Lux Optics has launched a unfastened product roadmap for its subsequent huge iPhone photograph app, Halide 3.0 (which it’s calling Halide Mark III). After being extra forthright than ordinary 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 widespread photograph app a contact of the Steam indie dev therapy.
Not solely is Lux already hyping key upcoming options in a weblog publish by cofounder Ben Sandofsky, but it surely additionally plans to open up the event course of by way of a Discord server, the place customers can provide suggestions as soon as they begin attempting Halide Mark III.
So far, Lux has detailed three upcoming options for Halide Mark III that subscribers will be capable of attempt early: Color Grades, HDR photographs, and an app redesign. Color grades will function lots like they do in Kino, with customers capable of rapidly load an aesthetic look / coloration palette primarily based on Lux’s personal creations, movie shares, and imported recipes cooked by different customers. In addition to what appears like Lux’s tackle Fujifilm’s movie emulations, Halide Mark III may also embody the developer’s tackle HDR photographs — now that iOS 18’s Adaptive HDR characteristic 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 stated within the weblog publish that kind follows perform, and “if Halide’s model of Instant Grade goes as clean as we expect it is going to, we’ll make grade-picking central to the UI, similar to Kino.”
Sandofsky’s weblog publish 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. But the @halideapp account on Threads indicated to a commenter that Mark III will probably be included for Mark II customers, and an improve for v1 customers.
