Halide Mark III is coming with colour grades, HDR, and early entry for subscribers

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 normal within the growth of its Kino video app, which was not too long ago awarded iPhone app of the 12 months for 2024 by Apple, Lux is giving the subsequent model of its standard 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, however 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.

Thus far, Lux has detailed three upcoming options for Halide Mark III that subscribers will have the ability to strive early: Colour Grades, HDR images, and an app redesign. Colour grades will function rather a lot like they do in Kino, with customers capable of rapidly load an aesthetic look / colour palette primarily based on Lux’s personal creations, movie shares, and imported recipes cooked by different customers. Along with what feels like Lux’s tackle Fujifilm’s movie emulations, Halide Mark III may also embrace the developer’s tackle HDR images — now that iOS 18’s Adaptive HDR function is making it simpler to view HDR pictures on extra platforms.

Not a lot has been revealed to date about Halide 3.0’s redesigned interface, however Sandofsky mentioned within the weblog put up that kind follows perform, and “if Halide’s model of Prompt Grade goes as easy as we expect it should, 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 value. However the @halideapp account on Threads indicated to a commenter that Mark III shall be included for Mark II customers, and an improve for v1 customers.