There are new updates to Nitro and RAW Power available now. Make sure you get 2026.07, rather than version 2026.06, which had a bad bug.
The big news for Nitro is a completely rebuilt masking interface. The old one was powerful but hard to use. Now, it’s more powerful and much easier to use. Here are a few highlights:
- New masking list with enable checkbox, and mask reordering.
- Directly create luminance and color range masks.
- Feather any mask, including AI Subject masks and luminance masks
- Add or subtract an AI mask from a linear or radial gradient mask
- Control the threshold when using the edge-following brush.
- Bracket keys ( ‘]’ and ‘[‘ ) to change brush parameters.
- More on-screen controls for gradients, including shift-key to constrain.
- Brushes now have Flow as well as Strength, and improved algorithms for combining brush strokes.
Please watch the Masking Tutorial Video to learn more about it.
In addition, there are many bug fixes and usability improvements, including better undo in Edit, improved support for smaller screens, and a smarter straighten tool.
Since I last posted on the blog, I made many other improvements to the app:
- Significantly faster initial display of images and metadata
- Right-click (Mac) or tap and hold (iOS) to change font size in Info and ExifTool
- iPhone: Greatly improved Curves interface
- Faster keyword filtering
- Brand new, super-sophisticated Perspective tool, integrated with Crop and Straighten
- Duplicate Image command
- Multiple Watermark support
- AI Eraser to remove objects
The road ahead:
The next significant update to Nitro is focused on the “27” versions of macOS, iOS and iPadOS that are coming in the fall. The current OS 27 betas are buggy with Nitro. For example, many adjustments don’t work properly, including Levels, Curves, and the AI Eraser. Performance in some areas is bad. Beware!
For Nitro, the feature headliner is RAW v9, the first improvement in RAW decoding for Apple in several years. Not all cameras are supported yet, so there will be a transition (and it requires OS 27). RAW Power will probably not get RAW v9, but I will revisit that decision after I add it to Nitro. I’m also looking into Liquid Glass for Nitro – Apple is making it increasingly difficult not to adopt that appearance and it’s a considerable effort to adopt Liquid Glass.
