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Version History
Windows Version 1.13 (November 2022)
- Standalone:
- Support for the raw files of 25 new cameras based on MetaRaw 3.12
- Installation:
- Installation support for Photoshop Elements 2023 and Affinity Photo 2
- The installation now deletes the registry keps that keep Photoshop Elements 2022/2023 from loading plugins that crashed 3 times.
- Support for the MS Store version of Photoshop Elements 2022. Does not try to install into the WindowsApps folder anymore.
Windows Version 1.12 (September 2021)
- The "Photoshop Dark" skin style is now used by default
- The scroll bar of the thumbnail list is now displayed dark for dark skin styles.
- Standalone:
- Support for the following new raw formats: CR3, SRW, MFW, BMQ, CINE, HDR, IA, KC2 and PXN
- Support for the raw files of 120 new cameras based on MetaRaw 3.10
- Bug Fix: When minimizing a maximized window two times, the controls previously vanished when displaying the window again.
- Metaraw.dll does not require vcruntime140.dll to be installed anymore
- Installation:
- Installation support for newer versions of Photoshop Elements
- The installation now deletes the registry keps that keep Photoshop Elements 2020/2021 from loading plugins that crashed 3 times.
- Demo version:
- The window of the demo version can now be expanded up to a size of 1680 x 1050 pixels (instead of 1024 x 768).
Mac Version 1.11 (April 2020)
- The preview works again in Photoshop 2020 (Version 21.1.0 and higher)
- No security warnings under macOS 10.15 Catalina
- MacOS 10.6-10.8 is not supported anymore (to avoid installation problems under macOS Catalina)
- Installation support for Photoshop Elements 2020
Windows Version 1.11b (November 2018)
- Affinity Photo:
- Fixed control repositioning in Affinity Photo 1.6.4 when maximizing the window
- Color dialogs are now displayed in Affinity Photo.
- Bug Fix: The Preview check box on the Color dialog is not cut off anymore for hidpi settings
- Standalone:
- Support for the raw files of 35 new cameras based on MetaRaw 3.03.
- Support for saving grayscale 8-bit images as PSD files
- No more crash when reading the EXIF data from DNG files taken by the Huawei P20 (Pro).
- Plugin Installer:
- Works again under Windows XP
- Support for the Microsoft Store version of Photoshop Elements 15
Mac Version 1.10b (November 2018)
- Support for the App Store versions of Photoshop Elements (Use the Install icon!)
Mac Version 1.10 (August 2018)
- The preview works again with Affinity Photo 1.6.7
- Installation support for Photoshop Elements 2019
Windows Version 1.11 (April 2018)
- All tools can now be used if the preview zoom is 200% or higher
- Bug Fix: The preview coordinates on the Info tab sheet are displayed correctly if the preview zoom is 200% or higher
- Plugin:
- You can now render the mask view (M buttons on the Mask tab sheet) to the image by pressing the OK button. Previously the mask view was automatically deactivated when clicking the OK button.
- Bug Fix: No more error message and vanished controls when running the plugin with previously maximized window and brush or eraser tool selected
- Plugin Installer:
- Supports the Microsoft Store version of Photoshop Elements 2018
- Standalone:
- Support for the raw files of 70 new cameras based on MetaRaw 3.01.
- Bug Fix: Saving PNG files works again
- Brush Mask:
- New "Open Bush Mask" and "Save Brush Mask" menu items on the Mask > Brush tab sheet for opening and saving a brush mask as JPEG, TIFF, PNG and PSD files.
- Bug Fix: When drawing with the brush and closing the image, the brush mask of the previous image is not distorted and no crash happens anymore.
- Bug Fix: When closing a second image with a brush mask, there is no more crash or error message on exit.
- Bug Fix: Previously the brush mask of the first image was erased when opening a second image.
- Bug Fix: When reopening raw files at full size, the brush mask is now automatically resized.
- Installation:
- Bug Fix: The External Editor Installer previously crashed on some systems. This should not happen anymore.
Mac Version 1.09c (November 2017)
- When running this version for the first time, all user-saved presets are copied from /Library/Application Support/PhotoWiz/ColorStyler/Presets/ to the new preset folder at /Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/PhotoWiz/ColorStyler//Presets/.
