One page editor for Print and Publish, test strips and proofs you can print from, scanners and cameras you can add
- NewPrint and Publish (until now Post) share one page editor. The settings you change most sit on the page itself, above and below it, and follow what you click: background, margins, grid and gap for a page; crop, border and corners for a photo; font, size, colour and alignment for text. Select several boxes and change them together, or switch on Every page together and change the whole layout, post or zine at once.
- NewTest strips: brightness, warm–cool or black point, in bands of one picture or whole copies, or two tests mixed in one grid, every copy labelled. Crop and turn one band and the whole test follows. Pick the setting that looked right on paper and every later print of that photo gets it.
- NewProofs at the real size of A4 to 1 × 2 m, several formats on one sheet, each with its dpi and the distance it looks sharp from printed under it.
- NewZines: the whole sheet in the side panel, and a large preview as printed or as it reads once folded. Print asks for printer and paper first, and is several times faster: photos come from their preview whenever it is large enough.
- NewRight-click a frame: Print ▸ a single print, a layout, a test strip, a proof or a zine; Publish ▸ any post size or one of your templates.
- NewAdd your scanner or camera to Spool: a film scanner or a tethering camera that is not on the list sends what it is and what it can do, after you see all of it. The list is on the new Scanners & cameras page.
- New0.9.2: on Windows the report can record your scanner or camera at work in its own software. Spool carries the USB recorder (USBPcap), installs it after Windows asks for permission, records after one restart, keeps only that device's traffic and uninstalls the recorder afterwards.
- Fixed0.9.1: the zone tabs above Balance in Lab are readable in the light interface, a new proof starts with the photo picked in the Library, and pictures on a page are placed correctly while they load.
- Fixed0.9.2: in the light interface the histogram and the tone curve in Lab follow the interface instead of staying black.
- New0.9.3: Color Grading — a wheel each for highlights, midtones and shadows, with Luminance under each wheel, and Blending and Balance for where the zones meet.
- New0.9.3: the Color Mixer opens By colour — the eight colours as swatches, with Hue, Saturation and Luminance for the one picked — or By property, one property across all eight. A changed colour or property keeps a mark while another is on screen.
- New0.9.3: Print and Publish save every page of a layout, carousel or zine into one PDF. Export ▸ Spool file saves a photo with its conversion, crop and edit, for someone else to open in Spool exactly as you left it. Exports run in the background with a progress bar.
- Fixed0.9.3: an edit made with the curve and the mixer in quick succession is kept whole in the exported file; JPEG and PDF match the screen and PNG/TIFF; prints with a paper profile no longer get coloured blacks from the printer driver; a curve point is removed with a double-click again.
- ImprovedExposure works in stops on linear light: +1 doubles the light, as under the enlarger. Lower memory use and faster previews.