Major user interface/user experience update coupled with improvements and customizability to the analysis pipeline. This is a massive update to expand Kestrel's functionality and intuitiveness.
Version Willow Ptarmigan Changelog
- Major improvements to Kestrel User Interface! Kestrel now shows your scenes in a filmstrip style view, allowing you to rapidly relive your memories and select which ones to edit and share.
- New keyboard shortcuts let you rapidly flick through a scene and seamless advance to previous/next scenes.
- New accept/reject tagging system lets you make culling decisions from the scene visualizer.
- Streamlined user interface maintains all functionality: rename the scene, edit tags, split the scene into multiple scenes, and view RAW previews.
- Improvements to Kestrel Culling Assistant and handling of culling decisions:
- New streamlined user interface allows you to drag and drop images in addition to using Shift+Click.
- New buttons to reset Culling Decisions allow you to reset Accept/Reject Ratings.
- Significant improvements to Kestrel's analysis pipeline:
- New configurable rating system lets you customize how Kestrel assigns star ratings to your scenes.
- New exposure compensation algorithm improves analysis options.
- Fixed bugs with Kestrel's scene grouping algorithm.
Minor Changes
- Other User Interface tweaks:
- Consolidated buttons in the main GUI.
- Updated in-app tutorials to thoroughly explain all new features and workflows.
- Improvements to how Kestrel writes metadata to align more consistently with visuals.
- Tweaks to simplify language around metadata and culling categories.
- Improved handling of auto-generated ratings and auto-generated culling decisions to enhance consistency and decouple the two features.
- Show pipeline version in addition to standard version control.
- Substantial number of bug fixes, particularly around the user interface, settings menu, and culling assistant.
Coming Soon
- Video Tutorial is coming soon on projectkestrel.org
- Projectkestrel.org will be updated to reflect the full capabilities of Project Kestrel
- No major features are planned at this time; user feedback is requested as soon as possible.
- GPU support is on the roadmap; as are improvements to species classification.
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