Changelog

RapidRAW 1.6.7 · Major Performance Boost, Immich Integration, Smart AI Masks & Much More!

This release is the result of a one-week sprint focused on making the core of RapidRAW faster and lighter on RAM. I rewrote large parts of the image pipeline, so thumbnails, previews, exports and batch actions are now much faster and use a lot less memory. On top of that, this update brings a full Immich integration with edits synced across all your computers, GPU acceleration for AI models, smart AI masks that adapt to every photo, new sky and foreground models, AI Text and Face masks, a rewritten dehaze and noise reduction, more accurate RAW colors and a new job queue.

RapidRAW 1.6.6 · Spatial Effects, Non-Destructive AI Denoise, Auto Straighten & Much More!

I am thrilled to share a massive new update centered around spatial creativity, intelligent automation, and raw processing precision. This release transforms the editing workspace with an innovative 2.5D spatial engine that brings dynamic relighting, ray-traced shadows, and volumetric fog straight into your scenes, while bringing major workflow speedups through one-click auto-straightening and a fully non-destructive AI denoiser integrated directly into the develop pipeline. Paired with RAW baseline exposure compensation, interactive on-canvas focal points for vignettes and centré presence, granular per-tool visibility toggles, and multi-threaded rendering optimizations across all platforms, this release gives you complete creative command and control over every photo in your library.

RapidRAW 1.6.5 · Kelvin White Balance, Guided Filter, Pick & Reject Flags & RapidRAW Cloud!

I am excited to bring you a new update that is all about image quality, precision color science, and complete workflow freedom. This release tackles core photography fundamentals from the ground up, introducing a camera-accurate Kelvin white balance engine with interactive area sampling alongside an edge-aware guided filter architecture. By replacing conventional blurs with this smarter system, adjustments like clarity, shadows, highlights, and a completely re-engineered whites slider now preserve delicate micro-textures without ever creating unnatural halos around high-contrast edges. Beyond raw rendering quality, this update brings massive quality-of-life upgrades to your daily editing routine. You can now cull shoots in record time using dedicated Pick and Reject flags, tailor the sidebar to your exact habits with fully reorderable and collapsible panels, and take advantage of Apple’s Neural Engine-powered RAW 9 decoder on macOS. I'm also introducing RapidRAW Cloud for effortless, remote GPU generative cleanups without local hardware demands, balanced by a one-click AI-Free Mode for photographers who want a purely traditional, distraction-free editing workspace.

RapidRAW 1.6.4 · Highlight Recovery, Masonry Layout, Crop Shortcuts & 10k Stars!

RapidRAW has officially crossed 10,000 GitHub stars and over 610,000 downloads. What started as an empty project folder on my laptop has grown into an incredible global community of photographers and open-source contributors. To celebrate this milestone, I wrote a deep-dive reflection on the entire journey, covering the early prototypes, the late-night shader experiments, and the path forward. You can read the full retrospective on the blog. Alongside this milestone, version 1.6.4 delivers one of the most technically challenging updates yet: rebuilt highlight recovery capable of reconstructing clipped color channels. This release also reworks the shader pipeline to introduce true exposure adjustments, adds a responsive masonry grid layout to the library, includes faster crop and pan canvas shortcuts, offers a neutral grey canvas mode, and squashes several backend bugs across export and EXIF handling.

RapidRAW 1.6.3 · Advanced Retouching, Guided Perspective, Unified Crop Panel & Much More!

This is easily my largest update to date, and I couldn't be more excited to launch it. I’ve brought together an essential set of new retouching tools alongside deep performance improvements. You can now make subtle warp adjustments with Liquify, smooth skin with the Retouch tool, and fix building perspective in seconds. Behind the scenes, I also refined the AI mask edges and overhauled the caching engine so the app runs faster and stays out of your creative flow.

RapidRAW 1.6.2 · Camera Tethering, Focus Stacking, Film Emulations & Much More!

