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4 June 2022
Last Thursday, Lemkesoft released GraphicConverter 11.6.1, the Swiss Army knife image editing utility, with new and updated features plus a few bug fixes.
NEW FEATURES
- Edit: Navigation: Delete and Close
- Browser/Slide Show: Sort by ISO, ISO & F Number, F Number & ISO
- Smart Crop with Options Black&White
- Smart Crop with Black&White batch action
- Preferences: Browser: Formats allows to limit the displayed formats in the browser show popup
- General Metadata: Wallpaper: Edit Display Times for editing HEIC Wallpapers
- Effect: Blur: Box Blur
- Effect: Blur: Gaussian Blur
- Effect: Blur: Dics Blur
- Effect: Blur: Bokeh Blur
- Effect: Adjust Saturation in Color Range
- Edit: Crop: Crop Selection, Save & Next
- Edit: Smart: Smart Paste
- Batch Action: Correct Horizon
- Batch Action: Horizontal automatic Correction
- Import of ORF of the OM-1
- IT translation was completely reviewed
- Metadata General:Specifics: Set Exif Data from CSV
UPDATES FEATURES
- Preferences PhotoRAW: Option for disabling automatic brightness during import with LibRaw
- DynaPDF
- ExifTool
- Collage remembers last settings and reuses them for the next collage
- Opening GPX files from browser displays all selected tracks in one map
- Despeckle can now work onto the inverted image
- Preferences Slide Show: Sound and Movie: adjustment of movie volume relative to the system sound
- Histogram dialog displays 16 bit histograms
- JPEG-XL added support for 16 bit per channel and color profiles
- Print Catalog: metadata separator can be changed
- Improved support for updated OneDrive
- Improved import of DCS EPS
- Face detection SDK updated to version 8 (this change increase the system requirement to macOS 10.13 or newer
- QuickLook in browser: play/pause of videos with shortcut P
- QuickLook in browser: next/previous page of PDFs with shortcut + und -
- QuickLook in browser: display quality of PDFs improved
- Print catalog settings splitted into three panels for small screens
- Batch action process all frames of an animated GIF, PNG
- Browser list view display file format
- Improved naming of browser preference for showing localized file names
- Folder names for Save & Next can be modified
- File: Save for Web: added WebP as format option
- Browser:Rename batch
- Preferences: General: Update -- Beta channel support
- Browser: Set subfolder name in popup
- Support for XMP field personality (used by GettyImages)
- Browser: Quick Convert: support for save into source folder and copy original to subfolder
- Trackpad can use zoom steps from the menu (if enabled in the prefs part general/edit)
- Added Apple and Google maps toolbar icons to the image window
- Added zoom gesture to browser
- Added command + and -- for zoom in browser
- Option double click onto folders in browser supports redirect to Finder
- Browser: command cursor up goes one folder up and selects the previous folder
- Browser: shortcuts for view modes are shown in the menu
- File Attributes: Label: Remove
- Browser: improved file preview for not supported file formats with existing QuickLook extension
- Preferences: Open: Metadata -- optional support for sidecar files even if the image format can contain XMP data
- Picture: Colors: Change Color Depth Dynamically -- option to disable the dithering
- Browser: Map -- support for right mouse button click to define or apply stored locations
- IPTC/XMP: XMP Specific: Set UUID
- Preferences: Save: General -- option to add/update document IDs
- Resize: Scale -- movie scaling supports more scaling algorithms
- Import of GEM Image improved
- Localizations
- Browser: Quick Scale: support for WebP
BUG FIXES
- Added a workaround for an Apple bug during conversion of 32 bit to 64 bit images onto the M1
- Fixed possible crash after Levels (Lightness) with grayscale images
- Fixed sort by exif camera model issue
- Fixed OneDrive issues onto M1 Macs
- Fixed sorting by Exif date issue if the Exif SubTimeRec contains illegal characters
- Fixed layout issues in the browser small list view
- Fixed focus point display issue for images with orientation of 180 degree
- Fixed refresh issue with diagonal grid option
- Fixed duplicate missing move folder message
- Fixed crash during opening FITS file with float data
REQUIREMENTS
The universal binary GraphicConverter 11 requires Mac OS 10.13 (High Sierra) and is 12.x (Monterey) compatible.
PRICE, AVAILABILITY
The $39.95 utility is available directly from Lemkesoft or, with reduced functionality, from the Mac App Store. Upgrades are $25.95.