Pixea 8.1 features new depth-based adjustments, strong geometry reconstruction fill mode for the Eraser tool, and new filters.

New depth-based adjustments
• Lens blur
• Depth of field
• Focus
• Depth-based exposure, saturation, and color temperature

Eraser tool
• Conservative background fill mode
• Strong geometry reconstruction fill mode (Apple Silicon only, model is downloaded upon request)
• Sharpness is improved when erasing large objects

Search for similar images with new filters
• Duplicates
• Near Match
• Related

Other improvements
• Clone tool fixes
• Memory usage for batch processing is optimized
• DDS image format support
• VOB and RM video format support
• Improved HDR support
• Minor UI fixes
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Bug fixes and improvements:
• WebP lossless export could apply compression in some cases
• Some images could be zoomed incorrectly after the first run
• Minimum window width could be set incorrectly when opening images from Recents

Pixea 8 introduces a built-in Batch Editor, group actions in Media Browser, refined image editing UI, and new image adjustment tools.

New adjustment tools and UI updates
• Hue, Saturation, and Brightness per selected color tool
• LUT filters tool (30+ built-in filters, custom 3D LUT cube files import)
• Color curve tool
• Straighten horizon tool
• Perspective correction tool
• Image overlay tool
• Watermark tool
• Option to compare the adjusted image with the original
• Group actions in Media Browser: Batch Edit, Convert, Move, Copy to Clipboard, and Remove to Trash
• Context Rename action

Pixea+ Batch Editor
• Apply image adjustments to a set of images
• Global and per-image settings
• Presets for image adjustments
• Resize or upscale images
• 10 export formats, including HEIC, AVIF, and JPEG XL

Improved image formats support
• PPM and HEIF formats reading support
• AVIF and HEIC animated image support
• SCV sequences, selected CCTV cameras support
• CBZ comic books
• New export formats: AVIF and HEIC

Other improvements
• New options: Autoplay video files, Autoplay animated image files, Scroll to zoom
• Bug-fixes related to HDR content export
• Bug-fixes related to JPEG XL export
• Performance improvements
• Legacy Eraser tool V1 was removed, as announced earlier
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Pixea 7.1 introduces filtering, new sorting options, and metadata support.

Metadata support:
• Pixea can display and change tags and ratings
• XMP sidecar files support
• New hotkeys for rating media files
• Option to skip metadata processing for network drives

Filters & Sorting options:
• Filter by type, tags, or rating
• Sort by date taken or rating

Other bug fixes and improvements:
• Zooming options fixes
• Tiling menu and shortcuts fixes
• New option: Always smooth when zoomed in
• "Drive cannot be ejected" issue has been fixed
• Liquid glass theme improvements
• Video playback improvements
• Other bug fixes and improvements

• Fix for grayscale 16-bit images
• Fix for the issue when Pixea may not properly display some UI elements on legacy macOS versions

Pixea 7.0 features macOS Tahoe support, Liquid Glass theme, and new UI customizations.

macOS Tahoe support
• New dynamic Liquid Glass theme
• Option to switch to Classic theme
• Dark and tinted icon support

UI customizations
• New "Fit window to image" option
• New "Window background" option
• Choose between square and full thumbnails in Media Browser

Other updates and improvements:
• Improved RAW support
• HIF files support
• Pixea 7.0 requires macOS 11 and later
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Pixea 6.3 introduces several enhancements, including Theater Mode, On-Screen Display, improved subfolders management, and performance optimizations.

Theater mode
• Pixea 6.3 can dim other applications when browsing or viewing media files
• Customizable level of dimming

Subfolders management
• New hierarchy view in Media Browser
• Ignore Hierarchy option for autoscanning subfolders
• Customize the autoscan depth (from 1 to 5 levels)

On-Screen Display and new UI customizations
• On-Screen Display when playing videos
• Hide Toolbars option for truly minimalistic appearance

Other updates and improvements:
• HGL HDR Support
• Set Image as Wallpaper action
• Treat unknown media files as Image/Video option
• File name in Status Bar
• Fine Zoom: hold Shift key for precise zooming
• Control+Click as a right-click support
• Revamped Settings
• Improved performance and RAM usage when browsing extremely large folders
• Improved folder access management
• Improved RAW support
• Improved external displays support
• Other bug fixes and improvements

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Pixea 6.2 adds support for 11 new languages. With this update, we've also added HDR image processing, improved performance and stability.

HDR Support
• Pixea 6.2 supports import, export, and editing of HDR images
• New "Process HDR images" option in Settings

Localizations
• New languages: Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian. 
• Found a typo? Submit to https://github.com/imagetasks/Pixea-Localizations

Other updates and improvements:
• Image adjustment tools are now up to 3x faster
• New toolbar in media browser
• New animation when toggling full-screen mode
• Performance improvements when working with large folders
• Performance improvements when generating thumbnails
• Images preloading when browsing zip archives
• Improved RAW support
• Improved image resampling with Lanczos filtering
• Right-click on an EXIF property and copy selection in the Info Panel
• Fixed an issue where some videos were scaled incorrectly
• Fixed an issue where EXIF metadata was missing after export
• Fixed an issue where Lanczos minification filter was reset back to linear
• Other bug fixes and improvements

Pixea 6.1 features new image formats support and a built-in RAW engine. We're starting the Pixea Localizations project, where you can submit found typos and issues and help us with new localizations. For more info, navigate to Help → Localizations menu.

