Halide 1.2 boosts your iPhone RAW shots with a new color histogram and smarter Smart RAW

Halide, the premium manual RAW photographic telly camera app for iPhone, was bumped on App Store terminal nighttime to version 1.2, bringing ii major enhancements that aid y'all capture amend photos.

The kickoff novel characteristic is an fifty-fifty smarter Smart RAW capability as well as the other is a handy colouring histogram which makes it existent slow to regard when a unmarried colouring channel is well-nigh to move clipped.

Smarter Smart RAW

Halide uses some clever tricks to acquire amend RAW files out of your iPhone, a characteristic they’re calling Smart RAW. Thanks to car learning, Halide 1.12’s updated Smart Raw makes to a greater extent than intelligent decisions around exposure to selection the best dynamic range.

For instance, the app optimizes exposure inwards Auto agency to improve the dynamic attain as well as farther trim back noise. “We’re incredibly excited well-nigh bringing computational photography to iPhone RAW shots,” developers noted.

Color histogram

Halide at 1 time includes a colouring histogram that lets y'all regard when a unmarried colouring channel is well-nigh to move clipped. If you’ve e'er snapped upward a dingy or washed out ikon inwards perfect lighting conditions, at 1 time y'all know why. Thankfully, the novel Halide comes to the rescue.

Simply tap the onscreen histogram to rapidly toggle betwixt colouring as well as luminance (a histogram makes a graph of where most of the colouring values inwards your ikon are).

Halide’s novel RGB histogram informs your ikon editing yesteryear giving y'all an at-a-glance overview of where the photograph mightiness move losing some colouring data.

Armed amongst this knowledge, y'all tin brand relevant edits such equally under-expose or over-expose the photo, increase or decrease brightness or contrast, as well as more—or brand other edits to brand your photographs seem equally faithful to the existent footing equally possible.

A novel app from the makers of Halide

Last simply non least, developers accept teased a novel upcoming app inwards Halide 1.2’s liberate notes. “If y'all honey Halide, we’re excited to tell we’re launching some other app afterwards this month,” it reads.

… as well as oh, some other rather huge feature. Smart RAW 1.5 got a lot smarter. This update brings car learning to Smart RAW, to ensure maximum dynamic attain as well as lower noise.

Computational photography, run into iPhone RAW. More on this when nosotros drib our novel app this month. pic.twitter.com/ha1F0FeVon

— Halide (@halidecamera) February 11, 2019

“This is a big deal,” they said of Halide’s novel colouring histogram feature. “We’ll accept to a greater extent than to percentage well-nigh this as well as this technology scientific discipline afterwards this month, when nosotros liberate our minute app.”

This Halide update is available at no accuse to existing users of the app.

Halide is a $5.99 download from App Store.

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