2.1
2023-07-01
Firstly, I have been pleasantly overwhelmed with the positive feedback and support of Value Study Pro. Thank you all so much!
This update has a focus on accessibility and customisation:
- New languages! German, French, Spanish and Italian. This is exciting but daunting as it's so easy to make mistakes. Please let me know if you would like to assist with improving the translations for these languages or adding more.
- Added "Customise value scale" to the settings page so you can choose to flip the ordering of the values or to start at 0 instead of 1 for the numbering.
- Added an "Action label" to indicate what you've just clicked. This includes the panels you've opened or the actions you've taken, such as "Flipped image" or "Portrait mode on". If you don't want this to show, you can deactivate it in the settings.
- Many small bugfixes and laying the groundwork for further improvements.
2.0.2
2023-04-03
This has been a long time coming. Value Study version 2.0 is full of subtle improvements based on feedback (which I am very thankful for!) through reviews and emails.
It is also exciting for me to announce Value Study Pro. This is an affordable paid upgrade to Value Study. All existing features will always be free, but if you upgrade to Pro, you will have extra convenience features and the ability to customise further the value studies produced.
Let's start with what's in Value Study Pro:
Value outlines
- You can now easily switch between seeing the values filled in or outlined like a drawing.
- If you select a value and enable outlines simultaneously... you will see the selected value filled in with all others outlined. This feature has been the most highly requested, so I'm excited for you all to try it out!
Customisable image stabilisation
- Everyone can turn image stabilisation on/off in settings. With Pro you can take it a step further and use a slider to tweak it further... this is particularly effective when the value outlines are enabled.
Portrait mode
- Remove the background from portraits so you can focus on the people in your image without the background affecting the values shown.
Gallery
- The new gallery tab lets you open multiple images at once. You can switch between them easily by swiping on the image (while zoomed out) too!
- This becomes incredibly useful when used for a series of images taken from different angles, such as a person turning around
Version 2.0 updates (all included in the free tier):
- Dark mode!
- A massive under-the-hood rework, enabling new features to be added.
- Show the value number under each value swatch (this can be toggled in the settings)
- Improved support for file formats: RAW, HEIC, WebP
- Ability to flip the image horizontally
- Doubled the maximum number of values
Version 2.0.2 fixes an issue where the settings menu flickers and could get stuck.
2.0.1
2023-03-31
This has been a long time coming. Value Study version 2.0 is full of subtle improvements based on feedback (which I am very thankful for!) through reviews and emails.
It is also exciting for me to announce Value Study Pro. This is an affordable paid upgrade to Value Study. All existing features will always be free, but if you upgrade to Pro, you will have extra convenience features and the ability to customise further the value studies produced.
Let's start with what's in Value Study Pro:
Value outlines
- You can now easily switch between seeing the values filled in or outlined like a drawing.
- If you select a value and enable outlines simultaneously... you will see the selected value filled in with all others outlined. This feature has been the most highly requested, so I'm excited for you all to try it out!
Customisable image stabilisation
- Everyone can turn image stabilisation on/off in settings. With Pro you can take it a step further and use a slider to tweak it further... this is particularly effective when the value outlines are enabled.
Portrait mode
- Remove the background from portraits so you can focus on the people in your image without the background affecting the values shown.
Gallery
- The new gallery tab lets you open multiple images at once. You can switch between them easily by swiping on the image (while zoomed out) too!
- This becomes incredibly useful when used for a series of images taken from different angles, such as a person turning around
Version 2.0 updates (all included in the free tier):
- Dark mode!
- A massive under-the-hood rework, enabling new features to be added.
- Show the value number under each value swatch (this can be toggled in the settings)
- Improved support for file formats: RAW, HEIC, WebP
- Ability to flip the image horizontally
- Doubled the maximum number of values
Version 2.0.1 brings a tiny improvement to prevent the purchase and restore buttons being accidentally clicked multiple times.
2.0
2023-03-28
This has been a long time coming. Value Study version 2.0 is full of subtle improvements based on feedback (which I am very thankful for!) through reviews and emails.
It is also exciting for me to announce Value Study Pro. This is an affordable paid upgrade to Value Study. All existing features will always be free, but if you upgrade to Pro, you will have extra convenience features and the ability to customise further the value studies produced.
Let's start with what's in Value Study Pro:
- Value outlines
- You can now easily switch between seeing the values filled in or outlined like a drawing.
- If you select a value and enable outlines simultaneously... you will see the selected value filled in with all others outlined. This feature has been the most highly requested, so I'm excited for you all to try it out!
- Customisable image stabilisation
- Everyone can turn image stabilisation on/off in settings. With Pro you can take it a step further and use a slider to tweak it further... this is particularly effective when the value outlines are enabled.
- Portrait mode
- Remove the background from portraits so you can focus on the people in your image without the background affecting the values shown.
- Gallery
- The new gallery tab lets you open multiple images at once. You can switch between them easily by swiping on the image (while zoomed out) too!
- This becomes incredibly useful when used for a series of images taken from different angles, such as a person turning around
Version 2.0 updates (all included in the free tier):
- Dark mode!
- A massive under-the-hood rework, enabling new features to be added.
- Show the value number under each value swatch (this can be toggled in the settings)
- Improved support for file formats: RAW, HEIC, WebP
- Ability to flip the image horizontally
- Doubled the maximum number of values
1.6.1
2022-05-17
This version should fix the issues with v1.6 on iPad. I really appreciate the messages and reviews mentioning the problems, in a respectful and polite way. Apologies to all those affected!
1.6
2022-05-04
- New design! It may be a small change... but it's exciting, the boxy value selection buttons have now been replaced with circular buttons that show the selection colour as a ring around the selected value.
- Reworked usage of the Photo Library to fix some search-related bugs (thanks to one of the reviews for pointing that out!)
- Added custom selection colour to the settings page, under a new "Customisation" heading. Note: currently the Reset button will reset the colour too.
- Added a menu to the image view and moved the "Add to photos" into the new menu, along with the settings, as it was so hidden people kept asking how to save their value studies!
1.5
2022-01-30
- Improved the quality of the edges of values by ensuring less pixelation, with a new feature called Image Stabilisation.
On Live Filter mode this also means less flickering on the edges of objects.
- Added a settings menu.
Now that Value Study is beginning to have more features and improvements, the settings menu gives access to an advanced section which for now will mainly be used to help debug any issues.
1.4
2022-01-19
- Introducing Live Filter!
The new Live Filter mode adds a real time video filter, which includes all of the functionality from the existing image mode (such as colour selection and configuration of tones).
- Vastly improved performance of colour selection, building upon the performance increase from v1.3, removing the need for loading spinners altogether.
1.3
2021-10-21
- Big improvement for performance, making it much quicker to switch between selected values
- Selecting a value while the original photo is showing will now switch back to show the values
1.2
2021-03-09
- Reworked zoom so it will now stay zoomed in until you zoom back out.
1.1
2021-02-20
- Native support for iPad
- Landscape mode
- Improved handling for low-light images