Mar 28 2026 APP 2.0.0-beta40 will be released in 7 days.
It did take a long time to have the work finished on this and it will have a major performance boost of 30-50% over 2.0.0-beta39 from calibration to integration. We extensively optimized many critical parts of APP. All has been tested to guarantee correct optimizations. Drizzle and image resampling is much faster for instance, those modules have been completely rewritten. Much less memory usage. LNC 2.0 will be released which works much better and faster than LNC in it's current state. And more, all will be added to the release notes in the coming weeks...
Update on the 2.0.0 release & the full manual
We are getting close to the 2.0.0 stable release and the full manual. The manual will soon become available on the website and also in PDF format. Both versions will be identical and once released, will start to follow the APP release cycle and thus will stay up-to-date to the latest APP version.
Once 2.0.0 is released, the price for APP will increase. Owner's license holders will not need to pay an upgrade fee to use 2.0.0, neither do Renter's license holders.
Hello Vincent, I made sure everything was default and went thru the whole process again and everything seems fine, getting plenty of color now, not sure what is different this time but I really appreciate the fast responses. I purchased APP full version a few days ago and I am sure I will enjoy using it, thanks again.
While and old post, it is still useful. Color-preserving arc sinh stretches have their uses, but integration time works for me in this sense with some tweaks to the saturation options in APP. I am using an OSC camera, 16-bit native and large full well (ASI2600MC). the increase color, especially depth of color in the image I find that HSL selective color tool to remove chrominance noise and background be desaturating all colors between 0 - background is a good first step. Then, in a standard 15% saturation (for example), I reduced the saturation threshold to about 5-% and that bring up a lot of the color depth. Although, I have not seen such a bleached out effect in APP since using the 1.082/3 versions, and I have never used the older versions myself.
