You Can’t Fire Me, I Don’t Work In This Van

Gluestick 1.1 is the next free update to Gluestick we’re working on. It’s probably about a month away, but we’re already made substantial headway on it.

One feature that has been requested is the ability to change the transparent color of an image. This is helpful for dealing with images that come with some sort of background, like JPG’s that have a white background. We’ve already written some custom CoreImage code that does this, and we’ll be integrating it into Gluestick 1.1.

The second thing we’ve been working on is AppleScript/Automator support. This is one of those obvious things that just didn’t make it into 1.0.

Another issue we’re working on addressing is bringing in images with different aspect ratios into Gluestick. When you use a template, you can replace images in the composition by dragging a new image onto the appropriate layer in the layer list. This works great if the original image and the replacement image have the same aspect ratio, if you don’t, there is some awkward stretching. This can make things rough if you want to do something like badging folders with pictures from iPhoto. To address this, we’re adding a sheet that drops down when the new image has a different aspect ratio. It will let you size to fit, or adjust the bounds of the layer to the right aspect ratio.

Which also reminds me. We’re adding support for proportional scaling of images in layers.

I’m also looking at the bundled templates. In 1.1 we’re going to push user created templates more. User created templates are available in 1.0, but they aren’t well documented, and you can’t add user created templates to the templates menu. All the templates in Gluestick are also icon related. I’ll be adding some more templates for more vanilla tasks, like framing photos.