Windows Version 1.10c (October 2017)
Mac Version 1.09 (October 2017)
- Installation support
for Photoshop Elements 2018
Mac Version 1.09 (June 2017)
- New installation:
- Install, Uninstall and Manual icons
- Installation support for Affinity Photo, GraphicConverter and Photoline via the new Install app
- Installation support for the full version of Affinity Photo and the upcoming Photoshop Elements 16
- Icons for drag and dropping the plugin to the plugin folders of various Photoshop and Photoshop Elements versions
- No more problems with Gatekeeper
- Scrolling the preview at a zoom of 200% or higher works much faster now
- Bug Fix: No more crash for 200% or higher zoom with 16-bit/channel images
- Bug Fix: Sometimes there was a crash when using a 16bit/channel image, maximized window and HiDPI setting (Retina screen)
- Bug Fix: In Affinity Photo the preview is displayed correctly for RGB 16-bit images.
- Bug Fix: When scrolling the preview in Affinity Photo, it is not displayed distorted anymore for RGB 8-bit images.
- The ? button displays the pdf manual now
- The Help > HTML Manual menu item was removed, because the html manual is not included anymore.
Windows Version 1.10b (March 2017)
- "The Plugin Site" sub menu does not appear at the top of the Filter menu anymore, because the leading space character was removed.
- Bug Fix: No more error message or crash when running the plugin on images larger than 2 GB, but it is not possible to process such large images by clicking OK.
- Standalone/Lightroom Version:
- Support for the raw files of 38 new
cameras based on MetaRaw 2.07.
- Bug Fix: The automatic image rotation previously produced strange results for 180 degree rotated JPEG, TIFF and PSD images.
- Bug Fix: The EXIF orientation item was previously not adjusted when saving JPEG files, which resulted in wrong rotation when opening the saved file again.
- Installation:
- Bug Fix: On 32-bit systems the installer previously did not install the Standalone/Lightroom versions.
- Plugin Installer:
- Support for Irfan View
- The Install button now gets the focus when the dialog shows up.
- External Editor Installer:
- In Lightroom the version numbers are again displayed after each product name
- Bug Fix: No more message is displayed on uninstallation
- Bug Fix: No PhotoWiz entry is added to Lightroom on uninstallation anymore
- Bug Fix: Does not crash on uninstallation anymore
Windows Version 1.10 (February 2017)
- Two new Affinity skins
- Improved skin look for HiDPI settings
- Cosmetic UI enhancements
- The welcome message now either asks if you want
to use a dark skin or if you want to use an easier mode.
- Bug Fix: Some skins displayed
the selected color of a color box only as a think line instead of filling
the whole color box.
- Bug Fix: Some effect settings were previously not
correctly applied from actions. This was fixed.
- In Photoshop Elements under Windows 10: The preset
group labels are now displayed.
- Bug Fix: In Photoshop Elements under Windows 10:
The background color of all controls on tab sheets are now pure white.
Previously some were light grey.
- Bug Fix: Under Windows 10 with a Wacom graphics
tablet: Clicking on the preview with the hand tool to show the original
image works now
- Standalone/External Editor Versions:
- New "Convert to sRGB" and
"Do not save meta data" options on the Batch
and Save Options dialogs
- Support for the raw files of 80 new
cameras based on MetaRaw
2.06.
- Improved PSD support:
- Reading and writing PSD files with 16-bit per channel now
works without downsampling to 8-bit/channel
- Support for color profiles when opening and saving PSD files
- Improved meta data handling:
- EXIF meta data is now preserved when opening
a JPEG, TIFF, PSD or certain camera raw files (CR2, NEF, DNG,
PEF) files and saving a JPEG, TIFF or PSD file.
- When saving a PSD file, all available meta
data (PSD, XMP, IPTC, EXIF) is now saved.
- Opening and saving IPTC meta data for TIFF
files works again.
- All meta data is preserved when opening
a PNG file and saving a PNG file.
- When opening a PNG file, XMP meta data
is opened and when saving a PNG file, available XMP meta data
is saved now.
- Bug Fix: Fixed some memory leaks
- Bug Fix: No more error message when starting up the standalone with maximzed window and the brush tool selected
- Bug Fix: No more error message when opening an image with the brush tool selected
- Installation:
- Combined installer for plugins and standalones
- Future versions will be able to install over the current version
without uninstallation. Please uninstall any previous version to
avoid superfluous files.
