near zero: ±1 already flattened the photo’s contrast, more than ±10 did, and now each step adds a little. ±100 looks as before, and photos edited before keep their look until Clarity is moved
  • Lens Corrections has Hot Pixels, which removes the stuck and hot pixels of long exposures and high ISO, with Strength and Threshold; raws only, and off until turned on
  • the Export dialog’s preview renders several times faster on an edited photo, and shows again at once a frame or preset you have already tried; under it is the name the file will be exported with, not the original’s

Bug fixes

  • zoomed in, moving or reshaping a drawn mask shows it in its new place; since 0.36.0 the view could keep showing it where it had been, or not at all
  • after a quick slider move, zoomed in especially, the photo sometimes stayed soft until the next change or zoom; it now always renders sharp once the slider is let go
  • Compare works from the grid: it shows the two photos side by side, and with two photos selected, compares them, the first opened for editing
  • hiding a mask with its eye no longer makes it vanish from the Masks panel after the import screen has been opened; the mask was never deleted, and shows again in this version
  • Crop, Masks, Zone System and Heal in the tool rail no longer go dim and stop responding while a photo is open, as they could when the folder shown no longer listed it
  • the History card’s rows are no longer at times drawn over each other
  • Before/After shows the Before at the same size as the After on a photo with lens corrections or Transform; before, it came out larger
  • HSL / Color acts at Lightroom’s colors: Blue on blue, which Purple used to gray, and Green on foliage. Saturation -100 turns its color gray and no more, where -50 already did and -100 grayed the colors around it too, so with Blue at -100 Aqua did nothing to the blues between them. Luminance and the B&W Mix at -100 darken a vivid color without turning it black. The same goes for HSL on a mask, and for saved presets, whose values are brought to the new strength. Photos edited before look as they did; their HSL sliders can read spread over neighboring bands, or past the end of a slider

0.36.0

Improvements

  • Immage opens at the size and place it was closed at, and maximized if it was. On Linux under Wayland the size is kept but the desktop places the window
  • the filmstrip and the grid show a folder’s photos in the order they were taken, rather than by file name
  • zooming is twice as quick, and a click, key or navigator zoom renders the sharp view while it zooms, so it is ready sooner. Zooming back to a view shown before, with nothing changed since, shows it at once. Zoomed in, the whole photo is kept sharp once rendered, so moving around it shows no blur and needs no wait
  • switching between Before and After, undoing, or putting a slider back where it was shows the photo at once when it was shown that way before, zoomed in too
  • a photo shows its thumbnail as soon as it is opened, rather than the photo before it, and the arrow keys’ next photo is read ahead while the current one is open, so a compressed raw (an Olympus ORF, for one) opens about 0.3 s sooner

Bug fixes

  • on Linux, an AMD graphics card with only AMD’s ROCm OpenCL driver installed is used again for the whole-photo render and export; since darktable 5.6 it was left out unless Mesa’s RustiCL driver was installed instead, and with ROCm 7.1 darktable’s OpenCL code did not build, so Immage ran on the CPU alone
  • on Linux with Mesa’s RustiCL OpenCL driver and AMD’s ROCm both installed, Immage no longer shows empty folders and a blank photo: its engine stopped at start while checking ROCm for AI acceleration, which the Linux build cannot use
  • in Before/After’s left and right split, the After label lines up with Before instead of sitting lower

0.35.0

Improvements

  • the Tone Curve’s Parametric sliders are named as in Basic and run light to dark: Whites, Highlights, Midtones, Shadows and Blacks. Midtones is new, and bends the middle of the curve. Curves made with the earlier sliders open with the same settings under the new names
  • the Zone System’s Color mask takes an object as well as Sky, Rocks, Vegetation and Subject: + Object, then drag a box around the object on the photo or click it, and the AI outlines it. Each object gets a button of its own, Object A, Object B, and so on
  • the History card’s rows of the opened edit have buttons on hover: a module added in darktable can be switched off or deleted, and one behind Immage’s sliders reset, each as one undo step
  • Preferences › New Photos has Exposure compensation: every new raw starts brighter or darker by the amount set, +1 EV for instance, while Basic’s Exposure still starts at 0 and adds to it. Auto allows for it, and each photo keeps the amount it started with. Off by default
  • Basic’s Auto sets Blacks more gently: about half as far as before, and not at all when a photo’s darkest parts are close to black already. A photo with nothing dark in it, such as a plane against clear sky, keeps its blacks; before, Auto darkened the sky to navy
  • Post-Crop Vignetting’s Amount no longer shows the vignette’s guides while it moves, so the photo can be judged without them. Midpoint, Roundness and Feather still show them, and so does the pointer over the photo

