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• RAW files only. RAW Keepers now processes only the RAW files in a folder — the camera's JPG twins are never edited (Cull on or off), and a folder with no RAWs says so instead of editing the JPGs.
• FIX — "weird sky" on bright overcast days. A sky that was pure white in the RAW was being painted flat grey with a halo along the tree line by the dark-subject / bright-background fusion. Clipped areas now keep the camera's exposure; the foreground still gets lifted.
• FIX — speckled violet skies in dusk merges. A nearly black sky was being lifted to a fixed brightness (about six stops) — pure noise and a magenta cast. The lift is now capped by noise, the people keep their exposure exactly, and dusk renders get the AI denoiser as the final step on machines with a GPU, tone preserved. On the Đà Nẵng beach sets: sky noise down 4–8×, brightness and foreground unchanged.
• Includes everything from v1.32.4 (bracket-merge exposure fix) and v1.32.2 (installer, camera focus/face metadata, JPG-only/Product/Unicode fixes). If you installed either earlier today, this is the one to keep.

• FIX — Bracketed photos were merging too dark. Every exposure-bracket set (the −2 / 0 / +2 kind) was coming out one to two stops dark and flat, because a merge was never exposure-placed the way a single frame is. Merged sets now render as bright and natural as the single frames beside them; night scenes with point lights are untouched. Found on a Đà Nẵng trip shot entirely in brackets — if you downloaded v1.32.2 earlier today, this is the one to install.
• NEW — A real Windows installer. Download RAWKeepers-Setup, run it, done: it installs for your user (no admin password), adds a Start-menu entry, and uninstalls from Settings → Apps. No more extracting a 450 MB zip, no more "Failed to load Python DLL" from running inside the zip window. Still an unsigned beta, so click More info → Run anyway once. The portable zip is still there if you prefer it.
• NEW — Your camera's focus point and face detection count. Nikon Z and Sony bodies record where they focused and whether they locked onto a face. RAW Keepers now reads that: the frame the camera nailed is the keeper, a face the camera locked that our detector missed still counts, and people photographed from behind at dusk are found for the sunset rule. Checked on 2,469 Z8 frames — the camera's box sat on the detected face 99.3% of the time.
• FIX — JPG-only folders. A card shot in JPG (or a phone export) said "No photos found" with Cull on. It's now culled and edited like any other folder.
• FIX — Product Photos works in the shipped app (it never had). FIX — Chinese folder or user names no longer lose the camera's focus data or break editing.
• FIX — First screen. No more "Free version / Upgrade to Pro" flash: during the beta it says every feature is unlocked and how many days you have left; the Terms of Use come up before anything else.
• Under the hood: a full pre-release debugging pass — every mode, toggle, slider and LUT exercised headlessly, every button exercised in the browser, the installation path reproduced step by step. Includes everything from v1.32.2.

• NEW — A real Windows installer. Download RAWKeepers-Setup, run it, done: it installs for your user (no admin password), adds a Start-menu entry, and uninstalls from Settings → Apps. No more extracting a 450 MB zip, no more "Failed to load Python DLL" from running inside the zip window. Still an unsigned beta, so click More info → Run anyway once. The portable zip is still there if you prefer it.
• NEW — Your camera's focus point and face detection count. Nikon Z and Sony bodies record where they focused and whether they locked onto a face. RAW Keepers now reads that: the frame the camera nailed is the keeper, a face the camera locked that our detector missed still counts, and people photographed from behind at dusk are found for the sunset rule. Checked on 2,469 Z8 frames — the camera's box sat on the detected face 99.3% of the time.
• FIX — JPG-only folders. A card shot in JPG (or a phone export) said "No photos found" with Cull on. It's now culled and edited like any other folder.
• FIX — Product Photos works in the shipped app (it never had). FIX — Chinese folder or user names no longer lose the camera's focus data or break editing.
• FIX — First screen. No more "Free version / Upgrade to Pro" flash: during the beta it says every feature is unlocked and how many days you have left; the Terms of Use come up before anything else.
• Under the hood: a full pre-release debugging pass — every mode, toggle, slider and LUT exercised headlessly, every button exercised in the browser, the installation path reproduced step by step. Includes everything from v1.31.8.

• NEW — Sunsets with people, done right. Exposed dark to keep the sunset? RAW Keepers now finds the people and the sky separately and treats each one properly: the real dusk sky keeps its colour and gradient, and the people are lifted so you can actually see them. No fake skies, ever.
• Bracketed sunsets merge like a phone, from your RAWs. Shoot an exposure bracket at dusk and the people come from the one frame where they're sharp and best exposed, while the sky and string lights come from all the frames merged. People walking through the scene don't turn into ghosts, and dusk landscapes keep a readable foreground under the glow.
• Your darker bracket frames are kept. The −2 EV frame that holds the sunset (and the metered 0 EV frame) are no longer thrown away as "soft" — they're darker on purpose.
• Only where it belongs. The new look switches on for genuine low-light dusk scenes only — daylight travel shots and indoor family brackets keep exactly the edit they had before.
• FIX — "beta testing is over" for returning testers. Every new beta version now gives you a fresh 30 days from the first time you open it — if your earlier window ran out, just download this version and you're back in.
• Includes everything from v1.31.4 — the WebView2 launch fix for Windows 10 and LUT colour grading. Extract the whole zip before running RAWKeepers.exe.