- It is now also possible to install the full version over the demo
version without uninstalling the demo version.
- The installation does not allow selecting an installation folder
anymore. You can only select the drive. This avoid double installations
of plugins.
- Only one uninstall option is added to the "Add/Remove Programs"
section of the control panel for new minor versions of the same
product including demo/trial and full versions.
- New Uninstall item is added to Start menu which displays the Add/Remove
Programs dialog
- The desktop icons of the standalones are uninstalled now
- Bug Fix: The PhotoWiz Bundle uninstallation previously did not
remove the external editor presets from Lightroom. To remove left-over
entries manually go to c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\External
Editor Presets\
- Plugin Installer:
- Two new "Adobe Photoshop CC (All Versions)"
items for installing plugins to a 32-bit or 64-bit
plugin folder which is used by all existing and future versions
of Photoshop CC. This way you do not need to install the plugin
again after you installed a new version of Photoshop CC. Best
uninstall the previous version to avoid duplicate plugins when
using this new option.
- Support for Affinity Photo (Please activate
the "Allow Unknown plugins to be used" check box under
Edit > Preferences > Photoshop Plugins in Affinity Photo
to make it work.)
- Plugin Installer now correctly displays "Photoshop CC
2015.5" instead of "Photoshop CC 2016".
- Clicking on a list item activates its check box now
- Plugin Installer has all applications activated by default
during installation.
- External Editor Installer (previously
called "Lightroom Installer"):
- Support for Exposure X2 and higher
- Support for Corel AfterShot Pro 1 and higher
- Support for ACDSee Ultimate 8 and higher
- Support for ACDSee, ACDSee Pro, Bibble Lite/Pro 5
- In Lightroom only the product name is added without the version
number to avoid clutter.
MacOS X Version
1.08 (Installer Update) - June 2016
- Support for installation in Photoshop
Elements 14
- Support for installation in Serif
Affinity Photo. You may have to activate "Allow
unknown plugins to be used" check box under Affinity Photo
> Preferences > Photoshop Plugins in order to make the plugins
appear on the Filter > Plugins sub menu.
Windows Standalone Version 1.09b (March
2016)
- MetaRaw
Converter is now used for opening camera raw files.
This has the following advantages:
- Support for 285 new raw file types
- The images have a higher quality by default
(so the High Quality options were removed).
- The images already look brighter by default (so the Vivid
style option was removed).
- Full-size raw files are opened at least 20% faster
- Support for new raw file types can be added much faster
in future
- Bug Fix: The width, height and profile information
on the Info tab sheet are now updated immediately after opening
a new image.
- Bug Fix: The width and height information
on the Info tab sheet are updated after saving a raw file in case
it was reopened.
- Bug Fix: In the Save dialog the original
file extension is not displayed anymore to avoid an unecessary
overwrite prompt.
Windows Version 1.09 (December 2015)
- Support
for HiDPI
- The skins now use appropriate font and
control sizes for high dpi settings.
- The Standalone/Lightroom versions do
not show a scaled up UI by default anymore.
- The UI-Scaling-Preview-Cutoff problem
in Photoshop CC 2014/2015 and Photoshop Elements 13/14 was
fixed. However, the Soft Proof effect is not visible in the
preview anymore if UI Scaling is active.
- The preset thumbnail are bigger for high dpi settings, which
means that they need more time to be rendered.
- The histograms and curves are displayed
larger.
- The positions of some control were readjusted for high dpi
settings.
- Larger cursors and program icon
- Bug Fix: With activated skin the controls
were previously jumbled up when clicking above the first slider
in Quick Edit Mode.
- Bug Fix: Dragging one of the curve control
points outside the diagram does not change the first control point
anymore.
- Standalone Bug Fix: When saving to a path,
which contained a dot character, and the entered file name contained
no extension, the file was previously saved to the wrong folder
with a wrong file name.
- Standalone Bug Fix: Previously a crash ocurred
when choosing "Fit" from the zoom combo box after opening
an image for the first time.
- Improved installation:
- Three less clicks are necessary, because
the language, start menu and ready pages are not displayed
anymore.
- There are no separate Start menu folders
and desktop icons added for different versions anymore. So
better uninstall previous and demo versions before installing
new/full versions.
