Menu reference

File

• Input Folder… — choose the folder your photographs are in. SaltPrint lists everything it can read there: raw files, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, HEIC. It doesn't look inside sub-folders.
• Destination Folder… — where finished negatives are written. Left alone, SaltPrint uses a SaltPrint Output folder beside your photographs.
• Recent Input Folders / Recent Destination Folders — the last few of each.
• Settings… — language, appearance, updates. On a Mac this lives in the SaltPrint menu instead. Detail.
• Quit — closes the app. Per-frame edits are already saved.

Frame

• Undo — steps back through edits to the current frame, naming what it will undo (“Undo Exposure”). Edits are per frame, so this never reaches across to another photograph.
• Redo — puts back what you just undid.

Correction Curve

Full detail on correction curves.

• Curve Builder Wizard… — print a 21-step target, expose and process it, scan it back, and it builds a curve from what actually happened.
• Manual Curve… — shape one by hand.
• Import curve file… — bring in a curve you already have.
• Manage curves… — rename or delete the curves you've made.

Tonal Scale

• Compare tonal scales… — the test sheet that answers which tone makes the best negative on your kit. Basic compares the tones you can pick; Advanced walks the whole colour wheel.
• Exposure test ladder… — how long to expose, and whether the tone changes the answer. The ladder.
• The tone list — the same tones as the picker in the Make block, as menu items. Both are bound to the same setting, so they can't disagree.
• Measured shades — the 48 shades from the Advanced sheet, addressed 1a to 12d. The address printed on the sheet is the address here.

Resources

Two references worth having open while you print. They open in your browser and send nothing.

• Mike Ware — Alternative Photography — the chemistry and history of the processes, from someone who has measured them properly. Several of SaltPrint's built-in curves are shaped from his published gamma work.
• Digital Truth — Massive Dev Chart — film development times, for the film half of the workflow.

Help

• SaltPrint Help… — opens these pages.
• About SaltPrint — version and build number (worth quoting in a bug report), credits, and the privacy note.
• What's New — the release notes for the version you're running. Shown once automatically after an update; this is how to get back to them.
• Report a bug… — composes an email with your version filled in. What it sends.
• License agreement… — the licence you accepted on first run. Also published here.
• Answer the survey… — a few questions about your process. What it sends.
• Check for Updates… — asks now rather than at next launch.
• Show action log — opens the folder holding SaltPrint's record of destructive actions, so it's readable after the app has quit.