2023.02
2023-06-21
• Mirrored wrap (as "wrap:mirror") and stretched wrap (wrap:stretch) join "wrap:color" as framed picture face width menu items. Mirror and stretch describe the sides of a wrapped picture
• Wrapped pictures are now rendered with subtle chamfered edges and corners to mimic wrapping with canvas.
• The frame's custom color picker is enhanced to display the sRGB, HSB, Lab, or Lch value of the current color. Tap the blue label to cycle through a color's numbers
• To make changing a frame's custom color brightness and saturation easier without changing the hue, two new custom color pickers for interactive HSB or Lch color selection are added. In both the top slider controls the hue. The previous picker for HSB where the top slider controlled saturation is still available. To cycle between the color picker views, tap the blue name of the view in the lower right: H/BxS, S/BxH, H/Lxc. The names have meaning. For example, H/BxS means that hue is the top slider while the grid's vertical axis is brightness and the horizontal axis is saturation
• Colors that appear in the black region of the H/Lxc color picker view are colors that are outside of the sRGB colorspace such as "electric blue"
• On iPhone in landscape orientation, numbers in the color picker are not editable because the numeric keypad obscures the color picker. Rotate the iPhone to portrait mode to use a keyboard for color value entry
• Colors on metallic surfaces are closer to expectations. However, metallic surfaces reflect the environment, so a metallic surface color is strongly affected by its surroundings
• Resolves an issue where mat surface texture patterns scaled as the frame window size changed
• Selection checkmarks now depend on the operating system's dark mode setting. In dark mode, check marks are white and in white mode, check marks are black
• Frame sizes are now strictly sorted by width. The list is no longer ordered with horizontal sizes first followed by vertical and then square
• Reduces the number of times that custom mat sizes must be entered from the keyboard by increasing the number of mat windows with uniform borders
• Adds a new setting that toggles "ambient intensity swatches" on and off
• Improves app launch and startup
2022.13
2022-12-21
• Resolves an intermittent issue where frame custom colors could not be chosen from the real-world scene because the scene was not yet adequately mapped
• Adds a message to continue scanning the scene when a scene has not been adequately mapped on loading or resetting
• Settings for "Show floor" and "Show floor-wall join wall" are now also enabled when real objects hide AR
• Arrows pointing towards the closest visible frame or wall are smaller and offset from the center to minimize overlap with the coaching display
2022.12
2022-12-20
• Improves performance and reduces memory spikes
• Resolves an issue where some surface textures on pictures were scaled wrong
• Resolves an issue where adding a picture frame after initial positioning on a horizontal surface might crash the app
• Adds an activity message to the launch screen and adds "Preparing galleries" to the main screen while initializing the app
• AR coaching now hides the 3-dot page control near the bottom center of the screen so it does not interfere with the "Start Over" button
2022.09
2022-08-18
• When the wall lock button is hidden, it is unlocked and walls can be dragged even when manipulating pictures
• Reduces app peak memory use when a scene contains many frames that share the same color and surface
• Wider in-app Settings panel
• Mat and wall color raven is slightly lighter
2022.08
2022-06-13
• Quicker placement of the augmented reality scene when the app starts up
• More robust undo after extended selections
2022.07
2022-06-11
• Share to QuickLook has been improved and now colors frames with surfaces other than a smooth surface
• The color of smooth and glossy frames has been darkened slightly to be consistent with the color of other frame surfaces
• Importing photos with the Photos button now supports an ordered selection of photos in the Photos app and placement of the selected photos into an ordered selection of framed pictures without images
• "Replace image" also takes advantage of ordered selections in Photos
• The frame arrangement created when Photos are imported with the Photos button is improved
• The arrangement of framed pictures created from photos that are dropped from Photos is improved
