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Photography Studio — currently version 2.65.21. Free, on-device photo tools: nothing you open ever leaves your device.

• Fixed: posts and pylons against the sky carry a much fainter blue outline and red edge in Aerochrome's editing viewv2.65.20 · 2026-10-20
• Fixed: Aerochrome no longer reworks the sky when nothing about the sky has changed, and the copied report names the look and every settingv2.65.18 · 2026-10-19
• Fixed: Aerochrome's sky keeps the colour of the scene instead of a made one, its foliage stays red, and the other looks no longer wait on the skyv2.65.17 · 2026-10-18
• Fixed: blurred foliage keeps its red, and the sky between pylons keeps its bluev2.65.16 · 2026-10-16
• Fixed: the look's sky leaves wires, pylons and roof fittings their own colour and no longer speckles open skyv2.65.15 · 2026-10-14
• Fixed: the test page's last build rows build again, and the report says when a hold was the page hiddenv2.65.14 · 2026-10-11
• Faster: the editor opens in seconds on a Windows PC, and masks are prepared afterwardsv2.65.13 · 2026-10-11
• New: the report names where the app held, and the test page says why a build row failedv2.65.12 · 2026-10-11
• Faster: the open photograph's sky is worked out away from the page, and a look on a camera JPEG no longer holds the page for minutesv2.65.11 · 2026-10-11
• Faster: the strip's tiles are drawn off the page, and the open photograph's sky arrives soonerv2.65.8 · 2026-10-06
• Changed: the looks are re-tuned to the new colour and contrast and come out close to before; Red is coral rather than crimson, and B&W IR and HIE B&W are lighter in the shadowsv2.65 · 2026-10-03
• Faster: adding a healed spot to a photo that already has several no longer redoes every earlier spotv2.64.88 · 2026-10-03
• Fixed: with Sky colour smoothing on, the sky on screen matches the saved photo after you reshape the picture or use Dehaze or Clarityv2.64.87 · 2026-10-03
• Fixed: the test page times every way of building the picture code, even after one of them loses its graphics contextv2.64.86 · 2026-10-03
• Fixed: when the strip of photos leaves no room for the photograph on a small phone screen, Show the whole photo appears and says the photo is hiddenv2.64.83 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a straightened photograph with noise reduction on shows the same smooth edges on screen as in the saved filev2.64.82 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a healed spot on a very bright or very dark patch no longer leaves a speck of the opposite brightness, and the saved photo matches the screenv2.64.81 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: the lens card no longer says a profile was measured on a not recorded camera when the camera that measured it went unrecordedv2.64.80 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a straightened photograph's edges on screen fall where the saved file puts themv2.64.79 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: on a lossy DNG, and on a photo too large to show at full size, the preview sharpens as finely as the saved filev2.64.78 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a blown-out sky in a reshaped part of an exported photo keeps its clean white when Sky smoothing or depth is onv2.64.76 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a .dcp profile made from a DNG that carries a forward matrix gives the colours the app showed, in Lightroom toov2.64.75 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: Lossy-compressed raw files from the Nikon Z 5, Z 6, Z 7, Z 6II, Z 7II, D780 and D6 decode with their real tones instead of breaking into noise partway down the framev2.64.74 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: DNGs with masked border pixels or a default crop now open without dark edge strips, and an odd-numbered crop no longer swaps red and bluev2.64.73 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a .dcp profile turns the same colours in Lightroom that the app turns, instead of applying the swap in a different colour spacev2.64.72 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: A camera JPEG no longer gets the lens profile's colour correction, which was measured on raw files; it keeps the brightness correction and the lens card says whyv2.64.71 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: Dehaze clears the haze's colour as well as its brightness, and no longer crushes the shadows inside bright foliage to blackv2.64.70 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a look someone sends you as a file opens on an iPad, from Open on the start screen and from My looksv2.64.68 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: Fit always works, and if part of the photo is ever hidden at 100% a Show the whole photo button appears in the middle of the screenv2.64.66 · 2026-10-02
• New: an oval mask turns to any angle: drag the round knob past its edge, which settles every 15 degrees so level is easy to find, or use the Turn slider and its tenth-degree buttonsv2.64.65 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: on a PC in Firefox, the practice photographs on the start card show their pictures while the editor gets ready, instead of empty boxesv2.64.64 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a strong tone curve or Luminance brightens and darkens without shifting colours, so bright foliage keeps its tintv2.64.63 · 2026-10-02
• Changed: Noise reduction measures grain the way the sensor makes it, so bright areas keep their fine texturev2.64.62 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: blown highlights in a raw come out clean white, and auto white balance ignores themv2.64.61 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: a Nikon Z 50 raw opens with Adobe's colour matrix for the camera, the one its DNG twin carriesv2.64.60 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: Contrast keeps shadows and mid grey where they are, and bright highlights roll into white instead of losing their colourv2.64.59 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: raw colour is converted the way dcraw and LibRaw convert it, so the camera profile no longer bends every colour that is not greyv2.64.57 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: Nikon Z 50 raws no longer carry a faint stripe every 12 rows from the camera's autofocus pixelsv2.64.55 · 2026-10-02
• Fixed: shadows look and export the way they were computed, and a TIFF opens in an editor as it looked herev2.64.54 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: Nikon Z 50 raws keep their brightest highlights, and highlight recovery starts where the sensor really clipsv2.64.53 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: the editor stops reserving graphics memory it never used, at up to the full size of the photov2.64.51 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: exported JPEGs carry one colour profile, so every viewer reads them as Display P3v2.64.50 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: a Nikon High Efficiency NEF now says it is one, instead of calling the file damagedv2.64.49 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: 12-bit Nikon NEFs keep their shadows instead of losing most of the frame to blackv2.64.48 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: Hue no longer tints grey, on the whole photo or inside a mask, and the .dcp export turns hue the same wayv2.64.47 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: the test page says why a picture-code build failed, and builds it once more on its own to tell a refused program from a lost graphics contextv2.64.44 · 2026-10-01
• Fixed: a lens picked by hand stays with the photo and its thumbnail, thumbnails follow the lens strength, Aerochrome's lens slider works with your own lens profile, and a double tap after coming back to a photo returns that photo's own settingv2.64.34 · 2026-10-01
• New: the test page times the picture code with the mask loops counted to 2 and to 8v2.64.28 · 2026-09-30
• Changed: every photo opens with the lens correction at full strength, and a double tap goes back therev2.64.27 · 2026-09-30
• Fixed: the test page's copied results keep the reason a row has no numberv2.64.25 · 2026-09-30

