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Tag: performance

  • jAlbum 39.1 – A native Mac experience

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    David Ekholm

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    Using Mac? We’re super excited to present jAlbum 39.1 that integrates image management with Apple’s efficient libraries. (otherwise check out our release notes for what applies to everyone). With v39.1, we’ve integrated Apple’s super fast (and color correct) image loading and scaling engine – Mac ImageIO and CoreGraphics, meaning that whatever image formats Mac Preview…

  • jAlbum 39 welcomes AVIF

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    David Ekholm

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    Hi everyone,jAlbum 39 is here. The big news this time is read and write support for the superior AVIF image format. AVIF (“AV1 Image file Format”) is supported by basically all browsers today and is seen as the successor to JPEG. AVIF advantages over JPEG: Examples Just to showcase how impressive AVIF is, check out…

  • Updated RAW processing

    Updated RAW processing

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    David Ekholm

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    jAlbum 37.1 continues the focus on performance improvement you saw with the v37 release by significantly enhancing the support for RAW images. How about this: At the core of the improved RAW support lies an updated native code library called LibRaw. We’re now using the most current version (v24). The earlier version we used goes…

  • jAlbum 37 – simply faster

    jAlbum 37 – simply faster

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    David Ekholm

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    I’m truly excited about this release because we’ve been able to speed up jAlbum in many ways. How about this: This post will outline how we’ve been able to achieve such dramatic improvements, but let me first reflect on why I’m extra excited about this: It simply feels great to be able to deliver this…