Built-in RAW rendering engine:
• More cameras are now supported, including the latest Fujifilm models, like GFX100 II and many others
• Now you can choose between macOS renderer and built-in to display RAW files
• Up to 3x faster when processing RAW files with the built-in rendering engine

Image filtering:
• Choose from Linear, Trilinear, and Lanczos

New export formats:
• JPEG XL, including animated images
• WebP, including animated images

Other updates and improvements:
• Full JPEG XL support for all macOS versions
• Bug fixes and improvements

We are thrilled to release Pixea 6, the biggest update we've ever published! It brings the all‑new Media Browser, introduces enhancements to AI-powered tools, as well as a refined new design, dozens of small features and bug fixes.

Media Browser
• Enjoy the all-new way to browse media folders and archives
• Add folders to favorites
• Search for images and video files

Object Removal Tool V2
• Pixea 6 brings huge improvements to the Object Removal Tool: version 2 features great accuracy and high-resolution support to achieve amazing results.

Subfolders support
• Subfolders in Media Browser
• New subfolders menu in Media Window
• Hierarchy support for zip archives

Sorting
• Sort directories and archives by name, type, size or date
• Shuffle option

Other updates and improvements:
• Photo location is shown on the map in the Details Panel
• New context menu in Thumbnails Panel
• Confirmation when deleting files
• Support for password-protected zip files
• CR3-format support
• New thumbnailing engine: up to 2x times faster
• New image preloading engine
• Updated permissions storage: Pixea will ask for access less frequently, subfolders are always accessible now
• Settings redesign
• Animation for Previous/Next media actions
• New option: When opening images - Use existing window for any folder
• New option: Ignore zip hierarchy
• Include EXIF metadata option when exporting images
• New shortcuts: Edit with: App #1-#5
• New Welcome screen
• Over 50+ small fixes

* Some features require Pixea Plus in-app purchase. Object Removal Tool V2 requires macOS 13 or higher. V1 is used on lower macOS versions. V1 will be removed in future updates.

- AVIF support
- Status bar in full-screen mode option
- Stability improvements
- UX improvements
- Bug fixes

- Text Selection tool
- Opacity setting for Clone tool
- Draggable toolbars and panels
- DPI support for printing and resampling.
- Stability improvements
- UX improvements
- Bug fixes

- Bug fixes and improvements
- macOS Sonoma support

- New Image-editing tools: 

Adjust hue, saturation, brightness, exposure, lights, shadows, sharpness, tint, and color temperature. Crop and Resample images. Remove any object with Object Removal* and Clone tools.

- New Toolbar
- Export image as GIF
- "Always show status bar" option
- "Always ask to save changes" option
- "Swipe left/right to show previous/next image" option
- Bug fixes and improvements

*Object Removal tool requires macOS 11 or higher and Pixea Plus in-app purchase.

- Bug fixes and improvements

- Status bar
- Redesigned preferences
- Bug fixes and improvements

- "Always keep window on top" option
- Specify file types to search for in the current folder
- Keyboard shortcuts fix for non-QWERTY keyboards
- Fix for portrait videos
- Bug fixes and improvements

- Built-in video player with MP4, MOV, A4V, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, and MKV video formats support
- New icons and other UI improvements
- Share button
- "Actual Size: pixel/points" setting
- "Quit Pixea when the last window is closed" option
- "Keep aspect ratio when resizing" option
- Improved copy/paste functionality
- Split view mode fix
- Other bug fixes and improvements

- Swipe left/right to jump to the next/previous image
- Single Del key can now be used as a shortcut
- Bug fixes and improvements

- New zooming engine
We have redesigned the zooming engine for better browsing and zooming experience. No more unwanted window centering when jumping between previous and next images.

- Super Resolution 
2x and 4x upscaling powered by machine learning. Sharpen and upscale a photo without losing its content instead of mathematically interpolating the values of pixels as done by the regular scaling algorithms.

- UI updates
- Bug fixes and improvements

Bug fixes and improvements

- New "Fixed Size and Position" zoom mode
- Fixed a bug causing crash when browsing ZIP-files
- Bug fixes and improvements

- New icon
- Thumbnails caching options
- Thumbnails Panel customizations (requires Pixea Plus Upgrade via in-app purchase)
- Keyboard shortcuts (requires Pixea Plus Upgrade via in-app purchase)
- macOS Ventura support
- Bug fixes and improvements

- New icon
- macOS Big Sur support
- Universal Binary
- Bug fixes and improvements

Bug fixes and improvements