2.1 - April, 2005
Platforms Supported: Mac OS X, Windows 2000/XP, Linux, FreeBSD
Experimental Support: Windows 95/98/ME
NEW FEATURES / FEATURE ENHANCEMENTS:
- New mosaic manipulation!
- New Radiant theme!
- Aspect ratio selection usability improvements (smarter placement with regard to rotating selections, positioning, and support for tall photos)
- Improved B/W and Sepia effects (weights now based on modern display phosphor characteristics)
- Added French translation
- German translation brought up to date
MINOR IMPROVEMENTS:
- Rewrote AlbumShaper.pro project file to support changing install location on Unix systems
- Changed "Disable checking for..." checkbox to "Check for photo modifications..." under settings
- Cut down window and dialog title text by removing "Album Shaper: " prefix
- Fixed alert dialogs to handle long message translations
- Various spelling mistakes and other minor visible text improvements
- Fixed fonts in status area and various dialogs
- Cosmetic fixes regarding buttons and layout in Save as dialog
- Added missing red color to some button references in help system
BUG FIXES:
- Fixed a bug where dropping objects from the desktop / file browsers on album / collection image caused Album Shaper to crash
- Fixed a bug where Album Shaper would crash when trying to edit 8 bit grayscale and color images
- Fixed a bug where after removing photos in a collection the edit tab and various buttons below were still enabled
- Fixed a threading bug in the file preview feature that could cause the program to hang
- Fixed the rare 0kb bug! (reverting a photo sometimes caused the photo to be corrupted)
- Disabled user input while loading albums
- Fixed a bug where loading recent albums using the keyboard shortcuts could cause Album Shaper to crash
- Fixed a bugs where using save-as to copy an album from one location to another did not copy over the original form of an image
- Fixed minor bug in Slick theme where carriage returns in photo descriptions caused problems in slide show mode
- Fixed a bug in the Metallic theme where collections that had no cover images could not be reached using the navigation bar
- Fixed various compiler warnings under Linux / FreeBSD