Release Notes

Version 2026.11.10

Hot pixels no longer turn into trails of dots
A dead or stuck pixel sits still on the sensor, so lining your frames up moves it somewhere different in each one, making squiggly lines. Macro Studio now finds those pixels and patches them before anything else happens.

Jump to the source frames that made a stack
Right-click a result in the Editor's history strip and pick Show source frames in Library. The Library opens that folder with exactly those frames selected, so you can drop a bad one and stack again. Works for this session's stacks and ones reopened from a DNG.

OM in-camera focus stacks now stack in the right order
OM bodies shoot frame 1 at your focus point and then take 1/3 of the frames in front and 2/3 behind. Macro Studio now sorts by the lens position each frame recorded.

The Editor shows true colors on a wide-color Mac display
Photos looked more saturated in the Editor than the exported file did in Preview or Photos. The Editor now tells macOS the color space, so the two match.

Thin antennae and hairs stay sharp over a busy background
A fine antenna in front of a leaf could come out broken and speckled, because the leaf's texture won at the finest detail levels. The frame that owns a shape now keeps its fine detail too.

Plus a number of smaller improvements/fixes:

• The header bar shows the file name of the image you are working on in Retouch, Spot Correct, Defringe, Crop and Refine Mask

• Compare opens the next result in panel B, not the previous one

• Space+drag to pan no longer zooms back out to Fit when you let go

• In Spot Correct's Clone mode, holding Alt shows the source crosshair right away

• The aiming crosshair follows your pointer before each click when lining up an Editor image

• Tapping a frame in the Retouch filmstrip with a pen no longer drags it into the Library

• History now says why repairs saved inside a Raw DNG can't be undone, and what to do instead

• Repairs cloned from a reopened Raw DNG now carry into a new Raw DNG

• Sony M and S size raws get the right white balance, so they are no longer cool here and green in Lightroom

• Better contrast in the Light gray theme, and the selected Preferences tab is easy to spot

• Ghosting is fixed on short stacks of nine frames or fewer

• On Windows, a harmless background error can no longer close the app, and stacking is a little faster

Version 2026.11.06

BIG exciting updates in this release! If you see anything weird, please report it.

New UI themes, better readability, bigger fonts!
Preferences has two new settings. Theme gives you 3 new themes with better readability. Text size gives you 3 larger font size options. Try them out and let me know what you think!

See your real pixels when you zoom in
New in Preferences → General, off by default: Show pixels when zoomed in. Past 100%, each photo pixel shows as a sharp square instead of being smoothed.

Undo and Redo in the Crop screen
Two arrows and Cmd/Ctrl+Z let you step back through your angle, flips, aspect, and rectangle. Reset now puts back the crop you opened the tool on. X swaps portrait and landscape, 3:4 and 9:16 join the Aspect menu, and double-clicking Straighten sets it to 0.

Clicking a slider's bar jumps the handle there, in Adjustments and on Crop's Straighten, instead of creeping towards it.

Reset All Retouch
A new button in Retouch takes every stroke off the photo: this session's, older ones, and the strokes saved inside a reopened DNG.

Spot Correct Heal stays on one side of the picture
With Paint on set to Subject or Background, Heal now builds its repair from that side only. It used to borrow texture from the side you were protecting.

Stacking got better in three ways you can see. Star-shaped glints on thin backlit hairs are gone. Long straight edges far from the middle of the stack stay straight instead of bending. And thin things like antennae no longer come out as a fan of copies.

Autostack can save each subfolder's result in that subfolder. Choose Stack each subfolder as one set along with In the same folder as the stack's source frames. Before, every result went to Autostack results anyway.

Plus a number of smaller improvements/fixes:

• Inputs accept commas or periods as decimals to support international decimal styles

• The mask brush Overlay no longer hides your edits

• Performance improvements in Retouch and Linear / Gradient masks

• Find Focus centers the filmstrip on the frame it finds, so the frames either side are in view

• File pickers open where you were last, instead of at your home folder

• The FAVORITES right-click menu has caught up with FOLDERS: Copy, Move and starring a subfolder

• Your license survives a Mac cleaning tool like CleanMyMac

• Fewer antivirus warnings on Windows

• On Linux, the web links in Help and Share Feedback work on KDE now

Version 2026.10.29

Autostack starts with the selected Folder
The Source folder now opens on the folder you have highlighted in FOLDERS or FAVORITES, which is what many users expected it to do. There's also a new Autostack this folder in the right-click menu. Always stack the same place, like a memory card? Tick Remember this location for next time.

Undo/Redo buttons in Adjustments, and an eye on every slider
Two arrows beside Reset All step back and forth through your edits, so you don't need the keyboard. And once a slider has moved, a small eye shows up beside its name. Shut it to see the photo without that one adjustment.

The Library shows full resolution when you zoom in
Zooming in the Library used to magnify a smaller preview image, so your photo looked softer there than it really is. Now it loads the real pixels once you zoom past fit.

Your camera's focus step is now saved with the stack
Shoot an in-camera focus bracket and the Info panel now shows the Step size your camera recorded. There are {step_size} and {step_size_line} tags too, for file names, the Info card watermark and your Social Post. OM System, Olympus, Nikon Z and Canon R bodies are read today.

Numbered folders sort in number order. 
Stack 2 comes before Stack 10 in FOLDERS and FAVORITES, instead of after it.

Retouch is faster on a reopened stack
Painting on a DNG you had saved and reopened now loads faster.

Autostack leftovers under "Leave where they are"
You now get an Autostack leftovers folder beside the results, which that mode used to skip.

Faster stacking, especially on Windows machines and Intel Macs.