What's new

Photography Studio — currently version 2.6. Free, on-device photo tools: nothing you open ever leaves your device.

• The whole set appears at once, and the app stays usable while it loadsv2.6 · 2026-09-08
• Photos open in the order you shot themv0.339 · 2026-09-08
• Why the Files picker hangs — and what to do about itv0.338 · 2026-09-08
• The Quality slider says what it means, and every button is easier to hitv0.337 · 2026-09-08
• Lift a flat frame — for infrared photos with no sky in themv0.336 · 2026-09-08
• Opening a set: see the progress, start sooner, and use a mousev0.335 · 2026-09-08
• Crop corners work again when an aspect ratio is lockedv0.334 · 2026-09-08
• Record the dapple batch as reviewed and turned downv0.333 · 2026-07-28
• You can see each palette now, not just read its namev0.332 · 2026-07-30
• Links look like links again, and high-contrast mode is supportedv0.331 · 2026-07-30
• Pick the look you prefer — four palettes, all readablev0.330 · 2026-07-30
• A calmer, clearer look — and the status bar finally matchesv0.329 · 2026-07-30
• Every button and link is big enough to hit, and the small print is readablev0.328 · 2026-07-30
• Panels and cards stand out from the page, and every screen follows your themev0.327 · 2026-07-30
• Secondary text is readable everywhere in Dawn nowv0.326 · 2026-07-30
• Outlines and edges are easier to see, especially in Dawnv0.325 · 2026-07-30
• Getting back to Noah Jefferson's other apps is one visible tap nowv0.324 · 2026-07-30
• The sticker factory's tooling lives in the repo againv0.323 · 2026-07-28
• The smallest labels are readable nowv0.322 · 2026-07-28
• Text now follows your device's font size settingv0.321 · 2026-07-28
• Quick look now shows where you are in a big setv0.320 · 2026-07-25
• Quick look shows photos in filename orderv0.318 · 2026-07-25
• A photo and its DNG copy now open as the same photov0.317 · 2026-07-25
• Notes & rulebook updated for the 2.3 releasev0.316 · 2026-07-25
• D5300 photos decode with their true black level — dark-frame fixv0.315 · 2026-07-25
• Exposure now pushes to +6 stops — dark frames stay reachablev0.314 · 2026-07-25
• Photos open ready to edit — the right auto for each file typev0.313 · 2026-07-25
• Standing rules: nothing touches a photo at open, everv0.312 · 2026-07-25
• Recover blown highlights — a new slider, only when you askv0.311 · 2026-07-25
• Photos open completely untouchedv0.310 · 2026-07-25
• Nikon NEFs now use each file's own highlight ceilingv0.309 · 2026-07-25
• CLAUDE.md: point to shared Doctrine + metadata rule; relicense to PolyForm Noncommercial (photos still protected)v0.308 · 2026-07-22
• Link to the accessibility statement from the ⓘ panelv0.307 · 2026-07-22
• Trim sticker edges more easily, and see your brush sizev0.306 · 2026-07-21
• Smaller stickers, pan while placing, and easier deletev0.305 · 2026-07-21
• Rotating or moving a shadow shows the shadow, not the creaturev0.304 · 2026-07-21
• Shadows now follow your creature as you move itv0.303 · 2026-07-21
• Find Noah's other free apps from the ⓘ panelv0.302 · 2026-07-21
• Add Transparency and Luminance sliders to every stickerv0.301 · 2026-07-21
• Ground the shadow as a centered puddle at the feetv0.300 · 2026-07-21
• Tighten the cast shadow to sit at the feetv0.299 · 2026-07-21
• Cast shadows from the feet, not the empty space below the stickerv0.298 · 2026-07-21
• Glowing lights now add light to the scenev0.297 · 2026-07-21
• Cast a shadow — ground a creature with its own silhouettev0.296 · 2026-07-21
• Sort the new hand-drawn cryptids and shadows into their own shelvesv0.295 · 2026-07-21
• Stickers re-match the photo automatically as you move themv0.294 · 2026-07-21
• Stickers take on the photo's colours their OWN way, never cookedv0.293 · 2026-07-21
• Dappled shade overlays: broken-light shadow texturesv0.292 · 2026-07-21
• Simpler stickers: drop the confusing "blend/match" controlsv0.291 · 2026-07-21
• Grounding shadows: plant an object in the scenev0.290 · 2026-07-21

Coming next

• Creative — a third app for regular photos
• Full-bleed alignment view — the tilted photo fills the screen
• Big image: the photo fills the app, menus float over it
• Full-bleed crop — the photo flows behind the crop tools
• More composition overlays
• Mask by subject / background
• High-contrast modes — forced-colors and prefers-contrast
• Manifest screenshots

Recently shipped

• New Infrared app icon + social tile (Bigfoot IR forest)
• Sticker usability sweep + zoom-with-no-wheel (2026-07-21 device asks)
• Stickers lay ON TOP of the look now, not under it (2026-07-21, owner
• Killed the confusing "blend/match" pile (2026-07-21, owner: "it's not
• Sticker "match the photo" done RIGHT
• Scene toolkit: auto-shadow + Screen-for-lights (2026-07-21, asset-factory
• Cast shadows auto-follow their creature (2026-07-21, owner "a toggle
• Sticker placement QoL: smaller min, pan while armed, reachable delete +
• Sticker brush QoL: start off-edge + a brush-size ring (2026-07-21, owner:
• Third sticker kind — Scene & nature (asset-factory handoff)
• Sticker rotation on iOS
• Force-update button + picker legibility (2026-07-20 device fixes)