What's new on Focal Click: releases, improvements, and fixes.
Unreleased
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The site invites iPhones and iPads to the app beta. On an iOS device, where no browser can develop over USB, a notice at the top of the site links to the TestFlight beta of the Focal Click app.
Changed
The app's welcome slides start with the camera. The first slide now shows a develop happening: your raw file going down the cable and coming back rendered by the camera itself. The comparison slide follows as the way to choose a recipe. Leading with an instantly switching photo taught exactly the wrong idea: recipes here are not filters, and the picture changes when the camera answers.
Fixed
Develops stop coming back green when a raw can't prove its dynamic range. Asking the camera for DR400 on a file that never reserved the headroom returns a broken, heavily green render at any ISO. The Lab and the comparison renders now treat an unreadable capture DR as DR100: the develop steps down, says so, and comes back the recipe's colors instead of green. Files that do carry their DR develop at full strength, same as before.
When camera access is blocked, the app now takes you to Settings. The connection sheet grew an Open Settings button and the Lab chip says "Camera blocked" instead of "No camera". It used to name the fix and leave you to find the switch yourself.
"How Focal Click works" always shows the guide. Signed out, after the first launch, it used to open the sign-in card instead of the answer.
1.7.0August 4, 2026
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Bulk develop in the app's Library. Select any number of raws, tap Develop in the batch bar, pick one recipe, and your connected camera develops each raw in turn. A full-screen progress view shows which photograph is on the camera and what phase it is in, your phone stays awake for the whole run, one bad file is skipped rather than stopping the batch, and cancelling keeps everything already developed. When the run finishes, the Library opens straight onto the batch's develops. For now it's switched on for a small set of accounts while the paid tier is built.
Bulk develop shows on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. A Live Activity follows the batch — which recipe, how many are done, what the camera is doing right now — and says plainly when the run has paused and needs you back in the app.
Recipe pages in the app show your own photographs. When you open a recipe you have shot with, an "In your library" strip appears above the community photos: your imported raws, your develops and your backed-up photos that carry it. Tap one to view it full screen, or "All N" to jump into your Library already filtered to that recipe.
Drag photos into folders on iPad. In the app's Library, drag a photo tile onto a folder row (or Unfiled) to file it, with the folder lighting up as a drop target. Dragging a selected tile takes the whole selection along, and a raw brings its develops with it, same as the Move menu.
The app's Library speaks VoiceOver. Every working control in the Library tab now carries a spoken label: photo tiles say their rating, version count and whether they live in the cloud; star buttons say "Rate 3 stars" instead of reading glyphs; folder rows say how many photos they hold; and the viewer's page indicator reads "Photo 2 of 14".
The app's Library learns to find. Sorted by date, the grid now groups photographs under day headers the way Photos does ("Today", "Yesterday", then the day itself). A search field on the Library finds photographs by filename, camera, recipe or develop name, title or caption, and works on top of any filters you have set. And coming back to the grid, from another tab or out of a folder, returns you to where you had scrolled instead of the top.
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The app's Library shows photographs, not files. Grid tiles dropped their filename captions and their star ratings got legible, so a culling pass reads at a glance. The filters moved from a nested menu into a proper sheet with live counts next to every option and a "Show N photos" button that tells you what you'll get before you commit. Filenames still live on each photo's page.
Hold a photograph for its actions. Press and hold any tile in the app's Library and a menu appears with everything you'd do to one photo: view its recipe, rate it, move it to a folder, delete it. Selection lives behind the Select button, where a sweep selects everything between your starting photo and your finger, whole rows included, exactly like Photos — and holding the sweep at the edge of the screen scrolls the grid underneath your finger, selection growing row by row. Selected photographs show it plainly: dimmed, ringed, and checked. The batch actions no longer hide behind the tab bar.
Tap a photo in the Library viewer and the controls step aside. One tap hides everything, the photograph alone on black; tap again and the controls return. Swiping to the next photo brings them back on its own.
The Lab opens on your photographs. The app's Lab now starts with a grid of your raws and a "pick up where you left off" strip of recent develops, the way a darkroom starts with the negatives. Tap a photograph to edit it; a Photos button in the editor brings you back. Importing lives right on the grid, from Photos or from a file, and an empty Lab invites you in instead of showing editing tools with nothing to edit.
Explore gets out of its own way. The title, search field and section picker used to stay pinned while you scrolled, keeping nearly half the screen as chrome. Now the bar is compact, search tucks away as you scroll and comes back when you pull down, and the photographs own the screen. The recipe browse also refreshes when you pull down, and applying a filter animates instead of snapping.
Recipe cards come to the app. The recipe page can now export the same share cards the site makes, with the same four looks: Exhibition, Gallery wall, Film strip and Poster, in portrait or square. Signed in, you can remove the Focal Click branding, exactly like on the web.
Fixed
Posting a photo now publishes the recipe on your shelf, not a twin of it. The camera records posted photos a dynamic-range step away from the recipe as you saved it, so publishing could flip that twin public while the recipe in your saved list stayed private. Publishing now carries your own saved variations of the recipe with it, and the list says Published the moment any of them is.
The card back in the feed always links to the recipe. Flipping a post used to show the settings with no way through to the recipe page unless the recipe happened to be in the comparison gallery. The name and the arrow now open the page for every recipe.
New recipes reach the app's Explore without a restart. The catalog used to refresh only when it had nothing, so one failed fetch on a weak connection could freeze Explore on yesterday's recipes for the whole session. It now revalidates as you return to it. Separately, one community recipe whose settings were recorded as numbers could make the whole catalog unreadable to the app, invisibly; the app now reads settings however they were recorded.
Library tiles are uniform squares again. Wide photographs could overflow their tile and overlap the row beneath; every tile is now pinned to the same square, whatever the photograph's shape.
The library stops claiming it is empty while it is still checking. On a slow connection the library said "No photos yet" while the first look at your cloud library was still under way, inviting you to import photographs you already have. It now shows that it is checking, and only says empty after having looked.
The comparison viewer stops giving up on a slow connection. Swiping to change a recipe often said the renders hadn't loaded when they were there and the connection was merely busy: one failed request was treated as the answer. It now retries, keeps what it has already loaded so stepping back to a recipe is instant, and downloads renders at the size the screen draws them rather than at full size.
The app's welcome screens show photographs again. All four slides had fallen back to plain grey panels, so the first thing a new person saw of a tool built on proving recipes on real photos was a screen with no photos on it. They now show the gallery's own camera renders, and each slide names the recipe it is actually showing.
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Posting a batch of photos to the feed in one go. Sharing a photo is a decision made in the composer, where the crop, the border and the caption are, and posting is also what makes a recipe public under your name. Doing that to fifty photos behind one button was never really the same act. Share them one at a time and each gets the composer.
The name voting panel on recipe pages. Names are settled by first credit, so there is nothing left to vote on.
1.6.0July 21, 2026
Changed
Saving is now favourites. The bookmark became a star, and "saved recipes" are now your favourites, everywhere: recipe pages, the comparison tool, your library and the menu. Same shortlist, clearer name.
One star does everything. Favouriting and following a recipe used to be separate buttons. Now the star covers both: a favourite keeps the settings, pins the recipe in the comparison pickers, and its new photos land in your Following feed. Recipes you already followed keep working exactly as before.
The comparison tool now explains the star up front: favourite the recipes you like and they pin to the top of the pickers.
A sharper Focal Click. The whole site moves to an editorial design: square corners everywhere, serif headings, hairline borders. Same site, straighter lines.
One word for the thing: recipe. We tried calling recipes "looks" for a while. You say recipe, so we do too, everywhere.
The front page leads with proof. The homepage now opens with what makes Focal Click different: every recipe, proven on real photos, with the comparison gallery one click away.
Creating an account now says what it's for: keeping your saved recipes and your shots on any device.
Fixed
Kelvin recipes now show their temperature in the comparison tool's settings sheet, as they already do on recipe pages. "Kelvin" without the degrees was half a recipe.
The "see the feed" button on the homepage no longer asks you to sign in first; it takes you straight to explore.
Studio, on phones: an open panel now closes by tapping anywhere outside it or its new close button, not only by finding the icon again. Press and hold to peek at the original no longer fights the browser's save image menu. And when no camera is connected, the adjust controls grey out and say so instead of looking ready.
1.5.0July 20, 2026
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Every recipe pair now has its own comparison page. Links like /tools/recipe-comparison/classic-chrome-vs-classic-negative open the tool on that exact pair, with what separates the two recipes spelled out, their creators credited, and a link preview showing that pair's real split render. The tool's How-it-works section now ends with popular comparisons to jump between.
Buy me a coffee. If Focal Click is useful to you, there's now a link in the footer and on the About page to support the one person building it.
Fujifilm's stock film simulations joined the comparison tool: Provia, Velvia, Classic Chrome, Reala Ace and the rest, each at pure camera defaults. They sit in their own "Fujifilm originals" group near the top of the pickers, so you can see exactly what any recipe adds over its baseline.
Sharing the comparison tool now shows a real comparison. Links shared to Reddit, Discord or anywhere else render a live split-frame preview card: two recipes on the hero scene, with the "rendered by the camera itself" claim.
Suggest a recipe. The contact page has a dedicated "Suggest a recipe" topic, linked right from the comparison tool. Tell us what the gallery should render next.
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The site reads more like a person wrote it. Copy across every page was rewritten in one consistent voice: headings stand on their own without label text floating above them, badge-style tags are gone, and sentences are punctuated plainly throughout. What the site says hasn't changed, only how it says it.
