GoKawiilJust a few days after releasing Halide Mark III, the folks at Lux are already getting ready to roll out Halide 3.1: Scarlet Edition. Here’s what’s coming.
Halide 3.1: Scarlet Edition out this Friday
With the update (via MacMagazine), scheduled to go live this Friday, July 10, Halide 3.1 will introduce a new batch of features, including new framing tools in the Frame tab.
In addition to allowing users to rotate and flip photos, Halide 3.1 will now also include a perspective correction tool that lets users scroll through a dial to get the perspective just right.
According to Lux, the tool is “similar to classic keystone correction, which photographers traditionally performed with view cameras or tilt-shift lenses.”
Here are two examples of perspective-corrected photos:
From Lux: “Before and after perspective correction. Notice the pillars are a bit more vertical.”
While the tool is mostly intended for light perspective corrections, Lux noted that “sometimes you can push corrections pretty far while retaining a realistic photo,” like in the example above.
In addition to the revamped Frame tab, Halide 3.1 is also getting a new look called Scarlet. In a nutshell, it is meant for photos where the user wants “reds to really pop.”
Here’s Lux:
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