posted April 30th, 2008
Naked light Beta 3.1 is finally out!
Flickr support
Naked light now supports Flickr!
Signing in is easy: You click ‘Authorize…’ from within Naked light, which sends you to a website in your browser of choice to sign in to Flickr and authorize Naked light. While Naked light and Flickr talk behind the scenes, Naked light itself never sees or knows your Flickr password.
Once you’re signed in, Naked light starts to download your photos. Similar to iPhoto support, it doesn’t import your photos until you tell it to. You can start editing photos right away, and if you save that composition, then it’ll import them.
Naked light also knows all of your contacts, and you can browse through their photos, too.
Uploading to Flickr is really easy: you just drag an image or a composition from the Library onto the Flickr icon. That’s it.
Flickr support has a few rough edges. There’s currently no way to delete photos, or edit metadata. The latter’s slightly more problematic because Naked light doesn’t give you the options to edit these prior to updating. Metadata’s a rather largish issue and will come later. Deleting photos is pretty quick and will probably pop-in randomly when I find a minute. It’s actually the user interface that’s the problem—I don’t want it to be easy to accidentally delete photos. There’s also two bugs related to uploading Compositions.
Toolbar
The dock is a dock no more.
The new toolbar can be dragged anywhere on the screen (including the edges) and doesn’t have nearly as many bugs/slowdowns/other issues.
I had plans to make it so that it would turn into a dock when you dragged it to the edge of the screen, and turn back into a palette as you dragged it away. Turns out that no one seemed to mind the dock going away, so it’s probably just going to stay a palette.
As mentioned earlier, I also ‘fixed’ the various bugs with the icons (by pre-rendering them). This means that Naked light is significantly larger in size, but starts up faster and more smoothly.
Closer to Universal
I mentioned this earlier, but my PowerMac G5 has officially kicked the bucket, which means it’s impossible for me to check out how Naked light runs on PowerPC machines.
Really, the only way around this until I can afford to buy a few test machines is to just release it anyway. So Naked light Beta 3.1 is technically Universal.
I fully expect it to crash, and crash horribly, but as always, bug reports are always welcome at brandon@naked.la. I’m sorry to put this on you like this, but it’s really the fastest way to getting PowerPC support at the moment.
Uploads and Downloads
Naked light now features managers for Uploads and Downloads. Right now this is mostly useful for Flickr, but this makes it easy to keep track of what’s going on.
Naked light tries to keep tasks like this in the background, so you can do other stuff while uploading.
Automatic Updates
Naked light now checks for updates in the background. At this stage, I don’t think a lot of people are actually getting any work done in Naked light (Naked light probably won’t be stable enough until the end of May-ish), but if you load up an outdated version, it’ll let you know.
Get it
Because of the Universality of the binary and the aforementioned dock fix, Naked light clocks in at over twice the size of the previous release with a whopping 3.6 MB download.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:41 AM
Yeej.
I’m really looking forward to the 1.0 release of Naked Light.
April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 AM
mofle—
So am I.
May 1st, 2008 at 8:32 AM
When was version 1? This is version 3.1 – and I really get really really wierd results in my tests plus my Octo Core Mac Pro really has some serious performance issues with this version, what’s going on? Why not show some of the versions that was more stable?
May 1st, 2008 at 8:38 AM
Dennis—
This is Beta 3.1. There’s going to be 6 or so betas, with version 1.0 coming out around August.
Beta 4 is going to be the major stability release. As always, reports of any really really weird results are welcome at brandon@naked.la
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Ok looked at this version, I was impressed with the import from my little 3 mpx images, smooth so it looks promising. But now I hit a problem trying to import a 500mb 1 gig and 2 gig files, didn’t seem to matter if they were jpg or tiff… going nowhere
Is there a size limit, pix limit or simply a limit to type of file ?
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 AM
Nic—
I haven’t tested with files that large, so I’m not surprised there’s performance issues.
500 MB images, and possible 1 GB images, should ultimately be fine when I get around to smoothing that out.
2 GB, though? I’ll see what I can do, but seriously, what are you dealing with that generates images that large?
As a sidenote, there is a temporary quality restriction that limits the display of images to about 16 megapixels, depending on your graphics card, for speed purposes. This will get fixed in and around Beta 4 when I work on the high quality version of the Anatomy Engine.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:43 AM
Hi.
Tried the 3.1. beta on my iMac G4 (1,25 gb RAM), but any composition I try to create or open just shows a blank window. None of the pictures or graphics elements I add displays in the composition. Thumbnails and nodes looks fine.
Pity, cause I was looking forward to play around with Naked Light…
May 5th, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Brandon, would also like to see APPLE APERTURE support in NL. Would be a nice addition to iphoto rather than flickr….
cheers, Michel
May 9th, 2008 at 10:20 AM
the tool palette is welcomed; better than the dock with the fly-outs. i did not get around to much more as it crashed on me while editing a dng file with a levels adjustment and then tried to throw in a curves node. i’ll keep watching.
June 15th, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Same problem for me than RK has. When I open an image from the Library, there’s just a black window. I can create some brushes with the paint brush, that’s it. Naked is running on an 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with 2GB of RAM. Looking forward to the next steps …