Shutter Stream Latest Release Notes

• Fixed the custom angles locale issue
• Changed custom angles increments to a minimum of 0.10
• Fixed potential bugs from bug reports

• Changed Nikon live view logic for Nikon Z6 camera
  
• Fixed Magic Wand wrong coordinates

• Fixed auto-select number not displaying correctly in thumbnails gallery

• Fixed crash with watermark settings

• Fixed Magic Wand tool with constrain not applying correctly because the mouse coordinates were miss-calculated
• Fixed re-shoot frame feature
• Background Removal has now editable input boxes. Now every user can manually change the value of Background Removal filters
• Fixed permission for imported files on Mac.  Importing read-only files generated write-only permissions and this generated black thumbnails and unusable files

• Fixed snap auto select when multi-row option is disabled
• Fixed import directory on mac

• Enabled input boxes for background removal and magic wand sliders

• Improved focus stacking for 360s
• Added ability to transfer Raw files to another software
• Added frame de flicker in edit window
• Fixed custom crop size

• Made the crop selection lines in live view to be the same as in the lasso tool

• Added thumbnails options dialog, added ability to sort thumbnails by name and date

• Fixed polygon lasso removing last point in double click and not removing the selected point

• Added undo for sliders in background removal

• Added Undo for background removal

• Fixed when exiting image edit, but you did not apply dewobbler, hiting apply to all should not be possible

• Added label with the number of selected thumbnails

• Added disable for multi row

• Show WSID in About and manual activation button for Focus Stacking

• Added scroll bars to focus stacking window

• Fixed crash when deleting last row

• Added degrees option for video 360

• Added busy progress bar when moving lens focus in focus stacking

• Added auto trim check box to crop out edge artifacts in focus stacking

• Fixed dynamic saving profile not saving tiff option

• Improve accuracy of Canon DSLR Focus Stacking, decreasing the speed

• Added Silver Series turntable settings
• Fixed Nikon re-select camera on macOS

• Fixed live view grid remaining on pictures after reconnect fails

• Fixed RAW files that are not in sync with .JPG

• Fixed ZCapture plugin to automatically search for all manufactures that contain Arduino boards

• Fixed accumulative, over and under, rotation errors when shooting large number of frames (more than 100 frames). In particular, this fixes errors noticed when capturing 360 jewelry, related to 1 frame under or over rotations and shooting over 100 frames.

• Fixed loading Arduino turntable on MacOS 10.15

• Fixed compression issue with tiff when doing jpeg to tiff conversion
• Fixed "Remind later" not working after license expired

• Fixed License server on macOS 

• New database support
• Fixed thumbnail selection when using scale on a high resolution monitor
• Prevent Transform tool(dewobbler) to be moved from outside of the viewport window

• Fixed export RAW files in Dynamic Saving window
• Fixed Lasso remembering smooth option

• Focus stacking in 360 mode
• Show Workstation ID in About dialog box
• Added manual activation button for Focus Stacking that opens an input dialog for the license key

• Added scroll bars to focus stacking window

• Fixed crash when importing a directory and delete all thumbnails

• Added email server information to send email in the Email UI window

• Fixed 360 Video mode with DSLR cameras
• Grammar fixes
• Added "Busy" progress bar when moving lens focus in Focus stacking
• Added Auto trim check box to crop out edge artifacts in Focus stacking
• Fixed Dynamic saving profile not saving tiff format
• Improve accuracy of Canon Focus stacking
• Added Silver turntable settings

• Fixed Focus Stacking on macOS with Nikon cameras
• Reselect camera issues with Nikon cameras

• Nikon cameras - Focus Stacking issues on macOS with 360

• Added right click menu to snap button, to toggle between normal snap and snap with focus stacking
• Fixed focus stacking result images order
• Fixed manual turntable entering a continuous loop
• Fixed revert cursor to lasso cursor after lasso apply

• Added ability to reshoot a frame in 360
• Added fine adjustment for crop position in live view using CTRL+Arrow buttons

• Added focus stacking when shooting 360

• Added confirmation message for: Restore and Restore All
• Added file name to exif info display
• Added Agisoft integration to Image Transfer

• Added row name tooltip to row spinbox (hover over the spin box to see the current row name)

