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.
The file chooser is driving me nuts.
1) When I select a file to open (using the "Other/Processed" button), please open that file in the viewer immediately rather than just adding it to the file list. I can't think of a single time I selected a file and didn't want to at least look at it to make sure I picked the right one. If I have a long list of files the new one is added off the bottom where it isn't visible, making me wonder if I even opened it...
2) CMD-A is the macOS standard for picking all files...please use that as all mac users are accustomed to that.
Thanks
Hi @roscoed,
Which APP version are you using?
1) This is not possible, you can open a batch of files with all those buttons. I can however make it possible, that if only 1 is loaded, it is immediately loaded into the image viewer.
2) Please see these 2 topics where the issue is already being discussed and please continue there, the latest APP version supports CMD-A (again) but it is not a native chooser, the macOS native chooser does not support CMD-A weirdly enough so we changed this recently :
Mabula
Beta 26 (odd, because I had forgotten that and went back to edit the post to add it...never showed up)
Thanks
