Lux Optics has launched a free product roadmap for its subsequent large iPhone picture app, Halide 3.0 (which it’s calling Halide Mark III). After being extra forthright than traditional within the improvement of its Kino video app, which was lately awarded iPhone app of the 12 months for 2024 by Apple, Lux is giving the following model of its common picture app a contact of the Steam indie dev remedy.
Not solely is Lux already hyping key upcoming options in a weblog put up by cofounder Ben Sandofsky, nevertheless it additionally plans to open up the event course of through a Discord server, the place customers may give suggestions as soon as they begin making an attempt Halide Mark III.
Up to now, Lux has detailed three upcoming options for Halide Mark III that subscribers will be capable to strive early: Coloration Grades, HDR pictures, and an app redesign. Coloration grades will function rather a lot like they do in Kino, with customers capable of rapidly load an aesthetic look / shade palette based mostly on Lux’s personal creations, movie shares, and imported recipes cooked by different customers. Along with what appears like Lux’s tackle Fujifilm’s movie emulations, Halide Mark III may also embrace the developer’s tackle HDR pictures — now that iOS 18’s Adaptive HDR function is making it simpler to view HDR photographs on extra platforms.
Not a lot has been revealed up to now about Halide 3.0’s redesigned interface, however Sandofsky stated within the weblog put up that type follows operate, and “if Halide’s model of Prompt Grade goes as clean as we predict it’s going to, we’ll make grade-picking central to the UI, identical to Kino.”
Sandofsky’s weblog put up additionally didn’t go into additional element about when Halide Mark III will ship past someday in 2025, and it didn’t say how a lot Halide Mark III will price. However the @halideapp account on Threads indicated to a commenter that Mark III can be included for Mark II customers, and an improve for v1 customers.
