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Northern Lights Desktop Picture
Northern Lights is a desktop picture (1024x768) displaying beams of light racing across the rippling waters. A preview of the desktop picture is shown below more>> Northern Lights is a desktop picture (1024x768) displaying beams of light racing across the rippling waters. A preview of the desktop picture is shown below.
MacOS 8.0 or later, or a desktop picture control panel like Decor.

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.
Great Northern Scripts 1.0
Great Northern Scripts - Tool for working with text clippings more>>
The source code of these scripts has been commented, so that the scripts might be used as examples for other scripters.
Completly freeware.
Topaz Fusion Express
Powerful Topaz functions integrated to Aperture workflow. more>>
Topaz Fusion Express gives Aperture users the means to harness the power and versatility of Topaz Photoshop plug-ins without even opening up Photoshop. Topaz Fusion Express eliminates a cumbersome extra step and allows you to access the entire workflow within Aperture.
Aperture users don't even need Photoshop! Topaz Fusion Express and its associated plug-ins are completely self-contained with Aperture itself.
Major Features:
- Easily Improve Image Quality:
- The Topaz suite of plug-ins greatly extends the functionality of existing Aperture adjustments. (Roll over images for Before version.)
- Topaz DeNoise offers a complete noise reduction solution that removes far more noise and preserves far more detail than other solutions.
- Topaz Adjust optimizes image exposure, color, and detail strength for stunning image results.
- Topaz Simplify provides creative simplification, art effects, and line accentuation for easy one-of-a-kind art.
- Topaz Clean integrates unique smoothing capabilities with stylized detail manipulation to add refreshing flair to photos.
- Topaz DeJPEG drastically improves the quality of web images and other compressed photos.
- With Topaz Fusion Express, these powerful filters are all available at the click of a button right in Apertures interface. The addition of these highly effective yet intuitive plug-ins to Aperture puts greatly enhanced editing power at the fingertips of any photographer.
- (Note that Topaz Fusion Express only makes these plug-ins compatible with Aperture each actual product requires separate purchase for full functionality beyond 30 days.)
- Easy and Effective Retouching:
- Access all the post-processing tools you need right inside of Aperture.
- DeNoise
- Noise reduction, an integral part of low light / high ISO photography, is often unsatisfactory with native Aperture noise reduction tools.
- Topaz DeNoises state-of-the-art noise reduction abilities make formerly noisy photos clean, clear, and crisp.
- Quality exposure adjustment in Aperture and Photoshop is cumbersome and sometimes frustrating.
- Topaz Adjust makes this process simple, fun, and highly rewarding.
- Regular Aperture users must export their photos to Photoshop to create any sort of artistic effect.
- Fusion Express users can use Topaz Simplify right from Aperture as a stunning finishing touch to their photos.
- Topaz Clean offers something Photoshop and Aperture have no equivalent for: full control of detail and edge manipulation and stylization right within Aperture itself.
- Aperture includes no JPEG fixer and Photoshop includes a fast but low-quality one.
- Topaz DeJPEG make sure that any compressed image looks like best it can possibly be.
Requirements:
- Intel-based Mac OS 10.4 or 10.5.
- PowerPC processors like G4 or G5 are not supported.
- 1 GB RAM
- Apple Aperture 2.
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.
OpenEXR Viewer 1.7
OpenEXR Viewer - View images in the OpenEXR image format more>>
Features include QuickTime export, RGB channel filters and exposure controls similar to those found in exrdisplay. Sample images and file format details can be found at openexr.com.
Enhancements:
- support for tiled images (finalized)
- support for Pixars Pxr24 compressor
- support for YCA images
- built upon OpenEXR release 1.2.0.
Eichler Screensaver 1
Eichler Screensaver allows your to dispay apartments in Northern California on your more>>
Eichler Screensaver allows your to dispay apartments in Northern California on your desktop.
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.
Candor Gallery 1.21
Candor Gallery - Provides viewers with a rotating display of artwork which is submitted by their peers more>>
Participants are encouraged to submit any type of work: painting, design, drawing, photography, sculpture, etc.
Viewers can always learn more about the artist and his or her work by clicking on the image which will launch that particular artists website.
program supplying an always changing source of inspiration and exposure for artists of allLicense:Freeware
iBot Driver 1.0.3
iBot Driver contains the drivers required to connect an iBot firewire camera to your Mac. Requirements: iBot camera more>> iBot Driver contains the drivers required to connect an iBot firewire camera to your Mac.
iBot camera.
Version 1.0.3 fixes the following:
- Fix Memory Leak
- Backlight compensation
- Gamma Correction
- Manual Exposure for Gain and Shutter
- Manual White Balance for Red and Blue Gain
- Flip Horizontal or Vertical

