PhotoStyler Changelog

What's new in PhotoStyler 6.8.5

Sep 23, 2015
  • Mask drawing issues fixed
  • Quartz Composer is disabled for latest OS version (where is't been deprecated and leads to crash on app loading)
  • A bunch of minor improvement and bug fixes including improved latest OS versions compatibility

New in PhotoStyler 6.8.3 (Jun 22, 2015)

  • TIFF output format supported restored.

New in PhotoStyler 6.8.2 (Apr 23, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue that caused image saving fail on some machines under 10.10.
  • Minor issues fixed.

New in PhotoStyler 6.8 (Sep 12, 2014)

  • Minor issues fixed

New in PhotoStyler 6.7 (Oct 30, 2013)

  • Facebook integration fixed.
  • Sharing settings reset added.
  • Presets import and export added.
  • New built-in presets and resources.

New in PhotoStyler 6.6 (Jun 25, 2013)

  • New presets and resources.
  • Better preview rendering system uses less resources.
  • Fixed bug with Quartz compositions UI glitches.
  • Fixed bug with occasional crashes of Quartz compositions.
  • Fixed crash on Levels filter UI editor.
  • Other minor improvements and fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 6.5.3 (Nov 8, 2012)

  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Fixed bug with 'Tatter' not being rendered properly on some images.
  • Fixed 'Before vs. After' comparator.
  • Fixed bug with Flickr login issues.

New in PhotoStyler 6.5.2 (Oct 24, 2012)

  • Fixed an issue with extra space added in the 'Shadow' filter.
  • Fixed issue with the doubled output on Retina displays.

New in PhotoStyler 6.5.1 (Sep 27, 2012)

  • Fixed an issue with filters drag'n drop not being performed.
  • 'Shadow' and 'Surface' filters extended with shadow color option.

New in PhotoStyler 6.5 (Sep 20, 2012)

  • Improved performance, reduced CPU usage.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Retina displays support.
  • Added localization: RUS
  • Other minor improvements and fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 6.4 (Jun 11, 2012)

  • New sharing library; Flickr and Facebook posting are back.
  • Fix: Rare crash on a 'Tatter'.
  • Fix: Various stability fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 6.3 (Feb 29, 2012)

  • New: Native 'Motion blur' filter.
  • New: Native 'Radial blur' filter.
  • Ex.: 'Lens Flare' scale settings.
  • Fix: Improved performance.
  • Fix: Export to images not working.

New in PhotoStyler 6.2 (Feb 28, 2012)

  • Few new presets.
  • Fix: Textures library drag'n drop.
  • Fix: External files linking.
  • Fix: Bokeh rendering issues and performance.
  • Fix: Presets being shown partially.
  • Fix: Levels filter crash and rendering issues.

New in PhotoStyler 6.1.1 (Jan 19, 2012)

  • Few new presets.
  • New textures for Mats.
  • Important fix: stability and performance issues fixed.

New in PhotoStyler 6.1 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • Few new presets.
  • Fix: Crashes on 10.6 (some video cards).
  • Fix: Incorrect DPI mapping. 6.1 keeps proper DPI during the export.
  • Fix: Crash on export to Flickr

New in PhotoStyler 6.0.2 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • New "Flare" filter - a HDR simulation with a single image.
  • New "Dynamyc Light" filter - unique shadows and highlight autofixing tool.
  • New "Lens Blur" filter - bokeh simulation.
  • New "Lens Flare" filter.
  • Improved "Resize" filter quality.
  • Revised "Tilt-Shift" filter - new modes, in-place editor and new features.
  • Added support for in-place textures HSL color correction.
  • Quick before/after comparsion added.
  • New photo editor design with separate Photo Navigator panel.
  • New Masking tool instruments and design.
  • New Filters Library design.
  • New Textures Library design with better look and feel.
  • New Presets Library design, extended with Tags sidebar.
  • Dozens new pre-built presets.
  • New in-place editors designs.
  • Posting to Flickr, Facebook and iPhoto library from the app.
  • Fix: EXIF data is now preserved during export & batch processing.
  • Fix: Masking tool drawing issues.
  • Fix: Memory usage problems.
  • Fix: Various minor stability issues.

New in PhotoStyler 5.6 (Jun 20, 2011)

  • Presets library extended.
  • Fixed bug with mask brush drawing.
  • Hotkeys '[' and ']' for brush size restored.
  • Fixed some mistakes in undo markers.
  • Some other minor fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.5 (Apr 21, 2011)

  • New filter 'Romantic'.
  • New built-in presets.
  • Improved user interface.
  • Fixed few bugs and minor memory leaks.

