Changelist for Imagina v1.4

• Windows colour management now used to render and preview images.
• Set as Desktop Background now saves colour managed images for Windows to display.
• New intelligent noise reduction algorithm.
• All processing screens now update using a background thread, making their user interfaces more responsive.
• Processing screen loading no longer waits for the preview to appear as it is put on a background thread.
• Processing operation screen now present with a Cancel button for long operations like Noise Reduction.
• Actual Size / Best Fit buttons now available in processing screens preview toolbars.
• New Restore option to recover files from a backup location.
• New Quick Fix option for image exposure.
• New Freeze Exposure option for HDR images.
• Improved start-up time.
• Mipmaps are now always used as they are considered a mandatory quality feature.
• The Illumination screen has been renamed to Curve Transformations.
• In the Curve Transformations screen the histogram upper and lower bounds detection now uses a more intelligent metric.
• Mouse drag margins on the Curve Transformations screen histograms has been increased.
• The histograms on the Curve Transformations screen now have improved visual appearance.
• Improved the curves for shadows and highlights in the Curve Transformations screen.
• Top and bottom histogram expansion is now separate in the brightness / contrast and Curve Transformations screens.
• Removed range and position sliders from the Curve Transformations screen as they are now rendundant with the interactive histograms.
• Ctrl U keyboard shortcut for Colour Saturation / Temperature screen.
• The Colour Saturation / Temperature screen now remembers the advanced / basic setting.
• The Brightness / Contrast screen now remembers the advanced / basic setting.
• The Brightness / Contrast screen now allows you more control over the Input histogram.
• Cropping finalisation has now been made more obvious and easy.
• Processing screens now detects when an image is still loading and prevent entry.
• Shift click dialogs for repeating last operation.
• Default when first run for the thumbnails windows is left hand side, always on.
• Thumbnails are now shown even if there is only one image in the folder.
• More CPU time given to thumbnail generation when the application is generally idle.
• User confirmation dialog now used when destroying thumbnails.
• Thumbnails are now selectable with the mouse.
• The main screen is no longer continuously updated when it appears not to be necessary (saving CPU power).
• EXIF properties disappear immediately if not used upon application start-up.
• EXIF information is now saved with various image files if it didn't already exist.
• Title, author and comments to be recorded in EXIF information which is now user editable.
• Ctrl Z stops an operation like straightening, in the same way as the Escape key.
• Median filtering noise reduction now performed on multiple threads.
• Undo history is now kept when saving an image, allowing undo / redo afterwards.
• The image properties histogram now reflects the last image when using the image comparator.
• Histograms for HDR images are no longer displayed as they are irrelevant.
• Sped up image saving in the undo system prior to image processing operations.
• Sped up the compare operation on the last change when memory is plentiful.
• Sped up image loading with a specific focus on jpeg images.
• Sped up rendering of main screen and slideshow with better managed 3D resources.
• Sped up pre-loading of next image in the image cache by generating textures for the source bitmap in the background.
• The Resize screen now remembers percentages and restores those when re-entering.
• Sweep effect in 2D visuals now reflects the navigation direction.
• Tagged images are now untagged when opening a new folder.
• Selecting Duplicate Tagged Images when duplicating to another folder now opens that other folder.
• Only displays the properties window by default (at first time use) if loads of screen space is available.
• Automatically choose by default faster (but still safe) options on slower computers.
• No longer navigate previous or next if only one image in the folder.
• Image compare to the initial image, not just the last change, now available when using the Shift key.
• New pixel probe when using the mouse and the Ctrl and Shift keys.
• Choosing custom colours in the Preferences screen is now a bit more intuitive.
• Shift mouse drag now rotates and straightens an image, with a checkerboard overlay for lining up.
• Ctrl mouse drag now rotates an image through the cardinal axes.
• 3D visuals surface is now rendered more intelligently, and with a more abstract texture.
• The Exposure and raw Development screens are now easier to understand.
• The exposure and raw development is now performed in the background if the relevant screens have been turned off.
• The last picture in a slide show is now faded off before returning to the main screen.
• Slide show now cancels screen saver and monitor sleeping.
• The slide show is now faster on low performance machines.
• New libraw library integration.
• New exiv2 library integration.
• Fixed rare crash bug in UpdateCache when referring to a null pointer.
• Fixed development screen for raw image when initiated from its equivalent jpeg.
• Fixed duplicate file save checking when entering into / returning from the slide show.
• Fixed zooming centre point on + and – keys.
• Fixed glitchiness in slide show.
• Fixed various issues with the rendering of the tag icon.
• Fixed file associations when running in a non-privileged environment.
• Fixed some memory leaks.
• Fixed rendering of histogram when image is not yet ready to be blank rather than full.
• Fixed bugs with resource management.
• Fixed the management in the image cache.
• Fixed rotation on the undo stack when switching between 2D and 3D visuals.
• Fixed thumbnail generation when thread conflicts occur.
• Fixed bug that prevented saving to PNG files when you are working with high accuracy floating-point images.