2026-10-09 APP 2.0.0-beta48 has been released !
This is mainly a bug fix release for the reported bugs in beta47. In addition it has a significant User Interface performance improvement noticable when you need to process 1000s of images in APP.
2026-10-03 APP 2.0.0-beta47 has been released !
This is a very big release... many code optimizations/rewrites, many parts of APP are much faster and more precise, especially star analysis and registration are much faster ! Big mosaics will go much faster 🙂
And we introduce a new preview filter, which includes the new Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch and a General Levels Stretch, this has been long over due. The old preview filter (the panel on the right side to stretch and preview your data) has not been updated for a couple of years and it is a critical part of any APP session.
Adaptive Deep Sky Stretch or ADSS is a much more intuitive stretch algorithm. It is also color preserving (which is a great new addition in itself ! ) which means that the highlights are no longer bleached, color is maintained from the linear data while stretching. You can simply stretch your data using the sky background level and signal width sliders which work much easier and more intuitive. You no longer need to fiddle with the old complicated sliders with zoom buttons. All the zoom buttons for the sliders are made redundant. And you can enter slider values in the slider value fields yourself. I will make a youtube video in the coming days to explain and fully introduce ADSS. Once the video is ready, it will be highlighted on the forum.
RGB Combine upgrade !. The RGB Combine Tool has been rewritten mostly. The tool is faster and easier to use and most importantly, the Luminance slider to inject a luminance channel or channels into the RGB composite is now working correctly. It no longer bleaches the RGB colors. Combined with the new ADSS preview, you will get much better and easier great composites with great color! I will also explain this in a new youtube video.
hello
I have just installed the new version 1.083
I have not changed my computer nor my windows version
I can't load my raw files from my canon APN
File that I have already loaded with the old version
it puts the following error
LibRaw 2021-10 snapshot can't open/read this file...
thank's for your help
I found the solution it is a problem of path length in the hard disk my path is as follows:
J:\020-Mes Photos sur télescope\0030 Messier\M16 Nébuleuse de l'aigle S\2020-07-17 T\Dark\IMG_0841.CR2
I copied the directory 2020-07-17 T on the root now that works
thank you to inform me if it is not that
Hi Jean-Luc @jl-gozzi,
Thank you for sharing the issue. We are aware of it and are working to fix it.
The new libraw version broke character encoding on the windows platform which means that you can only load your raws if there only regular alphabet characters in the filepath and filename. So in your case, the problem is caused by the é characters and maybe even the ' .
I wil make sure that there will be fixed version soon available for download 😉
Mabula
Hello Mabula
I just tested it, I removed the "é" and it works perfectly.
For your information I left the apostrophe " ' " and it works perfectly.
Thank you for your quick reply.
Sincerely
Hello Mabula
I just tested it, I removed the "é" and it works perfectly.
For your information I left the apostrophe " ' " and it works perfectly.
Thank you for your quick reply.
Sincerely
Excellent @jl-gozzi,
I will make sure that it will soon work with non-alphabet characters as well again.
Mabula