Funnel Web Pro Updater 3.7.2
Funnel Web Pro 3.7.2 Updater fixes a problem with virtual domain names where it wouldnt process the first domain name more>> Funnel Web Pro 3.7.2 Updater fixes a problem with virtual domain names where it wouldnt process the first domain name. Version 3.7.1 adds the following:
- Allow registration of demo app into full application from help menu
- Allow activation of application menu while settings window is open
- Changed settings from Modal to Modeless
- Fixed output location if Reports folder is not present
- Fixed bug in WebTen logs which produced random garbage in the log files
- Downloads are no longer counted as Pages any more and the page counts are 100% pages
- When a username of anonymous apears in a log file , it is now ignored and its ip/address is used instead so that you really do get to the the clients, and not lump them up into one.
- Domain report shows more levels for non usa domains
- Minor graph fixes for Bytes Recieved in daily/hourly graphs
- Session scatter lable fixed
- Fixed crash when using ascii graphs in with meanpath
- Fixed handling of Accept CGI in reference to page type detection
- Page/referal history data fixed for last day position
- Added Voila, Google, DirectHit, LookSmart & Northern Light to search engines list
- Output reports now map to correct file types and browser as defined in Internet Config
- Updated InternetConfig to 2.0 API
- Fixed crash in list manager on pre 8.0 systems
- Now allow wildcard mapping in Directory mapping
- Changed requirement of a preceding slash "/" when mapping virtual domains by directory
- Added support for Welcome plugin, for new reporting
- Fixed directory writing when the domain was exactly 31 characters long
- Improved accuracy of Average requests per hour
- Fixed virtual domain reporting error on WebStar logs using "Hostfield" which dump garbage
- Cleaned up virtual domain reporting to ensure all errors are dumped in the [invalid] domain
- Fixed problem caused by BorderManager making bogus requests to several Web servers
- Optimized for the G4 Altivec processor
Funnel Web Pro 3.5.2 or later.
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!)

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.
Lestrade 4.0.6
Lestrade - Plug-in architecture makes searching the internet easy more>>
Enter a search query, select an engine and your search results appear in your internet browser. Lestrade works with a number of top quality search engines allowing users to target information ranging from news and weather to stock quotes and consumer reviews.
Lestrade has been completely retooled to be a fast, lightweight meta searcher for Macintosh.
Main features:
- Attractive, compact, easy to use interface.
- Available from any application.
- Carefully selected, top quality search engines.
- Maintains a session search history.
- Built for Mac OS 8/9 or Mac OS X.
- Illustrated Documentation.
Enhancements:
- Adds the ability to track packages on iShip.com.
Keiths AstroImager 1.0
Keiths AstroImager - Webcam capture program especially tailored to astrophotography more>>
Main features:
- Focus aid using power spectrum distribution or brightness
- RGB and value histogram observation
- RGB channel separation
- Histogram level adjustment
- DeBayering (for RAW modded cameras)
- Framerate calculation
- An overlayed target on the image which is useful for telescope collimation, periodic error training, and drift alignment
- Autoguiding on LX200 or compatible telescopes and mounts
- Control of Steve Chambers long exposure modified webcams.