Changelog

Everything that's shipped. Follow along as imagic evolves.

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We're actively developing and improving imagic with regular updates. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us — every suggestion, bug report, and idea helps shape the product. We'd love to hear from you!

v0.4.8

April 2026 Download
New
  • White Balance Presets: A new WB row at the top of the BASIC panel gives you one-click presets — Auto, Tungsten (3200K), Fluor (4000K), Daylight (5500K), Cloudy (6500K), and Shade (7500K). Click a preset and Temperature jumps to that colour temperature; Tint resets to neutral. Auto runs the grey-world WB estimator on the current image.
  • Live Kelvin Readout: The WB row also shows the current Temperature slider value as a Kelvin estimate, such as 5500K, that updates in real time as you drag, so you always know roughly where you are on the colour-temperature scale.

v0.4.7

April 2026 Download
Fixed Improved
  • AI Optimize All No Longer Wrecks Backlit Photos: The batch optimizer was lifting exposure on cafe/window/sunlit-subject scenes that already had blown highlights, then piling on contrast and saturation from your user-style blend. v0.4.7 now detects backlit and high-dynamic-range scenes and switches to a recovery-only profile: highlight pull-back, gentle shadow lift, no positive exposure, and no extra contrast.
  • Stopped User-Style Bleed Into Tonal Sliders: The “learn from your first 10 edits” blend was leaking into contrast, saturation, exposure, highlights, shadows, whites, and blacks. The blend now only touches taste keys like temperature, tint, vibrance, clarity, texture, and dehaze, and is clamped to ±50.
  • Saturation Removed From Auto Recommendations: The auto-enhance algorithm no longer suggests raw saturation, which could push skin tones out of gamut on JPEGs. Vibrance is still used and capped tighter at 12.
  • Visual Refinement No Longer Adds Contrast: When the post-edit proxy looked flat, the refiner used to pile +8 contrast on top. It now reduces shadow lift or highlight recovery instead of adding contrast.
  • Tighter Auto-Enhance Caps: Exposure capped at 14, contrast at 10, vibrance at 12, and dehaze at 6–8, so optimization feels like an assistant rather than a maximalist filter.

v0.4.6

April 2026 Download
Improved Fixed
  • Editable Slider Values: Every adjustment slider in the right-hand panel now shows its value in an editable spin box. The numbers are no longer cropped off the edge of the panel and you can click the field to type an exact value.
  • More Precise Slider Control: Sliders now move in single-unit steps and clicking anywhere on the track jumps the handle directly to that point instead of paging by 10. Keyboard arrows and the spin box give exact integer control.
  • Snappier Live Preview: The on-screen preview proxy was downsized from 1800px to 1100px max dimension, cutting per-frame pixel work by roughly 2.5× while keeping visual fidelity at typical canvas sizes.
  • AI Optimize Tuned Down: Auto-enhance caps were lowered for exposure, contrast, vibrance, dehaze, and sharpening, and the user-style blend was rebalanced in favour of per-photo analysis. Each photo now keeps its own character instead of being pushed toward a single look.
  • No More Console Window Spam on Import: Importing TIFF files and other already-decoded images no longer pops empty terminal windows on Windows. Thumbnails for TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and WebP now use a fast in-process Pillow path instead of shelling out to RAW CLIs.
  • Quieter RAW Tooling: External CLI calls such as RawTherapee, darktable, and exiftool now run through a hidden-window helper so background processing cannot flash console windows over your work.

v0.4.5

April 2026 Download
Fixed
  • Stopped Phantom Update Prompt: v0.4.4 installs reported the runtime version as 0.4.3, so the update checker kept saying a new version was available even after installing the latest build. The desktop app now reports its true installed version.
  • Release Version Hygiene: Aligned the runtime app version, packaging metadata, and installer default so future builds cannot silently drift apart.
  • Server Fallback Bumped: The latest-version endpoint’s built-in default now matches the current release, so a missing environment variable can never accidentally downgrade the advertised version.

v0.4.4

April 2026 Download
Fixed Improved
  • AI Masking Stability: Fixed crashes when selecting Subject, Sky, People, or Background masks on systems missing ONNX runtime backends.
  • Safe Fallback Masking: rembg initialization now fails gracefully and automatically uses fallback mask generation instead of aborting the task.
  • Cleaner AI Error Handling: Suppressed noisy backend startup output and improved runtime handling for AI masking worker failures.
  • AI Cancel Reliability: Esc/cancel handling in the AI loading modal now consistently interrupts active masking tasks and closes cleanly.
  • Pricing Section Layout: Centered the single pricing card on the website to remove empty-column spacing on desktop.

