A permanent record of how Lui and Shoots evolves—new photographs, visual experiments, performance improvements and the decisions behind them.
Version 5.2
A clearer horizon. A new address.
The desktop homepage gains an AI-assisted sunset restoration exported at 3840 × 2160, while Lui and Shoots begins connecting its own domain.
Created a landscape homepage version from the larger archive copy using AI-assisted restoration, then resampled it to a 3840 × 2160 WebP. Restored fine detail is estimated rather than recovered camera detail.
Added a lighter 1920-pixel desktop source and retained the larger original portrait photograph for mobile screens.
Removed permanent image overscaling to avoid unnecessary softness after the opening animation.
Added luiandshoots.co.uk and www.luiandshoots.co.uk to the site; DNS and HTTPS verification are pending the domain records being configured.
A private photographic workspace joins the portfolio, alongside Ryan’s complete essay on the art, science and mathematics of photography.
Added saved photo projects, multi-image imports, a library, filmstrip, tonal histogram, before/after comparison and full-resolution JPEG, PNG and WebP exports.
Introduced brush, linear, radial, colour-range and luminance masks with independent local adjustments, add/subtract strokes, feathering, inversion and mask management.
Added exposure and colour controls, tone curves, an eight-channel colour mixer, presets, sharpening, vignette, grain, crop, rotation and flips.
Preserved originals separately from editable settings, with automatic saving, revision protection and a 30-step session history.
Created a Journal with the complete 2024 essay, original illustrations and credit, typeset equations, chapter links, reading controls and print styling.
Added Studio and Journal to the homepage directory and shared navigation. Documented browser-format limits and the features that remain outside this first studio release.
The portfolio now opens as one deliberate, full-screen image while every part of the work has its own permanent address.
Reframed the homepage as a single full-screen landing view with no vertical scrolling.
Centered the homepage message and four destination links vertically while preserving their editorial alignment.
Opened the four homepage links into spacious, borderless monoline capitals with quieter motion.
Kept the top navigation and circular lens removed, with the original wordmark restored as a standalone signature over the seamless tonal image overlay.
Moved Archive, About, Contact and Logbook to permanent routes with a consistent Home link.
Centered the Archive heading and its introductory note across desktop and mobile layouts.
Set the nighttime Colosseum photograph behind the Archive heading with a restrained tonal wash for clarity.
Preserved the complete 114-photograph archive, responsive image quality, filters and full-screen viewer.
Refined navigation, responsive spacing and page transitions around the existing photographic visual language.
A quieter cool-silver palette replaced the yellow accents, while the motion system was rebuilt to feel smoother without reducing photographic resolution.
Replaced the yellow interface accents with restrained cool silver and soft grey.
Consolidated scroll effects into one animation-frame cycle scoped to the moving elements.
Removed expensive full-screen blur, colour-filter and continuous shape animations.
Deferred off-screen gallery rendering across the 114-image archive.
Preserved every 2160px viewing file and responsive high-quality thumbnail.