The signal red-orange from the Focal Click logo now runs through the whole site. Verified badges, recipe-difference highlights, saved markers and status notes all use the brand's own color instead of generic green and yellow, and the header marks the page you're on with the logo's signal dot.
1.4.0July 19, 2026
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"Compare" is now in the main navigation, so the recipe comparison gallery is one click away from anywhere, not buried in the footer.
A Tools page./tools is now a real hub for both free tools (the Recipe Extractor and the Recipe Comparison gallery) instead of jumping straight to the extractor.
The Recipe Comparison gallery is live, in early access. See any two recipes on the same photograph, developed by the camera's own processor (not a preset approximation): pick two, drag the divider, and read exactly which settings differ. The gallery is just getting started and we're still testing the pipeline. Reference scenes come from community photographers, with their name and link credited on every comparison, and submissions are open at /tools/recipe-comparison/submit.
Save recipes while you compare. A bookmark on every recipe in the comparison tool keeps your shortlist: saved recipes stay pinned at the top of the pickers, on any device, with a free account.
Fixed
Signed-out visitors see a clear "Sign in to comment" instead of a comment box that bounces them to the login page when tapped.
Cleaner sign-in screen. Email and password lead; "sign in with a passkey" is now a secondary option below, where it's useful without being in the way.
The comparison slider works with a keyboard. Focus the divider and use the arrow keys (or Home/End) to move it, and a caption now spells out the drag interaction. Press Escape to close the recipe extractor's result.
"See all notifications" now links from the bell to your full notifications history.
1.3.0July 18, 2026
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An About page. Focal Click now says who's behind it: one software engineer who loves photography and built the site first as a private library for his own shots. Find it at /about, linked from every footer.
Profiles grew up. Add your name, your country, and one link (your Instagram or portfolio), and they show on your profile alongside your photos and looks. Editing lives on its own page now, one tap from your profile, instead of buried in Settings. Onboarding asks for your name and country too (both optional).
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The home page shows the community, on every screen. The opening screen now carries a little feed you can swipe through: real posts, freshly shuffled on every visit, each flipping over to reveal the recipe written inside the photo. It browses itself until you touch it, on phones and desktop alike. And the message leads with what Focal Click is: a young community for straight-out-of-camera Fujifilm photography.
Simpler navigation on phones. Notifications now live only in the top bar, and the bottom bar gained a Library tab in their place: Feed, Explore, Post, Library, You.
Clearer sign-up. The passkey button now appears only when signing in. Accounts are created with email first; you're offered a passkey right after, during onboarding.
You come back to where you were. Signing in (or signing up, even with the email round-trip and onboarding in between) now returns you to the page you started from: the recipe you were saving, the photo you were commenting on, the look you were following. And signing out now lands you on the home page instead of the login form.
Posting from the library is one flow. The "Share to community" pill in the library's photo viewer used to publish instantly, in one tap, with no crop or caption step, and did nothing at all, silently, when a photo had no readable recipe. Now every path to the feed goes through the same crop-and-border composer, un-postable photos say why, and the sharing switch only un-shares.
1.2.0July 18, 2026
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Lend the gallery your eye. A new page lets you submit a RAF for the upcoming recipe-comparison reference gallery. Accepted scenes are rendered in every recipe and credited to you, with your link, on every comparison. Your file stays private while we review it. The page (and now the home page too) opens with a live, draggable taste of the tool: one real photo split between two recipes. Tapping the drop zone on a phone now asks where to pick from (your Photos library or the Files browser), the same chooser as the main library, so a RAF saved in Photos is one tap away.
A proper "page not found" page. Mistyped or moved links now land on a clear 404 with doors back to Explore and home, instead of a page that claimed a *profile* was missing, whatever you were looking for. Handy shortcuts too: /tools now takes you to the Recipe Extractor and /explore/looks to Explore.
Recipe cards, redesigned to be posted. The four export layouts are new from the ground up: Exhibition (your photo as a matted print with a museum label), Gallery wall (hung on the black wall), Film strip (a scanned negative with sprockets and amber edge print), and Poster (full-bleed cinema with a billing block). Photos keep their true proportions on every card (no more crops), and the same cards now come from look pages too. The extractor page itself moved onto the gallery wall: the same dark, editorial room your generated recipe page opens in, reached in one tap from the home page.
Your recipe gets its own page. Extracting a recipe now opens a full-screen page built just for it. Your photo hangs as a matted print under a clear verdict (already on Focal Click, one dial from a look everyone knows, with the exact setting that differs, or a look of its own), followed by the full recipe to dial into your camera, real community photos shot with the look, its variations, and one-tap doors to post, pin (email only, no account) or export. Still read entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded.
1.1.0July 15, 2026
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Your saved looks have a home. A new Saved looks page (in your account menu) gathers every look you've saved (private ones marked with a lock), with the settings a tap away. Unsave right there or from any look page's "Saved" menu; an Undo appears for a few seconds in case you slip, and it brings your name vote and credit back exactly as they were.
Find your way from anywhere. The account menu now includes Saved looks, Library, the Recipe Extractor, Contact and What's new. Signed-in pages gain a quiet footer with the same essentials.
Name looks together. "What the community calls it" on every look page is now votable: tap a name to agree (it saves the look under that name), or suggest your own. One vote per photographer; tapping another name moves yours. When you post a photo of a known look, its community names appear as one-tap chips.
Fix your credit after posting. Your own posts gain an "Edit credit" control next to "Rename your look": change where the look came from (yours, someone here, or an external creator) without re-posting. A credit is now kept even if you leave the look unnamed.
One viewer everywhere. Photo grids on Explore look pages, profiles and the landing page now open the same fullscreen viewer as the feed (with the photographer's border, the look pill, likes and shareable links) instead of each surface having its own overlay.
A new fullscreen viewer for posts. Tapping a photo in the feed now opens it in an immersive dark viewer: swipe or use arrow keys to move between posts, tap the look pill to flip to the recipe, like right there, and share the link (the URL is the post's real address). Press back or tap outside to return to your spot in the feed; opening the link directly still shows the full post page with comments and camera details.
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1.0.1July 14, 2026
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Photo grids on profiles and recipe pages now show every photo whole, at its true aspect ratio, in a balanced gallery layout: portrait shots are no longer cropped into landscape strips.
Redesigned the recipe page around its photos: the gallery and variations lead, with the name, settings and Save in a compact panel alongside. Variations now show as photo thumbnails so you can see how each one looks, instead of a list of numbers.
1.0.0July 14, 2026
The launch baseline: Focal Click as it stands today.
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Photo library: upload your Fujifilm JPEGs and RAWs; each photo's film simulation recipe is read from its metadata automatically and stays attached to the photo.
Explore: community recipes grouped by their core look, with Dynamic Range, Noise Reduction, and Clarity variations gathered under one card. Every recipe is proven on real photos.
Recipe pages: proof photo galleries, community names, creator attribution with source links, and a breakdown of each variation.
Fuji Recipe Extractor: a free tool. Drop in a straight-out-of-camera JPEG and see its full recipe. No account needed.
Pin to recipe: submit a photo to a recipe on the spot and claim it by email afterwards.
Social export: download photos sized for sharing with the recipe embedded in the file's metadata, accepted cleanly by Google Photos.
Export cards: turn any recipe into a shareable image in four styles (Classic, Gallery Wall, Poster, Polaroid), portrait or square, with optional unbranded output for members.
Profiles and community: public profiles, follows, likes, and full-size photo viewing everywhere.
Changelog: this page.
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The alpha badge is gone from the logo: Focal Click is 1.0.
Your saved recipes became a collection you can manage. The app's saved recipes page is a compact list now, with cards one toggle away. Variations of the same recipe fold into one entry that opens to show what each one changes, your own recipes and ones you saved from others have their own views, and you can sort by newest, by how much you shoot each recipe, or by name. Each entry says how many of your photographs carry it and which camera slot it sits in, renaming your own recipe works right where you see it (on the card and on the recipe page), and Select lets you remove several at once.
Your cloud photos show in the app's Lab. The Lab's grid and its picker now include raws and develops that are backed up but not on the device; opening one downloads it, along with the develops you had made from it, so a photograph imported on another day is ready to develop again.
Filter the app's Library by kind. A one-tap filter shows just your raw files or just your develops, alongside the existing recipe filter, and it applies to your cloud photos too.
A recipe you shot yourself can be used, not just read. Open any photo in your library and its recipe now offers the same three things a recipe from the feed does: develop one of your raws with it, save it, or write it straight to a C1–C7 slot on your camera. This matters most for a JPEG imported on its own — it carries a complete recipe, and until now you could look at the settings and do nothing with them.
Variations that people have actually shot now have a page of their own. A recipe developed at a different dynamic range is still that recipe, but if photographers have made real photos that way, that version is worth reading on its own: the photos shot at exactly those settings, and the full settings including the ones the recipe page folds away. Variations nobody has proven yet stay where they were, on the recipe.
A connection guide, one tap from every camera error. Everything known about getting a camera talking to the Studio now lives on one page: the checklist (mode, cable, permission), the macOS unblock with a copyable command, the Windows driver swap, what "busy" means, and the honest iOS answer. Camera errors link straight to the right section for your system.
The Studio works on Windows now, thanks to the community. Windows normally keeps hold of the camera with its own driver. A community member found that swapping the camera's driver to WinUSB with the free Zadig tool opens the door, and another confirmed a full develop. The Studio's Windows guidance now walks through it, with the honest caveat: X RAW STUDIO needs the original driver back, so the swap should be one you're comfortable reversing.
Ask for a recipe. The comparison page now takes requests: name a recipe (or link to it) and it joins the render queue. Leave an email if you want to hear when it lands; it's used for that and nothing else.
