Hey everyone,
a new version of Aspect has been released: 1.0.0-preview.24 (view blog post). You’ll find the download links at the bottom of this post. Simply install over the existing installation to upgrade. The following changes and additions are included:
New features
- Added support for defining custom metadata fields
- Fields can be added, removed and edited at the bottom of the metadata pane
- Fields can be marked as favorites, making them readily available for all images
- Searching for custom fields is supported as a semantic search expression in the search bar
Enhancements
- The “edit raw” context menu entry is now also available when selecting edited files
- Images that have not been full imported are not analyzed anymore, speeding up imports
- Added support for custom window frames on Linux
- Large images are now loaded on a tile-by-tile basis, making the theoretical image size unlimited
- Relaxed the rules for re-importing files in “copy” when the modification time changes
- Added support for ICC color profiles in PSD files
- The event and organization panes now never show a horizontal scroll bar
- Removed selection related menu entries from the popup menu
- Replaced the two separate “all files”/“workspace” buttons with a single drop-down to avoid too many tab-like controls in one place
- Hovering over the “workspace” entry now also grays out non-image files, in addition to images hidden from the workspace
- Clicking on the “photo stream” item in the event pane will now leave the local collection, if any is currently selected
- Emblems on thumbnails are now scaled down for very small thumbnail sizes
- The welcome dialog is now only shown if the trial period has expired, enabling a cleaner startup experience
- The file relation bubble now has section headers overlayed by the scroll bar, similar to the film strip
- Simplified the buttons of the local collection bar, indicating the shortcut more clearly as such
- Added a “create event form paragraph” entry to the paragraph menu
- Thumbnails are now displayed for scanned HEIF images
Bug fixes
- Fixed a possible crash when new files are added to the library folder externally
- Fixed a random crash that could occur after using the menu
- Fixed a crash that occurred when switching to the metadata pane using the “view” menu
- Fixed a possible crash that could occur after cancelling an import
- Fixed a regression that resulted in thumbnails not being updated, introduced by 1.0.0-preview.23
- Fixed a crash that occurred when a “Aspect Individual Photos File.aspectnode” file got replaced by an external application
- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading PSD files with certain layer mask types
- Fixed a crash that occurred when loading Canon CR3 files
- Fixed the progress indicated during imports in case any potential import files are skipped as likely duplicates
- Fixed crashes related to multiple windows on Linux
- Fixed strange behavior of numeric edit fields in the export dialog
- Fixed some misplaced selection rectangles in list/tree views
- Fixed the example path displayed in the settings dialog when configuring library path patterns
- Fixed recognition of newly exported files in the file relation bubble
- Fixed displaying collection shortcuts as upper case within the overflow menu of the local collection bar
- Fixed display of positive GPS altitude values within the metadata pane
- Fixed loading capture time and other string based EXIF fields from HEIF images
- Fixed the amount of RAM displayed in the settings dialog
- Fixed local collection items above the 9th not getting a numeric shortcut assigned
- Fixed the event/collection links in the metadata not having an effect
Feel free to leave any feedback here or in the bug reports sub forum. Thanks for helping to shape a new way of organizing photos!
Please remember: Even though the software is reasonably stable at this point, always make a backup of your data, or work with a copy of it, when using pre-release software.
Download
Windows installer
macOS bundle
Linux AppImage (experimental)