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Four UI themes, bigger text, and lots more - a BIG release!

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