We’ve just released Observatory 1.0.4 – a fresh new release with a few big things.
Browser
As soon as you select a folder, album, or smart album in the sidebar, the brand new Focus Bar will appear at the top of the browser.
It gives you a good excuse to collapse the sidebar (⌘0), and focus on that one area of your library, for example a single album. If that album contains stacks, and you select one, the Focus Bar will show an additional button: Focus on Stack, which when clicked (or by pressing ^⌘[) will take your focus to the stack itself and the images it is made of.
When focused on a stack, the Focus Bar displays three nifty buttons that allow you to quickly select the stack’s pick image, all images comprising the stack, or the stacked image itself.
No more inline stack expansion, which didn’t scale well, but a more focused approach.
Virtual Observatory
The Virtual Observatory has gained four more archives:
That’s a lot of extra image data, and to help you get a hold of it, you can now filter the search results. For example, if you only want to include images obtained with the Hubble ACS instrument, you might enter “ACS” in the new text field towards the bottom of the Virtual Observatory.
Fixes, and more
We’ve made improvements throughout the application. For example, the “Edit” button in the inspectors was in the way of efficient metadata editing, so we removed it. You can now double click stacks and images to quickly focus on them. And importing folders of images doesn’t create superfluous folders in your library anymore.
Enjoy!
Full release notes here.