Coming next

• Every photo with a matched lens opens with the lens correction at full strength, and a double tap on its slider goes back there.
• Keep right after ending a session shows at once what it is doing, and waits only when the device needs the space.
• A batch starts, and a set finishes, without waiting for you to answer the browser's question about keeping data.
• On a photo turned on its side, Aerochrome's sky sliders find the sky from the edge that is up on screen.
• Pressing Export shows at once that the export has begun, with words and a figure that move from the start, and a line says while a sky slider you moved is still being worked out.
• Clouds inside Aerochrome's sky stay white or grey under its sky sliders instead of turning blue-grey.
• After an update the start screen answers and says it is preparing the editor, and an update downloads only what changed. On some Windows PCs the editor still takes about 45 seconds to prepare after an update; the part of it that takes the time is found, and is changed next.
• The practice photographs on the start card show their pictures straight away, even while the editor is still getting ready.
• Your edits to the open photo are kept if the page reloads or the tab is closed.
• Aerochrome's sky sliders work on the sky you selected, not one you cannot see.
• A tree in front of the sky keeps its own colour under Aerochrome instead of turning scarlet.
• Aerochrome comes out smooth instead of breaking into hard-edged patches.
• Deciding whether a Sky mask should also offer a second way of finding the sky; today's stays the default whatever is decided.
• Fill the sky between a pylon's struts into the Sky mask with one stroke.
• Aerochrome built the way the film worked, so the sky goes dark and foliage stays red without the halos.
• Add an ordinary colour photo of the same scene for true Aerochrome colour.
• Pick a mask and the ordinary controls work inside it — no separate mask menu.
• The red cast in shadows comes off on its own, without reaching for the colour wheels.
• A colour selection stays on the same pixels when you change the look.
• Turn an oval mask to any angle.
• Zoom and move the photograph while you straighten it, with finer guides you can turn off.
• The top bar fits on one row, and the start screen shows the practice photos without scrolling.
• Tap through your colour files and watch each one on your photograph, without leaving it.
• Take a look off your photograph with a None button, and open the next photos without it.
• Always get back to the whole photograph from the full view.
• On a phone the photograph gets room instead of the strip of thumbnails taking most of it.
• Open a look someone sent you as a file, from Files on an iPad.
• Draw a box or circle to work inside, and add, subtract and combine masks.
• See where the horizon was found, and move it yourself when you know better.
• Bring in sky that a wing or a branch has cut off from the rest.
• Sky showing between leaves takes the sky adjustments too.
• Stop a quick look part-way through, and get the memory back.
• Photographs with dust spots healed export on every core, like everything else.
• The export panel says plainly which button makes a picture to send and which one saves work you can come back to.
• A photo shot well under exposure opens grainier than a normal one; raise Noise reduction by hand for now.
• A third app for ordinary colour photographs, beside infrared and macro.
• The photograph becomes the background of the whole app, with the controls over it.
• See the whole photograph while you crop, not only the part you are keeping.
• More composition guides while cropping — golden ratio, the spiral, diagonals.
• Select the subject, or the background, in one press.
• Every photo in the strip looks like itself before you open it.
• Open a folder of photographs faster.
• The editor works on the photograph itself rather than a smaller copy.
• Exports finish faster, and match what you were shown on screen.
• One panel for making a look: pick a channel swap from a row of named ones, adjust the colours on top of it, set its strength, and save it as a look.
• The practice photographs open like your own camera files: the camera and lens known, the lens correction applied, and a picture at once.
• The whole app is checked screen by screen, on a tablet by touch, and what gets in the way is fixed.
• Help describes the app as it is now, in plain words, and every control it names is really there.
• The lessons are redone so every step works as written on today's screens.

Recently shipped

• Thin dark edges against the sky, such as posts, branches and leaf edges, stop carrying a blue outline with a red edge in Aerochrome.
• Photos open with the lens correction measured from your own flat frames, so the middle of the sky and foliage matches the edges.
• A new look, Bold Pink, beside Aerochrome: magenta-pink foliage over a green-teal sky. Help now says what Aerochrome itself looks like: red foliage under a blue sky.
• Manage your LUTs no longer needs a photo open — it's on the start screen and in the (i) dialog too.
• A stacked LUT now shows on the Looks row, and the (i) dialog links to a free infrared LUT pack.
• Imported LUTs moved to the Grade tab, next to the R⇄B swap you can use with them.
• .cube colour files can be picked from Files on an iPad — they were greyed out and unselectable.
• Use more of the app's tools inside a mask, so the sky and the trees can take different amounts.