• Resolves an issue where wall width and height might be limited to less than 99 ft
• When setting framed picture sizes, the mat window list is improved. It is now sorted strictly by width and includes many more window sizes compatible with frames in the selected set of framed pictures without images
• When no wall or framed pictures are visible in the camera view, an arrow will appear as you turn the camera that suggests a good direction to turn
2022.06
2022-04-08
• Changes "Composite" menu name to "Arrange"
• Drag a framed picture on top of another on the same wall and the two swap positions
• The "Composite" menu is now called "Arrange"
• Resolves an issue where "Replace image" failed to display the photo picker
• Reflections from glazing are more realistic
• Adds Settings switch "Museum glazing" for all frames that turns on the use of less-reflective-glass as typically found in museums
• Now includes glazing in AR Quick Look exports
• Adds the keyboard shortcut "shift-command-H" to horizontally align the ordered selection
• Adds the keyboard shortcut "shift-command-V" to vertically align the ordered selection
• Adds the keyboard shortcut "shift-command-S" to set horizontal and vertical spacing between frames in the ordered selection
• Mat surface textures are improved
• Improves mat and wall on-screen color
• Resolves an issue where exported usdz files were missing some frame and mat surface information
• Resolves an issue where certain frame and mat surfaces did not display correctly in AR Quick Look
• Resolves the "dead space above the 3-dot page controller" issue that caused taps to be ignored
• Improves help discussion for menu item "Keep picture aspect"
2022.05
2022-03-14
• Drag a framed picture on top of another on the same wall and the two swap positions
• Improves mat and wall on-screen color
• Resolves the "dead space above the 3-dot page controller" issue that caused taps to be ignored
• Improves help discussion for menu item "Keep picture aspect"
2022.04
2022-02-23
• Resolves regression where "Pack frames" was absent from the Compose menu
• Resolves the regression issue where the Mac-specific menu item "Center scene" appeared on iDevices
• Resolves an uncommon special case where certain "Position at", "Scene on wall", and "Run/Pause" combinations caused the meshing gears menu to display empty the first time it was tapped after a "Position at" or "Scene on wall" choice required restarting the session
2022.03
2022-02-09
• Resolves an issue where the Setting "Show floor-wall join wall" was not enabled
• The thumbs that change wall size are improved so that the thumbs drag more reliably and the thumbs on a colored wall are subtle stripes rather than green bars
• Adds a 3-dot page controller at the bottom of the screen to switch between "managing walls", "manipulating frames", and "all buttons hidden" modes.
Tapping a dot is a visible alternative to the hidden double-tap switching
• Adds "Rotate mats" to the meshing gears menu
• Moves the buttons for managing galleries down to the same level as the manipulating frames buttons to increase the space available for viewing a gallery
• Folds the meshing gears menu into a three-column menu to provide more space for viewing the gallery and to provide a better grouping of the menu items
• Groups any horizontal windows at the top of a menu list. Horizontal windows are above any vertical windows which are in turn above any square windows
• Orders window sizes numerically instead of the previous alphabetical ordering
• Includes additional mat window sizes based on common photo paper sizes
• Frames that have "Keep picture aspect" checked no longer move down the wall when rotated repeatedly
2022.02
2022-01-29
• Resolves an issue where two-finger rotation of framed pictures behaved erratically and did not flip frame orientations as expected
2021.10
2021-12-10
• Help improvements:
- Help is updated for accuracy and faster browsing
- Adds a brief demo video to the "Start" section of "Help"
- Adds a help page that lists the app keyboard shortcuts alphabetically
- Describes menu persistence in "Color Triage" help
- Improves "Color choices" help
• Enables 120Hz ProMotion on iPhones that have the hardware support
• Increases the maximum allowed refresh rate to 120Hz
• Setting "Show picture mat" off in settings no longer disables the color menu
• "Pack framed pictures..."
