We’ve released ImageFramer 2.4.3. It now fixes several issues that lingered for some time without a fix plus added a couple most requested features such as dropping images from iPhoto and overwrite warning when dropping to Finder or during batch processing. Full release notes:

• NEW: Now supports dragging from iPhoto.
• NEW: Added a warning on export if file exists when dragging and when saving on batches.
• FIX: Saving a JPEG no longer produces black border. Now uses background color.
• FIX: No more frame artifacts on Snow Leopard on high size exports.
• FIX: When automatic startup settings file doesn’t exist, ignore the setting. This prevents a bug where users report that they can’t add mats.
• CHANGE: Now doesn’t lock Finder while saving large images.
• CHANGE: Reduced shadow blur radius for faster operation.

Download ImageFramer at http://www.apparentsoft.com/imageframer/download.

A crashing bug was reported by David Zizza in the variations drawer handling. David also suggested a small usability feature regarding loading variations. Here’s the changelog:

• Fixed: a critical bug that caused ImageFramer to crash when working with variation that used different frames.
• New: When loading designs into the variations drawer, if they were not named specifically before saving through the variations table, they’ll now be loaded and shown in the table using their file name. If the user did change the default variation name before saving, it will be shown instead of the file name. So both approaches now produces easier variation handling
• Fixed: In french localization, the save setting dialog could become too narrow, causing the buttons on the buttom to collide. Fixed by limiting the minimum width of the save dialog to accommodate the longer french text.

Download the new version from http://www.apparentsoft.com/imageframer/download.

ImageFramer version 2.4.1 is out with the following changes:

• Added new option in File menu to save the image over original image. Defaults to same target image (if tif, png or jpg) and size derived from original.
• Saving to TIFF files now adds ‘.tif’ extension instead of ‘.tiff’

Above changes allow for easy interoperability with other applications that use ImageFramer as an external editor, like Adobe Lightroom. You can now add ImageFramer as an external editor in Lightroom. Then in Photos menu select Edit In > ImageFramer.

Let Lightroom render the file as 8-bit TIF and launch ImageFramer for you. When you add your frame, select File > Save Image… from the menu and it will default to overwrite the original file with the size derived from it as well. The framed image will be nicely stacked (if you chose so) with the original in the Library.

ImageFramer 2.4 has the following changes:

• Snow Leopard fixes for the frame filters. No other known problems exist in Snow Leopard. Report if you find any.
• French localization. Now ImageFramer is available in English, French and Japanese.
• Some memory leak fixes.

Enjoy and let your friends know about ImageFramer.

A fix was found and implemented that deals with the issue of chopped frames in ImageFramer on Snow Leopard. See previous post for the details of the problem.

Release is expected on Tuesday or Wednesday, together with updates to Japanese translation and possibly an additional French translation.

Those in hurry to use ImageFramer on Snow Leopard before the update arrives, please contact us to get a preview version.

Version 2.3.1 (current latest) of ImageFramer seems to have an issue in Snow Leopard where the color effects (Hue, Saturation, Brightess and Colorize) will create a chopped looking frame, unsuitable for export. See screenshot below:

Be assured, we’re working on fixing this issue. Look forward to ImageFramer 2.3.2 update soon.

Jacob.

Update: Version 2.3 was replaced by 2.3.1 due to a critical bug.

ImageFramer release 2.3 has the following new features:

• 12 new frames in Real collection. All frames were contributed by existing users
• If shadows are enabled ImageFramer will now export images with the falling (outside the frame) shadow on a transparent background (In JPG on white background).
• Fixed export size for setting ‘As viewed’ in export dialog. Now takes zoom into account.
• License keys were updated and will regenerated for ImageFramer 2.3
• License dialog will now show your license type (Personal, Family or Commercial).

From now on the development will focus heavily on ImageFramer 3, which will be a major update with lots of new features and GUI updates.

We’re glad to announce the immediate release of ImageFramer 2.2.2. The main change is the addition of 20 high-quality frames. These were kindly contributed by one of our dedicated customers. The frames are mostly in wooden set, but also in metal-like, in golden and in Real/Artistic set.

Another small fix fixes behavior when removing an existing variation form the list.

The size of the DMG file also grew to 34MB because of the added graphics. Everyone, update your copy. If you enable automatic updates, you’ll receive this automatically and in a smaller file.

This is a bug fix and behaviour fix release. Mainly, two things were fixed:

1. Made “Controls” button only open/close controls window and not Colors panel as well.
2. Fixes crash when selecting a frame, then closing window with red button.

Both issues were reported to me by Kosta, my recently joined partner.

I’m glad to tell that I am going to the European Mac developers conference in Hatfield, UK on April 16-17. I hope to meet great people there and learn more about different aspects of Cocoa programming. I will also use this opportunity to travel in UK a bit, since I’ve never been there.

To learn more about the conference visit: http://www.nsconference.com

Jacob.