We have a substantial update to RapidRaw, now on version 1.6.5. Here is a summary and a video walkthrough.
New Features
- Kelvin White Balance with Area Sampling – This update completely overhauls how the app handles color temperature, turning white balance into a precise, camera-grade tool. In earlier versions, adjusting temperature and tint relied on rough guesswork sliders and a basic eyedropper that merely sampled a single screen pixel, often leading to uneven or unnatural color shifts.
- Guided Filter for Edge-Aware Adjustments – Fine detail enhancements no longer produce distracting halos. In place of standard blurs, clarity, structure, dehaze, shadows, and highlights now run through an edge-aware filtering system that cleanly separates broad lighting changes from sharp object contours. When lifting dark shadows or taming highlights, the software captures original surface micro-textures and feeds them back into the picture. Textures like skin, fabric, and foliage stay crisp and authentic rather than muddying together.
- Rewritten Whites Slider – Previously, the whites slider simply boosted areas with a flat multiplier, which easily blew out highlights and erased delicate textures. Now, it applies a smooth, targeted curve that brightens the lightest tones while directly reinjecting fine surface details and mid-level textures back in. As a result, bright areas like clouds, snow, or white clothing gain extra brilliance and pop without turning into flat, featureless patches.
- Pick and Reject Flags – Culling large shoots is now significantly faster thanks to a dedicated flagging workflow. You can mark favorites as “Picked” or bad takes as “Rejected” using quick keyboard shortcuts, visual badges, or bottom bar toggles. Rejected photos automatically dim in your library, making it easy to filter them out of view or delete all of them at once with a single confirmation.
- Apple RAW 9 Decoding and Denoising Support
- RapidRAW Cloud Integration
- AI-Free Mode
- Reorderable and Collapsible Adjustment Panels
- Savable Custom Aspect Ratios
Core Improvements
- Precision Curves: Added a fine adjust mode for tone curves, plus inactive channels now show as colored overlay curves and reference markers.
- Crop Enhancements: Center-anchor crop resizing by holding Ctrl/Cmd, and align framing with a new center mark guide.
- Export Options: Added borders and aspect ratio padding to exports, embedded sRGB ICC profiles, and refreshed export presets.
- AI Task Controls: Added real-time progress tracking in the UI with the ability to cancel running AI tasks.
- Interface Polish: Streamlined adjustment panel customization and improved default tool visibility across the workspace.
- Metadata & Color Fixes: Improved lens EXIF detection and refined continuous RAW magenta highlight corrections.
- Localization: Added full Dutch & Netherlands language support.
- Stability & Bug Fixes: Resolved various issues and refined overall application performance.
Please visit the official site to download the update
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