RapidRAW v1.6.2 brings major new capabilities to your creative workflow. This release adds native Camera Tethering for remote studio shooting, an intelligent Focus Stacking engine, built-in Analog Film Emulations in a scene-referred color pipeline, and a rewritten deconvolution-based sharpening engine alongside numerous stability and usability fixes.

RapidRAW 1.6.1 · Customizable Workspace, Unified Library Editing & More!

Don't let the minor version bump fool you. RapidRAW v1.6.1 brings a massive overhaul to your editing workflow. While it might seem on the surface like it contains "just" one major new feature, this update is actually a fundamental transformation in how you interact with the app. I have completely overhauled the user interface to give you total freedom over your editing environment, alongside some crucial performance improvements and color accuracy fixes.

RapidRAW 1.6.0 · Lens Blur, Culling View, Pair Grouping & Much More!

I am very excited to launch this new update. It is designed to speed up your workflow and give you new creative options. Sorting through hundreds of photos can be exhausting. To help with that, this update brings a much better photo organization system, featuring a multi-image Culling View and smart RAW+JPEG grouping. Plus, there is a new depth-based Lens Blur feature that lets you add realistic, beautiful depth to your photos after you shoot them.

RapidRAW 1.5.9 · Clone & Heal Tools, Improved Shader & Much More!

I am excited to bring you a new update that significantly expands your retouching toolkit and refines how your images are processed under the hood. This release focuses heavily on local adjustments and HDR merging, introducing highly requested manual clone and heal tools for precise control, alongside major updates to AI inpainting, shadow shaders, and HDR alignment.

RapidRAW 1.5.8 · New Adjustments, Quick Filters, Folder Sorting & More!

This release introduces several new editing tools and workflow refinements to help make your photo editing and library management a bit smoother. I have focused on expanding the creative options with a preset intensity slider and a global hue adjustment, alongside adding helpful navigation features like quick bottombar filters and folder sorting. Behind the scenes, I worked on addressing background indexing issues and ensuring folder image counts update correctly. Finally, I am glad to make RapidRAW accessible to more users by adding support for Korean and Traditional Chinese.

RapidRAW 1.5.7 · Now in 10 Languages, Enhanced Library Performance & Critical Fixes!

This update serves as a direct follow-up to the core architectural migration I implemented in v1.5.6. While moving to a more modular state management system was a huge step forward for the stability and future-proofing of RapidRAW, it inevitably introduced some edge cases and regressions in the library and editing pipelines. In this release, I have focused on smoothing out these new wrinkles, most notably by completely overhauling the library performance to ensure that browsing remains snappy after the refactoring. I have also resolved inconsistencies in the copy-paste workflow and am excited to expand our international reach by adding support for eight additional languages.

RapidRAW 1.5.6 · Multilingual Support, Albums, Advanced Filtering & Core Refactoring

This update focuses heavily on restructuring the core of RapidRAW to make the application more stable, maintainable, and organized. Alongside a major architectural migration to Zustand to reduce UI rendering overhead, I’ve introduced full internationalization support starting with German, custom albums and multi-root folder trees, an advanced query-based search bar supporting complex Boolean logic, a brand new EXIF overlay, and cleaner in-canvas masking controls.

RapidRAW 1.5.5 · Parametric Curves, Manual Denoise, Custom Shortcuts & More!

This update focuses on giving you sharper control and a faster workflow. There's a new Parametric Curves tool for precise tonal adjustments and a Manual Denoise module for finer noise reduction. You can now customize keyboard shortcuts and edit EXIF metadata fields. I’ve also made a range of performance improvements, including reduced RAM usage, to make everything feel quicker overall.

RapidRAW 1.5.4 · WGPU Renderer, Reworked Presets System, Android Support & Much More!

This update brings a boost in rendering speed, a reworked preset system, and the first steps onto Android. I've built a direct WGPU renderer that skips the usual webview overhead, making the app feel incredibly fast. I've also rewritten the presets system so you can now create "Tool" presets that stack on top of your edits, and you can finally save masks and crops into them. On top of that, there's a new mask intersect mode alongside new flow masks, and several highly requested workflow improvements like batch denoising or keeping EXIF data for stitched and denoised files.