- Under Windows 8 & 10 there are even
less icons with better names installed on the All Apps section
of the Start menu to avoid clutter.
- Please uninstall from the Control Panel
as the uninstall icon is not added to the Start menu anymore.
- Plugin Installer supports HiDPI
MacOS X Version 1.08
(October 2015)
- Requires OS X 10.6 or higher
- Support for Retina displays
and HiDPI under OS X
10.7 and higher
- The Fit zoom option now uses zoom levels
below 6% in order to fit very big images into the preview.
- Bug Fix: The Linear Mask and Circular Mask
effect produced artifacts if certain other effects were applied.
Windows Version 1.08 (October 2014)
- Support for processing images larger than
30,000 pixels in witdh or height. Processing such big images
usually only works with the 64-bit version and enough RAM
- Support for Paint Shop Pro 6 and earlier
was restored
- The Fit zoom option now uses zoom levels
below 6% in order to fit very big images into the preview.
- Plugin Installer now supports the 64-bit
version of Photoshop Elements 13 and displays "Photoshop CC
2014" instead of "Photoshop CC2".
- The installation files, Standalone/Lightroom
executables and Plugin Installer are now signed to avoid potential
problems with security software.
- The installation offers 46 instead of 21
languages.
- Bug Fix: The More... links of Photography
Mode did not work.
- Plugin Bug Fix: When using the Enter key
instead of clicking the OK button, the settings were not saved.
- Plugin Bug Fix: Canceling the plugin after
clicking OK, previously sometimes caused a freeze if multiple
cores were used for rendering.
- Plugin Bug Fix: The scriptstring buffer is
freed on exit.
- Standalone Bug Fix: 8-bit TIFF files with
a transparency channel can be opened now. The transparency infomation
is ignored.
- Standalone Bug Fix: When opening an image
via command line does not work, that image does not appear on
the Files tab anymore and the next command line image is automatically
opened.
- Standalone Bug Fix: The big icon with the
product initials is now displayed in the task bar.
Windows Version 1.03 (August 2013)
- New 64-bit Standalone/Lightroom version
- Scroll through all preset thumbnails with
the cursor left/right keys.
- New "Elements Light" skin
- Plugin Installer now supports Paint Shop
Pro X6 64-bit, Illustrator CS6 and Photoshop CS5.1. The broken
support for Photoshop CS2 was fixed. "Photoshop CS7" was renamed
to "Photoshop CC".
- When using eye dropper and the Control combo
box on the Select tab is set to Color, the targetted control is
now automatically shown.
- Bug Fix: Clicking the Histo tab sheet produced
a crash when using ColorStyler under a non-admin account.
- Bug Fix: The controls vanished previously
when starting up with a maximized window and the brush tool selected.
- Bug Fix: The Linear Mask and Circular Mask
effect produced artifacts if certain other effects were applied.
- Bug Fix: Dragging slider knob over control
borders did not update preview with active skin and deactivated
Instant Sliders.
- Bug Fix: No more empty space at the right
hand-side of the thumbnails when "Show All" is not selected
at startup.
- Bug Fix: Previously when using the Cursor
Left/Right keys for collapsing a preset group, it was not possible
to continue with the cursor keys.
- Bug Fix: Fixed preset name problems in German
localization
- Bug Fix: Added help texts for the sliders
on the RGB sub tab
MacOS X Version 1.01 (January 2013)
- Bug Fix: Some keyshort cuts did not work in
the previous version
- Bug Fix: Choosing the Polarizer or Colorshift
item on the Disable menu did not disable the effect
- Bug Fix: On the Save Preset dialog, the "False
Color" was renamed to "Colorshift". Additionally the position
of the Colorshift and Polarizer check boxes was exchanged.
- Bug Fix: When only the Polarizer effect was
enabled, the Colorshift check box was actived on the Save Preset
dialog. When only the Colorshift effect was enabled, the Polarizer
check box was active on the Save Preset dialog.
MacOS X Version 1.0 (December 2012)
- The Mac version is based on Verson 1.02
for Windows, but does not include the Skin feature.
Windows Version 1.02 (August 2012)
- Four new ND presets
- The Undo/Redo feature now also works
if Prefs > Instant Preview is activated and if a preset item
is clicked.
- You only need to move the mouse over
the preset list in order to use the mouse wheel for scrolling.
Previously it was necessary to click a preset first.