Bug fixes

  • O and the eye in the Masks panel hide the red overlay while a brush adds to or subtracts from a mask; before, the overlay stayed on until the brush was put down with Esc, whichever mask was selected. Moving one of the mask’s sliders now also hides it, until the next stroke
  • on Linux, installing an update from the banner no longer stays on “saving the edit and installing…” for good; an engine slow to stop is stopped after a few seconds, and an install that cannot finish says so and offers the release page. The update from 0.34.0 still runs 0.34.0’s installer, so on Linux it may stop there once more: download the AppImage from the release page instead

0.34.0

Bug fixes

  • Color Range and Luminance Range masks work on JPEG and TIFF photos; before, picking a color failed with “the image is not in RGB at the mask stage”, and the range’s overlay never showed
  • a range mask’s overlay no longer streaks across the photo after zooming in to 100% and back out
  • AI masks and AI Denoise download their models on Linux systems without curl or unzip installed, such as Arch and CachyOS, which have no unzip; before, the download or the unpacking failed
  • an AI model left half installed, such as by an install cut short, is downloaded again the next time it is used; before, Select Object, the other AI masks and AI Denoise failed with “cannot load the model” until Immage’s data folder was deleted
  • on Linux, sliders respond several times faster when other programs are busy, such as on a system drawing in software without its graphics driver; before, a slider like Clarity could take over a second a frame

0.33.0

Bug fixes

  • Sharpening’s Masking and Noise Reduction’s Detail change the photo as they are moved; before, the change showed only once the photo was opened again
  • Remove Chromatic Aberration in Lens Corrections works; before, the correction stayed on whatever it was set to. On a photo edited in an earlier version, switch it off and on again for it to take effect
  • a mask’s Dehaze removes haze on every photo; before, a positive amount did nothing on some. A mask made in an earlier version keeps the old behavior: draw it again
  • moving a slider on a mask just drawn no longer stops the photo from updating until it is opened again

0.32.0

Bug fixes

  • a mask’s Highlights, Shadows and Whites sliders now change the photo; in 0.31.0 they moved but did nothing
  • a mask’s Defringe works on photos whose Defringe is set to the defringe module in Preferences › Modules
  • a mask’s Color Grading highlights luminance no longer shows up as its Whites when the photo is opened again

Improvements

  • drag a photo onto the window to open it, or a folder to add it to Folders
  • subfolders in the folder tree can be hidden, and stay out of Include subfolders
  • undo, redo, before/after and compare move from over the photo into the toolbar, beside a new Grid button
  • the grid’s columns widen to fill the row, and the grid makes room for a side panel shown over it rather than hiding under it
  • the canvas color is picked from swatches in Preferences
  • a progress bar while the engine starts, which can take 20-30 seconds on a slower computer or the first start after an update

0.31.0

The first public release of Immage, with builds for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows and Linux.

  • the panels of a mainstream raw editor on darktable’s engine: Basic, Tone Curve, HSL / Color, B&W Mix, Color Grading, Detail, Lens Corrections, Transform and Effects
  • masks: brush, linear and radial gradients, color, luminance and depth ranges, and AI selection of the subject, the sky, people and more
  • Heal and Clone spots, presets, film looks, export to a folder or an Immich album, and an import screen for memory cards
  • edits are darktable XMP sidecars: darktable of the same version (5.7, its development branch) opens them and renders them the same
  • Immage checks for new versions and installs them from inside the app

This page is part of immage's own docs, at v0.41.1. View the source on GitHub.