Upgrades to Crop, Spot Correct, Mask edits, and more!

Version 2026.10.24

Rotate, flip and type an exact angle in Crop!
The Crop toolbar gets Rotate left 90°, Rotate right 90°, Flip horizontally and Flip vertically. The angle readout is now a box you can type into, so you can land on exactly -90° instead of fighting the slider. Arrows nudge it by a tenth of a degree, Shift+arrows by a whole one.

Spot Correct gets Retouch's Mask options!
Paint: All / Subject / Background now works in both Heal and Clone, so a stroke stays on one side of the picture. Heal also builds the repair from only that side. Match tone and Preview in brush come along too.

The mask brush is sharper and much faster
Zoomed in, it now shows full-size pixels instead of an enlarged copy, so you can see the hair or antenna edge you're painting along. Each dab redraws only what it changed, which took brushing from about 50 milliseconds a dab to under 2 on my machine. Undo now remembers 500 steps instead of 30, and lets that memory go when you leave the brush.

Several selected folders show together in the filmstrip. Pick more than one folder in FOLDERS or FAVORITES and you see all their photos at once, one folder after another.

Retouch is faster with the Adjustments preview on
On a big stack with several masked adjustments, every zoom or pan could be laggy. Now it’s faster.

Alignment improvements were made to the stacking algorithm to produce even better results, especially for handheld stacks and for a camera that gets knocked mid-stack.

Macro Studio DNGs no longer upset Lightroom after a trip through Topaz. Our edit information was stored in a location that could cause Lightroom to hang when importing the result.

Send Feedback no longer needs a mail program
Share Feedback → Send Feedback used to fire a mailto link and hope for the best. On a machine with no desktop mail set up, that went nowhere. Now it opens a proper dialog that sends from inside the app, with Open Mail App and Open Gmail buttons beside it.