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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Photo persona tools

Photo grades the capture with Crop C and the develop sliders, then Place in Design. Settings sit in a .omaphoto file. The camera original is never rewritten.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Open photos folder

Open a photo, browse a folder, drop files, or load samples. The library shows camera metadata when the file has it. Imports run in the background while you grade.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Develop panel groups

Develop is three groups: Light, Color, and Detail. Tone curve, color mixer, and color grading stay collapsed until you open them. Before is the default development. Auto light sets exposure from the preview.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

omaphoto sidecars

Save settings writes photo.png.omaphoto beside the original. Open either file to resume. The pair is name, size, and modification time. The camera file is never rewritten.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Photo undo history

Photo has its own Undo and Redo, on the selected photo. Quit asks Save all, Discard, or Cancel for unsaved photo settings before palettes and artwork, and it waits for the writes.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Photo export bit depth

Export JPEG, PNG, or TIFF in the background at full developed size, crop and rotation included. RAW PNG and TIFF keep 16-bit channels. Place in Design adds an 8-bit pixel layer and one undo.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Tiled full-res preview

The first view is a preview whose long edge is at most 1600 pixels. Zoom in and full-resolution tiles fill in from a background develop. The preview stays up until those tiles exist.

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September 23, 2026•6 min read

Copy paste adjustments

Copy a developed look with Ctrl+Shift+C and paste it onto a Library selection with Ctrl+Shift+V. Crop and rotation stay off unless you turn them on.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

Batch save settings

After a paste, Ctrl+S writes a .omaphoto sidecar for every selected photo. The batch is one Undo and one Redo. Categories travel on their own.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

omapreset library

Save a named Photo look, filter the library, and move it as a .omapreset file. The preset keeps development values and categories, and a name clash keeps both.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

Whole folder apply

Browse a folder, apply a copied look or a preset to the whole folder, and write one .omaphoto per photo in the background. Pixels stay untouched. Subfolders stay out.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

Folder job limits

A folder job stops at 10,000 photos and 32 MiB of settings history. Cancel leaves finished files undoable, and a sidecar edited outside the job is kept on Undo.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

Photo navigation

In Photo, hold Space or use Hand to drag. Middle-drag and two-finger scroll pan. Pinch, Ctrl+scroll, and Alt+scroll zoom. Ctrl+0 fits. Ctrl+1 is 100%.

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September 23, 2026•5 min read

RAW sidecars not destructive

Save settings writes .omaphoto beside the camera file and leaves the pixels alone. Whole-folder apply writes sidecars only. Place in Design when the grade should enter the poster.

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