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Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.5.8 (16.08.2019) (509 Mb)

Incorrect trial version limitations bug fixed
Open recent option added

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.5.6 (08.07.2019)

Translation and help update
DNG converter update
Saving activation code for automatic registration
EXIF and XMP handling fixes
Watermark on saved images in registered Lite version bug fixed
Minor fixes

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.5.4 (19.04.2019)

Colors in navigator window fixed for DNG stacks
Brush size per brush type preserve fix
Lauch without OpenCL if previous launch with OpenCL failed.
--disable-opencl command line option added

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.5.3 (09.04.2019)

Fix DPI in output images
Fix saving 32bit float images to JPEG
Fix default JPEG quality setting

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.5.1 (04.03.2019)

OpenCL hardware acceleration (Pro license required)

Compatibility list:
NVidia 9xx, 10xx, 20xx series
AMD Radeon 4xx, 5xx series
Intel HD Graphics 5xx, 6xx series
At least 2Gb of VRAM is required

Raw codecs updated
Various ui improvements and bug fixes

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.0.2 (28.09.2018)

Turning off 'Adjust brightness' no longer produces artifacts
Fixed image thumbnails not being interpolated
Proper detection of missing source files when loading a project
Better logging of some issues so that bug reports are more helpful

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 7.0.1 (03.09.2018)

New feature: Folder Monitor - now Helicon Focus can monitor the specified folder and process the stack automatically once all the images of the stack are uploaded
New feature: Manual focus detection area adjustment (can be enabled in Preferences -> Autoadjustments): shows a blue rectangle of selection area and allows you to adjust the area of alignment of frames in the stack
New feature: Crop result image automatically (Preferences -> Autoadjustments): lets you auto-crop all images in the stack, e. g. when there are artifacts on the edge of the image, or when there's an are that lacks focus data. Cropping the image properly helps avoid focus stacking artifacts induced by such useless areas
User interface somewhat reworked, the list of rendering results moved to the bottom of the window. The minimum allowed height of the main window has been reduced, it can now fit the screen on some laptops where previously the window was too large for the screen
Method B reworked, it now produces good image in some of the difficult cases that previously resulted in artifacts
Performance improved, especially on multi-core systems
Memory consumption optimized, it is now bound to a certain fraction of system's total memory (configurable in Preferences -> Performance). Within that limit, Helicon Focus will use as much memory as possible to avoid re-computing things, and, ultimately, to speed up rendering
Disk cache optimized to avoid situations when all the free space is used up by Helicon Focus
Numerous bug fixes and stability improvements

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.8.0 (05.10.2017)

Updated Adobe DNG converter
Minor performance improvements

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.7.1 (27.05.2016)

Lightroom integration: Helicon Focus no longer exits automatically upon saving the rendering result
3D viewer crash fixed on Windows
Batch processing, command line mode: TIFFs are now saved with LZW compression by default
Some other minor improvements

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.7.0 (17.05.2016)

Adobe DNG converter made the default raw decoder
Fixed the image loading error when Adobe DNG converter is used and importing a raw images takes longer than 30 seconds
Fixed the retouching brush not updating after loading a different source image until the cursor is moved
Support for TIFF files with non-integer number of bytes per channel added (e. g. 12 bits)
3D model now correctly gets the retouched depth map
IIQ raw format support added
The Windows Helicon Focus executable is now large address-aware, which means it can utilize more than 2GB RAM on 32-bit Windows systems
Batch processing: the list of source stacks can now be sorted by various columns
Some more minor bugs fixed

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.6.1 (07.03.2016)

Minor performance improvements
Fixed 'phantom' brush strokes that were sometimes applied when switching source images

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.6.0 (01.03.2016)

3D Viewer video export error on OS X fixed
Fixed saving results as DNG in batch processing mode
Drag and drop support implemented for the batch processing dialog
Fixed splitting stacks by shooting time
Fixed a couple errors in managing stacks in the batch processing dialog
Silent compilation: fixed the message about missing DNG converter
Color profile is now properly applied in silent compilation mode
Fixed rendering grayscale (single-channel) and 4-channel (alpha) images (all processing modes)
Output image DPI is always set to the value specified in Helicon Focus settings now
Rendering performance improved on multi-core CPUs

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.5.3 (28.01.2016)

Minor issues fixed

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.5.2 (13.01.2016)

Fixed the program freezing on startup on some machines where it has never been run before
EXIF metadata is now properly transferred to the resulting images in batch processing mode
Fixed a crash or lockup when cancelling render in progress
Error handling improved in some cases

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.5.1 (23.12.2015)

Fixed a critical problem that occurred if the cache folder was not accessible

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.5.0 (15.12.2015)

New feature: video import (opens video files, automatically extracts frames and loads them as source images for further focus stacking)
Fixed an issue with the 'Split stacks by time' function in the batch processing dialog: the wrong EXIF time tag was taken into account so the results were incorrect sometimes. Additionally, the time resolution is now improved from 1 minute to 1 second

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.4.3 (13.11.2015)

Fixed an error that could cause black pixels to appear on the edge of the final image
Fixed a minor error in the Publish to Web tool

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.4.2 (06.11.2015)

Fixed an occasional crash during stack rendering
Fixed a crash when opening and/or saving files. Reboot may be required after installing the update for the fix to take effect
Fixed the saved/unsaved status indicator (asterisk) in the results list - now it correctly marks the stacks that have not been saved yet, or have been edited after saving

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.4.1 (02.11.2015)

Fixed a rare render issue

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.4.0 (30.10.2015)

New feature: the resulting image can be shared on Facebook
A few minor user interface improvements

Helicon Focus (Lite, Pro, Premium) 6.3.8 (13.10.2015)

Retouching: fixed a crash when trying to use another output as source
Retouching: fixed an error that was preventing you from retouching pixels that are entirely on the source image
Panorama stitching crash fixed
Focus stacking progress indicator fixed
Another rare crash fixed
Added support for dropping folders (including arbitrary number of

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