New in PhotoStyler 5.4.1 (Apr 7, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug with improper dimensions for some textures (produced blured textures).
  • Fixed a crash on presets thumbnails rendering.

New in PhotoStyler 5.4 (Apr 6, 2011)

  • New resources and Presets.
  • Memory usage strongly optimized.
  • Fixed a bug with improper mask undo.Few minor bugs and memory leaks fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.3 (Mar 14, 2011)

  • "Texturize" filter extended with second blend mode.
  • "Cappucino" filter extended with intensity parameter.
  • Presets library renewed, new Paper textures added.
  • Few minor bugs and memory leaks fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.2.1 (Feb 14, 2011)

  • Minor bugfixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.2 (Jan 22, 2011)

  • Overlay filter extended with “keep aspect” option.
  • Bug fix for layers visibility.
  • Few other minor fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.1 (Dec 26, 2010)

  • Color filter “Grunge” added.
  • New preserts.
  • Bug fix for “Glass frame’ combined with other frames.
  • Slight UI changes and minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 5.0 (Dec 12, 2010)

  • New engine: better stability and performance.
  • Batch processing.
  • Re-designed textures library
  • Two new color filters: “Magazine Cover” and “Capuccino”.
  • 22 new textures.
  • 5 new presets.

New in PhotoStyler 4.6 (Oct 28, 2010)

  • Bugfix for bubble tooltips in the presets library.
  • 8 new paper textures.
  • 4 new presets.

New in PhotoStyler 4.5.1 (Oct 22, 2010)

  • System clipboard support for files.
  • Sligh UI changes.
  • 'Scratches' filter rendering fix.
  • Fixed improper rendering of the filters browser on some machines.

New in PhotoStyler 4.5 (Oct 17, 2010)

  • Completely re-designed the Document window to look more like a regular graphics editor. All effects are now represented as a “layers list” where the last effect is on top.
  • Document window
  • Effect parameters panel was removed, every effect layer is now expandable and shows the param right in the layers list. Some users were unhappy with old fashion effect visibility toggler, so I have replaced it with a simple checkbox near the layer name.
  • After the UI, I have extended some effects a bit: params editors were redesigned plus I have added new in-place editors. It looks good now, I believe, and it make the difference. Take a look at the screenshot:
  • Inplace rotator
  • This is new in-place rotator for the “Composition” effects, both transparent and surface.
  • Few bugs were also fixed, mostly rendering glitches in a complex chains when a color overlap occurred.

New in PhotoStyler 4.3 (Oct 1, 2010)

  • A serious bug in rendering that affected saving was fixed.
  • “Glass” has a new feature - distortion effect with a sample texture.
  • Includes 15 textures for sample distortions.

New in PhotoStyler 4.2 (Sep 27, 2010)

  • Presets library totally renewed.
  • 8 new presets added.

New in PhotoStyler 4.1 (Sep 2, 2010)

  • Resize filter added, allows to scale the image keeping aspect. Can add border..
  • Fixed bug with incorrect masks undo.
  • Fixed bug with disallowed text aligning.

New in PhotoStyler 4.0.4 (Aug 22, 2010)

  • Added keyboard navigation for the presets browser, quick preview is now available with ‘Spacebar’ hit.
  • Fixed bug with loading some kind of image filesß.
  • Fixed crash while changing working image on scenes with Quartz Composition in the chain.
  • Fixed bug that prevented Quartz filter params from saving it’s parameters.
  • Fixed bug that prevented images files from drop into the textures library.
  • Fixed visual glitch with filters masks when working image changed with another one of a different size.
  • Fixed visual glitch with inaccurate ‘Lomo’ preview with strong blur applied.

New in PhotoStyler 4.0.3 (Aug 15, 2010)

  • Fixed bug that caused presets thumbnails generation fail.
  • Fixed bug that caused incorrect filters chain processing in some cases.
  • Strongly improved performance for presets previews generator.
  • Few other minor issues fixed.

New in PhotoStyler 4.0.2 (Aug 6, 2010)

  • Fixed bug that disables preset thumbnail selection on 10.5
  • Fixed bug with filters drag and drop on 10.5
  • Fixed memory leak while presets previews generation
  • Overall stability and performance improved

New in PhotoStyler 4.0.1 (Aug 2, 2010)

  • Fixed crash while changing the working image in presets preview mode.
  • Fixed bug with 'Crop' filter that wasn't correctly applied to rendered image.
  • Fixed bug with 'Tatter' filter in-place editor that didn't drender correctly.
  • New textures for Paper, Fabric, Wood.