The iPhone app has a signup. It's being built and already develops raw files camera-to-phone in testing. Leave an email on the comparison page or the what's next page and you'll get one message when it ships.
Your favourites, out front. Explore now opens with a shelf of the recipes you've starred, each one tap from its page, with the full favourites list one tap further. Favourites were always saved; now they're where you look first.
A quiet way to support the project. If you come back to Focal Click a few times, you may see a small, dismissible note asking whether you'd like to buy the one person who builds it a coffee. It appears once, remembers when you dismiss it, and never shows again. Entirely optional, and the site is free with or without it.
A what's next page, and native apps are on it. The Studio needs a browser that can talk to USB, which leaves out iPhone and iPad entirely, and Windows, which keeps hold of the camera with its own driver. A native app for Mac, iPhone and iPad is planned so the Studio can reach them, with an iPhone developing raw files straight off the camera in the field. It isn't built yet, there's no date, and Windows is honestly still unsolved. The new page says all of that plainly, and it's linked as "what's next" in the footer.
One dark theme everywhere. The site used to switch between light pages and the dark Studio, comparison and photo surfaces, which read as two different sites as you moved around. Everything now sits on the same dark gallery wall, where photographs look their best. No toggle to manage; it is simply how Focal Click looks.
Pages glide instead of blinking. Moving between pages now has a brief, subtle transition, with the navigation staying put. Turned off automatically if your system asks for reduced motion.
A shorter, clearer front page. The home page for visitors now leads with the comparison gallery itself, interactive, with the Studio right behind it, and the rest of the site in three quiet cards. The long scroll of overlapping pitches is gone, and signed-out visitors are no longer offered a Post button that asked them to sign in first.
The Studio opens on the Studio. Tapping Studio now lands in the tool itself instead of a landing page. The story of how it works, what it needs and which cameras are verified lives at its own page, About the Studio, and the welcome cards link there. The one-time camera check is still one tap away and unchanged.
The Studio welcome is a card sheet now. The first-visit tour presents as swipeable cards rising over the tool rather than a wall in front of it, with the tool visible behind. Same four short steps, drag down or skip any time, and it still shows only once.
The Studio has a real tablet layout. Between phone and desktop widths the Studio used to squeeze the full desktop layout, three columns of rails around a tiny photo. On a tablet the mode icons now sit in a vertical rail on the right edge with the panels sliding out beside it and Develop always at the rail's foot, the arrangement Lightroom made familiar on iPad, and the photo keeps almost the whole screen. On phones the bottom strip is centred instead of leaning left. The desktop rails begin where they actually fit.
The Studio's bottom controls sit flush again on phones. A leftover spacing for the site tab bar, which no longer shows inside the Studio, left a dead gap under the control strip.
Explore does one job now: find a recipe. Tapping a recipe card goes to that recipe's page, everywhere, instead of sometimes opening a preview and sometimes not. Filters and sorting live together in one sheet on a phone, and applying them shows a clear results bar with its own way back. The pin-to-compare tray is retired; comparing lives in the Compare tab and on every recipe page. The scene you preview on now travels in the link, so a shared explore link opens on the same reference photo. The warmth strip and its filter are gone; they explained a view that no longer exists.
Recipe pages lead with the photos and keep the actions under your thumb. On a phone a recipe page now opens on the recipe itself, rendered on the reference photos, with the scene strip right there. The three things you actually do, favourite, compare and develop, sit directly below the gallery where you see them straight away. Favouriting and naming happen in a sheet instead of a cramped inline form, and removing a favourite offers an undo. Desktop keeps its familiar layout.
Every recipe in the comparison gallery links to its page. The recipe name on the credit cards is now the way in, marked with an arrow, wherever that recipe has a community page. Before, the link was a small text line that only appeared for a handful of recipes.
The comparison page is a tool first on a phone. Everything below the comparison used to be a long scroll of explainers and pitches. On a phone those now fold to three quiet rows, How this works, Popular comparisons and About Focal Click, that open when you want them, plus a single line for the Studio. Nothing was removed, and on desktop the page reads as before.
A full-screen inspector for looking at grain. Pinch or tap the comparison photo (or use the expand button) and it opens full screen and uncropped, where zoom actually works: pinch in up to four times, drag to pan, double-tap to jump in and out. Hold the photo to flip to the other recipe in the same spot, the film-era way to compare two frames, or switch with the buttons at the bottom. Before this, pinching zoomed the whole page, chrome and all, which was no way to judge grain.
Recipe pickers open as a sheet on a phone. Choosing a recipe used to happen in a cramped dropdown floating over the photo. On a phone the picker now slides up from the bottom with room to breathe: search, the feel filters, and the full list with bigger rows and easier-to-tap favourite stars. It follows your finger, and you can flick it away or drag it down to dismiss. On desktop the dropdown stays.
Swipe and hold in the comparison gallery. On a phone you can now swipe across the photo to try the next recipe, and press and hold to see the first recipe on its own, then let go to drop back to your comparison. The divider is still there when you want to place it precisely, and the renders either side are loaded ahead, so a swipe lands straight away. With the gestures doing the work, the row of arrow buttons above the photo is gone on phones, so the photo sits higher; only the Split and Pair toggle remains. Holding a side of the photo no longer brings up the phone's save-image menu, on Android as well as iPhone.
Save any look as a recipe, and copy settings between photos. In the Studio you can now save the recipe you've dialed in as your own at any time, without developing first. And Copy lifts the current recipe and adjustments so you can Paste them onto another raw and pick up right where you left off. Both are in the recipe panel on desktop and mobile.
Email preferences, and an opt-in for product updates. A new email preferences section in Settings lets you choose whether to hear from Focal Click, and sign-up now offers an optional checkbox for occasional product-update email. It stays off unless you turn it on, and you can unsubscribe anytime from Settings or any such message.
The about page now tells the whole story: the comparison gallery (proof, not promises) and the Studio (your camera develops your raw files) have joined the origin tale, with links to both.
The maker's name is in the footer now: built by Lucas Costa, with a link to the about page and to Instagram. It was hiding on the about page only.
Add raw files without leaving the Studio. Signed in with an empty library, the Studio used to point you to the library page to upload. Now there's an add button on the filmstrip and on the phone's Photos panel, and you can drop a RAF anywhere on the tool: it uploads to your library and opens selected, ready to develop.
The Studio lists its verified cameras, automatically. The Studio page now shows every camera model that has passed the camera check on a real photographer's body, with how many checks and the latest firmware seen. The list writes itself: when a new body passes its check, it appears here.
The Studio is open to everyone. No account, no waitlist. Open the Studio, plug in your Fujifilm camera, pass a one-time camera check in your browser, and develop your raw files through any recipe in the catalog. Files come straight from your computer and never upload, and every render is a full-resolution download. An account is for keeping things, not for getting in: a cloud library, saved versions, slot setups that follow you between browsers, and posting to the feed.
Share your camera check, if you want. After a camera check without an account, a checkbox lets you share the anonymous result (camera model, firmware and what the probes found) so the map of supported bodies can grow. Nothing is sent unless you tick it.
A welcome tour in the Studio. First visit to the tool opens a short four-step tour: what the Studio actually does (with the live demo), how adjusting and developing work, what it needs (including the camera bodies that have passed the check so far, a list that grows as checks are shared), and what an account keeps. Finish or skip it once and it stays gone.
Develop a photo in this recipe. Recipe pages and the comparison gallery now link straight into the Studio with that recipe already selected, so going from "I like this recipe" to developing your own raw file in it is one click.
Filter your library to Studio develops. The file-type strip (All, RAW+JPEG, RAW only, JPEG only) has a Studio option that shows just the versions your camera developed in the Studio, each as its own tile.
The Studio reads your camera's slots when you plug in. Connect a camera and its C1 to C7 slots appear in the Studio with their names and film simulations, straight off the body. Open any slot to see its full settings, decoded. The slot manager is one click away for writing recipes, backing up and switching setups.
Slot setups: back up and switch your C1 to C7 slots. The camera slots sheet can now save all seven custom slots to your account as a named setup, like a travel kit or a black and white week, and apply one back to the camera in one go. Backups store exactly what the camera had, byte for byte, so a restore brings back even the settings the Studio doesn't edit. Applying warns you first and confirms each slot as the camera verifies it.
A slot manager for your camera. The Slots button opens a manager where each C1 to C7 slot shows its name and full decoded settings. Open a slot and replace it with any recipe from the full picker, search and favourites included, or put the Studio's current recipe there in one tap, adjustments and all. Every write asks first and the camera reads it back to confirm. Recipes that say DR-Auto or carry no white balance leave those slot settings as your camera had them.
Studio camera check. Because the Studio is in beta and verified on a limited set of cameras, first-time users now run a quick check: connect the camera, pick one raw file, and it develops a couple of test recipes and confirms your body stamped them correctly before the Studio unlocks. The raw file never leaves your browser, and nothing on the camera is changed. If your body isn't supported yet, the result is sent so support can be added. Each body is checked once; shooting a new one runs the check again for it. On macOS, if the system grabs the camera first, the page walks you through freeing it. The check now verifies every develop setting, including exposure compensation, and shows you the developed frames as they come off the camera.
The Studio page shows what happens after the develop. Two small self-playing vignettes join the demo: nudging exposure and watching a preview land, and exporting for social with a 4:5 crop and a matte border. The export one works exactly as shown; the exposure one says plainly that the real preview is the camera's render.
Every recipe page opens at the same size. The photograph at the top fills the full width edge to edge; a portrait cover is cropped to its middle instead of standing skinny in a landscape frame, and no page jumps around while its image loads.
