1.42 - 11.02.2008:
New features
- FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) image format support. The format is used i.e. in astrophotography.
- Automatic JPEG rotation (on load) upon camera tilt sensor data stored in EXIF.
- HDR image generation size reduction. Allows faster generation of a HDR image if full resolution is not needed. Can be also used for faster previewing.
- Drag and drop functionality. Photos that are dropped on the program window are automatically loaded.
- Possibility (set in the Program Options) to register the program as default for opening Radiance RGBE (*.hdr) image files.
- Saving the last settings of the HDR Generation window.
Improvements
- Improved workflow - auto alignment as a separate tool, saving aligned photos at any time, possibility to undo alignment.
- Twice faster automatic alignment with rotation compensation.
- About 20% faster tone mapping.
- Possibility to choose photos to be involved in the Image Stacking.
- Possibility to select photos to be aligned manually or automatically.
- Improved curves tool. Adding knee points with left mouse button click. Removing with right mouse button.
- More powerful White Balance tool. User defined selectiveness - stronger effect for brighter or darker areas.
- Showing an effect strength map for White Balance as well as Sample/Target Balance tools.
- Image Stacking now possible also in the batch processing mode.
Corrected bugs
- The "Add directory" option now correctly adds directories that have an "archive" attribute.
- Repaired copying to clipboard.
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1.41 - 04.12.2007:
New features
- Image stacking - calculation of simple average of input photos instead of generating HDR. This feature shall be used with noisy photo sequences taken at the same exposure settings, however could give good results also with bracketed shots.
- Additional option in the Manual Alignment tool - possibility to compensate for shift and rotation only, without scaling.
- Possibility to move the pins in the Manual Alignment tool with keyboard arrows. Click with the mouse on the pin and while still holding the mouse button use the arrows.
- The program warns if the user tries to save the result photo when the size reduction is enabled.
- Possibility to turn off some of the confirmation dialogs, i.e. when a new project is started.
Improvements
- The memory usage is smaller, so bigger photos can be processed. With the /3GB switch enabled it is possible to process photos even bigger than 50MPix.
- The program windows don't pop up during the batch processing any more. So, during the batch processing, other applications can be used without interruption.
Corrected bugs
- The program will finally work on systems with /3GB switch enabled.
- Default values in the tone mapping settings are now written with the proper decimal separator - as defined in the Regional Settings in Windows.
- Corrected bugs in the RAW loader and converter - long paths or filenames (not in 8.3 format) shouldn't be a problem any more.
- DCRAW should work on Windows Vista.
- Temporary TIFFs created by DCRAW are now properly deleted during the batch processing.
- TIFFs saved with AutoPano software will now load without problems.
- The "Maximal image dimension" setting in the "Program Options->Automatic size reduction" is now working.
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1.40 - 09.10.2007:
New features
- Saving the HDR image in Radiance RGBE (.hdr) file format.
- Completely new manual alignment. Compensates for shift, rotation, scale and perspective.
- Automatic histogram clipping.
- "Add directory" button in the batch processing. Automatically adds tasks of files groupped in directories and subdirectories.
- Creation and saving HDR files in the batch processing mode without applying tone mapping.
- "Before processing" and "after processing" preview buttons allow easy and fast possibility to compare the input photos with the result.
- Free hand panning - move the mouse over the photo while holding the right button down.
Improvements
- Modified tone mapping mask calculation procedures - faster and more universal.
- Windows XP theme support - new, modern look.
- Modified anti-blooming "slight" setting.
- No more long program window freezing while image loading and RAW conversion.
- Faster image loading and saving.
- Redesigned batch processing window.
- Opacity setting in the white balance and sample/target balance tools.
- Help hints for the most important settings.
Corrected bugs
- Possibility to run many instances of the program (i.e. two easyHDR's running in batch processing mode to more efficiently use the multi core processor capabilities).
- Loading RAW files from root directory (i.e. "C:\").
- The program crashes no more when HDR is regenerated and the size reduction is other than 1x.
- Corrected sample tool in the white balance and sample/target balance.
- Possibility to process *.hdr photos in the batch processing mode.
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1.32 - 24.06.2007:
- Possibility to break tone mapping and HDR generation.
- Automatic size reduction and preview calculation after HDR is generated (configured in the 'Program Options').
- 3-channel or luminance only histogram (click in order to change).
- Resizeable open and save picture windows.
- Direct raw photo loading with DCRAW.
- Reading the EXIF tags from TIFF (and RAW).
- Better tone mapping sliders.
- Underexposed and overexposed areas marker (blinking).
- Bug correction: Now it is possible to convert many files with the RAW converter in one batch.
- A dozen other, but minor modifications.
- New language versions: Portuguese and Italian!
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1.31 - 21.04.2007:
- More sophisticated auto-alignment feature - now there is an option to compensate rotation
between the images. May be useful with hand-held photo sequences.
- Crop tool.
- Corrected window behavior. No freezes during HDR generation, no problems with using other
applications during photo loading and HDR generation, no half-destroyed windows that cannot
be closed.
- Better noise reduction capability when the "normal" anti-blooming is chosen.
