lens corrector
LensForge 1.2.11
LensForge is created to be a new and effective lens design program for Mac OS X. more>>
Enhancements: Setting pupil to "float by stop size" now compensates for pupil aberration.
LensForge lends you the chance of using the premier lens design program for Mac OS X, which is a ... for professional and amateur lens designers, experimental physicists, telescope makersLicense:update/patch
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LensForge 1.2.3 is a very tractable and powerful premier lens design program for Mac OS XLicense:update/patch
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FFView 0.9.10
FFView provides you with a convenient and fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a la ACDsee (2.x). more>>
FFView 0.9.10 provides you with a convenient and fast OpenGL-powered picture viewer a la ACDsee (2.x). It is aimed at letting you read manga or other comics onscreen (windowed & fullscreen mode).
Features include fast prefetching, smooth panning, voice commands, 2-page mode, a magnifying lens, the ability to browse pictures inside archives (.rar/.cbr, .zip/.cbz, .pdf) and sticky per-picture options.
Supports EXIF tags and is scriptable.
Enhancements:
- Polish translation by Parasit Hendersson
- Mac OS X 10.5 system log bug fixed
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Cocoa
- Universal Binary
panning, voice commands, 2-page mode, a magnifying lens, the ability to browse picturescommands - 2-page mode - a magnifying lens - the ability to browse pictures inside archives
CornerFix 1.1.0.1
CornerFix 1.1.0.1 is yet another extremely useful utility for everyone. It actually corrects for color dependent vignetting in digital images more>>
CornerFix 1.1.0.1 is yet another extremely useful utility for everyone. It actually corrects for color dependent vignetting in digital images. All digital cameras are some extent subject to this; current generation sensors are highly IR sensitive, so there needs to be a IR filter somewhere. But the combination of sensors and IR filters also cuts into the red part of the spectrum, and do so in a way that depends on the angle through which the light bends as it travels to the sensor. So red gets cut more in the corners. Most DSLR's do this a bit - take a picture of a white wall and you will probably see it, although many cameras correct internally to a greater or lesser extent.
Leica's M8 has a particular problem in this regard. Historically, one of the advantages that rangefinder cameras had was that the back of a rangefinder lens can be a lot closer to the film surface than is the case for a film SLR - the SLR needs space for the mirror, which a rangefinder doesn't have. So in the film world, rangefinder lenses had a lot more design freedom that SLR lenses - wide-angle lenses that on a SLR had to be reverse telephoto designs could be normal designs on a rangefinder.
M8's can correct for this problem themselves, but there are two issues for users - firstly, your lenses must be coded, which means that it must be a Leica lens, either new enough to have been coded when it was manufactured, or one that has been sent to the factory to be upgraded. So anyone with a non-Leica lens or one that can't be upgraded is out of luck, unless they somehow code the lens themselves. The second problem is that the M8's correction is "one size fits all"; it's designed for average situations, and sometimes doesn't do well in unusual lighting.
CornerFix allows the cyan corners problem to be corrected for any lens, in more or less any lighting situation, by post processing the camera's image file. The right hand side of the main window in the screen shot shows the corrected image. CornerFix is available for the Mac and for Windows. It's free and open source, released under the GPL. Note however that image must be a DNG formatted file - CornerFix doesn't work with TIFF or JPEG files.
Enhancements: Jul 15 2009
- Devignetting application for Leica M8 digital cameras;
- Fixed the "cyan corners" problem when using wide lens with IR filters and decodes data in the M8's MakerNotes
Hugin 0.8rc4
Hugin provides a complete and versatile panorama photo creation tool. more>>
Hugin 0.8rc4 provides a complete and versatile panorama photo creation tool. It can put multiple photos together very easily and the end result is smooth and stunning!
Hugin uses the same open source library used by many other software including shareware like PTMac from Kekus Digital. Hugin is, however, free and you can start making panoramic photos without buying any expensive software or equipment. Unlike many similar software, Hugin considers the shapes of the lens and can adapt to the particular distortion profile of your camera.
For advanced users, hugin also has many features for making panoramas with special equipment, including two types of fisheye lenses and more.
- Minor Hungarian translation update.
- Fixes for Ev value bug that manifests as white images.
- Fix for Fast Preview Crop button crash.
- Fix for crash opening projects without images or control points.
- Some unused files removed.