The recipe page opens on the photograph. The page now leads with the photo edge to edge, with the recipe's name set on the image itself, and everything else beneath it. Tapping a recipe in the browse grid zooms the card into that photograph the way Photos opens a picture, and dragging or swiping back shrinks it into the grid cell it came from.
The app stops re-fetching what it already has. Every tab kept its own copy of the recipe catalog, so a cold start fetched the same list up to six times, and switching between the feed's segments refetched posts that had not changed. There is one copy of the catalog now, screens keep what they loaded when you switch away, and coming back within a couple of minutes shows it instantly. Pulling down still fetches fresh.
A busy connection gets retried instead of believed. One failed request used to be taken as the final answer, so a congested link could report the gallery, your saved recipes or your library unreachable when they were fine. Requests now give up sooner, try again a couple of times, and no fetch can hang a screen for minutes any more. Screens keep showing what they have while they check for changes.
Your latest photos stay ready on the device. The newest fifty thumbnails were already kept on the phone; the app now also keeps their full-size previews when it is on Wi-Fi, so opening a recent photo is immediate even offline or on a poor connection.
Looking for a camera no longer competes with everything else. With no camera attached the app searched for one non-stop for as long as it was open. It now waits a little longer between searches, and hurries again the moment you reopen the app or tap connect. Plugging in is still noticed within half a minute at worst.
Your saved recipes live on one page, and you can get to it. There were two pages listing what you had saved, and the one in the menu built each recipe out of its settings rather than reading the recipe, so a saved recipe could show up without its name. They are one page now, at "You", which also holds the recipes you named and the photos you posted. The old link still takes you there, and unsaving still happens in place with an undo.
The Studio is now the Lab. Same tool, clearer name: "Studio" sat too close to Fujifilm's own naming. Every old link still works, and the action is "Develop in the Lab".
Explore is photographs now. It used to be a way to browse recipes, which the comparison gallery does better. It shows real shots from photographers here, each carrying the settings it was taken with, filterable by film simulation. Browsing by recipe moved to /explore/recipes and still works.
A photo shot with someone else's recipe no longer publishes their recipe. Posting used to create a recipe page named after whoever made it, without them being asked. Your photo publishes exactly as before, with its settings on it and the link you cited, and the recipe itself waits for its creator to say yes. If the recipe is yours, you can now offer it to the comparison gallery while you post it.
A recipe nobody has named shows no name. There used to be a stand-in built out of the settings, like "Classic Negative, warm", which read like a name somebody had chosen. Now the page shows the film simulation and says no one has claimed the recipe yet, which is what is actually true.
The comparison gallery is smaller, on purpose. A recipe is in it only if it is one of Fujifilm's own, or its creator said yes, or a photographer here made it. It used to carry recipes collected from around the web without anyone being asked, and that was the wrong way round. If you made a recipe and want it shown, tell me and it goes in with your name on it.
The site leads with the Studio now. Sending a raw file back to your own camera and letting it develop the JPEG is the thing worth showing first. The comparison gallery is still free and still there, as the way to decide which recipe you want before you use it.
A recipe has one name, in one place. Each person's save used to carry its own copy of the name, so the same recipe could read one way in your saved recipes and another on its own page. There is one name now and it reads the same everywhere. Saving settings you dialled yourself still means naming them, and that name is yours: it stays private until you post a photo with it, and it becomes the public name if you are the first to. Starring a recipe somebody else already named just keeps it, under the name they gave it.
Saving a recipe is called saving, everywhere. It had been called favouriting, starring and saving depending on which screen you were on, for one action. It is one word now, and the star became a ribbon, because a heart already means liking a post here.
Renaming a recipe happens on the recipe. It used to sit on a photo page, which is a strange place for it: the name is the recipe's, not that photograph's. It is under the recipe's title now, for the photographer who owns it.
A recipe has one name, and it belongs to the photographer who published it first. Names used to be decided by a running vote: every public save counted, and the winner became what everyone saw. It meant the same recipe could read one way on the feed and another on its own page, and that someone who had never shown a photo could outvote the person who did. Now the first photographer to post a photo shot with a recipe names it, only they can rename it, and that name is what everybody reads everywhere.
Starring a recipe is private, and no longer names anything. It used to be a naming vote with a public or private choice attached. Now it is one tap and it is yours: no name to invent, nothing published. Posting a photo is still what makes a recipe public.
A photo developed with the dials moved still credits the recipe it came from. Change the dynamic range or the white balance for the shot in front of you and it is still that recipe, so the photo page now says "Variation of" and names it, instead of showing nothing at all. It names the settings you moved too, and links straight to that recipe's variations, where your combination is already listed alongside everyone else's. Nothing to re-post: it works on every photo already shared. Thanks to LostInCloud for the framing.
Photos shot with your camera's digital teleconverter develop the way you framed them, and you can ask for the whole sensor instead. If you shoot at 50mm or 70mm on an X100VI, that framing was a decision, and the Studio now keeps it. A toggle above the photo switches between the crop you shot and the full frame, so the reach is yours either way. Thanks to LostInCloud for the report, and for being right that the choice should exist.
A recipe your raw can't quite do is a warning now, not a locked door. If you shot at DR100 or DR200, most of the catalogue was greyed out and refused to open, because those recipes ask for more dynamic range than the photo carries. The Studio was already handling that quietly at develop time, so the lock was never needed: it develops at the highest range your shot supports and says which one that is before you pick. Older photos can use the whole catalogue again. Thanks to LostInCloud for the report.
The Studio names the recipe your photo was shot with. Your camera writes its full recipe into the file, and the Studio has always read it — it just showed the film simulation and kept the rest to itself. The Original side now names the recipe when it recognises one, so you can see what you were shooting before you change anything.
Recipes you save are yours until you post a photo shot with them. The Studio never sent a privacy setting, so everything saved on the web went public the moment it was written. Since the first person to publish a set of settings names it for everyone, a recipe saved while you were still noodling could take a name somebody else had authored. Saving now keeps it to yourself, and posting a photo publishes the recipe along with the picture, credited to you. That is how the app has always worked.
Renaming a recipe you had already saved now actually renames it. Saving the same recipe under a new name reported success and quietly kept the old one. The Studio now says which name it already has and asks which you want.
A recipe has one name now, and it belongs to whoever credited it first. Recipe pages used to run a naming vote, counting saves per name and listing what else people called it. One recipe with several names made it harder to find, not richer, and a single early save could bury a credited name. The name a recipe was first published under is the name it keeps.
The Studio greys out dynamic-range options higher than the raw was shot at, with a note explaining why: a higher DR needs highlight headroom the capture never recorded, so forcing it would tint the develop green.
The macOS camera warning now hands you a command that keeps the system's camera grabber down while you connect, with one tap to copy it, instead of a single kill you had to race against.
The comparison gallery leads with the photo on a phone. The title and the explanation used to take most of the first screen before you saw anything. The photo now comes first and the words follow it, so you land on the comparison rather than scrolling to it.
Posting now asks you to sign in first. The composer only kept work for signed-in accounts anyway; a signed-out visitor opening it from an old link now lands on sign-in and returns to posting after, instead of composing something they couldn't keep.
The bottom bar is on every page now, and it stays put. It used to vanish on the comparison gallery, the tools pages, and pages like about and privacy, so the way back kept changing depending on where you were. It now stays in place as you move around, and it highlights the section you are actually in. Getting to the comparison gallery on a phone no longer means going through a menu.
A calmer top bar on a phone, with a menu behind it. The bar now shows the Focal Click mark, the name of the page you are on, and one button that opens a menu from the right. Everything that used to compete for that corner lives in there: signing in, joining, your profile, library, favourites, settings, notifications and posting a photo. Signed out, the post button is gone entirely, since there was nothing to post to yet.
New bottom bar: Home, Explore, Compare, Studio, You. The comparison gallery and the Studio are the two things most people come here for, and neither had a place in it. Both do now. Your library moved under You, where the rest of your own work lives, and posting is a button in the header, because it is something you do rather than somewhere you go.
Buttons and links now respond to a tap. The site was built for a mouse, so on a phone most controls gave no sign they had been pressed beyond the grey box the browser draws over them. They now dim briefly under your finger, and the grey box is gone.
You can now choose your cookies one at a time, and both start off. The cookie banner has a "Choose" panel with two separate switches: Google Analytics, and our own product analytics. Neither runs unless you turn it on, and ignoring the banner counts as no. Turning product analytics off deletes what identifies you rather than just stopping, and you can change either choice anytime from "Cookies" in the footer. The privacy policy explains exactly what the product analytics cookie holds and what it is used for.
A calmer Studio. The side rails scroll as one, with a single hairline scrollbar instead of several boxed ones, and they are a touch wider so nothing feels cramped. A signed-in Studio with an empty library now offers to add a raw file instead of pointing at an empty strip, camera and recipe eligibility notes read as gentle guidance rather than errors, and keyboard focus is finally visible on the dark theme.
The Studio feels like its own app on desktop. The site navigation steps aside so the tool fills the screen, with the Focal Click logo in the Studio's own top bar as the way back.
Save your dialled-in look as a recipe, right under Develop. After you develop a tweaked version, a "Save as recipe" button sits with the Develop button instead of tucked into the version list.
Raw files you add in the Studio open right away. Adding a raw while signed in now opens it for editing the moment it is read, and uploads to your library in the background, instead of uploading and then loading it back down.
The recipe picker holds its place. Searching no longer makes the picker resize and jump around as the results narrow; it stays put and the list scrolls inside.