RapidRAW 1.5.3 · Depth Masks, Smarter Inpainting & Faster Libraries!

This update brings depth-based editing and smarter inpainting. I've added depth masking support, which lets you create masks based on distance from the camera. This is useful for things like faking background blur or adding lights that naturally fit into the scene. There's also a new inpainting model that does a much better job at removing objects compared to the previous basic algorithm. On the performance side, I've rewritten the library loading code so it only renders visible thumbnails, making large libraries feel much snappier. ROI rendering also got improved for smoother editing while zoomed in, and you can now pick your preferred quality level for live previews.

RapidRAW 1.5.2 · AI Denoising, Image Analytics, Parametric Masks & More!

This update is packed with new editing tools and smarter processing. I've added AI-powered denoising based on nind-denoise, a full image analytics panel with waveforms and scopes, and new parametric masking options for targeting specific colors or luminance zones. Subject masking has also been upgraded with SAM-2 models and single-click selection. On the export side, there's now support for JPEG XL, WebP, and CUBE LUTs - the last one being great if you want to bring color grades from RapidRAW into a video editor. Under the hood, I've added an LRU cache for instant image switching and region-of-interest rendering, which makes editing while zoomed in significantly faster.

RapidRAW 1.5.1 · Dynamic Rendering, Native Fullscreen, Fluid Masking & More!

This update focuses heavily on the core viewing experience and performance. I've completely rewritten the viewport & rendering engine to give you more control over how images are previewed - whether you're editing on a high-end 4K monitor or a lower-end laptop. I've also overhauled how fullscreen mode and masking work to make the editing process feel much more fluid and native. Finally, I've added a few highly requested workflow improvements, like auto-cropping for lens correction and the ability to batch-convert negatives.

RapidRAW 1.5.0 · Film Negatives, HDR Merge, Tonal Improvements & More!

This update is all about workflow efficiency and core processing quality. I’ve implemented Automatic Negative Conversion and HDR Merge to speed up your initial processing steps. On the editing side, the tonal adjustment engine has been overhauled to respect image detail, preventing the "muddy" look that can happen when pushing shadows too far. There are also new AI organizational tools, full XMP metadata syncing, and a long list of stability fixes.

RapidRAW 1.4.12 · Creative Effects, Tooltips, UI Polish & More!

This update focuses on expanding creative possibilities and improving usability. I have implemented a suite of new creative, atmospheric effects to give your photos a more cinematic look. Additionally, I’ve introduced a global tooltip system to make the interface more accessible and fixed a critical logic error in the sharpness processing pipeline.

RapidRAW 1.4.11 · Reworked RAW Preprocessing, Curves Clipping, Fuji X-Trans Improvements & More!

This update is all about core image quality. I implemented a completely new RAW preprocessing algorithm that handles color noise and sharpness significantly better than the previous version. The visual improvement in the whole pipeline is massive, so I decided to ship this immediately rather than waiting for the next major feature drop.

RapidRAW 1.4.10 · Improved Shader, Fine Rotation Grid, Lens Saving & More!

Yes I'm aware that the last big release was yesterday, but I'm not done yet! I want to focus on bigger, cooler features in the coming weeks, and I already have some solid improvements ready to ship, which I don't want to hold back ;)

RapidRAW 1.4.9 · Lens Correction, Warping Tools, New Masking System & A Lot More!

This release is a big one for me. While the last update was mainly about the speed of the processing engine, v1.4.9 is focused on a new set of professional tools. I’ve spent the last few weeks tackling some of the more complicated technical requests - specifically proper lens corrections, geometry warping and a more flexible masking workflow. I also did a lot of "under the hood" cleanup to make the app feel more stable as the feature set grows.

RapidRAW 1.4.8 · Live Previews, Updated Collage Maker & More

This release is focused on creating a more fluid and interactive editing experience. The headline feature is real-time live previews, a large rewrite of the GPU processing engine that makes adjusting your images feel more responsive than ever. A lot of time and optimization work went into this feature, which is why this update focuses on a few key, high-impact improvements.