• Added discard individual frames when shooting focus stacking images

• Drastically improve the Nikon connection time, now users don't need to move the Nikon modules and the connection is almost instant
• With this update, there should be no more crashes while searching for Nikon cameras

• Increased the sensibility for Nikon's manual focus buttons 10 times, to match Canon and for better fine tuning of the focus point

• Removed Read-only flag from imported files
• Removed duplicate shortcut for scrolling the thumbnails left/right
• Fixed Nikon focus point position change on MacOS

• Added Apply to all button to Lasso settings dialog
• Save focus stacking dialog geometry after closing
• Fixed save all focus stacking result images to one row (tab)
• Fixed polygon lasso right click apply
• Fixed keep live view on checkbox not saved

• Fixed snap export not saving png and raw files

• Fixed rotate transform when used with crop, lasso, dewobbler
• Fixed transform rotate not working when apply to all

• Fixed editing profiles not working in dynamic saving

• Canon EOS R model on Windows, SDK test message

• Updated Qt to Qt-5.11.3. This will hopefully fixed some issues with Nikon's latest SDK and older (than Mojave) Mac OS systems
• Many other minor updates in the editing tools, mostly workflow related issues

• Auto apply background removal option

• Fixed crop loosing ratio when draging outside the image

• Listed Jewelry table kind on Windows for the initial setup and in Iconasys Turntable mode
• Added Video option in 360 Menu, for capturing a complete 360 video with one turntable rotation

• Added "Jewelry" table kind for the new 4" turntable models, with stepper motor, new design

• Fixed unsharp mask filter with different image sizes

• Fixed more Nikon related issues:
  
  • Decreased steps for manual focus, for a slightly finer adjustment
  • Improved the focus point movement with the left-right and up-down arrows
• Added an additional USB port name, when searching for Arduino serial ports on Mac. This should help when searching for Arduino based turntables on Mac.

• Fixed camera searching crash on some MacOS systems
• Updated Nikon support
• Improved detecting connected cameras delay time
• Fixed lock-up that could happen when quickly changing Nikon camera settings

• Fixed live view for Nikon mirrorless cameras (Z7 and Z6)
• Added warning dialogs and disabled features that are not supported by the SDK for the mirrorless cameras, features such as auto-focus.

• Fixed send email functionality (new eMail account has beed added, older versions will not function with the old email account).
• Fixed an intermittent issue with Sony cameras' ability to capture at full resolution without reconnecting.

• Fixed dead-lock (crashes) for some Nikon cameras.

• Fixed crash related to Arduino turntables after the turntables were disconnected.

• Fixed crash related to deleting selected thumbnails under certain circumstances.

• Fixed integration issues related with the latest release of Nikon SDKs on Mac. Nikon cameras were sometimes freezing after taking pictures, due to a multi-thread locking issue. The thread locking issue was fixed in this version.
• Fixed auto-update links

• Added support for Nikon Z6 and better Nikon cameras compatibility with MacOS 10.14

• Integrated crop fixes found in version 6.0

• Added "Background removal options" dialog and added option to apply Background Removal after capture.
• Added support for 360 video recording in 360 capture.
• Added raw save option to batch saving, which allows exporting RAW files on capture. This means that Shutter Stream can now capture a raw file and save it automatically to a desired folder. See "Snap export options ..."
• Added splash screen with links to self help, knowledge base (KB) articles and videos
• Added tethered shooting with Nikon and Canon cameras. (When live view is off, images can be snapped via the snap button on the camera and they get automatically uploaded to Shutter Stream.)
• Minor UI updates
• Support for "variable names" in Dynamic saving. If using the variables: [day], [month], [year] inside a directory or file name, the current day, month or year number (respectively) will be inserted in the directory or file name.
• Added support for multiple licenses: Mobile, Captureless, Mobile+360, Base+360

• Small fixes for Crop Options

• Fixed: square crop consistency
• Fixed: upper case email address validators

• Fixed: custom crop ratio in Live View

• Fixed: prevent user from starting 360 shooting when the turntable is already rotating

