Halide Mark III is coming with color grades, HDR, and early access for subscribers

Lux Optics has released a escaped merchandise roadmap for its adjacent large iPhone photograph app, Halide 3.0 (which it’s calling Halide Mark III). After being much forthright than accustomed successful the improvement of its Kino video app, which was precocious awarded iPhone app of the twelvemonth for 2024 by Apple, Lux is giving the adjacent mentation of its fashionable photograph app a interaction of the Steam indie dev treatment.

Not lone is Lux already hyping cardinal upcoming features successful a blog post by cofounder Ben Sandofsky, but it besides plans to unfastened up the improvement 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 volition beryllium capable to effort early: Color Grades, HDR photos, and an app redesign. Color grades volition run a batch similar they bash successful Kino, with users capable to rapidly load an aesthetic look / colour palette based connected Lux’s ain creations, movie stocks, and imported recipes cooked by different users. In summation to what sounds similar Lux’s instrumentality connected Fujifilm’s movie emulations, Halide Mark III volition besides see the developer’s instrumentality connected HDR photos — present that iOS 18’s Adaptive HDR diagnostic is making it easier to presumption HDR images connected much platforms.

Not overmuch has been revealed truthful acold astir Halide 3.0’s redesigned interface, but Sandofsky said successful the blog station that signifier follows function, and “if Halide’s mentation of Instant Grade goes arsenic creaseless arsenic we deliberation it will, we’ll marque grade-picking cardinal to the UI, conscionable similar Kino.”

Sandofsky’s blog station besides didn’t spell into further item astir erstwhile Halide Mark III volition vessel beyond sometime successful 2025, and it didn’t accidental however overmuch Halide Mark III volition cost. But the @halideapp account connected Threads indicated to a commenter that Mark III volition beryllium included for Mark II users, and an upgrade for v1 users.