- Corrected bug - wrong EXIF data if "Remove" button was used.
- Corrected bug - spin edit control in the slider popups.
- Corrected bug - now it is possible to do LDR enhancement in the batch processing.
- New version of dcraw (program that is used to convert RAW to TIFF) - it should work with
photos taken with more recent cameras.
- Corrected bug with BMP or JPEG saving - occurred on Windows 2003 Server and there has
been one report that also on Windows XP.
- Corrected auto file name suggestion.
- Correction of the photos loading order.
- Corrected German and French language versions.
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1.30 - 08.02.2007: New HDR generation and tone mapping algorithms - more realistic
results, anti blooming feature. About 30% lower memory usage, so now it
should be possible to load much bigger input photos. Image transformations
(rotate and mirror). Automatic histogram clipping (white and black point).
Auto alignment (for now translational only). Much improved toolbar and
extended abilities of settings sliders. Preview size reduction - it is
possible to process a resampled version of the HDR during tone mapping
settings tuning instead of the entire photo. Possibility to hide the
right panel, go back to the default settings, revert settings...
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1.24 - 21.12.2006: Bigger open and save picture windows. Bigger and more handy
sliders. Real saturation parameter instead of the "old saturation"
tool that is since now called "compression". New language version:
easyHDR in French.
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1.23 - 06.12.2006: Additional language versions (German & Spanish). Added
JPEG EXIF headers transfer capability. Corrected auto-preview feature.
Some other minor changes like progress window showing up when photos
are loaded.
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1.22 - 11.11.2006: Much faster (3-8x) tone mapping with the Gaussian and bilateral
shadows/highlights mask. New tone mapping method - combination of results
created with the Gaussian and bilateral masks. Automatic preview option.
The preview area is updated automatically when one of the tone mapping
parameters is changed. Also, a bug preventing RAW conversion has been repaired.
The bug concerned cases when there were spaces in the RAW file path name.
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1.21 - 19.10.2006: JPEG error #36 issue has been resolved. Two bugs that were
causing crash in Sample/Target Balance have been repaired. Result saving
settings (like JPEG quality or TIFF compression) are now saved and restored
as program starts.
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1.20 - 28.09.2006: The 'Step 3' tab has been redesigned and two new tools have
been added to it. The new tools allow color tone adjustment to the
tone mapped image. More on that can be found in the tutorial.
Also DCRAW integration with easyHDR has been improved and the DCRAW
converter has been updated to the most recent version (which finally
works fine also on Windows 2003 Server). Some additional minor changes
like: new cursors, '1:1' and 'fit to screen' zoom buttons.
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1.19 - 13.08.2006: Added Radiance RGBE (*.HDR) file format support and a
built-in RAW image converter (to 48-bit TIFF). Tone mapping (especially
bilateral method) is much faster. Now it's possible to load many images
at once (by multiselecting them). Some other, but minor changes and bug fixes.
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1.18 - 06.07.2006: Batch processing, project save/load,
tone mapping settings save/load.
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1.17 - 13.06.2006: No crash during processing if "Auto Add" is checked before
the first image is opened. Status of "Auto Add" and "Shadows/Highlights Mask"
checkboxes is saved on exit and restored when the program starts.
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1.16 - 05.06.2006: Two bugs corrected - crash when bilateral tone mapping was applied
at low edge value and a crash on loading some TIFF images i.e. saved in
PTGui).
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1.15 - 14.05.2006: TIFF format support added. You can load 24, 48 or 96-bit (HDR floating-point)
uncompressed or compressed with "deflate" method TIFF images. The tonemapped result can
be saved as 24 or 48-bit TIFF (with or without compression).
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1.14 - 04.05.2006: If you have purchased or you are going to purchase easyHDR please
be sure that you have downloaded at least v1.14. A small bug that could occur
on some computers has been repaired. This error affected only a licensed
version.
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1.12 - 30.04.2006: The most time consuming procedures as tone mapping and filtering
are executed in a thread that works in the background so the application
window does not freeze during processing. The median filter functionality
has been improved (opacity and threshold parameters added).
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1.11 - 12.04.2006: Bug correction. Now the program can be used at other screen
dpi resolutions (eg. 120 dpi), not only at 96 dpi.
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1.10 - 07.04.2006: New tone tmapping algorithm (shadows/highlights mask) -
allows much greater contrast reduction between bright and dark areas,
but preserves local contrasts, so the images look really neat.
Corrected filters (gauss, bilateral and unsharp mask) - now they are
faster and have greater functionality (opacity, amount values).
Auto add feature (can be used if there is no shift between images
to be stacked).
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1.04 - 25.02.2006: New stacking and tone mapping method that does not loose
color information and allows higher contrast. Corrected gamma
adjustment and some minor bugs. (LAST FREE VERSION).
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1.03 - 08.02.2006: No image size limit, image alignment with a mouse,
contrast enhancement - setting points on the histogram.
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1.02 - 04.02.2006: Two errors in image shift procedures corrected.
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1.01 - 03.02.2006: New compilation (for 6MPix images).
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1.00 - 03.02.2006: First release.
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