• Minor fixed for Auto-Updates

• Major updates to Background Removal (BR)
  • Added speck removal to remove small non-transparent regions. This works in conjunction with hole filling.
  • Added support for region growing or contiguous constraint. This option works similarly to Photoshop's, when clicked, only the regions that have similar errors and are connected to the location of the click coordinates, will be removed. This applies to both types of BR: solid color and background image.
  • Added support for mask growing. This is very important in removing the halo effect seen when a light background is removed and replaced by a dark background or the other way around. This feature applies to all BR tools.
  • BR now supports RGBA, not just RGB, input images.
  • BR can now be applied multiple times to same image, with the option of keeping the BR dialog opened as multiple BRs are applied sequentially.
  • Added "Magic wand" as a tool that allows you to more easily click and remove backgrounds in multiple steps. Somewhat similar to what Photoshop has, but not quite the same.
• Added pointer / select tool as a way to escape from other tools, such as lasso.
• Added shortcut M for Magic Wand and V for Select Tool
• Remember last used Lasso option
• Added floats to custom angles and nudge spin boxes, to allow non-integer rotation angles. This increases accuracy and precision when using high counts stepper tables, such as the Platinum series. There was a bug where we couldn't shoot 1000 images per rotation, for tables that support over 1000 steps per revolution. This has now been fixed.
• Changed center points of Hue, Contrast, Brightness, Saturation to be values of 0
• First version of x64 on Windows (Mac was always x64)
• Add maintenance agreement expiration Information in About
• Implemented drop-down Help Menu with links to KB articles
• Added right click apply for lasso select
• Added 'Check for updates' option in About menu
• Added support for setting the output background color for transform algorithms, which include: de-wobbler, add canvas and rotation.
• Added support for arbitrary alpha transparency when applying a lasso cut.
• Added arbitrary rotation (i.e. non-90-degree multiples).
• Improved overall support of RGBA image processing in all pipelines.
• Improved image processing pipeline speed by 20%-30%. Memory usage in the processing pipeline now uses ping-pong memory to maximize memory reuse and to minimize memory creation and destruction.
• Added new Captureless license type. This works in conjunction with the 360 View Creator to allow image editing when creating 360 views.
• Added support for exporting images from ShutterStream directly to the 360 View Creator.
• Upgraded to latest CanonSDK (3.9.0) with added support for the following cameras:
  • EOS M50 / EOS 2000D / EOS 4000D / EOS M100 are supported.
  • EOS M50 is the first EOS Mirrorless Camera to support remote shooting function.
  • EOS R series are supported
• Upgraded Nikon SDK to their latest version: 2018-Oct-23, with support for mirrorless Nikon Z7 camera
  
• 5.1.25715 version to test Carousel plugin, 5.1.25652 release of x64 version to test potential fixed for Nikon D850
  

• Disabled Focus Stacking (Experimental) from Options menu

• Fixed re-select crash when multiple Nikons connected at start

• Fixed Add canvas color picker not working on mac

• Fixed bug with 360 dialog when appears outside the screen
• Fixed lasso applying when you hit a key other than ESC key

• Fixed thumbnail not updating after background removal
• Fixed lasso polygon line colors on MacOS
• Fixed jpeg images not resizing at export
• Fixed Sony re-select camera

• Fixed Nikon D850 when capturing JPG FINE images.  
• Fixed displaying Grid Lines

• Earlier versions supported only 3 compression levels of JPG, now we support infinite.
• Fixed Nikon D850 when capturing JPG Fine images

• Fixed dewobbler on square image files
• Fixed duplicated thumbnails when deleting full row
• Added more EXIF informations to the written image
• Fixed metadata write issues on Windows

• Fixed Restore Image with some image file types

• Only change advanced settings when choosing table kind
• Minor update fix

• Added video license info in About box
• Fixed Auto and Manual options in 360 menu dialog
• Prevent user to Start the 360 rotation process dialog if no turntable is connected

• Fixed Nikon camera freeze on some Mac devices
• Added latest User Guide

• Fixed Image Rename when applying Instant Export option

• Fixed 360 Window Resize

• Fixed Saving the Overlay Image
• Updates for Nikon focus implementation
• Focus point area is visible in live view window for Nikon and Canon cameras
• Apply resize before adding images to fixed view alignment with large images
• Changed “Table kind" to "Model" names

• Fixed continuous spin mode for older turntable model

• Added message before the main focus stack dialog
• fixed crash when removing BR background thumbnails
• fixed crash when adding background images from different camera list (tabs)