Your recipes are front and centre in the Studio. The develop panel now has a "Your recipes" picker listing the recipes you starred and the ones you made, so switching to your own look is one tap instead of a trip through the full browser. Saving your edits as a recipe adds it to that list straight away, and the browser's group is named to match.
Every door to the Studio now says it's open. The homepage band and the comparison gallery's teaser lead with "Try the Studio" instead of asking for a beta spot, and the contact form's Studio topic reflects the open beta.
The site notice now announces the Studio beta. The banner at the top of the site points at the open Studio instead of the founding invitation, with a link to try it.
The Studio page now leads with trying it. The explainer's "Try it now" goes straight to the camera check and then the tool. Asking for access is gone; the form at the foot is only for a heads-up when an unsupported camera starts working.
Undo and redo in the Studio. Adjustments now have undo/redo, by buttons in the top bar or Cmd/Ctrl+Z and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Z. A whole slider drag counts as one step.
The Studio keeps your unsaved work, and shows it. Your current recipe and adjustments now appear as a "Working version" at the top of the versions list, always the latest until you develop it to save, and you can download it straight from there. Click any version and the controls load its exact recipe and adjustments, so you can pick up from it. Your working version also autosaves as a single draft per photo, so leaving and reopening a photo brings your unsaved tweaks back.
Studio versions group under their photo in the library. A photo you've developed in the Studio now shows as one tile with a version count, not a scatter of loose tiles. Open it and a version strip lets you flip between the original and each developed version.
Export moved to its own button in the Studio. On desktop, Export is now a button in the top bar with a menu (download, export for social, post), clear of the develop controls.
The Studio demo travels. The little self-playing Studio now also runs on the homepage's Studio section and on every comparison page, right where you've just found a recipe worth developing. The reference photographer's credit travels with it everywhere.
Recipe counts update themselves. The homepage said "over a hundred recipes" while the catalog passed 220. Counts in the copy now come from the live catalog, floored to the nearest 20, so they're always true and never stale.
The Studio page's demo moved up beside the headline on desktop: the pitch on the left, the Studio playing itself on the right.
Acros can be developed again. Develop was greyed out on it, in the app and in the comparison gallery, as though your camera could not be set to it. It can: the recipe recorded its sharpness as a word where everything else recorded a number, and only that reading was missing.
Filtering your library by recipe says how many photos each one has. Picking a recipe used to show an empty grid with no way to tell "you have no photos of this" from "the filter is broken". Every recipe now carries its count, so none reads as none before you pick it. The list is the recipes that have a name: the ones you saved, and the ones somebody has published. A recipe nobody has named has no name to show, and calling it by its film simulation or its settings would be putting a name on it that nobody chose.
Photos that lost their recipe have it back. A photograph's recipe was read once, when it was imported, and never again — so anything imported before a reading improvement kept no recipe at all and could not be found by recipe. They are re-read on launch, from the photos already on your device.
Filtering by a saved recipe works again. A recipe read from a photograph and the same recipe saved from its settings were being given two different names behind the scenes when the white balance was set in Kelvin, so nothing ever matched. Recipes written at a temperature no camera can actually be set to now match the photographs taken with them, and a recipe sent to a camera slot and read back is the same recipe.
The actions for selected photos are on screen. Selecting photos in the library put Rate, Move, Share and Delete underneath the whole grid, so you had to scroll to the end of your library to reach them. They sit at the bottom of the screen now, and say how many photos you have selected.
A post no longer shows up in the app's library. Posting makes a separate copy of the photograph, cropped and bordered for the feed. The web stopped listing those beside your real photos; the app was still showing the ones composed outside the library.
Posting no longer asks who a recipe belongs to when that's already settled. If the recipe on your photo has been published before, it already has a name and a creator, and nothing you answer can change that. The publish screen was asking anyway, directly under a line saying who named it — and "It's mine" was one of the choices. It now tells you instead: yours if you named it, or whose it is if somebody else did, credited to them automatically. The question only appears when your post is the one naming the recipe, which is the only moment the answer matters.
Posted photos stop appearing twice in your library. Posting a photo from your library makes a separate cropped and bordered copy to publish. That copy was showing up in the library grid next to the original, named post.jpg, so one photograph looked like two — and deleting the wrong one would have deleted your post. The library shows the photograph; the post lives on the feed and your profile, exactly as before. Nothing was deleted, and copies already there disappear from the grid on their own.
Importing the same photo twice no longer makes two of it. Import used to recognise a photo by its filename and size, so DSCF1234.RAF and a renamed copy of it became two entries — and, worse, two genuinely different frames that happened to share a name and a size were treated as one, with the second quietly dropped. It now recognises the photograph itself, whatever the file is called. It also checks photos already in your account, so re-importing a card after changing phones, or after clearing the app, skips what's already there instead of uploading it all again. Importing 500 frames is no slower.
The camera stops hanging, and stops needing the app restarted. In the iPhone app, starting a develop could leave the camera stuck: it would sit there disconnected, and nothing but force-quitting brought it back. Two attempts to connect at the same moment — which is what happens the instant the app opens — left one of them waiting forever. They now take turns. The first search after installing can still come up empty, but it retries by itself within a few seconds instead of waiting for you to relaunch.
A photo you developed can always be posted. Publishing sometimes refused a photograph with "this photo doesn't carry a complete in-camera recipe" — on a develop the camera itself had just made. Reading a recipe involves a long list of settings values, and any one value the app hadn't seen before made it give up on that setting and, with it, the whole photo. Your file was never the problem, and it always went up with the metadata needed to read it properly. That fuller reading now happens before anything is judged, so the recipe stored on your photo is the one read off the file. If a photo genuinely carries no recipe, you're told before you crop, frame and caption it, and told which settings are missing rather than just that something is.
Saving a recipe no longer names it, anywhere. Saving is meant to be private and to name nothing: a recipe has one name and it belongs to the photographer who published it first. Most save buttons worked that way, but several did not. Saving from an explore card, the feed rail, the Studio browser, a recipe card or the compare page sent whatever label was on screen, publicly. On a recipe nobody had claimed yet, that made a made-up label like "Unnamed recipe" its real name, for everyone, without a single photo behind it. Every save on the site and in the app is now private and nameless.
The iPhone app calls a recipe what everyone else calls it. The app kept its own copy of every recipe's name on the device and showed that instead of the real one, so a recipe could read one way in the app and another on the site. It also still ran the old naming vote on its compare page, months after the site stopped: a bar chart of names to vote on, for something that has one name. Both are gone. Recipes you author yourself are unaffected: you name those, and the name is yours.
Saving a recipe nobody has ever named now asks for a name. It used to say "Couldn't save. Try again.", which was a dead end on the one save a person could actually fix. It asks instead, on the site and in the app, and the name is yours if you post a photo with it first.
Making a saved recipe private in the app actually makes it private. The card flipped and nothing changed on the server, so it read as private on your phone and stayed public everywhere else. A recipe you make private now also hands its name back, instead of keeping it from behind the curtain where nobody else could ever claim or rename it.
Your saved recipes list calls each recipe by its real name. Since saves stopped carrying a name of their own, that list had begun falling back to a settings shorthand while the recipe's own page showed the proper name.
Posting a photo names its recipe, and the name is yours. Posting is what makes a recipe public, so it is what names it. Until now it often named nothing at all: leaving the field blank published under a label generated from the settings, and posting from your library or from a pinned extractor photo never asked at all and created no recipe, so the photo went live with a recipe that had no name and no owner. Both now ask, once, and a recipe that already has a name is left alone: your photo simply joins it.
A develop comes back as the recipe you asked for. The Studio only sent the settings a recipe named, and left the rest to the camera. So if your body had a white-balance shift dialled in, or a grain size, or colour chrome, it kept them, baked them into the render, and the photo came back as a different recipe from the one you picked. A recipe you saved could never match its own photographs, and posting one made a second copy of it in your saved recipes. The Studio now sends the whole recipe, every setting, so nothing of the camera's leaks in. The one exception is Saturation on a black and white simulation, where that field means the filter rather than a colour level.
A recipe you found online has to link to where you found it. The link used to be optional, which made the credit unverifiable: a name typed into a box reads the same whether it is right or a guess, and the person who actually made the recipe gets nothing back for it. Any public link counts, an Instagram or TikTok post included, and you don't need to type the https:// part.
A recipe with photos in the feed can't be made private. Its name is the one everybody reads and its page is those photographs, so taking it back would pull the ground out from under other people's posts.
Saving is called saving in the iPhone app too. It still said favourite and starred in places the site had already settled: the tab is Saved recipes now, the button says Save, and the star became the same ribbon the site uses.
The library in the iPhone app keeps up with you. The grid used to fill in behind your scrolling and go blank again on the way back up, tapping a photo left you on a spinner, and swiping between photos was a series of waits. The app kept your photos at two sizes, a small thumbnail and the full 40 megapixel file, so looking at one meant opening the big one. It now keeps a viewing copy as well, the same size the site has always served. Tapping a photo opens on it straight away, swiping lands on the picture, and pinching the grid follows your fingers. Exports and shares still hand over the full file.
Sharing a photo in the iPhone app no longer depends on where it is stored. Photos kept in your account but not on the phone had a Share button that wasn't there, and a raw told you to open it from your library, which was the screen you were on. Share and Post now work on any photo, and fetch it for you if it isn't on the phone yet.
The privacy policy and the terms are readable inside the iPhone app. They were a link on the signup screen and nowhere else, so agreeing to them meant leaving the app and there was no way back to them afterwards. Both now open in the app, from signup and from the You tab, signed in or not.
