Lytro Desktop - Release Notes
Lytro Desktop 4.3.3 (Mac only)
December 9th, 2015
Improved Stuff
- Bug fix
- A bug preventing new first generation camera users running Mac OS X 10.10 from having their camera detected in Lytro Desktop 4 has been fixed.
Previous Versions
Lytro Desktop 4.3.2 (Mac only)
November 16th, 2015
Improved Stuff
- Various bug fixes
- [NTR-4297] A bug preventing Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan users from connecting their first generation Lytro cameras has been fixed.
Lytro Desktop 4.3.1
July 29th, 2015
New Stuff
- Windows 10 support
Improved Stuff
- Various bug fixes
Lytro Desktop 4.3
July 9th, 2015
New Stuff
- Preview
- Living picture preview - pictures can now be previewed without processing (fast import)
- Editing
- Depth map editing - You can now directly edit depthmaps within Lytro Desktop
- Edit in Photoshop - Integration for editing living pictures in Adobe Photoshop is now available
- Duplicate Pictures - Picture duplication is now possible
- Export
- Side-by-side 3D animations can now be exported
- Lenticular - Export option for lenticular printing now available
- Misc
- Processing State - Better communication of picture processing state and adjustment limitations
- ILLUM 2.0 software support
- Info Panel now supports:
- File Name
- RAW file (Yes/No)
- Interactive (Yes/No/Partial)
- Localization for Russian
Improved Stuff
Lytro Desktop 4.2.2
April 29th, 2015
Fixed Stuff
- 7-stack TIFF Exports, Editable Living Picture, now use the 00 image as the center frame.
Lytro Desktop 4.2.1
April 8th, 2015
New Stuff
- Share
- 500px support - share your living pictures to a 500px album.
- Adjust
- ‘Lens Flare Reduction’ - when selected, attempts to reduce lens flare artifacts
- ‘Chromatic Aberration Defringing’ - when selected, attempts to reduce color fringing artifacts.
- ‘Auto Tone’ button - when selected, attempts to adjust exposure and black levels to be more accurate and visually pleasing
- Processing
- In one-up view, images being processed will display a progress bar
Improved Stuff
- Adjust
- ‘Tilt’ control - Using 'Tilt' now displays realtime depth & focus visualization via the depthmap
- ‘Adjust’ tools are more logically categorized
- Share
- Improved Facebook sharing workflow - Sharing to Facebook no longer requires users to share those images in a public album on Lytro Web
- Improved pictures.lytro.com sharing workflow
- Etc
- Captions - Add/Modify picture captions in ‘Info’ as well as by clicking the caption symbol under the image in ‘Single Picture View’
- Flash Data - TTL flash data (when using the Viltrox TTL flash for Lytro Illum) is now displayed in the ‘Info’ panel
Lytro Desktop 4.1.2
February 24th, 2015
New Stuff
- Localization for Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Italian, and Spanish
Lytro Desktop 4.1.1
December 18th, 2014
Bugfix release
Fixed
- Windows - "Assertion Failed - Could Not Create Vertex Shader" bug
- Mac - Desktop Notification Update now works on all systems
Known Issues
- "Assertion Failed - Pointer Amok" bug affecting some Windows systems
Lytro Desktop 4.1.0
December 9th, 2014
New
- System Requirements (Mac)
- Requires MacOS 10.9 or higher
- MacOS 10.8 no longer supported
- Adjustments
- Focus Spread - Advanced Depth of Field control. Please see our Focus Spread tutorial video
- Added 6 color saturation sliders - Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta [ILLUM ONLY]
- Added 2 sharpness sliders - Detail, Masking [ILLUM ONLY]
- View depth map
- White balance eyedropper
- Detail 1:1 view
- Color histogram
- Keyframe Animations
- Perspective shift support
- Export
- Import/Export Lytro XRAW - Export Lytro RAW with pairing data & adjustment settings [ILLUM ONLY]
- WINDOWS ONLY - Manual import / export of pairing data (Will be added in MAC in the future)
- Share
- Share to an existing Web album
- Share Animation video directly to Facebook
- Thumbnails respect aperture settings
- Import from Camera
- Flag support - Pictures flagged in camera are processed first; quickly sort flagged pictures after processing via Flagged View [Requires ILLUM Camera Software 1.1 or higher]
- Picture processing
- Improved progress indication on thumbnail
Improved
- Image Quality
- Sharpness
- ‘Amount’ and ‘Radius’ sharpness adjustments have been made stronger and more impactful
- Tone Curve
- Red color blooming has been reduced
- Colors and contrast have been made more punchy
- Increased slider ranges - Tonal adjustments can be more impactful due to larger range
- Exports
- Exported JPGs & TIFs - Reduction of aliasing artifacts
- Rendering
- All rendering now done natively in DirectX for performance and render quality improvements [WINDOWS ONLY]
Fixed (Reported by Users - thanks!)