New in PhotoStyler 4.0 (Jul 30, 2010)

  • New presets preview dialog with thumbnails.
  • QuartComposer scenes support.
  • Tatter filter extended with in-place editor.
  • Number of new built-in presets.
  • Overall optimization.
  • Bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 4.0 RC 1 (Jul 28, 2010)

  • Fixed a lot of bugs, fixed help, changed help screenshots, renewed some icons, preferences pane, main window. Filters browser is again collapsable with a toolbar item.
  • QuartzComposition were slightly changed, the composition is now embedded with preset when saving.

New in PhotoStyler 3.3.1 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • RAW files loading bug fix.

New in PhotoStyler 3.3 (May 28, 2010)

  • EXIF orientation data is now respected when loading photos.
  • Fixed bug with possible wrong color in the exported files for masked layers.
  • Fixed bug with masked layer after ‘Crop’ filter in the chain.
  • Few minor fixes and improvements.

New in PhotoStyler 3.2.1 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • 'Scratches' filter output colors bug fix.
  • Shadows rendering bug fixed.
  • Other minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 3.2 (Mar 30, 2010)

  • Strongly improved perfomance for big images.
  • All filters parameters moved to relative coordinates.
  • Fixed bug with incorrectly copied filter mask during preset applying.
  • Other minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 3.1.2 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • Fixed bug with distorted colors after 'Tilt-shift' filter.
  • Fixed bug with 'Perspective' filter params.

New in PhotoStyler 3.1.1 (Mar 16, 2010)

  • Fixed bug with distorted colors after 'Lomo' filter.
  • Fixed bug with incorrectly stretched scratches texture.

New in PhotoStyler 3.1 (Mar 10, 2010)

  • New ‘Prespective transform’ filter with reflection option.
  • Fixed bug with wrongly stretched scratches textures.
  • Fixed bug that caused crash on startup when using Scratches frame filter.
  • Fixed bug that caused crash on startup when using Glass frame filter.

New in PhotoStyler 3.0.1 (Mar 1, 2010)

  • New:
  • Filters msking added.
  • In-place editors for Annotation (Caption), Crop, Overlay filters.
  • Overall optimization
  • Performance optimisation for Annotation (Caption) and Composition (both Transparent and Textured) filters.
  • Toolbar restyled, hotkeys added for zoom and other typical actions
  • Bug fixes:
  • AMissed anti-aliasing issue on some machines fixed.
  • Presets browser and filters browser rendering issue fixed. UI was squished on some machines on 2.X.
  • A lot of minor fixes in filters rendering, saving, undo compatibility and other.
  • Presets library was re-newed a little

New in PhotoStyler 3.0 Beta (Feb 15, 2010)

  • New features list:
  • Filters masks.
  • In-place editors for Annotation (Caption), Crop, Overlay filters.
  • Performance optimisation for Annotation (Caption) and Composition (both Transparent and Textured) filters.
  • Toolbar restyled, hotkeys added for zoom and other typical actions.
  • Minor changes in UI.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Presets browser and filters browser rendering issue fixed. UI was squished on some machines on 2.X.
  • A lot of minor fixes in filters rendering, saving, undo compatibility and other.
  • Presets library was re-newed a little.

New in PhotoStyler 2.5.2 (Jan 29, 2010)

  • Text rendering bug fixed.
  • 'Glow" filter undo bug fixed, this filter supports undo/redo now.
  • Other minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.5.1 (Jan 27, 2010)

  • New presets in 'Monochrome', 'Lomography' and 'Vintage' groups.
  • Minor improvements and bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.5 (Jan 12, 2010)

  • ‘Modern’ filter group with next filters: Glow, Bloom.
  • New presets in ‘Modern’, ‘Instant photo’, ‘Lomography’, ‘Vintage’ groups.
  • Bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.4 (Dec 28, 2009)

  • ‘Enhance’ filter group with next filters: AutoLevels, AutoContrast, Unsharp mask, Noise reduction and Median.
  • Three new presets.
  • Bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.3.1 (Dec 21, 2009)

  • Critical bug fixed (10.6).

New in PhotoStyler 2.3 (Dec 20, 2009)

  • ‘Levels’ filter added.
  • Overall optimization.
  • Minor UI improvements.