The Studio keeps the bottom navigation again. It was hidden so the tool could own the whole screen, but the Studio is somewhere you arrive and then want to leave, and with no tab bar there was no way out that looked like one.
Comparison renders no longer come back green on low-ISO photos. A shot's ISO caps its dynamic range: DR200 needs ISO 320 or above, DR400 needs 500. Over that ceiling the camera does not refuse the develop, it returns a broken one, and 494 gallery renders had gone out with the colour wrecked. Recipes now develop at the highest dynamic range the shot actually supports, and the gallery says when that happened rather than passing the render off as the recipe as written.
The green cast is gone from develops of raws shot at a lower dynamic range than the recipe asks for. A recipe's DR is now capped at the raw's own captured DR (read from either dynamic-range tag the camera writes), with the shot's ISO as a backstop, so the camera never tries to develop headroom the photo never recorded.
Catalog recipes keep their proper names in the Studio's recipe browser. A community naming vote on the same recipe could rename a curated entry (Classic Cuban Negative briefly went by "Classic Negative · warm"), which made it unfindable by its real name.
Developing right after a previous develop no longer fails with a camera busy error. The camera takes a moment to tidy up after each conversion, and the Studio now waits it out instead of giving up on the first no. It also clears any leftover file a failed develop left parked on the camera before uploading again, which is what kept some cameras refusing every retry, and it gives slow conversions up to a minute before calling it.
Returning the Studio's exposure dial to 0 now actually develops at 0. The camera remembers the last push it was asked for, and the Studio only spoke up when the dial was away from zero, so a develop after +1 EV kept coming out a stop bright.
Starring a recipe in the comparison tool now sticks. Saves made before a recipe's identity was updated light the star again, and a save that fails un-lights it immediately instead of pretending until your next visit.
Switching reference scenes on a recipe page answers immediately. Tapping a scene used to show nothing until the full render had downloaded, which on a phone connection could be seconds of apparent silence. The frame now switches instantly to a soft preview and sharpens as the render arrives, and scenes start loading the moment your finger touches their thumbnail.
Starring a recipe now answers where you tapped. Signed out, tapping a star used to show its explanation at a fixed spot that was usually off screen, so nothing seemed to happen. The note now appears above the bottom bar wherever you are, and the stars on the credit cards are big enough to tap reliably.
The comparison gallery scrolls properly on a phone. The photo captured any swipe that started on it, so the page wouldn't scroll past the comparison, and a mistimed swipe yanked the divider to one edge. A vertical swipe now scrolls the page, a horizontal drag moves the divider, and you can pinch to zoom into the render to look at grain.
Back undoes a recipe change in the comparison gallery. Every pick now gets its own history entry, so going back steps through the comparisons you looked at instead of dropping you out of the tool. On a phone the edge swipe does the same thing.
Arrow keys no longer do two things at once in the comparison gallery. With the divider focused, one press moved the divider and changed recipe B together. The divider keeps the arrow keys while it has focus.
Comparison settings that don't fit now scroll instead of vanishing. A long setting name beside two long recipe names could push values off the edge of the table where they couldn't be reached.
Pages fit the screen properly on a phone. Layouts measured against the full screen height rather than the part the browser actually shows, so some pages ran taller than the visible area. They now measure what's on screen, and the bottom bar clears the home indicator.
The Studio now tells you the truth about Windows. Connecting a camera in Chrome on Windows reported that the browser can't talk to cameras, which was both wrong and a dead end, since there was no other browser to switch to. The real reason is that Windows installs its own camera driver and won't hand the camera to a browser, so developing over USB isn't possible there at all. The Studio now says that plainly and points to what does work, instead of sending you round a loop. Connecting on a Mac, on Linux and on Android is unaffected, and the Studio also now separates a browser that genuinely can't do USB from a page that wasn't allowed to ask.
The green cast in Studio develops is fixed. Applying a recipe that uses a higher dynamic range than your photo was shot at (say a DR400 recipe on a photo shot at DR100) made the camera render a heavy green cast, because the raw doesn't hold the highlight room a higher DR needs. Develops now use the highest dynamic range your shot actually supports, so the colours come out right. Shoot at DR400 or DR-Auto to get a recipe's full dynamic range.
Studio develops are always sRGB now. Every develop renders in sRGB regardless of your camera's colour space setting, so the colours look right everywhere the photo goes.
The Studio now carries the whole recipe catalog. The recipe picker was limited to recipes with community photos; it now includes every proven recipe from the comparison gallery too, with their reference renders as previews. Kelvin recipes from the catalog develop with their intended temperature.
Slot backups can no longer capture a misread. Rapid slot scans occasionally read a wrong value for a field (seen on real hardware: a grain value that doesn't exist), which then lived in the backup forever and got rejected on every restore. Scans now sanity-check fields with known value ranges and re-read once when something looks implausible.
Applying a slot setup no longer reports harmless rejections. The camera only accepts certain fields conditionally (toning on black and white looks only, Kelvin degrees only in Kelvin mode, colour only on colour looks). Restoring a setup now respects those rules instead of sending everything and reporting the camera's refusals as warnings.
A slot write no longer fails over one stubborn field. Writing a recipe with grain off to a slot failed verification because the camera normalizes some "off" values to its own encoding. The write now succeeds, and any field the camera adjusted is reported exactly, with what was sent and what the camera kept.
Kelvin recipes can develop and write to slots now. Recipes with a Kelvin white balance were blocked in the Studio's picker with "can't set white balance" because the temperature wasn't travelling with the recipe. The Studio now reads each one's degrees from your saved recipes and the community's copies and photos, so Kelvin recipes develop and write to slots with their real temperature, including catalog recipes whose researched degrees hadn't travelled into the community copies. Auto ambience priority and B&W filter recipes were unblocked too. And Auto white priority is now a confirmed camera encoding, probed on a real body through the slot manager, so those recipes develop, write to slots, and are pickable in the white balance control like any other mode.
Deleting a photo cleans up after itself. Removing a library photo now also removes the Studio versions and public posts made from it, so no broken images or erroring posts are left behind. The delete dialog says how many versions and posts will go first.
The Studio page's demos now credit the photographer whose reference photo they replay, name and link, the same way every comparison does. The scene submission page also now says plainly that your credit travels wherever the site shows your renders.
The Studio's recipe picker slimmed down. Big cover cards became dense rows with a small preview, so a phone shows about ten recipes at once instead of three, and it opens as a bottom sheet there. The search box no longer pops the keyboard over the list on phones. And every row now has a star, so you can favourite a recipe without leaving the Studio.
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White balance, adjustable in the Studio. The develop panel gained a white balance mode picker (Auto through Underwater) and a Kelvin slider alongside the existing shift pad, using the same hardware-verified encoding the comparison gallery renders with. The camera snaps Kelvin to its own scale, and the render says so honestly.
The Studio page plays itself. The Studio's public page now runs a little re-enactment of the mobile Studio: a ghost finger opens the recipe list, picks one, taps develop, and the camera's render lands, over and over with different recipes. Every image in it is a real in-camera render from the reference gallery; only the taps are staged.
The Studio is in the navigation. A Studio link now sits in the main menu on every page for everyone, the homepage explains what it does, and the account menu shows it to every signed-in photographer, not just beta members. The page itself says how to ask for a spot.
Joining is one click from anywhere. A "Join free" button now sits in the header on every page for signed-out visitors. Signups have been open all along; now the door is visible.
The Studio has a front door. The Studio, where your own camera develops your RAF files through any recipe over USB, is no longer a hidden page. Anyone can now read what it is, how it works, and what it needs (a Fujifilm body, Chrome, a cable), and the Studio card shows on the tools page for everyone.
Ask for Studio access in one step. The Studio page now has a request form: leave your email and the camera you shoot, and when your spot opens you get an email whose link signs you in and lands straight in the Studio. No account yet? Approval creates one for you, the same way pinning a photo does.
Best-recipes pages. Fourteen new pages answer the question you actually have: the best recipes for portraits, golden hour, blue hour, landscapes, and for every mood from moody to light and airy. Ranked by what photographers here save and shoot, never by opinion, and every entry is shown on the same reference photo rendered by a real camera. Find them from the bottom of explore.
Explore keeps your shortlist. Pinned recipes now survive a reload, so the two or three you're deciding between are still there when you come back.
Explore, rebuilt around the reference photos. Every recipe in the catalog now appears on explore from day one, shown on the same reference photo so recipes are actually comparable at a glance. Pick the photo you preview on (portrait, landscape, blue hour and more), filter by color or black and white, film family, mood, simulation, warmth and creator, and sort by popularity, newest, most photographed or warm to cool. Searching understands what you mean: "Portra" finds the whole family.
A contact sheet of the entire catalog. One photo, every recipe, one dense grid with a size slider. The fastest way to spot the look you want.
Film simulation pages list every recipe. Pages like Classic Chrome recipes now show the full catalog for that simulation, not just the recipes with community photos. Recipes nobody has shot yet appear with their reference renders as covers.
Recipe pages show the recipe on the reference photos. Every recipe page now carries a strip of the shared reference photos developed in that recipe, so a look reads instantly even before anyone has shot it, plus a measured character panel (warmth, saturation, contrast and brightness, measured from those renders), similar recipes by settings distance, and a one-tap jump into the comparison tool. Recipes without community photos yet also share with a render as their preview image.
Quick view, pinning and a dice roll. Tap any recipe for an in-place preview across all reference photos with its full settings and similar recipes. Pin up to three to compare them side by side on every photo, or let the dice pick your next recipe.
