Changelog

What's new

Every release of StillsSpace, newest first. The same notes the app shows after an update.

v0.16

Deutsch, hot folders and more room

StillsSpace speaks German: it follows your system language, or pick English or Deutsch in Settings → App.
Library: your folders are watched. Scans you add to one show up by themselves, and deleted ones leave the Library. A roll's scans folder linked in Frames or Rolls is added on its own.
Timer: write notes into the recipe while you develop, so the next roll starts with what you learned.
Rolls: select several rolls and delete them at once (with undo). Library: Space closes the preview again, wherever you clicked in it.
More room for your work: each page's title and buttons moved up into the title bar, and ⌘B (or the button next to the app name) shrinks the sidebar to icons.
Library: images on an unplugged drive show as Offline with their thumbnail intact, instead of looking deleted; find them with is:offline. Folders deleted from your disk are listed in their own Missing group.
Safer with your files: Metadata never changes camera RAW files, sidecars and XMP that Lightroom or Camera Raw also edited are left alone, Finder tags survive edits, and the Editor keeps a TIFF scan's DPI.
Editor: the images next to the one you're on open in the background, so stepping through a roll doesn't wait, and a spinner shows while a big scan opens.
Library: grid cells pulse until their thumbnail arrives, thumbnail progress shows as soon as the run starts, and very large scans get thumbnails too.
Fixes: unplugged Windows drives and network shares show as offline instead of missing, a drive that comes back is online right away, a memory card remounted under a new name (like Untitled 1) is followed, roll numbers are never reused, ⌘K and new forms start in the first field, and Frames shows shutter speeds like 0.6 s correctly.

v0.15

Big libraries, no waiting

Library: thumbnails are made in the background after you add scans, with progress in the status bar, so scrolling never waits for them. A run cut short by quitting picks up where it stopped.
Library: opening, scrolling and selecting stay quick with tens of thousands of images; clicking an image no longer lags.
Library: images whose file has vanished are shown faded, and files in an unplugged folder are flagged; Show in Finder on a missing file says so and rescans its folder.

v0.14

Less scrolling

Sidebars are shorter: details fold into sections that stay open or closed as you left them, and empty fields are hidden.
Rolls: a back arrow, Edit, Print, Delete and Show in Library sit at the top of a roll; the overview starts with what's in your cameras and which film to use first.
Frames: lens, exposure and place are set in the sidebar, the roll fits on one line, and frames you changed but haven't written yet are marked Unsaved.
Library: Preview, Show in Finder, Hide and Write to XMP are icons by the file name, and one Send to menu replaces four buttons.
Settings: Edit and Delete are at the top of every sidebar; maintenance and film prices fold away.
Settings → General fits on one screen: two columns, with the long explanations behind an ⓘ.
Editor: Save sits in the title bar, Original, Clipping and 100 % are icons, where to save moved to Export, and sidebar sections fold away. Sliders take one line each with a value you can type into, Tone is split into Basic and Color, and Auto levels, B&W and Invert are toggle buttons.
Editor presets: built-in Light, Look and Negative presets next to yours; hover one to preview it on the picture, and the one in use is highlighted.
Stats: rolls shot and money spent compared with the year before, rolls per year under All time, prices as amounts, and Keepers by lens uses your lens names.
Today is a dashboard: what needs you, your roll pipeline, frames left in each camera, a countdown to your next trip, film in stock and photos from this day in earlier years, with sunrise, sunset and golden hour on top.
Today: mark a roll shot, developed or scanned right from its line, and right-click a line to hide it for a week, a month or for good.
A new welcome tour on a strip of film: pick a theme, add your camera and choose your tools as you go, then start with sample data or your own first roll (Help → Welcome Tour).

v0.13

Feels native

Library: drag images out to Finder, Mail or any other app.
Library: Space opens the preview right away and zooms it from its thumbnail.
Library: switching tools and back keeps your images, selection and scroll position.
Library: pin albums and smart albums to the top (right-click → Pin to top).
Library map: color by roll or trip; click the legend to show only one.
Rolls: fill a range of frames in shot notes at once.
Frames: carry exposure forward, take dates from the files, and export the roll as a contact sheet (PDF or JPEG).
Today: reminders when film expires, a roll sits 30 days in the camera, chemistry gets old or gear is due (Settings → App).
Open JPEG, PNG and TIFF with StillsSpace to edit them in the Editor.
Batch progress shows on the dock or taskbar icon, and Reduce Motion is respected.

v0.12

Ready for the beta

Try StillsSpace free for 14 days of use: only the days you open it count. Afterwards it's read-only until you enter a license key, and you can still view and export everything.
Enter a license key on the first start or in Settings → General; Buy a license opens the website.
Export your data (Settings → General): gear, rolls, recipes and places as JSON, the Library as a database and as a spreadsheet (library.csv).
Suggest a feature from the status bar (💡), the Help menu or ⌘K.
Share a recipe, film stock or Editor preset with the community; good ones become built-in presets.
Tools and Settings now switch at the top of the sidebar.
Editor: a filmstrip of the open images at the bottom, with a dot on edited ones.
Library: press C again to close compare.
Stats count pictures per camera and lens correctly, including lenses set in Frames.

v0.11

Image Studio

Image Studio (Tools → Files): crop, turn, flip and straighten JPEG, PNG and TIFF, or draw along the horizon.
Crop to film formats: 35mm, 6×4.5, 6×6, 6×7, 4×5 and XPan, in portrait or landscape.
Turn scanned negatives positive; for color negatives, click the film base to remove the orange mask.
Brightness, contrast, warmth, saturation, black & white and auto levels, with a histogram and clipping warning (J).
Hold \ to compare with the original, Z to check sharpness and dust at 100 %, ⌘Z to undo.
Borders, tone presets, copy and paste an edit, and Save all for a whole roll.
Saves a copy by default, keeping EXIF and the color profile; originals are only changed after asking, with a backup.

v0.10

Feels at home

A real menu bar: File, Edit, Go, Window and Help, with the shortcuts you know.
About, What's New and a keyboard shortcuts sheet (⌘/).
A short welcome tour on the first start; Help → Welcome Tour brings it back.
Film storage: shelf, fridge or freezer per roll; cold film warns later and reminds you to let it warm up.
Trips: group rolls into trips and find their scans in Archive with trip:.
Scanning notes per film stock, shown in Contact Sheet when you pick a roll of it.
Print canister labels and negative sleeve index sheets from Film Log.

v0.9

TIFF scans first-class

Big scanner TIFFs open fast: only their tags are read, not the image data.
Archive ratings and tags can be written into a TIFF's XMP.

v0.8

Connected

Films, cameras and lenses in Yearbook open the Archive filtered.
Light Meter knows the loaded roll and logs exposures as shot notes.
Write Archive ratings and tags to XMP for JPEG and RAW sidecars.
Workbench reminds you to link and rate recently scanned rolls.

v0.7

Everything in view

Workbench: expiring film, rolls to develop, chemistry and gear due, in one list.
Maintenance reminders, zone placement, bellows factor and side-by-side compare.