TailWag 1.4.1: fix blurry phone photos and recolour anything 🪄

[everyday3d]

Hey everyone,

Quick one! 1.4.1 is out with two things I kept wishing I had while making 1.4 prints.

Grab it here: https://github.com/everyday3d/tailwag/releases/tag/v1.4.1 (Windows and Mac)

Fix photo

We all have them: the photo where the dog finally looked perfect, taken in a dim living room at 9 pm, slightly blurry because he sneezed. Now there's a Fix photo button on the Photo card. One click and it:

• cleans up the grainy noise (before brightening, so it doesn't turn into confetti),
• takes out that blue or yellow tint from indoor lights,
• brightens the dark corners without washing everything out,
• and sharpens the eyes and fur a bit.

Click it again to get the original back. And yes, I made sure it doesn't decide a fawn boxer is "too orange" and turn him grey. That was an actual bug in an early version. Tucker was not amused.

Recolour

This one came straight out of printing our own logo. The cartoon dog in it is orange, but Tucker is light brown, so TailWag kept faithfully chasing a colour I didn't actually want.

Now you can click any colour in the picture and say what it should be. Pick one of your own spools from the swatches, or any colour at all. It shifts the colour instead of painting over it, so shading and fur texture stay. There's a How similar slider for how many shades count, and Show the area that changes lights up exactly what's about to move, so there are no surprises.

(In that screenshot I turned the sample dog blue-grey, purely to show it off. Please don't do that to your actual dog.)

Also

If you're printing a logo or flat artwork, use fewer filaments than you'd think. Four is often plenty, and Recolour fixes any colour that comes out wrong.

The roadmap is updated: phone photo fixing is ticked off.

As always: bugs go in Issues, prints go in Show and tell. Bonus points for dogs.

Happy printing!
BoxerDawg 3D (and Tucker)