- "Pack framed pictures..." changes tedious aligned-grid creation into a rapid and fun exploration of gallery possibilities
- Suggested choices have a green background
- The "Arrangement width" slider changes the maximum width of allowed arrangements and instantly updates the current arrangement. Double-tap the width slider to reset it to the initial value
- Center-aligned "Pack framed pictures..." limits the row length so that the largest frames are centered if the number of frames in a row is greater than two
- Changes made to horizontal and vertical spacings persist when the app is restarted
- "Pack framed pictures..." packs frames by width, area, or selection order in addition to the original height order packing. Selected frames are left-aligned or right-aligned in rows from the bottom left to top according to the size
- Center-aligned rows are packed in decreasing size from the middle alternating right and left so that the largest sizes are near the row center.
- Ordered packing is packed in selection order from bottom left to top right
- "Pack framed pictures..." options set the frame heights at the center, top, or bottom of their row
• Keyboard:
- Keyboard shortcuts are added for "Pack framed pictures..." (cmd-G), "Swap framed picture pair" (cmd-T), and "Swap picture pair" (alt-cmd-T). Note that physical keyboards are supported on both iPadOS and macOS.
- Adds a keyboard shortcut command-0 (zero) for "Position scene at..." on iPhone and iPad
- Adds a keyboard shortcut alt-command-0 (zero) for "Move rotate to selection center" on iPhone and iPad
- Keyboard shortcuts for deleting frames now require a "command-delete" App-specific shortcuts now use the command key and the unmodified delete key is reserved for text editing
• Multicolumn menus:
- The app now saves and restores "Liner", "Face width", and all color menus items without removed items. Restore removed items by tapping the "+" button at the menu top
- Multi-column menus sizes are tuned for smaller devices to avoid occasional truncations
- Swipe deleting a recommended color in a color menu replaces immediately it with an alternative recommendation
- When choosing a custom frame color, the RGB value of the custom color appears at the bottom of the color chooser
• Double-tapping the vertical brightness slider resets it to its initial value
2021.09
2021-09-03
• Fine-tunes the mat and wall surface textures for a better visual match with surface samples
• When the app is restarted, it resumes the editing state it was in when closed: either manipulating pictures or managing walls
• Resolves an issue where the custom color dialog for frame color failed to appear
• Changes made in color menus are now restored when the app is reloaded
2021.08
2021-08-05
• Resolves an issue where empty picture frame grids were always created with square frames when they should have been created with horizontal or vertical picture frames
2021.07
2021-07-15
• Resolves minor issues with keyboard shortcuts for Delete and New picture frame
• Includes 11 additional iPadOS keyboard shortcuts
• Tap the spacebar toggles the run/pause button
• Control-option-space restarts the AR experience
• Command-e toggles between managing walls and manipulating framed pictures
• Command-, shows the app's Settings
• Command-l toggles the wall lock
• Command-r rotates selected frames
• Command-option-r replaces pictures in an ordered selection
• Delete deletes selected picture frames
• Option-delete removes picture images from selected frames
• Command-n adds a new empty frame
• Command-shift-n adds a grid of empty frames
• Resolves an issue where an imported photo was added to a new frame instead of adding to a selected empty frame
2021.06
2021-06-24
• Resolves a rare issue where images previously added to a gallery might not appear when reimported
• Resolves an issue where the first time a paused session is run, the scene might freeze and require tapping the restart experience button to continue
2021.05
2021-05-11
• Optimizes size and placement of the screenshot in the screen report
• Scene report includes the window size for "keep picture aspect ratio" images
• Report formatting of comparable mat names is improved
• Resolves an issue where Redo of "Change picture" after it was undone set a blank image and did not restore the change
• Buttons now glow and reverse dark/light when highlighted
• Refines the mat "aged" bevel color
• Adjusts the bevel texture to be rougher
2021.04
2021-05-08
• Adds yellow, purple iris, and red mat colors
• Adds the names of commercial mats of similar color to shared reports
• Tunes mat surface roughness values so the shift in mat lightness is reduced when the surface is changed
• Reduces errors in mat colors by converting high precision Lab measurements directly instead of using manually entered rounded RGB values