v0.4.3

April 2026 Download
Fixed Improved
  • Fixed RAW Decode Hang: Resolved a bug where the editor would stay stuck on "Decoding RAW…" forever if a file failed to decode — the overlay is now properly dismissed on error
  • 4x Faster Batch Optimize: AI Optimize All now uses half-resolution DHT demosaic instead of full-resolution AHD, dramatically speeding up processing for large batches (1000+ photos)
  • Non-RAW File Support in Editor: JPEG, PNG, and TIFF files are now loaded directly via Pillow instead of being passed to rawpy, preventing decode errors for non-RAW imports
  • Decode Error Reporting: All RAW decode workers now surface failures with warnings in the log instead of silently swallowing them

v0.4.1

April 2026 Download
Fixed Improved
  • Neutral Dark Theme: Removed all blue and purple tints from the UI — backgrounds are now clean light/dark grey matching the website
  • Fixed Text Encoding: Resolved garbled text (mojibake) in editor panel headers and toolbar labels
  • Color Wheel Visibility: Boosted opacity for Shadow, Midtone, and Highlight colour grading wheels
  • Auto-Upgrade Installer: Automatically detects and silently removes any previous imagic installation before upgrading

v0.4.0

April 2026 Download
New Improved Fixed
  • AI Masking: Select Subject, Sky, People, or Background with AI-powered mask generation for targeted edits
  • AI Lens Blur: Depth-based bokeh simulation using MiDaS depth estimation for realistic background blur
  • AI Face Detection: Detect and highlight faces in photos with OpenCV DNN and optional dlib embeddings
  • AI Super Resolution: 2x and 4x upscaling via Real-ESRGAN or enhanced bicubic with sharpening fallback
  • AI Enhance Details: Multi-scale detail decomposition for fine-detail enhancement without upscaling
  • AI Adaptive Presets: Scene-aware automatic adjustments — detects Portrait, Landscape, Night, Indoor, Macro and applies targeted corrections
  • 3-Way Color Wheels: Shadow, Midtone, and Highlight colour grading with interactive visual wheels and luminance sliders
  • HSL Hue Sliders: 8-channel hue shift control (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, Magenta) added to HSL panel
  • Texture Slider: Fine-frequency detail enhancement in the Presence panel
  • Rotation Control: Precise rotation slider in Lens & Geometry panel
  • Tone Curve and Lens & Geometry promoted from expert-only to always-visible main panels
  • Premium UI Overhaul: Neutral dark theme with refined colour palette, gradient section headers, improved scrollbar styling, and polished visuals across all views
  • AI Cancel: Press Escape or click cancel to interrupt AI batch processing mid-run without losing completed results
  • AI Model Caching: Background-removal model loaded once and reused across multiple operations for faster processing
  • Fixed thumbnail cache eviction off-by-one error that could cause spurious cache misses
  • Fixed AI worker race conditions and proper thread cleanup on batch completion
  • Website security hardening: CORS origin validation, timing-safe admin auth, upload size pre-check

v0.3.2

April 2026
New Improved Fixed
  • Fixed crop tool: crop now persists across undo/redo, save, and editor reopen
  • Crop preview: applied crops are shown in the live preview after confirmation
  • AI Suggest Crop: new button in crop mode uses composition analysis to suggest optimal framing
  • Aspect ratio lock: choose Free, Original, 1:1, 3:2, 4:3, 16:9 etc. while cropping
  • Clear Crop button to remove crop and return to full image
  • In-app auto-updater: download and install updates directly from the app instead of opening the browser
  • Progress bar in update banner showing download status with MB counter
  • Automatic fallback to browser download if in-app download fails
  • Added changelog page with full version history and release notes
  • Bug report & feature request form on changelog page with email delivery
  • Export options dialog: choose file format (JPEG/PNG/TIFF), quality, and export scope (single photo or entire batch) before exporting

v0.3.1

April 2026 Download
New Fixed
  • Added TIF/TIFF as supported input formats (scanner, config, and defaults)
  • Fixed product key activation for licenses without a linked user account
  • Updated website format references to 11+ supported formats

v0.3.0

April 2026 Download
Improved Fixed
  • Simplified installer to always bundle RawTherapee — no separate "standard" variant
  • Fixed activation token not persisting between app launches
  • Disabled heavy AI models (Florence-2, pyiqa) by default to speed up small batch analysis
  • Parallelized thumbnail generation with thread pool for faster startup
  • Added visible update notification banner in the main window
  • Fixed build script stderr handling for PyInstaller on Windows

v0.2.0

March 2026
New Improved
  • Desktop purchase flow with Stripe checkout and automatic email delivery
  • License activation system with device-bound tokens
  • Website launch: landing page, blog, documentation, and desktop download page
  • Admin dashboard for license and order management
  • RawTherapee bundle option in installer
  • Scene-aware PP3 profile auto-selection (portrait, landscape, low-light, high-contrast)

v0.1.0

March 2026
New
  • Initial public release of imagic Desktop for Windows and macOS
  • AI quality scoring across 5 metrics: sharpness, exposure, noise, composition, detail
  • Burst & duplicate detection with perceptual hashing
  • Full editing suite: histogram, exposure, colour grading, sharpening, noise reduction
  • 6 editing style presets with live preview thumbnails
  • 30+ cinematic colour grades (LUT-based)
  • Batch export with multi-threaded processing
  • Crash-resilient export pipeline with auto-resume
  • RawTherapee integration for true RAW demosaicing
  • PP3 profile generation for RawTherapee
  • Feedback learning AI that adapts to your keep/trash decisions
  • CLI & headless mode for automation
  • 9 RAW format support: CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2, DNG, PEF

What's next

Upcoming
Planned
  • Linux desktop builds
  • Browser-based version (coming later in 2026)
  • Portrait-aware culling with automatic face quality ranking
  • Plugin system for custom export pipelines
  • Improved feedback learning with per-category style models
  • Cloud sync for edits and library across devices
  • Batch AI presets — apply adaptive corrections to entire folders in one click

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