Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Helicon Filter

Helicon Filter is a complete image editing solution for the digital photographer.

Its easy and intuitive interface, live preview feature, and in context help ensure an easy start for beginners. 
The program is built as step by step workflow guiding you through all post processing stages.

Some of the most interesting and unique features are:
Voice comments
Sensor dust filter
Haze compensation
Spectral sensitivity controls
Chromatic aberration filter
Vignetting and barrel corrections
Stacking images to lower noise or increase dynamic range

Helicon Filter is also full of advanced features which attract professional photographers.

Helicon Filter features:

File management:
Voice comments and video playback
Support for all popular file types including all RAW
Fast folder browser
Lossless rotate, copy, delete, move operations
Template-based rename
Full EXIF and IPTC information
Support of color profiles 
Noise reduction:
Noise level auto detection
Selective noise reduction in highlights and shadows, in defined hue, in color 
range.
Dead pixels filter (v.4.50+)
Dust sensor filter (v.4.50+)
Brightness:
Gradient haze compensation (v.4.50+)
Brightness equalizer/curve
Brightness in Highlights, Shadows
Contrast, Gamma, Exposure
Local contrast
Levels (black point, white point)
Colors:
One-click White Balance tool
Color map and RGB sliders for manual WB
Memory colors list (several skin types, green, sky, etc.)
Saturation for bright and dull colors
Equalizer for selective saturation
Spectral sensitivity controls
Black&White conversion
Exposure warnings
Aberration:
Reduction of chromatic aberration on high contrast areas (e.g. sun behind the 
tree)
Sharpening:
Fine details extraction
Edge sharpening
Threshold to keep noise from sharpening
White halo control
Equalizer to sharpen only selected color ranges.
Distortions:
Vignetting correction
Barrel/pincushion correction
Perspective correction
Rotation, squeezing, stretching
Skewing, bending 
Crop/Resize:
Presets for popular paper sizes, monitor resolutions, mobile phones
Proportional selection (e.g. 2:3, 3:4, user defined)
Batch crop/resize
Frames:
Blurred or black&white image as a frame texture
Color picker to choose frame color
Text:
Placeholders for EXIF data (date, ISO, aperture, etc).
Several text styles including embossed, shadowed, semi-transparent, inverted 
text
Retouching:
'Delete scratches' brush to remove scratches, wires, pimples on the face, 
etc.
'Clone' brush
'Change brightness' brush to make some areas darker or brighter
'Change color' brush to paint with color or to change the hue keeping the brightness the same
'Change saturation' brush
'Blur/sharpen' brush
'Reduce noise' brush
'Fix red eye' brush
'Distort' brush to fix protruding ears and similar problems
'Erase changes' brush to delete effect of the brushes and/or filters
All brushes can be edge-sensitive
Undo/redo is available
Save:
Image can be saved to disk, emailed, printed
Save dialog shows file size for give JPEG quality
JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF (24 bit, 48 bit, lzw compression), PNG, PSD, BMP formats 
are supported 
Advanced features:
Creation of high dynamic range images
Multiprocessor support
Batch processing
Support of external plug-ins
User settings support
16 bit precision image processing

You can Download:

http://www.100-downloads.com/download.php?p=454

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