Our first beta release of the year is a big one, with some features that users have been eagerly waiting for. If you’re a FilmLab user, please try this beta build and let us know what you think!
New Features
- Export in more color spaces: Adobe RGB, ProPhoto RGB, Display P3
- Added ability to choose film stock and backlight when batch-editing color negative images
- Your last used film stock and backlight will now be remembered, and will be applied by default when editing a new color negative image
- Added JPEG XL as an export format. JPEG XL is a great format for film images as it supports 16-bit depth to capture subtle color details, with lossy compression for much small file sizes compared to TIFF
- When exporting as JPEG, you can now adjust the quality
- File names can now be shown in the folder view. This can be turned on and off with the menu item View -> Show Filenames in Folder View
- Color sliders can now be adjusted in smaller increments for fine-tuned color balancing
- A new “Defaults” pane in Settings allows you to set default adjustments for sharpening and denoising
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where thumbnails wouldn’t load properly when access network paths on Windows
- Fixed a bug where thumbnails wouldn’t load properly when accessing folders with names containing non-ascii characters on Windows
- Fixed a bug where certain raw images captured in a vertical orientation would be flipped by default
- Fixed a rendering issue where black pixels in dark areas of a scan would up as bright noise in the processed image
- Fixed an issue where scanning flare correction wasn’t being applied correctly to color negative images
Known Issues
- The Linux versions are compiled against glibc 2.36, which is only present on fairly recent Linux distributions. We’re working on getting set up to build on an older Linux machine to improve our backward compatibility.
- On Ubuntu and other systems, you may get the error “the SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly.” To work around this, launch the FilmLab appImage with the flag --no-sandbox.