Halide Mark Iii Is Coming With Color Grades, Hdr, And Early Access For Subscribers

Lux Optics has released a loose merchandise roadmap for its adjacent ample iPhone photograph app, Halide 3.0 (which it’s calling Halide Mark III). After being overmuch forthright than accustomed successful nan betterment of its Kino video app, which was precocious awarded iPhone app of nan twelvemonth for 2024 by Apple, Lux is giving nan adjacent type of its celebrated photograph app a touch of nan Steam indie dev treatment.

Not only is Lux already hyping cardinal upcoming features successful a blog station by cofounder Ben Sandofsky, but it too plans to unfastened up nan betterment process via a Discord server, wherever users tin springiness feedback erstwhile they commencement trying Halide Mark III.

So far, Lux has elaborate 3 upcoming features for Halide Mark III that subscribers will beryllium tin to effort early: Color Grades, HDR photos, and an app redesign. Color grades will tally a batch for illustration they do successful Kino, pinch users tin to quickly load an creator look / colour palette based connected Lux’s ain creations, movie stocks, and imported recipes cooked by different users. In summation to what sounds for illustration Lux’s return connected Fujifilm’s movie emulations, Halide Mark III will too spot nan developer’s return connected HDR photos — now that iOS 18’s Adaptive HDR characteristic is making it easier to position HDR images connected overmuch platforms.

Not overmuch has been revealed truthful acold astir Halide 3.0’s redesigned interface, but Sandofsky said successful nan blog position that style follows function, and “if Halide’s type of Instant Grade goes arsenic soft arsenic we deliberation it will, we’ll make grade-picking cardinal to nan UI, conscionable for illustration Kino.”

Sandofsky’s blog position too didn’t spell into further point astir erstwhile Halide Mark III will alloy beyond sometime successful 2025, and it didn’t opportunity really overmuch Halide Mark III will cost. But nan @halideapp relationship connected Threads indicated to a commenter that Mark III will beryllium included for Mark II users, and an upgrade for v1 users.