• FIX — Windows launch on machines without WebView2. The app's window is drawn by Microsoft's WebView2 runtime, which Windows 11 ships but many Windows 10 PCs don't — and without it the app failed to start with cryptic errors. It now checks on launch and, if the runtime is missing, shows one clear message pointing you to Microsoft's free ~2 MB one-time install, instead of failing. Windows 11 is unaffected.
• Install reminder — extract the whole ZIP first (right-click → Extract All…), then run RAWKeepers.exe. Running it from inside the zip window leaves the app's files behind and produces "missing file" errors.
• Quieter under the hood — silenced a background log flood that could pile up during a session (harmless, but it buried real error messages from testers).
• Includes everything from v1.30.6: LUT color grading with seven built-in film & cinema looks, applied live in the eyepiece.

• NEW — LUT color grading. Pick a look and every exported photo gets it as the final grade — and you watch it happen live in the eyepiece. Add any .cube LUT exported from Lightroom, Premiere or Resolve to your personal library, or use the built-ins.
• Seven built-in looks — film styles and cinema grades, ready in the Edit panel: Warm Film, Portrait Film, Vivid Slide, Classic B&W, Teal & Orange, Cinema Roll-off and Matte Fade.
• Bug fixes — the camera interface now scales as one unit and always fits the window at its true aspect ratio (controls can no longer be cut off), and browser-style zoom can't distort the layout.
• Mac (v1.30.9) additionally: harsh-daylight photos — hard overhead sun with people under tents or awnings — are now detected and their shadows opened automatically, halo-free. Normal photos are untouched.

• Windows catches up to the Mac — everything from the last two Mac releases, now on PC.
• One honest progress bar — with Split sessions on, the bar now runs forward across the whole job instead of restarting per session; plus a roomier layout (higher cull knob, slightly taller window).
• Properly introduced — the app now identifies itself as "RAW Keepers" in Windows dialogs (SmartScreen, Task Manager, file properties) instead of an internal build name.
• The beta is the full app — every Pro feature unlocked for your personal 30-day window, which starts the first time you launch. No more 🔒 locks for testers.
• Split sessions — several shoots on one card? A Cull-panel toggle writes each shoot to its own Session_1, Session_2… folder by capture time.
• Blink culling actually works now — its AI model was never shipping inside the Windows bundle; eyes-shut frames are properly demoted at last.
• Honest to the end — conversions count the files actually written (a dead converter says Error, never "Done"), cancel reports Cancelled everywhere, filename collisions can't silently cost you a keeper, and the progress bar moves during RAW→DNG conversion.
• Easier setup — a one-time prompt offers Adobe's free DNG Converter if it's missing.

Split sessions. Shoot several different sessions on one card? Turn on Split sessions and RAW Keepers sorts the photos into separate shoots by their capture time and saves each into its own Session_1, Session_2, Session_3… folder — culled and converted, ready to hand off. Also new: the Mac now shows live hardware stats (Apple CPU/GPU and unified-memory usage), and a BETA badge under the Cull/Edit dials. Still the full app running natively on Apple Silicon, every feature unlocked, your photos never leaving your computer. Grab it from the download section; first launch needs a one-time approval in System Settings → Privacy & Security (the beta isn't notarized yet).

Bug fixes — no new features. The progress bar can no longer get stuck on "Starting…" during a long batch, the cull now rejects occluded/empty frames (a mostly-blocked shot can't sneak in as a keeper), and the About panel links to the new online Manual.

• Bird / wildlife mode — culls on focus only (keeps every sharp bird, even dark or off-center), cleans high-ISO grain while keeping feathers sharp, brightens the bird, and re-crops automatically — always at the photo's original aspect ratio.
• AI Denoise slider — a learned deep denoiser for heavy high-ISO grain that reconstructs real texture instead of smoothing it away.
• Sports mode crops into the action — the ball is the focal point, the crowd is trimmed in favor of the play, the dead foreground is excluded, and frames are leveled by the camera's own gyro.
• Concert / Stage preserves the light show — gel colors are never white-balanced away, blacks stay black, beams keep full impact; the artist is lifted locally so their detail reads clearly.
• A far better progress bar — stage, current photo, count, %, live time-remaining, and a green flash each time the cull finds a keeper — plus a live before/after in the eyepiece.
• 26 fixes from a full-program review — honest error reporting, hardened disk-space checks, crash-proof culling.

The first public beta: AI culling and editing, hand-held HDR merging, gyro auto-leveling, Sports and Concert modes, Product Photos — reading Sony, Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Leica/DNG and Nikon RAW with nothing else to install. All on-device.