posted July 1st, 2008
Effects are up—including Gloss, Shadow, Inner Glow, Outer Glow, and Reflection.
There’s a few more coming—most notably color overlays, gradient overlays, and noise overlays. There’s also a few issues. The Gloss filter shifts strangely when you zoom in. The Shadow filter still doesn’t allow you to adjust it’s offset. Also, the CPU renderer doesn’t currently render past the edge of what’s visible, which will cause some fun errors in places for the moment.
Bug fixes
There’s a few bug fixes in here. I’ve fixed one of two crashes that can occasionally occur when importing images. I rewrote the linear sampler filter, which fixed egregious errors with some filters—most notably the non-Gaussian blurs. This solves both crashing and visual aberrations. (But right now it’s a little slower.)
I’ve also fixed an issue in which blacker-than-black colors could get into the Exposure filter. The exposure filter works in linear space and needs to un-gamma-correct your image first. The way to do this is to raise each color value using the gamma as an exponent. Fun math fact: negative numbers raised to non-integral exponents result in imaginary numbers. Which in turn became fun sparkling in parts of an image.
Pre-purchase Program
There’s now a banner in Naked light that advertises the Pre-purchase program. I didn’t have time to work out a way to turn this off yet for people that have already pre-purchased. If this totally rubs you the wrong way, shoot me an email and I’ll work on a version that’ll disable this for you.
If you haven’t yet pre-purchased Naked light, do it now because pre-purchasing is awesome. No, really, I need the money.