RapidRAW 1.3.9

AI Sky Masks

RapidRAW now supports one click sky masks. Just hit the sky mask button and RapidRAW will take care of masking the sky for you.

The pretrained model I’m using comes from this repo and shares the same architecture as the AI foreground model (u2net).

From my testing, the results are looking really solid:

Optimised Image Editing

One of the biggest bottlenecks in RapidRAW used to be the slow base64 bridge between the backend and frontend. Encoding/decoding large images added a ton of overhead when applying adjustments or just opening files.

That’s now fixed. I switched over to Tauri’s IPC response, which avoids the whole base64 step. The result: editing feels way smoother, and fullscreen zoom actually loads the full res image so you can check every pixel.

Full res zoom in action:

On top of that, I polished a bunch of animations (such as the curves etc) - the whole app should feel more fluid now:

Big thanks to @tobiaskuntzsch for the full res zoom and the new relative zoom slider: https://github.com/CyberTimon/RapidRAW/pull/223