Neko Photo 0.1.2

Neko Photo 0.1.2 Alpha New ways to light, grade and organise photos, merge exposures and soften backgrounds. New editing tools - Lighting adds Point light and Spotlight effects with controls directly on the photo. Adjust the lamp colour, strength, Ambient (EV) and Surface relief (%). Lighting applies to the whole photo. - Black & White has eight colour-brightness sliders and Auto mix. Channel Mixer adjusts red, green and blue contributions, with Monochrome and Keep brightness options. - Dehaze removes or adds haze; Clarity changes larger details and Texture adjusts fine detail. - Lens Blur keeps a Band or an existing Mask sharp while softening the rest of the photo. Choose Round or Bladed highlights, Highlight boost (%) and Matching grain (%). The effect applies to the whole photo; use Band when copying settings or saving a Look. - Merge to HDR... combines two to nine different exposures into a new 32-bit photo. Choose photos from Browse or add them in the merge dialog, use EXIF exposure or Manual exposure, and preview before creating. Auto-align handles small horizontal and vertical movement; moving subjects can still appear doubled. Original files are unchanged. Keep 32-bit float when saving to preserve the full brightness range. Photo workflow - Create, rename and delete photo versions without changing the source photo. Open, edit, save and export each version separately. - Copy edit settings and Paste edit settings… apply selected adjustment groups to photos in Browse, with per-photo results and Undo this paste. Photo-specific edits such as crops, local masks and portrait edits are not copied. - Colour grading adds Shadows, Midtones and Highlights colour wheels, plus Blending and Balance. These settings can be copied between photos and saved in Looks. - Local adjustments add a Background mask, Graduated mask and Combined mask. Name masks, soften edges with Feather, use Invert, and combine parts with Add, Subtract or Intersect. Show area displays the finished mask. - Perspective provides manual correction with Vertical, Horizontal, Rotate (°), Aspect, Scale (%) and position controls. Fill frame crops away empty corners. - Soft-proof previews supported RGB output colour profiles without changing the photo or exports. Proof colours, Gamut warning, Preserve shadow detail and Simulate paper and ink help check colour before export. This is not a calibrated print match; CMYK and more complex profiles are not supported. - Clipping warnings mark bright and dark areas on the edited preview. They do not alter saved photos or exports. - Save export options as presets, duplicate or rename your presets, and optionally use their format and quality in Batch Export. Speed and fixes - The app no longer uses CPU while idle; since 0.1.0 it could use about half a CPU core even when nothing was changing. - Lighting, Lens Blur, Dehaze, Clarity and Texture show the final image much faster after a slider is released (Lighting and Lens Blur in well under a second; Dehaze, Clarity and Texture in under a second on most photos). - Faster Retouch previews, including changes to skin smoothing, and more responsive transform previews. - When a tool keeps visible retouch but can no longer keep its earlier sliders editable, a message now explains this. Undo restores the earlier sliders. - Clearer controls and keyboard help for the new adjustments, plus Ctrl+click and Shift+click selection hints in Browse. Known limits - Some combinations of edits, very large effects and extended-range photos cannot use every new control. The app shows a message rather than silently dropping an unsupported edit. Review the result before export. - This Alpha release is not code-signed; Windows SmartScreen may warn on installation. There is no automatic update from 2.x. If you still use a 2.x release, uninstall it and install the Alpha release manually. Existing 0.1.1 Alpha users can update normally to 0.1.2.

Alpha release, not code-signed: Windows SmartScreen may warn on install. 2.x users must uninstall and reinstall manually.