• Added a description of how to install FTDI Drivers in About window box

• Fixed install FTDI driver on MacOS

• Added Enable/Disable feature for Sony camera
• Change Iconasys Turntable UI to be auto snap for default

• Added video license info in About box
• Minor update fix
• Only change advanced settings when choosing table kind
• Fixed Auto and Manual options in 360 menu dialog
• Prevent user to Start the 360 rotation process dialog if no turntable is connected
• Added a description of how to install FTDI drivers in About window box
• Added a new transparency option to 'Add Canvas' filter
• Remove the restriction for re-selecting Nikon cameras in Re-select camera menu
• Added thumbnails image counter
• Added input box to set how many degrees the 1 turn (1 play) button does. The short term is 'Nudge'. Also enabled custom angles spin box 
  to be edited and force value to be multiple of 5 if the standard turntable is set.
• Added Enable/Disable feature for Sony camera
• Show version in ShutterStream titlebar
• Ability to replicate an existing image in SHS (Ctrl+N / Command+N)
• Added option for Grid color on Live View
• Added delete shortcut for lasso select
• Added Disable Mirror Slap(ms) in live view option
• Added shortcuts in Edit window

. to go to next image

, go to previous image

CTRL + , go to first image

CTRL + . go to last image

(on macOS use: COMMAND +. and COMMAND + ,)

U restore original image

• Added shortcuts to Main window

. to go to next image

, go to previous image

ctrl+. go to last image

ctrl+, go to last image

O enable overlay

R reconnect to camera

SHIFT Hold Shift key in Live View and Edit Window to Create a Square Crop

• Added support for stepper motor and complete redesign the Iconasys turntable controller and related UI:

Added setings for "Platinum Large, V1" turntables

Added  Motor enable is active high, Motor enable is active low radio buttons

Added Lock table when idle, Unlock table when idle radio buttons

Includes speed and direction control (clockwise, counter-clockwise)

Added support for Custom Angles

• Added shortcut "I" for import directory, up/down for changing camera rows
• Added live view (software) zoom option
• Fixed video frames order
• Removed empty thumbnail rows at startup and when all images for that row are removed
• Fixed duplicated thumbnails at first snap with new camera
• Full control for Sony camera
• Full control of iOS and Android devices camera (no ability to manual focus or zoom)
• Ability to edit EXIF meta-data
• Ability to choose background removal color with mouse cursor picker
• Added smoothing radius and preview to lasso selection 
• Added images alignment (weighted average) in Editing window
• Added Nikon D850 and Nikon D5, with these updates, now
• Ability to change the live view image resolution
• Remember last background path in the UI
• Remember last alpha blend option
• Auto-update between major Shutter Stream builds
• Integrated stepper-motor SDK in ShutterStream with all features of stepper motor included
• Added support for multi-turns with the new SDK and added UI for Turntable locking when idle
• Integrated resize for live view for all cameras
• Fixed black thumbnails issue on some macOS display profiles
• Added setup window to configure turntable at first use of 360 window
• Added drop-down with pre-defined settings for Iconasys turntables
• Added custom number of turns and custom number of frames input box

• Lots of updates to the 360 Controller

• Fixed black thumbnails issue
• Added support for Counter Turntables to new SDK

• ShutterStream-4.1.25028.pkg only. Added support for Nikon D7500.

• ONLY for testing black thumbs on Mac

• First version to support stepper motors with the new multi-threaded SDK.
• Also has full support for all functions in the turntable control panel.

• ONLY for testing black thumbs on Mac.

• Auto-update between major Shutter Stream builds
• Users cannot use Restore function while in editing mode: either press 'Apply' to save the changes or press 'Reset' to clear the changes

• Fixed the image editing when applying filter presets saved in 3.0

• Enlarge the image edit view layout such that user can press the mouse outside of the view (20 px), useful for cropping margins on the images using lasso tool
• Fixed Canon 'Reconnect to camera' function

• New option to disable blinking in Background Removal
• Fixed image transfer options

• Fixed histogram left slider to have a limit when moving
• Fixed saving transparent tiff images to be able to correctly view the result in Photoshop series
• Lasso can be applied to all images from now on
• The output from lasso always has an RGBA pixel representation, the same as regular background removal where the output is always with alpha channel
• Lasso polygon can be drawn over any opaque color (black, white, etc.)