New in PhotoStyler 2.2.5 (Dec 11, 2009)

  • Text rotation added.
  • “Crop” filter extended to “Crop and resize”.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.2 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • “Cross processing” color filter added.
  • Effects states: you can turn any effect on and off without removing it from the chain.
  • Automatic updates system added.
  • Most material textures tiled to produce better looking frames.
  • Minor bugfixes, UI improvements etc.

New in PhotoStyler 2.1 (Nov 16, 2009)

  • ‘Miscellaneous’ effects group extended with ‘Blur’, ‘Noise’ and ‘Color controls’.
  • Some presets updated with new effects.
  • Minor changes.

New in PhotoStyler 2.0 (Nov 10, 2009)

  • Completely new user interface based on drag and drop.
  • Flexible effects chains allows to add any number of effects in any order.
  • With new built-in presets library you can style a picture with one double click.
  • New effects added: Caption, Crop, Overlay.
  • Built-in textures library extended.
  • Bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 1.7.1 (Oct 2, 2009)

  • Critical bug fixed with empty documents in 1.7, when there was no possibility to drop and process and image.

New in PhotoStyler 1.7.0 (Sep 30, 2009)

  • New user interface elements, now supports zoom and scrolling.
  • Minor performance optimization.
  • Bug fixes for some filters to support older versions file format.

New in PhotoStyler 1.6.7 (Sep 17, 2009)

  • “Dark side” filter extended to produce rectangular frames.
  • “Colored frame” (motivator-like) extended with photo frame thickness parameter.
  • Fixed bug with non-centered placement of the photo with “Composition” effects.
  • Fixed bug with working image change on blur-based filters (polaroid, glass frame etc.).
  • Some other minor issues.

New in PhotoStyler 1.6.6 (Sep 14, 2009)

  • Performance optimization.

New in PhotoStyler 1.6.5 (Aug 31, 2009)

  • New in this version: "Glass frame" effect.

New in PhotoStyler 1.6 (Aug 23, 2009)

  • Lomo effect added.
  • Minor UI improvements and bug fixes.

New in PhotoStyler 1.5 (Aug 8, 2009)

  • Motivator-like frames added.
  • Frames inscriptions improved, supports paragraph formatting now.
  • Bug with rendering final image in unregistered version fixed.
  • Minor glitches in "Tattered material" user interface fixed.

New in PhotoStyler 1.4.5 (Aug 3, 2009)

  • Frame inscription have “achor” place. In addition to offset you can now choose base point from 9 possible (photo corners, sides middles and photo center).
  • New paper texture for Polaroid photos added to the built-in library.
  • Serious bug with TexturesLibrary fixed.
  • Tattered material bug fix.

New in PhotoStyler 1.4 (Jul 26, 2009)

  • The main feature in this upcoming version is “ragged” material filter. It is placed into the “material” group and allows you to tatter photo a little.
  • There are few parameters for this effect and you should be able to set up almost any tattered surface with them.
  • Most interesting thing here is “ragged area” editor. You can move any node of the grid with mouse to get final result looking exactly as you need.
  • According to other improvements in 1.4: “Composition” group was updated a little to support new non-rectangular photos, rendering optimized as well and of course we have fixed some found bugs (on of them caused “Dark side” effect to produce ugly artifacts at large images).

New in PhotoStyler 1.3 (Jul 17, 2009)

  • There are two main features:
  • New effect in the “Color group”. That’s Polaroid-like colors! This customizable yet simple effect can really produce images that looks like took with old Polaroid camera.
  • TexturesLibrary impoved. First of all, we have changed it’s appearance and since version 1.3 library panel will be divided to few groups. But the main feature here is drag-n-grop for files from the Finder to the TexturesLibrary. User can add any image to any group! User-defined images are also removable by simple “delete” key press.

New in PhotoStyler 1.2 (Jul 12, 2009)

  • DarkSide effect got “Transparent” flag. With this switch turned on effect doesn’t darkens photo’s side, but make it transparent. Looks nice with thin frames without “Draw frame around photo” option.
  • Frame effect got “Inscription” parameter group. Use can choose inscription text and position, text could be edited in rich-mode using default Mac OS color and text formatting dialogs. Dy default “handwritten” font is selected.

New in PhotoStyler 1.1 (Jul 6, 2009)

  • Shift key pressed in document window shows original image instead of filtered, release Shift key to see rendered image again. This feature took from “iPhoto”.
  • Texturize and Scratches effects has “Opacity” parameter now.
  • Result export allows to choose target format now. Supports lots of formats provided by Apple.