Roadmap

• Non-destructive, node-based painting and retouching

  Every operation — a photo, a colour correction, a brush pass, a blur — is a node you can go back to at any time. Nothing is flattened, so a client's change is an edit, not a repaint.

• A GPU engine with film-grade colour

  Everything is computed on the graphics card, in 16-bit floating point and linear light, with ACES colour management from the imported photo to the exported frame.

• Painting tools built for image makers

  Pressure response, paint mixing and textured brushes, working directly in the graph.

• A Python environment

  An embedded Python interpreter, so a studio can script PP Studio and connect it to the pipeline it already has.

• One account for PP Studio and PP Library

  Sign in once. The same identity covers the desktop app and the library, and signing out of one does not sign you out of the other.

• The library, inside the app

  Browse and search without leaving PP Studio. A download is intercepted as it happens and arrives in your project as a node — no downloads folder, no re-import.

• Windows, macOS and Linux

  The first public release ships for all three systems, with signed installers on each and updates delivered inside the app.

• The complete library

  150,000 RAW photographs online for launch. Photographs are being prepared, indexed and checked until then.

• Subscriptions

  Plans, checkout and billing. The software is written and tested; what remains is company registration and payment-provider approval, which is paperwork with a queue rather than engineering.

• Sign in to PP Studio through your browser

  So that an account created with Google has something to sign in with, rather than a password field it never had a password for.

• Generative AI inside the graph

  A diffusion model as a node, run on your own machine and under your control, alongside the rest of your work rather than instead of it. How soon it comes depends on what early users ask for.

• Compositing and 3D projection

  Projecting a painted image onto simple geometry so the camera can move, and the compositing tools to finish a shot — the next step towards one tool for the whole shot.

• HDRIs and 3D objects in PP Library

  New kinds of content next to the photographs: panoramic HDRIs for lighting 3D scenes, and 3D objects.

• Floating seats for teams

  Pay for concurrent use rather than per person, managed by the studio.

• Further out: advanced 3D and neural rendering

  Real-time 3D and AI rendering inside the same graph. The long-term aim is to replace the whole chain of software a shot goes through today.

Changelog

Starts with the first public release. Publishing a changelog before anyone can install the thing it describes would be a list of things you cannot check.