107 new recipes join the catalog. Famous looks the catalog was missing, researched from their original sources and credited: Kodachrome 25, Kodak Portra 160, Positive Film, Agfa Scala, Kentmere Pan 400, Kevin Mullins' Newspaper and Cysgod, Luís Costa's Classic Neg Fade and Tri-X Pushed, Hiroshi Fujiwara's FRGMT B&W and about a hundred more. Every one names its creator and links to the original recipe.
Flip through recipes one tap at a time. The comparison tool now has next and previous steppers beside each recipe picker, so you can graze the whole catalog without reopening the list. On a keyboard, the left and right arrows flip Recipe B and Shift plus arrows flip Recipe A. Steps follow the picker's own order and preload the next render, so flipping feels instant.
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White balance now truly applies to every render. A camera protocol gap meant recipes with a set white balance (Daylight, Shade, Kelvin and the rest) were being developed at Auto, and the checker did not look at white balance so the wrong renders passed. The gap is closed, the checker now verifies white balance on every render, and the whole gallery is being re-rendered with each recipe's true colors. Recipe pages also show the Kelvin temperature for recipes that use one.
Recipe pages always show the recipe, not the render. The settings on a catalog recipe's page were taken from its reference renders, and a camera limitation meant those renders carried Auto white balance no matter what the recipe called for. CineStill 400D v2 read "Auto" where Fuji X Weekly says Fluorescent 1 (thanks to the reader who caught it). Recipe pages now always state the recipe's published settings, white balance included.
Reference renders are checked against the recipe's white balance. Every render must now carry the recipe's white balance mode, temperature and shift before it's accepted. Recipes whose white balance the camera can't yet apply over USB are held back from rendering rather than rendered with the wrong one. Existing renders of those recipes are unchanged for now and will be replaced once the camera pipeline can apply white balance faithfully.
White balance reads the way recipes are written. Recipe pages now say Fluorescent 1, Fluorescent 2 or Shade, matching the camera menus and the way recipes are published, instead of metadata names like Daylight Fluorescent. Auto white priority and Auto ambience priority are no longer shortened to plain Auto.
Comparison pair pages follow your picks. Choosing a different recipe on a page like Classic Chrome vs Classic Negative now updates the heading, the write-up, the tab title and the address to the new pair, so the link you copy is always the comparison you're looking at.
Photo details were rebuilt around clear sections (recipe first, then shot info, sharing, description and file actions) instead of one long list with a wall of buttons at the bottom. Same structure in the library side panel and the phone details sheet.
The opened-photo view is cleaner on phones. Actions now sit in a compact icon bar (recipe, post, export, download, details), like a proper photo editor, and photos you've titled show their title instead of the filename.
Selecting photos on your phone is now an explicit mode. Tap "Select" in the library header to start picking photos; checkboxes no longer crowd every thumbnail while you browse. On desktop they still appear on hover, as before.
The comparison tool introduces Focal Click properly. A "rendered by the camera itself" note, verified from metadata, sits above the viewer, and the page now ends with what Focal Click is: explore the community's recipes, read your own with the extractor, or join free. Tighter on phones, so the photo is the first thing you see.
The comparison tool picks up where you left off: it reopens on your last scene and pair, the pickers scroll straight to your current recipe when opened, and a scene now starts on its two most-compared recipes instead of an arbitrary pair. Hovering a recipe in the list quietly preloads its render, so switching feels instant.
Recipe settings read in one consistent order everywhere: the same sequence the community publishes in (Film Simulation, Dynamic Range, Grain, Color Chrome, White Balance, then the tones). And Film Simulation now shows as its own labeled setting on recipe pages, flip cards and the extractor (not just a coloured tag), so it's clear it's the first thing you dial in.
The comparison tool now shows the full recipe side by side, with the settings that differ highlighted, instead of hiding everything but the differences behind a toggle. You can still switch to a differences-only view.
Library is reachable in one tap on desktop too, next to Feed and Explore in the header (it was only a mobile tab before).
Explore search is honest about what it searches. It looks through recipes and film simulations; a link now points you to People when you're after a photographer.
The homepage explains what a "recipe" is for anyone new to Fujifilm: the in-camera settings baked into the JPEG, read automatically.
You now see the recipe your camera baked in while you post. The straight-out-of-camera check now lists the full recipe it read from your photo (film simulation and every setting) instead of just a couple of tags.
Dropping the wrong kind of file now tells you why. An edited export, PNG, or HEIC dropped onto the extractor or the post composer now gets a clear "that's not a JPEG or RAF" message instead of nothing happening.
Posting a well-known recipe no longer pre-claims it as yours. When the recipe already has a community name, the composer asks where it came from rather than defaulting to "It's mine."
The Recipe Comparison gallery is now reachable. It's linked from the homepage (the preview opens it), the Tools page, and the site footer. While it's still being built it shows an "in the works" page with a way to contribute, instead of a "page not found."
Posting without an account is clearer. After you email yourself a publish link, the confirmation now shows the exact address it went to and lets you resend it or fix a typo. Once you click the link, the username step greets you with "Your photo's published."
A helpful message when signups are invite-only. Following an email link when registration is paused now explains that it's invite-only and how to reach us, instead of a generic "sign-in failed."
Photographer credit and like counts now show on phones. On the browsing grids (a recipe's photos, a profile), the name and heart that appear on hover on desktop were invisible on touch screens. They now always show where there's no hover.
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The home feed's first tab is now "Latest" (was "For you"). It shows the whole community's newest posts, in order: a truer name than "For you."
One word for the thing you save and follow: "recipe." The app used to call it both a "look" and a "recipe", sometimes on the same screen. Now it's consistently a recipe everywhere (its page, the Save/Follow buttons, your profile count, saved list, and naming), matching what the Fujifilm community actually calls it. A recipe with no community name yet is shown by its settings (e.g. "Classic Negative · warm") instead of "Untitled", the same name on every screen.
The recipe flip card now spells out Save vs Follow. "Save keeps the settings in your recipes. Follow puts new photos in your feed" is shown right on the card, not just as a desktop hover, so it's clear on phones too.
Renaming a recipe tells you it's also your community vote.
Clearer wording when you clear your library. The "delete all photos" confirmation in Settings now plainly says it permanently removes your photos and their originals, and can't be undone.
A confirmation before removing your last passkey, so you can't accidentally remove your only way to sign in.
A definitive 100-recipe catalog. The comparison tool's recipe catalog is now curated to the 100 most popular film-simulation recipes in the Fujifilm community (ranked from Fuji X Weekly's popularity data plus standout recipes by Kevin Mullins and Osan Bilgi), and every recipe is credited with a working link to its creator.
The comparison tool learns what's popular. Recipe pickers now open with each scene's five most-compared recipes at the top under "Most compared", with the full catalog alphabetical below. The more people compare, the smarter the shortlist gets.
Profiles scroll like a feed. Tapping a photo on someone's profile now opens their posts as a scrollable feed, starting at that photo. Keep scrolling to see more of their work, with likes, comments and the recipe flip right there, and more posts loading in as you go, however many they have. The photo you tapped appears instantly while the rest of the feed streams in. The fullscreen viewer still opens for posts tapped inside a feed.
The library's photo viewer grew up. Moving between photos no longer flashes a blank frame: neighbours preload and the thumbnail paints first. The phone's back button now closes the viewer instead of leaving the library, swiping down dismisses it, and the page behind it no longer scrolls.
The library is built for big collections now. It opens instantly with the newest photos while the rest stream in behind a subtle "syncing" note, photo details load only when you actually inspect a photo, and deleting a large selection happens in a few batched requests instead of one per photo. Filters and posting checks keep working throughout.
The library remembers where you are. Folders, the recipes view, and the open photo now live in the address bar: refresh and you're still there, the Back button retraces your steps, and any spot in your library can be bookmarked or opened in a new tab.
Selection actions where you'd look for them. Selecting photos now puts Move, Download, Post and Delete right in the selection bar. The Post button shows how many of the selected photos can actually be posted and why the rest can't, every delete asks the same clear confirmation, and failed moves, downloads or deletes say so instead of failing silently.
The library behaves on phones. Dragging a photo into a folder now needs a deliberate long-press, so scrolling the grid never picks up a photo by accident. Folder counts show on small screens, the date filter fits narrow displays, and toasts and dialogs no longer hide behind the upload button.
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The library tells the truth when things go wrong. A failed load now shows an honest "couldn't load, try again" screen instead of pretending your library is empty. A photo whose recipe extraction stalled shows the retry action instead of spinning "Reading recipe…" forever. And the loading skeleton now matches the real layout, so nothing jumps when the page arrives. New photographers who upload a big first batch also keep their welcome checklist instead of being silently opted out.
Sharing your profile shows your work. Profile links shared on social media now preview as a collage of your recent photos, hung as prints on the gallery wall with your @handle, instead of a generic card.
"One setting away" hints. When your photo's look has no community name but sits one or two settings from a look everyone knows, Focal Click now says so, while you're posting and on the look's page, naming the exact setting that differs (e.g. Grain Size: Small here · Large there). Perfect for catching a camera slot that drifted from the recipe you meant to shoot.
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A more honest front door. The home page now says what Focal Click is: young, and taking names. The comparison gallery leads as the flagship in the making, and a new "Early days" section lays out what being early gets you: name a look first and its page credits you permanently, contribute a reference scene and every comparison made with it carries your name and link. The oversized feed wall is gone; a slim sample stands in its place.
Photo location is never stored. GPS coordinates are now discarded when reading your files. Nothing location-related is saved, shown, or shared, and previously stored coordinates have been erased. Location is also scrubbed from shared JPEG originals when someone downloads them.
