Kaleidoscope for Mac

New

• The brand new Pixel Comparison adds powerful new capabilities to Image Comparisons. It enables you to evaluate even the slightest color changes between images.
  • The Pixel Comparison lives in an inspector sidebar.
  • By default, it continuously updates as you hover over pixels in the images you are comparing.
  • Large color swatches show the sampled color of image A and image B side by side.
  • A convenient hex color string represents the color, or an approximation if the color can’t be expressed in sRGB.
  • See all relevant aspects of each pixel in the native format of the image (rendered in RGB). This includes exact color values, coordinates within the image, image size, color format including the real ranges of all color channels, and the color profile.
  • See a single difference value between the two pixels, expressed on a scale from 0 to 1, as shown in Proportional Difference mode.
  • Precisely compare the color channels of both pixels in a variety of formats, including RGB, HSB, HSL, and Lab.
  • If values between A and B are different, they are highlighted in blue. For small differences, bold type puts even more focus on the change.
  • Lock a specific pixel sample using various methods, such as double-clicking (a single click unlocks it again), a keyboard shortcut (⇧⌘L), or the context menu.
  • In Two-Up view, or when sampling is locked, the sampled coordinates in both images are highlighted with a clearly visible crosshair.
  • A new option in Settings > Images lets you toggle the Pixel Comparison on or off by default when opening an Image Comparison.
• Developers for Apple platforms increasingly work with SVG image assets. While these are XML files, Kaleidoscope now supports rendering SVG files as images for visual comparison. You can choose your preferred behavior in Settings > Files.
• Kaleidoscope Prism can now directly compare files selected in Finder. Assign a keyboard shortcut in Kaleidoscope Prism settings and compare the Finder selection instantly, without switching apps or dragging and dropping files.
• A large number of JetBrains IDEs can now be used to edit text directly from Kaleidoscope. When files are opened in a project context, the precise position within the file is retained, enabling a very fast turnaround between comparison and editing. Supported apps include Fleet, GoLand, IntelliJ IDEA, PhpStorm, PyCharm, RubyMine, RustRover, WebStorm, and Android Studio.

Enhancements

• Stepping through image comparisons within a changeset is now much smoother and no longer causes flickering between images.
• The Processing button in the bottom toolbar now presents JSON Normalization and Text Filters in a popover instead of a menu, making it much quicker to enable multiple filters at once.
• You can now search for changeset items that do not contain specific characters. For example, enter \!NS to find items that don’t include the substring “NS”.

Bugfixes

• Setting Render Differences to Proportional in Settings > Images did not work since Kaleidoscope 6.4.
• Other smaller fixes and improvements.