Neue Testversion 25.00b3

[Herbert123]

PhotoLine uses the Windows-Heic interface.
In Windows 11 this is installed anyway.
In Windows 10 I found no computer without the interface here, but first versions of Windows 10 had no preinstalled HEIC driver.

Weirdly enough I do have the HEIF Image Extension installed in my Windows 10. Krita opens HEIC files. GIMP opens HEIC files. Photoshop complains that "Additional non Adobe software is needed to open /HEIC files" and tells me to install the required software. PhotoLine also refuses to open these files.

It seems that, aside from the image HEIF extension, I am required to also install the HEVC video extension. According to the Microsoft Store HEIF extension page: "A video extension package must also be installed in order to view images that are stored in the HEIF file."

But that particular extension is not free. Of course, I could update to Windows 11 to open HEIC files for free in PhotoLine!

..NOT!

So for now I'll rely on Krita to open these. Strange that open source software is able to open these while commercial software like Photoshop and PhotoLine require additional paid-for extensions to open HEIC files in Windows 10. Perhaps it would be an idea to check which (open source) library Krita and GIMP are using to open these files, and also implement this in PhotoLine?

[JanH]

GIMP and Krita are open-source projects that give away their software for free, and as such either they might be covered by some exemptions on the licensing terms for the relevant patents, or they might simply otherwise get away with just ignoring the patents, as doesn't seem to be too uncommon for open-source multimedia software anyway (like how you used to be able to find compiled binaries for LAME without too many difficulties even back when MP3 was still covered by patents). Photoline on the other hand is commercial software, so different considerations apply here, hence HEVC is only supported through the OS…

The closest you could get was if Photoline supported file format plugins, like Photoshop's *.8bi-plugins.

[Ashcraaft]

Hallo. Ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass in diese BETA die Ebenen-Berechnungen (Abdunkeln, Multiplizieren… etc.) nicht mehr direkt angewandt werden, wenn man diese mit den Pfeiltasten durchscrollt. Es ist also nicht mehr möglich diese "Versuchsweise" als Preview anwenden zu lassen.

Ist das bereits bekannt und … soll das so sein?
Ich fände diese Anpassung äußerst unpraktisch.

[Martin Huber]

Hallo. Ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass in diese BETA die Ebenen-Berechnungen (Abdunkeln, Multiplizieren… etc.) nicht mehr direkt angewandt werden, wenn man diese mit den Pfeiltasten durchscrollt. Es ist also nicht mehr möglich diese "Versuchsweise" als Preview anwenden zu lassen.

Ist das bereits bekannt und

Ja, unter macOS ist das so. Das wurde uns bereits per E-Mail gemeldet, aber lieber einmal zu viel, also einmal zu wenig.

Es wird in der nächsten Testversion behoben sein.

Martin