RapidRAW 1.4.7 · Image Denoising, White Balance Picker & More

RapidRAW 1.4.6 · Recursive Library View & General Improvements

RapidRAW 1.4.5 · Keyword Tagging, Virtual Copies & More!

RapidRAW 1.4.4 · AgX Color Management, Copy Paste Settings & More!

RapidRAW 1.4.3 · Pin Folders, Apply Presets To Masks, Centré Adjustment & Much More!

RapidRAW 1.4.2 · Exposure + Highlights Improvements & Watermarking Support

RapidRAW 1.4.1 · Major Update & Performance Hotfix

RapidRAW 1.4.0 · Auto Culling, Collage Maker, Color Calibration & Much More!

RapidRAW v1.4.0 is finally available. This update introduces several new tools and foundational improvements to the software. Here’s a breakdown of what’s new:

RapidRAW 1.3.13 · Community Presets Sharing & Generative AI Improvements

RapidRAW 1.3.12 · Clipping Warnings, Update Notifier & Performance Improvements

RapidRAW 1.3.11 · ComfyUI Integration & Chromatic Aberration Correction

RapidRAW 1.3.10 · LUTs & Estimated File Size

RapidRAW 1.3.9 · AI Sky Masks & Optimised Editing

RapidRAW 1.3.8 · Minor Improvements

RapidRAW 1.3.7 · TypeScript Hotfix

RapidRAW 1.3.6 · Quick Eraser & Thumbnail Aspect Ratio

RapidRAW 1.3.5 · AI Masks Hotfix

RapidRAW 1.3.4 · Seamless Panorama Stitcher & Refine AI Masks

RapidRAW 1.3.3 · New Library Management & Refactored Crop Tools

RapidRAW 1.3.2 · Color Labels & Various Improvements

RapidRAW 1.3.1 · Automatic Image Tagging

RapidRAW 1.3.0 · Fuji RAF X-Trans Support & Small Fixes

RapidRAW 1.2.12 · Auto Crop

RapidRAW 1.2.11 · Improved Shader & Small Improvements

RapidRAW 1.2.10 · Preset Panel Improvements, Tutorials & Bug Fixes

RapidRAW 1.2.9 · Color Grading Wheels, UI & Shader Improvements

RapidRAW 1.2.8 · New Export Functionality, Adaptive Theme, Minor Improvements / Fixes

RapidRAW 1.2.7 · Minor Bug Fixes: Add Missing Linux Builds, Windows 10 Transparency Fix

RapidRAW 1.2.6 · Auto Adjust, Double Click Zoom, Native Titlebar, Better Filters

RapidRAW 1.2.5 · Huge Masking Improvements

RapidRAW 1.2.4 · Improved Shader, Large File Handling, Better Curves Tool

RapidRAW 1.2.3 · HUD-like Waveform Overlay, Improved Shader Accuracy, Minor Improvements

RapidRAW 1.2.2 · Improved Thumbnail Loading & Export Performance, Bug Fixes

RapidRAW 1.2.1 · Better Metadata Panel, Improved Zooming, QoL Fixes

RapidRAW 1.2.0 · Generative AI Preview, Minor Improvements

RapidRAW 1.1.4 · High Speed Preview Cache

RapidRAW 1.1.3 · Better Crop Panel, More Accurate Shader

RapidRAW 1.1.2 · New Rawloader

RapidRAW 1.1.1 · Improved AI Masking, Working Linux Builds

RapidRAW 1.1.0 · New AI Masking Feature, Linux Builds

RapidRAW 1.0.13 · Fix Inverted Blacks / Whites, Keybinds For Zoom, New 5:3 Aspect Ratio

RapidRAW 1.0.12 · New Low-Contrast Grey Theme

RapidRAW 1.0.11 · Support For More RAW Formats & Auto Orientation

Now supports RAW images from DJI Mavic 3 / 4 (using ljpeg Predictor 6) and automatically rotates RAW images.

RapidRAW 1.0.10 · Minor Improvements

RapidRAW 1.0.9 · Fixed Mask Alignment

RapidRAW 1.0.8 · The First Release