• Defers loading a gallery until its first use to reduce memory usage on app startup
• Gallery scene reports are now shared as PDF
• Adds "Print scene report..." to the Wall button menu
• Adds "View scene report" to the Wall button menu
• Adds "Center scene on screen" menu item to the meshing gears menu
• On Mac:
• Adds "Share scene report..." to the Share item on the File menu
• Adds "Toggle wall lock" menu item to the View menu when manipulating pictures
• Adds "Toggle help labels" to the Help menu
• Adds "Center scene on screen" menu item to the View menu
• Adds keyboard shortcut command-0 (command-zero) to center the scene on the screen
• Adds "Change to managing wall" and "Change to manipulating pictures" menu items to the View menu
• "Command->" keyboard shortcut toggles between "managing wall" and "manipulating pictures" views
2021.02
2021-01-30
• The distance to wall and wall width and height now display in feet and inches when dragging
• Both feet-and-inches measurements as well as inch only measurements of framed pictures from left, right, top, and bottom of the wall appear in shared reports
• Both the color name and RGB values for frame, mat, overmat, and walls appear in shared reports
• Resolves an issue where the add frame button (+) would not work if the frame shape was undefined
• A new menu item "Pack framed pictures...", moves all selected frames on the same wall into a close-packed grid with chosen spacing between frames and row alignment
• Use "Pack framed pictures..." to suggest alternate frame arrangements, to uncover hidden frames, or to bring all frames into a common spacing at once.
• When manipulating pictures a tap on the wall selects all framed pictures on the wall and deselects all other framed pictures
• A shift-click on the wall selects all framed pictures on the wall without deselecting any other framed pictures
• The hold time is lengthened when tap-and-hold is used on a framed picture or a wall to extend the selection.
2020.18
2020-12-30
• A new menu item "Pack framed pictures...", moves all selected frames on the same wall into a close packed grid with chosen spacing between frames and row alignment
• Use "Pack framed pictures..." to suggest alternate frame arrangements, to uncover hidden frames, or to bring all frames in to a common spacing at once.
• When manipulating pictures a tap on the wall selects all framed pictures on the wall and deselects all other framed pictures
• A shift-click on the wall selects all framed pictures on the wall without deselecting any other framed pictures
• The hold time is lengthened when tap and hold is used on a framed picture or a wall to extend selection.
2020.17
2020-12-23
• Tap and hold a framed picture until it is highlighted to extend a selection. Tap and hold replaces two-finger tap as the preferred method for extending selection.
• If the app window is wide enough, a wall color column is added to the color menu and a frame color column is added to the frame menu when manipulating pictures
• External links in the app now open in Safari
• Adds a tip about sending a gallery as a usdz to Notes and then viewing in Quick Look. Sending the usdz to Quick Look works similarily for Messages, Mail and other Quick Look compatible apps.
2020.16
2020-12-11
• Addresses an issue where a coaching message could be left displayed when the session was paused
• Resolves an issue where the first drag on a scene following a change to a different scene would cause the scene to initially jump and then return to the correct position during the drag
• Resolves an issue where AR detected red wall planes might not be displayed when choosing "Position scene at..." and "Walls & Floor" was current positioning choice
• Resolves an issue where Restart experience did not perform as expected when positioning with "Walls & Floor"
• Resolves an issue with the delete key when entering text from an external keyboard
• Resolves an issue where canvas wraps did not change dim or brighten when selection changed
• When positioning a scene using the L-finder, an orange down pointing arrow appears if you need to point your device towards the floor so that the L-finder appears.
1.6.5
2020-11-19
• Improves single tap selection
• Adds a horizontal option-drag to rotate objects with mouse or trackpad
• Adds new key commands for new frame, add frame grid
1.6.4
2020-10-29
• Resolves an issue where the floor could disappear or more than one horizontal plane was displayed while starting the experience using "Walls & floor"
• Improved relocalization when restarting a paused session
• Thumb opacity now changes while dragging a wall thumb to change width or height
1.6.3
2020-10-26
• Implements standard AR coaching to startup and synchronize AR tracking like that used by Quick Look.