- LAPACK is disabled by default. If you want to experiment then enable it by running cmake with -DENABLE_LAPACK=YES
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
making panorama with special equipment including two types of fisheye lenses. EnhancementsLicense:GPL
considers the shapes of the lens and can adapt to the particular distortion profile of your ... two types of fisheye lenses and more
Hugin is based on the same open source library used by many
AnaBuilder for Mac 2.47.0
AnaBuilder is a freeware program for the creation of stereoscopic photographs. more>> AnaBuilder is a freeware program for the creation of stereoscopic photographs (anaglyph, parallel, crossed, ... anaglyphs are viewed through Red/Cyan glasses). The program makes it possible to readjust the two views manually or fully automatically! Supports multiple languages. AnabuilderJava.zip contains the minimum to make it running, or to update a previous version. There is also an automatic installer for full installation available on the web site.
AnaBuilder provides integration with the 3D modeler Art Of Illusion.It enables a live stereo adjustment of a virtual pair of cameras in the 3D scene (with anaglyph glasses) before running the (heavy) final render. Then, the final pair may be reloaded in AnaBuilder to make anaglyph color corrections or to be used with other means of stereo viewing. It is also possible to use AoI to make 3D stereo brushes, and to paint with them in AnaBuilder.
AnaBuilder offers an integration with the stereoscope viewer. It enables views as cross-eyed, parallel, KMQ, mirror, or shutter glasses (Elsa Revelator, H3D, D4D)....
AnaBuilder offers an integration with the panorama viewer PTViewer.
AnaBuilder offers a 2D->3D->Stereo conversion tool. AnaBuilder (old Windows version) also allows stereo-morphing to convert a 2D photo into a 3D photo, or to modify the depht of an existing 3D photo.
AnaBuilder makes it possible to touch up the photographs in 3d, or to draw in 3d.
AnaBuilder offers a bracketing merger : 2 methods (the second one is not yet explained, but is much more intuitive and easy to use than the first one), a noise reduction tool, a local diff corrector for brightness or white balance, and a corrector of color histogram differences.
AnaBuilder offers a users image forum.
AnaBuilder offers a phantogram builder.
AnaBuilder enables to generate slideshow that can be viewed with the stereo image browser StereoBee.
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Nikon Capture NX 2.2
Nikon Capture NX is a very flexible and effective digital-image processing and editing software application for digital photographers, descended from Nikon Capture. more>>
Nikon Capture NX 2.2 is a very flexible and effective digital-image processing and editing software application for digital photographers, descended from Nikon Capture.
Capture NX now provides:
- Powerful U PointTM technology powered Color Control Points that enable the user to directly enhance the image selectively, without the use of masks, selections, or layers.
- Continued ability to apply every tool non-destructively (Requires the user to save their image with NEF. Original file can be JPEG, TIFF, or NEF). Selective tools such as the Selection Brush and Selection Gradient that can be used to selectively apply any of the enhancements.
- 25 new tools and enhancements, ranging from the Black, White, and Neutral Control Point tools that enable the user to remove color casts and set their images dynamic range, to the Distortion Correction enhancement that enables the user to reduce barrel and pincushion type distortions in their images.
- A highly-featured browser.
- Tutorials are available at capturenx.com, click on Tutorials.
- Support for Mac OSX 10.5.6 has been added
- Support for NRW-format RAW images captured with the COOLPIX P6000 has been added. Capture NX 2 Picture Controls are compatible with digital-SLR Picture Controls. As Picture Controls built into the COOLPIX P6000 are COOLPIX Picture Controls, modifying Picture Control settings with Capture NX 2 will not produce the same colours as in-camera Picture Controls.
- Some changes have been made to the file-type filter on the toolbar.
- An Axial Colour Aberration correction function has been added to the Camera & Lens Corrections portion of the Edit Lists Develop section.
- With the addition of the Axial Colour Aberration correction function, other function labels have been modified as follows. Auto Colour Aberration in the Camera & Lens Corrections portion of the Edit Lists Develop section has been changed to Auto Lateral Colour Aberration. The Colour Aberration Control option, selected from the Adjust menu > Correct, has been renamed Lateral Colour Aberration.
- An Auto Distortion correction function has been added to the Camera & Lens Corrections portion of the Edit Lists Develop section.
- Batch processing speed has been increased.
- When a batch process was applied to images stored on an external hard disk, processing order was performed in the order the images were created. The Processing order has now been modified so that images are processed in alphabetical order by file name.
- When the Adjust menu>Light>Auto Levels option was applied to images captured with the D3X, in some rare cases, the enhanced images had a blue cast. This issue has been resolved.
- When RAW images captured with the D60 with Active D-Lighting enabled were opened, in some rare cases, the images did not display properly. This issue has been resolved.
