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Nikon Capture Updater 4.4.2
Nikon Capture Updater - For D series & Coolpix with ability to shoot NEF images more>>
Nikon Capture Editor:
1. Support for RAW images captured with the D2Hs has been added.
2. Some of the information displayed in the Shooting data area has been changed.
Long Exposure Noise Reduction: changed from Off or Fixed pattern to Off or On
High ISO Noise Reduction: changed from Off or On to Off, On (Normal), or On (High) (D2X and D2Hs only)
3. The following changes have been made to the Straighten function (Image menu>Rotate).
The shape of the Draw Level cursor has been changed.
The function has been changed so that the image is rotated immediately after the Draw Level line is drawn or as the degree of rotation is entered in Rotation text box.
Nikon Capture Control
1. Support for the D2Hs has been added.
2. The Noise Reduction checkbox in the Image Processing panel has been changed to a pop-up menu offering selection from Off, On (Normal), and On (High) options. (D2X and D2Hs only)
Enhancements:
- Supports D2Hs and D2X RAW/NEF files after firmware 2.0.0 firmware has been applied (available soon).
- Improvements have been made with the following processes: Image Dust OFF, Advanced RAW palette, Batch process, D-Lighting, LCH Editor, Save Progress, White Balance Palette, PictureProject Transfer Options, Fisheye-to-rectilinear conversion feature.
- Supports new Custom Setting options applied with D2Hs and D2X firmware 2.0.0
- Images captured with the image-authentication feature enabled, the following settings are disabled when images are saved: Embed ICC Profile, Attach IPTC Information, Automatic rotation of images capture in tall (portrait) orientation. When TIFF images are transferred to a computer with Camera Control Pro, the image-authentication feature will be disabled.
- Use for Camera Curve Sample has been improved
- Embed ICC Profile in Download Options dialog has been improved.
Artist 0.4
Free and open source 2D graphics library more>> Free and open source 2D graphics library
Artist is a portable 2D graphics library. Main features are: bitmap blitting, alpha blending, drawing primitives, zoom and rotation, text rendering and image file loading. Artist uses hardware acceleration and provides a simple and elegent API.
NOTE: Artist is licensed and distributed under the terms of the zlib/libpng License.
Enhancements:
- Library converted from C++ to pure C
- Corrected Window::removeLayer() bug
Inkscape 0.45.1
Inkscape - Drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator/Freehand/CorelDraw more>>
Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping.
In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscapes main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool.
Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development process.
Photomatix Pro 3.2.6
Photomatix Pro is described as an unique and handy tool that can enable you to recover highlights and shadows details of a high-contrast scene. more>>
Photomatix Pro 3.2.6 is described as an unique and handy tool that can enable you to recover highlights and shadows details of a high-contrast scene.
Using advanced algorithms, Photomatix Pro combines differently exposed shots into one image with increased dynamic range.
- Blend exposures hassle-free
- Generate an HDR image from multiple exposures
- Reveal details in highlights and shadows in HDR image
Designed for professional photographers and advanced amateurs, Photomatix Pro is a standalone application offering two methods of tone mapping, six methods of exposure blending, an alignment tool for out-of-register images, 16-bit support, and batch processing.
Enhancements:
- Made the ratio and preview magnification settings remembered separately depending on whether the image is in landscape or portrait mode.
- Made the text boxes of the Tone Mapping and Exposure Fusion settings in batch mode editable.
- Bug fixed: Position of the Tone Mapping Preview dialog was not correctly remembered.
License:update/patch
Photomatix Basic 1.0
Photomatix Basic - Extends dynamic range of digital photos/scanned films more>>
Exposure blending: combining images taken at different exposures into one image with increased dynamic range
Tone Mapping: processing a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to compress its tonal range while preserving local contrast.
The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while preserving the details of the original scene in highlights and shadows.

Jasper's DRIMaker 1.3
Jaspers DRIMaker provides a completed solution to help you automatically produce DRI images. more>> Jasper's DRIMaker 1.3 provides a completed solution to help you automatically produce DRI images. This application does not produce 32-bit HDR-images which will be changed to LDR via tone-mapping but uses the so called Exposure Blending in order to crossfade each image iteratively.
