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Hot pixel fix, true colors on wide-gamut Macs, and jump back to your source frames

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