- Mac OS X versions 10.3.9, 10.4.11, 10.5.4 Model: Power PC G4 & G5, or Intel-based Macintosh (Intel Core Solo, Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Xeon)
GIMP 2.6.6
Scriptable image app: create, alter & manipulate photos. more>>
GIMP 2.6.6 brings you a dream tool for photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Major Features:
- Customizable Interface
- Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.
- GIMP features a great fullscreen mode allowing you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen estate.
- Photo Enhancement
- Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface.
- Digital Retouching
- GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.
- Hardware Support
- GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!
- File Formats
- The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry.
Enhancements:
- GIMP 2.6.6 is a bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. This release contains an important fix for compiling GIMP against the recently released GTK+ 2.16.
Requirements:
- GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
- Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
- Mac OS X
- Sun OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD
Milk 0.25
A free and open source security source code assessment tool more>>
Directors NoteBook 2 Pro 2.m is a powerful software for television commercial directors that organizes all the information you need access to during pre-production, production, and post. It's like having a production assistant at your beck and call 24 hours a day to help you manage your projects and save time.
From imported storyboard images, efx plate images, location and set photos, casting specs, agency and client contact info, to all shot-specific details like action, camera directions, lenses and frame rates, screen time, blocking, and script, Directors NoteBook helps you gather and organize all the information you need. It is used for both Windows and Mac allows complete customization abd networked multi-user collaboration (FileMaker Pro 5 or greater is required and not inluded for Directors NoteBook Pro, FileMaker Pro 7 or greater is required and not included for Directors NoteBook 2 Pro).
Major Features:
- Easy-to-learn push-button interface allows you to be creative and organized from the start without being a tech head.
- Effortlessly keeps you organized. Leaving more time to be creative.
- Search and sort all shot specific details any way you want.
- Import digital storyboard images, effects plate images, location photos, blocking or location diagrams with one mouse click.
- Data entry short cuts such as:
- Using text already entered in another shot
- Pull-down menus and Pop-up lists
- Import a folder full of images
- Present your "boards" in a digital slide show with one click.
- Export data to be used in a word processing program or spreadsheet program like Word or Excel or Appleworks.
Enhancements:
- Now files can be up to 2 GB in size
- Added a new file storage section
- Store for archiving purposes, copies of up to 20 digital files of any format, including: Final Draft documents, Call sheets, budgets and bids, Word files
- Any multimedia file format. Optimized Application for Speed.
Requirements: FileMaker Pro 7 or higher
Canon 400D + lens icon 1.0
Canon 400D camera + lens 17-85mm icons. more>>
Canon 400D camera + lens 17-85mm icons. 512px to 16px.
gSearch 0.1
A great widget that brings the web on your dashboard. more>>
The application also provides additional essential image correction tools, such as red-eye removal, color correction, white balance, and exposure adjustment. Advanced SilverFast features, including ACR, USM, GANE, Selective Color Correction, and JobManager, allow the amateur, the prosumer and professional photographer to achieve the desired results from their digital photographic images.
SilverFast DC Pro Studio supports the Raw Data Formats for many professional digital cameras from Canon, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Kodak, Fuji and Sigma. The conversion of the raw data takes place as a time-saving background process and the results are stored automatically. Hence, the user can re-open converted files without losing time.
Why SilverFast DC? Work like a Pro x Control the workflow x Use the full potential of the cameras raw format x Apply SilverFasts professional color correction x Enhance your image quality x Generate printable files x Make use of many cameras x Work on Mac or PC.
For all listed cameras SilverFast also fully supports Adobe DNG as an input format. If a camera is not listed as supported, not all camera information might be present in the DNG file. Still, such DNG files can of course be read and processed by SilverFast. If your camera or the relevant profile is not available it can be created through us. For this purpose LaserSoft Imaging needs your ready-to-use camera (including a lens, battery, etc.) for approx. 2 hours at its company headquarters in Kiel, Germany. Only a few test-shots under controlled light are needed for this procedure.
XnView 0.12
XnView 0.12 is created to be a useful program which helps with viewing and converting graphic files. more>> XnView 0.12 is created to be a useful program which helps with viewing and converting graphic files. XnView is provided as FREEWARE for private non-commercial or educational use (including non-profit organizations)
Major Features:
- Import about 400 graphic file formats
- Export about 50 graphic file formats
- Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support IPTC, EXIF
- Resize
- Copy/Cut/Crop
- Adjust brigthness, contrast...