Analytics ask first. A small cookie notice now asks before any analytics run. Decline and everything works the same. Change your mind anytime via "Cookies" in the footer.
Privacy Policy and Terms updated to cover everything the site does today: posting without an account, comments, download permissions, the free extractor, and the new location and consent rules.
Clearer card exports. If a card style's preview fails to load, the export dialog now says so and offers a retry instead of spinning forever. On phones without a share sheet it explains how to share the downloaded PNG. And the extractor's FAQ now names all four card styles.
Your library says it's private. The library spells out that uploads stay private until you post them, and that posting shares a *copy*: your original never leaves your library.
Small words, straightened. "Print style" in the composer explains itself (wider bottom edge), the home page's footer gained Privacy and Terms links, and onboarding now greets you with what the community is about.
An honest early-days welcome. The site banner now says what being here now actually means (bring a look first and its page carries your name, permanently) instead of apologising for rough edges.
"Trending" is earned. While the catalog is young, the looks rail on the feed and Explore is labelled New looks; it becomes Trending looks once enough looks carry real photo volume.
Only proven looks are listed. A look with no public photos no longer appears anywhere looks are browsed: Explore, the feed rail, or the film simulation pages.
Delete comments right in the feed. Your comments (and any comment on your own posts) can now be removed inline, with no detour to the photo page.
One name for photo groups. The library settled on Folders everywhere. *(Correction: this entry originally said "Series". The shipped library uses Folders, and always did.)*
A cleaner landing page. The sample feed on the home page now closes on a single clean line: the photo columns fade gently into the page instead of ending at ragged heights.
Fixed
Downloads of your originals work again. A processing hiccup could leave some photos unable to serve their original file. Those are repaired, every original was preserved, and the pipeline now verifies each step so it can't happen again.
Flipping through photos is instant. Moving between posts in the fullscreen viewer now switches immediately: the next photo appears the moment you swipe or press an arrow, and the sharper full-size file loads in behind it.
Save and Follow, told apart. Look pages now explain the two verbs in one line: Save keeps the settings in your looks, Follow puts new photos in your feed. Naming a look when you post also tells you it lands in your saved looks.
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Name looks together. "What the community calls it" on every look page is now votable: tap a name to agree (it saves the look under that name), or suggest your own. One vote per photographer; tapping another name moves yours. When you post a photo of a known look, its community names appear as one-tap chips.
Fix your credit after posting. Your own posts gain an "Edit credit" control next to "Rename your look": change where the look came from (yours, someone here, or an external creator) without re-posting. A credit is now kept even if you leave the look unnamed.
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Honest name votes. The composer no longer counts an untouched auto-generated name as your vote for what a look is called: only names you choose or type count. Unnamed looks still display by their settings.
Clearer credits and friendlier empty screens. External look credits now always read "Original: [source]" everywhere (matching the post page), and an empty feed offers a one-tap way to post the first shot.
Publishing brings you home to the feed. After you post (from the composer, from your library, or by claiming a guest post from your email), you land back on the feed with your fresh post at the top, marked "Your post is live" with a brief glow. Seeing your shot in the stream is the confirmation.
Your border travels with your photo. The border you choose when posting now shows everywhere the photo is viewed full-size (the feed, fullscreen lightboxes, series pages and your library's detail view), not just the post page. Thumbnails and grids stay clean so browsing stays fast and tidy.
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Extract a recipe from any Fujifilm photo, right from the home page. The landing page leads with “Extract a recipe from a photo”: drop a straight-out-of-camera shot and its full in-camera recipe appears instantly, read in your browser. Love the look? One tap posts it to the feed: no pressure, the recipe stands on its own.
Discover while you scroll. On wider screens the home feed gains a side column of trending looks and people to follow, so there's always somewhere new to go. Follow any of them in one tap without leaving the feed.
Find and follow photographers. A new People page lets you search photographers by name and see who to follow, and a profile's follower and following counts now open the full lists, with one-tap follow-back.
Notifications have their own page. Tap Notifications to see everything in one place: likes, comments, new followers (follow them back right there), and saves of your looks.
Comment right in the feed. Every post now carries its comments inline: read the latest, tap to see them all, and add your own without leaving the feed.
Double-tap to like, tap to open. Double-tap a photo in the feed and a heart bursts: you've liked it. A single tap opens the full post. The signature flip now lives on the labelled look pill: tap it and the card turns over to reveal its look, tap again to turn back.
Name your look when you post, and rename it any time. The composer suggests a name for your look (keep it, rename it, or skip) and asks where it came from: your own, based on another photographer here, or an outside source like Fuji X Weekly. The credit then shows on the post, so looks trace back to their maker. You can rename your look later, right from the post.
Delete your own post. A post’s owner can remove it from the “…” menu (with a confirm). It clears from the feed and your profile, along with its likes and comments. The photo stays in your library.
Little moments of life. A heart bursts when you like a post, and posts gently rise into view as the feed loads. (Both bow out if you prefer reduced motion.)
Share a photo, straight from the camera. A new composer reads your photo's in-camera settings, lets you crop and add a border, and posts it, so anyone can see the look and shoot it themselves.
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The recipe reads instantly when you post. The film-simulation recipe now appears the moment you pick a photo (read right in your browser, nothing uploaded) instead of waiting on the server. When you publish, the reading is double-checked against the original so the stored recipe is always the camera's truth.
Easier to tap, easier to read. Buttons and controls across the feed and profiles now have larger touch targets, the profile tabs work properly with a keyboard and screen reader, and the flip-card look details read at higher contrast.
Notifications group repeats. When several people save, follow, or like the same thing, they now collapse into one line ("Ana and 4 others…") instead of filling the list with near-identical rows.
Borders are now part of the frame, not the photo. When you add a border while posting, we keep your photo clean and draw the border around it, so the feed and grids show the bare shot, the full post shows your border, and anyone viewing can toggle it off to see the photo underneath. Your original file is never altered by a border.
One name for the thing you came for: a “look.” What used to be called a recipe, a simulation, or “in your library” in different places is now a look everywhere: on your profile, the look pages, notifications, and every button. (“Recipe” now means just the raw camera settings behind a look.) Old /explore/recipes/… links redirect to the new /explore/looks/… pages, so nothing breaks.
Save and Follow look the same everywhere.Save (bookmark) keeps a look's settings in your library; Follow (the wave) subscribes you to that look's new photos, each with one consistent label, icon, and style across the feed, Explore, and look pages, plus a tooltip explaining the difference.
A social-first navigation. The mobile bar is now Feed · Explore · Post · Notifications · You, with your library tucked under You, so the tabs lead with the community.
A redesigned Explore that leads with photos. It now opens on a look of the week, a trending looks rail, photographers to follow, and a photo-first grid of every look, with a simple search + film-simulation filter and one-tap follow for looks and people.
A cleaner, more social post card. Bigger imagery with less clutter: the photographer and time up top, like and comment counts, the caption, and the look, all in one calm card.
Posting is one tap. The “+” button now opens your photo picker straight away: pick a shot and you go right into composing, no extra page in between.
You land in the feed when you sign in. Signing in (or finishing setup) drops you straight into the living feed instead of your library.
Sharing from your Library is now “Post to feed.” Only straight-out-of-camera photos that carry a recipe can be posted; posting several at once tells you how many went out and how many were skipped for having no recipe.
When you're signed in, your home is now a feed of the latest straight-out-of-camera posts. On the phone it opens straight into the feed; the prompt to share your own stays on wider screens.
Your home feed now has a For You / Following switch: see the whole community or just the photographers and looks you follow. (The separate Following page is now this toggle.)
The feed is now a single, calmer column: one photo at a time, shown larger. Profiles and Explore keep their gallery grid.
Photos show exactly as posted. The viewer no longer adds a white frame, so a border you added yourself isn't doubled up.
The photo page now gives the image the whole stage: portrait shots stand as tall prints instead of sitting letterboxed inside a landscape frame.
A redesigned sign-in page: the form now sits beside a gently looping wall of real shots, and you can ask for a one-tap sign-in link by email instead of typing a password.
A calmer Explore. The page leads with search, simulation and sort; mood filters tuck behind a toggle so browsing feels less busy.
In the photo viewer, the look is now front and centre: a clear button to open its look page, rather than a line of small print.
Your own profile now has an Edit profile button.
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New posts show up in the feed right away. A freshly posted photo, whether from a fresh upload or from your library, now appears at the top of the feed immediately, instead of only on your profile.
Your own posts now show in your Following feed. Your Following feed used to only include people and looks you follow, so your own shots were missing. Now it always includes what you've posted, and a brand-new account sees its own posts right away instead of an empty feed.
Posting reads your recipe even during a big library import. Reading the film-simulation recipe when you post now runs on its own dedicated lane, so a large batch of uploads recognising their recipes in the background can no longer stall or fail the read for the photo you're posting right now. If the reader ever is momentarily busy, you get a clear "try again in a moment" instead of a misleading "couldn't read this file."
Pages load gracefully instead of popping in. The feed, Explore, and look pages now show a calm placeholder while they load, and photos fade in rather than snapping over a grey box.
When something fails to load, it says so, with a Try again. A hiccup used to look identical to "there's nothing here"; now a failed page shows a clear error and a retry, so an empty feed and a broken one are never confused.
The mobile tab bar no longer highlights the wrong tab on the People page.
A look's photo count now matches everywhere. The number on a flipped card now counts the whole look (every variation), so it lines up with the look page it links to instead of showing a smaller figure.
Explore guides you when it's empty. With no looks to show yet, the page now explains how looks appear and invites you to post, instead of sitting nearly blank under the heading.