What's new in Flare 2.2.7
Sep 25, 2018
- Updated for macOS Mojave
- Minor bug fixes
New in Flare 2.2.6 (Apr 19, 2018)
- Fixes various UI issues in macOS High Sierra
- Increased the speed of photo rendering with macOS Sierra 10.12.6 or later
New in Flare 2.2.5 (Sep 29, 2016)
- Compatibility with macOS Sierra.
New in Flare 2.2.4 (May 10, 2016)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixes a problem with the Duotone filter not rendering correctly when it's the first filter in an effect.
New in Flare 2.2.3 (Apr 18, 2016)
- Improvements: Increased the speed and reliability of photo rendering in OS X 10.11.4.
New in Flare 2.2.2 (Dec 14, 2015)
- Fixed a problem with some EXIF data not being written when cropping or exporting an image
- Fixed an issue that caused a thin black line to appear on some high resolution images
New in Flare 2.2.1 (Oct 21, 2015)
- Improvements:
- Updated for compatibility with El Capitan.
New in Flare 2.2 (Jul 22, 2015)
- New Features:
- A new 'Colorfilm' filter to simulate the saturation of saturated color film.
- A new 'Timestamp' filter to simulate the time stamps of some older film cameras.
- Improvements:
- The 'Texture' filter now offers the ability to blur textures and set the blur strength.
- The 'Van Zesen' filter has a new parameter to change the translation strength of the color planes.
- The 'Gaussian Blur' filter has a new option to enable a seamless edge blur.
- Cropping has a new setting to lock the aspect ratio to the one of the original photo.
- Bug Fixes:
- Improved the display quality of the preview image.
- Relocated a difficult to reach button in the Crop interface.
New in Flare 2.1.1 (Mar 20, 2015)
- German and Japanese customers can now use the app in their own language
New in Flare 2.1 (Dec 18, 2014)
- FEATURES:
- A new magnifying loupe shows fine details of the effects applied to your photo.
- Add random dust and scratches to your images with the new Hair & Dust filter.
- IMPROVEMENTS:
- Quickly and easily turn filters on and off from the Simple Edit pop-up window.
- BUG FIXES:
- Minor bug fixes
New in Flare 2.0 (Oct 21, 2014)
- Features new:
- Simple Edit Adjust effects quickly and easily
- Advance Edit Fine tune effects via a live preview
- Snapshots Temporarily saves your edits for later use
- Batch Processing Apply effects to a group of images effortlessly
- Compatibility With iPhoto, Aperture, Photoshop and Lightroom
- Sharing Share your creations on social networks or by e-mail
- High Quality Textures, Borders and Frames
- Light & Dark interface themes
- RAW format supported for importing photos
- Crop and Rotate makes adjusting your source image a snap
- Export photos in JPEG, PNG and TIFF formats
- Unlimited Undos
- User Guide
- Filters new:
- Tilt-Shift
- Bokeh Rings
- Paper
- Highlight & Shadows
- Saturation & Vibrance
- Color Cast
- Van Zesen
- Vintage Chrome
- Vintage Fade
- Vintage Instant
- Vintage Process
- Vintage Transfer
- Vintage Mono
- Vintage Noir
New in Flare 1.5.1 (Nov 27, 2013)
- Improvements:
- Improved image rendering for better app stability
- Compatibility with all versions of OS X (including Mavericks)
- Bug Fixes:
- Minor bug fixes
New in Flare 1.5 (Nov 30, 2012)
- NEW FEATURES:
- New default presets: ‘Tin Type’ and ‘InstaMatic’
- New borders: ‘Tin Type’ and ‘Hipster’
- New Profile Presets effect in the Color menu
- Added Facebook sharing (requires Mountain Lion 10.8.2 or later)
- New option for rotation effect that scales to fill image frame
- Hold down option key while clicking Shuffle to increase amount of change
- BUG FIXES:
- Fix a bug with viewing rotated CR2 file
- Resume now restores the crop and master opacity
- Retina fixes now work on 10.7.5
- When loading a new Preset the Master Opacity will be reset to 100%
New in Flare 1.4 (Sep 6, 2012)
- NEW FEATURES:
- Support for Retina displays, new high-resolution editing and user interface
- New sharing services on Mountain Lion, adds Upload to Twitter and Save to Aperture
- BUG FIXES:
- Fixed external editor mode for Lightroom, Aperture & iPhoto on Mountain Lion
- Color management now works when moving a window between displays
- Preset previews will display more quickly
- Dragging a folder into Flare no longer causes a crash
New in Flare 1.3.1 (Jun 29, 2012)
- Improvements - Added support for Gatekeeper in Mountain Lion.
New in Flare 1.3 (Apr 12, 2012)
- New Features:
- Use new Shuffle feature to add variation with selected preset
- Improvements:
- Multiple presets can be added by drag & drop
- Better control of JPEG quality while exporting
- New cropping aspect ratio of 4×5
- More robust final rendering when exporting
- Improved security by supporting Application Sandbox
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixes a crash with large images that were using complex presets
- Fixes a problem with a black preview on some older Macs
- Fixes the display of photos with odd DPI settings in the cropping view
- Fixes a problem creating large export files when used as External Editor from iPhoto
- Fixes a problem with an incorrect light border on large exported images
- Fixes an issue with scrolling while dragging effects in the edit tab
New in Flare 1.2.1 (Oct 18, 2011)
- New Features:
- Full screen support in Lion
- Resume support in Lion
- Improvements:
- Added additional aspect ratios when cropping (1:2, Golden Ratio)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that caused Flare to hang after deleting the Presets folder
- Fixed visual glitches in Lion
New in Flare 1.2 (Aug 17, 2011)
- New Features:
- External Editor support for Aperture/iPhoto/Lightroom
- Visit the Flare website for more information
- Improvements:
- New “More Presets…” button in Preset tab
- flickr uploading UI will now remember your Friends & Family checkbox settings
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a bug that affected loading presets containing the Rounded Edges effect (fixed the CCTV preset)
New in Flare 1.1 (Jun 9, 2011)
- 6 new presets:
- big softie
- daguerreotype
- eastern exposure
- resplendent
- winter ghost
- yesteryear
- 8 new borders:
- lightbox (5 variations)
- medium format negative (3 variations)
- 8 new frames:
- hassy (2 variations)
- dirty fade (2 variations)
- halftone
- two step
- pinestraw
- mica
- 10 new lightleaks:
- lightleak (4 variations)
- film end (3 variations)
- film positive (3 variations)
- new texture
- brush strokes
New in Flare 1.0.1 (Mar 30, 2011)
- New Features:
- Frame now has an Invert parameter
- Rounded Edges now has a customizable border color parameter
- Added "To iPhoto" as Save and Export option
- Improvements:
- Preference to turn off tagging and linking to Flare when uploading to Flickr
- Bug Fixes:
- Fixed a problem that displayed an incorrect time stamp on Snapshots
- Snapshots now display their selection state properly
- Corrected the total number of Snapshots to 24
- Fixed the switched Horizontally and Vertically controls in Textures
- Other minor bug fixes