Enhancements:
- Better saving menu
- New help panels
- Output of offset after aligning possible
- Warning before replacing files
- Zooming and scrolling via mouse possible (beta)
- Small bugfixes
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

Photography Exposure Wheel
Photography Exposure Wheel is created as a professional and useful editor tool. more>>
Photography Exposure Wheel is created as a professional and useful editor tool that provides f-stop and shutter speed settings for different outdoor lighting conditions and film speeds. It has been developed by DesignMentor Training in collaboration with master photographer Ken Milburn.
Jaspers DRIMaker 1.21
Jaspers DRIMaker - automatically create HDRI pictures from your photos more>>
So in the end, the manual technique that people do in e.g. Photoshop, is simulated.
You will find more information about this kind of technique on this page. Everything you need is an exposure sequence in JPEG/TIFF format.
My aim in this implementation is to get the most natural results, as i think that for photographers the whole DRI thing is made to compensate the bad dynamic range of digital sensors. If the final image has a greater dynamic range than the human eyes could normally adapt to, you have gone much too far imho.
Enhancements:
- Saving is possible again (in v1.2 was a missing connection!)
HuginOSX 0.7.0
A panorama Tools frontend and photo stitching program. more>> A panorama Tools frontend and photo stitching program.
With HuginOSX you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
HuginOSX uses the same open source library used by many other software including shareware like PTMac from Kekus Digital. HuginOSX is, however, free and you can start making panoramic photos without buying any expensive software or equipment.
You can use your usual digital camera to take photo, and HuginOSX can stitch number of photos together quite nicely.
For advanced users, HuginOSX also has many features available for making panorama with special equipment including two types of fisheye lenses.
Enhancements:
- Online help
- Hugin now has comprehensive help documentation for the
- entire user interface, the manual now includes glossary
- items explaining many panorama stitching and related
- photography concepts.
- Languages
- New translations include Slovak, Korean, Bulgarian and
- Spanish. This means that hugin is now usable with a total
- of twenty languages.
- New Assistant panel
- Creating simple panoramas is much easier, hugin now starts
- showing an Assistant with a simple 1-2-3 approach for
- loading images, aligning and creating the final output.
- The Assistant will estimate lens and camera parameters,
- then pick a suitable output projection and size, advanced
- options are still available for manual adjustment.
- Photometric model
- Previous versions of hugin and panotools had basic support
- for correcting vignetting and exposure differences between
- photos.
- This has been completely overhauled, hugin now internally
- uses the EMoR model for representing exposure
- photometrically. This means that the camera response curve,
- vignetting, colour balance and exposure can now be
- optimised in much the same way as geometrical properties
- such as position and lens distortion.
- The result is that blending between photos is better than
- ever before.
- HDR
- Previously hugin supported High Dynamic Range imaging
- solely by allowing stitching of HDR floating-point TIFF
- photos - These images themselves had to be created in
- another tool.
- Now, thanks to the internal photometric model, hugin can
- now create HDR output from normal exposure bracketed
- photos. The photos dont have to be perfectly-aligned,
- they dont even need to be nearly-aligned or have
- consistent exposure differences - The hugin optimiser will
- sort all this stuff out, and the stitcher will create
- OpenEXR or TIFF HDR output files for later tonemapping or
- use as lightprobes.
- Exposure blending
- HDR and tonemapping isnt for everybody, enfuse introduced
- exposure blending to the world, and hugin supports aligning
- and fusing bracketed stacks of photos, perfectly, all as
- part of the stitching process.
- So now with hugin-0.7.0 and enblend-3.2 you can create
- realistic, photographic panoramas that have no over-exposed
- or under-exposed areas.
- Makefile stitching
- hugin-0.7.0 introduces a new stitching back-end: previously
- the various stitching tools were executed directly by the
- GUI, now all the commands required to generate the output
- are written to a Makefile which is then processed
- independently of hugin itself.