- Modify number of colors
- Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
- Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
- Fullscreen mode
- Slide show
- Picture browser
- Batch convert
- Thumbnail create
- Screen capture
- Contact Sheet create
- Multi-page file create (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
- And much more...
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.
Jewelry Finder 1.0
A great dashboard widget that allows you to perform searches on goldenmine.com more>>
"SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 is awarded as the best RAW converter for digital images!"
SILKYPIX is an all-round RAW converter with feature rich functionalities that produces the best results for your cherished images. With top notch adjustment parameters in an intuitive user interface you can enhance your own pictures with silky smooth results!
Recently digital SLR cameras have become more affordable. As a result converting images from the RAW format has become increasingly more popular and SILKYPIX is simply the best RAW Converter on the market. Compared to the competition SILKYPIX produces the best results in the least amount of time.
SILKYPIX is preferred among professional photographers and yet simple enough that even the amateur photographer can use it to produce the highest quality images. SILKYPIX can repair pixilation errors which previously could have only been corrected by purchasing the most expensive photography hardware.
SILKYPIX software offers a professional color management engine, including ICC profiles alongside comprehensive development functions such as white balancing, contrast, sharpness, saturation, lens correction, image perspective and trimming (cropping), outputting and printing. The extended Adobe RGB colorspace is also supported.
For the creative user SILKYPIX allows you to manipulate your pictures in order satisfy your creative mind to produce the most breathtaking and unique images with your own personal touch and settings.
The program supports over 120 cameras (including the latest cameras) and works under both Windows (including Vista) & Macintosh platforms.
SILKYPIX can read the RAW format from almost all digital SLR cameras on the market, and also works with JPG?s & TIFF?s from any other source.
Feel free to download a trial version of Shortcut Software?s (www.shortcutinc.com) SILKYPIX 3.0, so you can experience for yourself the silky smooth results that SILKYPIX RAW converter offers.
System Requirements: RAM: 512MB, XGA (1024x768)
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A great way to search for hotels right from your dashboard. more>> Riccicedricdesign Action Effects is a suite of 7 automated retouching Actions for Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Photoshop CS3.
This suite has been conceived to drasticaly ease your photo enhancement. It will allow you to gain considerable time and obtain professional results in just a few clicks, even for Photoshop beginners.
Each action is activated by a simple click in the Photoshop Actions window or by using the dedicated shortcuts.
Features:
Support Mac OSX platform
Sky Enhancer Effect
This action allows you to enhance a landscaped photo lacking contrast or over exposed. It combines a smart gradient to revive dull skies and a setting applied to the tonal of your photo. This action is optimal if your photo depicts a landscaped with sky in its higher half.
Bloom Effect
Allows to add a strong softening effect and tonal controls to your photo. This action simulates, in a stylish ways, a photo taken on a sunny day. This action works particularly fine on portraits.
Glow Effect
Add a calm and diffuse ambiance to your picture, also softening unwanted details. It also revives the tonal and luminosity of your picture.
Sky Enhancer Effect
Nice Sepia Effect
Creates a stylish sepia effect and applies some diffusion effect to your photo.
This action is represented by a green button in the Actions window. It is labeled Nice Sepia Effect [RCD] and can be applied to your photo by pressing the [F5] key. (Shortcut available only on Windows)
B&W Converter Effect
This Action allows you to turn a colour photo into its black and white version, regulating the dark and bright tones, the photo noise and the relations between the original colours. This action simulates a traditional black and white filter placed in front of a camera lens.
Polaroid Frame Effect
Simulates the frame found around instant Polaroid photos. This action applies no adjustments to your picture; it only simulates the look of an instant photo frame.<<less
OpticsCalcX 2.0.3
OpticsCalcX is a full featured and advanced calculator program for everyone from students to engineers who know optical theory, but need a quick and efficient way to perform the calculations. more>> OpticsCalcX 2.0.3 is a full featured and advanced calculator program for everyone from students to engineers who know optical theory, but need a quick and efficient way to perform the calculations. It frees your mind from having to remember all the equations, and lets you concentrate on solving the problem at hand!
With OpticsCalc, just select the type of calculation and parameters, and enter the known value(s). It does the calculations for you - and you can even copy and paste the results into another document. Some of the calculations it handles are:
- Paraxial Thick Lens
- Snells Law
- Prism Refraction
- Depth of Focus/Depth of Field
- Reflection Coefficients
- Corrected a problem where the ray deviaion in the Snells Law pane was compute incorrectly when N1 or N1 computations were performed.