- WCS support added
- Vibrance/Saturation preview fixed to match final render
Known Issues
- "Assertion Fail" error on launch on certain Windows systems
- When selected, the white balance eyedropper does not change the mouse pointer to an eyedropper. This will be fixed in a future Desktop release.
Lytro Desktop 4.0.4
October 23rd, 2014
New Stuff
- Japanese Support
Fixed Stuff (Reported by Users - thanks!)
- NTR-2786 - prevents a crash if a WCS device profile is in use (NOTE - Full WCS support will be provided in a future Desktop 4 release)
- NTR-2652 - Keyframes pushed offscreen
- Crashing and hanging due to certain NVIDIA GeForce cards
Known Issues
- HD-206 - [MAC - WIN] - Adjustments - Vibrance Live adjustments preview of the picture is invalid
- WCS support will be added in a future Desktop release
- NTR-2619 - Desktop keeps prompting to update firmware after firmware updated
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- Workaround: Take a picture; this will prevent more update prompts
Lytro Desktop 4.0.3
Released September 17th, 2014
General (ALL BUILDS)
- IMPORTANT: Read this before upgrading from Desktop 3 to Desktop 4.
- Lytro Desktop 4 may exhibit performance or stability issues on unsupported computer hardware. Please see the Lytro Desktop 4 system requirements for details.
New Stuff
- None
Fixed Stuff
- Customer reported issues fixed - Thank you!!
- NTR-2617 - Library Migration from pre-Desktop 4.0.0 sometimes fails, resulting in an empty library after migration.
- Fixes a crash on Windows for some users when logging into Facebook via Lytro Desktop
Known Issues - Please let us know if you run into any of these via support@lytro.com
- NTR-2619 - Desktop keeps prompting to update firmware after firmware updated
- Workaround: Take a picture; this will prevent more update prompts
Lytro Desktop 4.0.2
Released September 8th, 2014
General (ALL BUILDS)
- IMPORTANT: Read this before upgrading from Desktop 3 to Desktop 4.
- Lytro Desktop 4 may exhibit performance or stability issues on unsupported computer hardware. Please see the Lytro Desktop 4 system requirements for details.
New Stuff
- French language support
- Interactive depth map is exported/imported when exporting an editable living picture (Export Format = 'Editable Living Picture')
- GPU Blacklist - Desktop won't install if user's graphics card is on the unsupported video card blacklist
Fixed Stuff
- Customer reported issues fixed - Thank you!!
- NTR 2528 - WIN - Exporting animation to PNG series missing
- NTR 2531 - Win Support for "Safely Remove Hardware"
- NTR 2313 - MAC & WIN - Delete after import functionally doesn't actually delete pictures on SD card
- Mac - Performance improvements for Perspective shift and refocus animation in presentation mode
- All - Extensive bug fixes, stability improvements, and performance enhancements
Known Issues - Please let us know if you run into any of these via support@lytro.com
- NTR-2583 Entering Presentation mode while on the "Animate" panel causing multiple issues (issues specific to “Animate” panel: filmstrip thumbnails, slideshow doesn’t work, ESC doesn’t exit, ‘Back’ button missing)
- NTR-2570 ILLUM firmware update can be started while importing pictures
- NTR-2577 MAC - Switching of "Viewer modes" doesn't work while user is on the "Animate" panel
- NTR-2619 - Desktop keeps prompting to update firmware after firmware updated
- Workaround: Take a picture; this will prevent more update prompts
- NTR-2617 - After library migration to Desktop 4 from a Desktop 2 library, no pictures have been migrated and library is empty
- Next release will fix this issue
- We will have a utility for any users in this state to recover your library; please email us and refer to NTR-2617 if you believe you are having this issue
Lytro Desktop 4.0.1
Released August 18, 2014
- Extensive bug fixes; performance and stability improvements
Known Issues (customer reported)
- NTR-2528: Windows only. Animation Export: PNG option missing in Export Animation as Movie...
Lytro Desktop 4.0.0 (build 1452)
July 31, 2014 (Initial Release)
General Notes
What's New: See the Lytro Desktop 4 Overview
IMPORTANT: Read this before upgrading from Desktop 3 to Desktop 4.
Lytro Desktop 4 may exhibit performance or stability issues on unsupported computer hardware. Please see the Lytro Desktop 4 system requirements for details.
Known Issues (All platforms)
- NTR-2302 You may need to click more than once to refocus a picture.
- NTR-2300 3D side-by-side display: Player image disappears on external display when exiting fullscreen 3D side-by-side presentation on internal display.
- WEB-2463 Perspective shift may not work on cropped and/or rotated pictures you've shared to pictures.lytro.com.
Known Issues (Mac OS X)
- NTR-2307 The Play icon in the Animate panel may not work correctly in localized (non-English) versions of Lytro Desktop 4.0.
Known Issues (Windows)
- None