- Aside from easier debugging and customisation; this
- background stitching allows you to get on with creating a
- new project while waiting for the previous job to finish -
- Stitching can also be deferred or shifted to another
- machine, even headless servers can now be used.
- Projections
- Hugin has always had the ability to save panoramas using
- simulated normal and fisheye lenses, or 360 degree
- cylindrical and spherical projections.
- Now a whole series of alternative cartographic mappings are
- available, of particular interest are the conformal
- stereographic and Mercator projections which can be used to
- show extremely large angles of view with no local
- distortion.
- Project templates
- Hugin project files can now be used as templates for new
- panorama projects. This is useful if you take a lot of
- panoramas with exactly the same camera positions.
- Other improvements
Theres a whole lot of other new stuff in this release:
- numbering in the control-point editor, straight-line
- control-points, numeric transform, clicking to rotate the
- preview, a straighten button, cropping of the output and
- probably more.
- Command-line tools
This release provides new command-line tools:
- align_image_stack: align a nearly-aligned stack of photos
- pto2mk: create a stitching Makefile from a pto project
- vig_optimise: optimise photometric parameters
- tca_correct: calculate lens chromatic aberration
- hugin_hdrmerge: assemble a bracketed stack to HDR
- matchpoint: classify control point features
- Control point generators
- Hugin doesnt yet ship with a Patent Free control point
- generator. So you either need to pick control points
- manually - Not as difficult as it sounds - or install and
- configure one of the following control-point generators as
plug-ins, in no particular order:
- autopano-sift-C
- panomatic
- Autopano-SIFT
- Autopano freeware version
- Upgrading
- Upgrading from previous versions of hugin should be
- seamless. If you do have problems with old settings, these
- can be reset in the Preferences by clicking Load defaults.
Exposure Merger 2.25.4
Exposure Merger is considered as a simple and salutary freeware which is designed to build stereo photographs. more>>
Exposure Merger 2.25.4 is considered as a simple and salutary freeware which is designed to build stereo photographs.
It offers an Exposure Merger function that can be used with non-stereo photographs, without taking into account the original stereo goal of the software. It takes an overexposed photograph and a subexposed photograph, and merge them together in a tunable way to build a new photograph taking only the well exposed parts of each original. It is also possible to produce 2 artificial exposures with a single photograph, using a gamma filter, and then to merge them together exactly like if it where 2 original differently exposed photographs.
Mac GasBlender II 2.0.0p2
Mac GasBlender II is designed as a MacOS X freeware that is useful for SCUBA divers who are involved with gas blending or with Nitrox, Trimix, Heliox and HeliAir diving. more>> <<less
Mac GasBlender 1.1
Mac GasBlender is developed as a great, pure Cocoa MacOS X freeware for SCUBA divers who are involved with gas blending or with Nitrox, Trimix & Heliox diving. more>>
Mac GasBlender 1.1 is developed as a great, pure Cocoa MacOS X freeware for SCUBA divers who are involved with gas blending or with Nitrox, Trimix & Heliox diving. It will allow you to compute best mixes and blending receipts for various mixes.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.0 or higher
- 800 x 600 resolution or higher
Color MYKser 1.0
Color MYKser - Preview and calculate 4 color process color blending more>>
A must for designers using 4 color process.
Enhancements:
- Updated for final release.
- Say goodbye to flicker.
Babya Photo Workshop 11.0.2
Babya Photo Workshop is an impressive and unique image editing application that assists you in getting started and experiment with Image Units. more>>
Babya Photo Workshop 11.0.2 is an impressive and unique image editing application that assists you in getting started and experiment with Image Units.
You can start out with a base image, apply a color control filter, an exposure adjust filter, white point adjust filter, and a color blend mode filter - all the while watching the filters being applied to the source image in real time. By using Babya Photo Workshop for Mac and seeing how Image Units work, you can get a feel for how Image Units could be used in your own applications.
Tint Adjust 1.0
Tint Adjust - Apply exposure curves to vector graphics more>>
Curves created in PhotoShop can be used to adjust the tints of most vector art objects in Illustrator, including gradients. Minimum and maximum dot settings are also included.