- Standalone Bug Fix: Sometimes a memory
error was displayed at start up and crash occurred later. It was
caused by some values in the .ini file. This is fixed now.
- Standalone Bug Fix: The controls vanished
when opening an image via command line and starting up with maximized
window.
- Standalone Bug Fix: When expanding the
preset list, sometimes the preview did not display correctly anymore.
- Bug Fix: Clicking on the preset list
background does not collapse a group or display an error message
anymore.
- Bug Fix: The Brightness slider of FX1
> Polarizer was not taken into account when saving presets
or for the Show/Disable menu.
- Bug Fix: Choosing the Polarizer or Colorshift
item on the Disable menu did not disable the effect.
- Bug Fix: Selecting a Color Grad preset
in Easy or Advanced Mode did not set the right item in Photography
Mode.
- Bug Fix: Clicking a preset item sometimes
updated the preview twice.
- Bug Fix: Changing the language with a
skin activated did not draw the Language and On Startup labels.
- Plugin Installer: The message "This program
might not have installed correctly" is not displayed anymore.
Windows Version 1.01 (June 2012)
- New Features and Improvements:
- New Skin feature that imitates the
user interface of Lightroom, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements
and PaintShop Pro. The 14 skin options on the Prefs tab
sheet also include a dark version of Aero (the default UI
style of Windows Vista/7) and a special PhotoWiz skin style.
There is also an option to only skin the sliders. When you
run ColorStyler for the first time, you are asked if you want
to use a dark skin or keep the standard controls. Alternatively
you can manually choose a skin on the Prefs tab sheet. You
can choose different skins for the plugin, standalone and
Lightroom version.
- New one-step Undo/Redo feature as
arrows near the Mode combo box. Using the Ctrl+Z and Crl+Y
key shortcuts is also possible. When switching the Preview
tab or choosing another image, the undo data is deleted.
- The zero keys can be used to set a
slider to zero.
- Pressing the S key again deactivates
Split View.
- The space key for switching to the hand
tool now only works if the mouse is located over the preview.
As a result the space key can now be used to (de)activate
check boxes.
- The "Small Thumbs" and "Very
Small Thumbs" options use a smaller font in order to
make more letters of a preset name visible.
- Plugin Installer: Support for PhotoFiltre
6.5 (freeware)
- Flicker reduction under Vista and
Windows 7:
- When starting up with maximized window.
- When maximizing and restoring the
window
- With deactivated skin feature
when switching between tab sheets or resizing the window
- Bug Fixes:
- Standalone Bug Fix: Images that were
not displayed in the preview at least once had no effect applied
during batch processing or after clicking OK on the main window.
- Standalone Bug Fix: After expanding the
preset list and changing the thumbnail size, the preview went
blank and sometimes caused a crash.
- Bug Fix: When starting up ColorStyler
maximized and restoring the window size, the image was not
fitted in the preview or not displayed.
- Bug Fix: The "Select - Brightness"
and "Select - Contrast" eyedropper modes changed
the saturation of gray image areas instead of the brightness
or contrast.
- Bug Fix: Sometimes at start up Quick
Edit Mode or Photography Mode were not activated.
- Bug Fix: Collapsing or expanding a preset
group does not cause redraw problems under Windows Vista anymore.
- Bug Fix: Double clicking a combo box
label did not update the preview or other controls.
- Bug Fix: Holding down the Shift key
with activated Instant Preview check box, does not update
the preview anymore when changing the curve tool.
- Bug Fix: The preview was continuously
updated during window resizing, which caused a slow down.
- Bug Fix: When clicking on the brush tool
icon with displayed Preset tab sheet, the height of the Brush
tab sheet was not adjusted.
- Bug Fix: The 64-bit plugin demo version
did not have "Demo" in the filter name.
- Bug Fix: Wrong cursor when starting up
with activated split view tool and Multi check box
- Standalone Bug Fix: File > Exit did
not exit ColorStyler.
- Standalone Bug Fix: When restoring the
window after mininize, the preview is updated.
- Standalone Bug Fix: Error message when
using the eyedropper or cross tool on an empty preview.
- Standalone Bug Fix: The Open and Save
buttons had the wrong tab order.
- Lightroom Bug Fix: The redundant File
menu was removed.
Windows Version 1.0 (May 2012)
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