App Update: PhotoForge2 version 2.0.1 is out, but...
Saturday, May 28, 2011 at 12:06PM | Glyn Evans 
"This update may cause your previous projects to load incorrectly. Dont despair your projects are fine and we'll have an update submitted with a fix very shortly. New projects are unaffected." - GhostBird Software
PhotoForge2 from developers GhostBird Software which was released on the 19th May, has just been updated. The update, version 2.0.1 come with a whole bunch of bug fixes and new features, but also come with a warning for anyone who is upgrading.
First up, the warning from the developers website: "Version 2.0.1 update has been released. The update however contains a bug which may cause your previous projects to load incorrectly. Dont despair your projects are fine and we'll have an update submitted with a fix very shortly. Any new projects are unaffected.
Technical details: After an update apparently the apps directory on disk changes location. This was unknown to us and could not be tested for. PhotoForge2 projects use symbolic links to images in its own documents directory. These soft links are unfortunately absolute paths. The update has changed the path to the document directory and as such will break the links to most of the images in the projects. The projects themselves are fine however they just need to have their links repaired after an update."
That's the warning out the way, now here's what you'll find new and improved in this release.
- Location services are no longer required to load photos. If location services are rejected the default image picker will be used instead and no GPS metadata will be loaded.
- For those that do allow location services, you now have the ability to strip this information when sharing your photos online. You may now also disable tagging your image with GPS data when using the built in camera.
- Added ability to completely hide editor backgrounds when editing. Added option to set the default opacity of the editor backgrounds as well. This should allow for unobstructed editing when using some of the larger editors like curves, channel mixer, etc.
- Added High Pass Filter
- Added configurable edge blending and zoom to the polar filter. Making mini planets is easier than ever!
- Added camera connection kit RAW support. PhotoForge2 will now always load RAW when available.
- Major speed increase to gaussian blur filter
- Improved Facebook uploader so that uploaded images are now auto-approved. No longer need to manually login and approve each photo uploaded.
- Fixed location services not being disabled when cancelling the image picker. Previously location services could have remained enabled when there was no need.
- Fixed metadata getting stripped when emailing your photo. (This is now configurable in settings).
- Fixed image picker order so camera roll is always at the top of the list.
- Fixed Facebook login problem on devices without multi tasking.
- Many other minor graphical and interface fixes.
- Various optimizations and speed increases.
PhotoForge2 in App Update
Reader Comments (1)
i'm still waiting for a quick tool for rotating photos! this cannot be forgotten by developers, for an app that is supposed to collect so many editing tools.