Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop for Mac OSX

Version 7.0

Performance improvements: the first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop

• CUDA support: faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs (on Intel Macs)
  For example, on NVidia GTX 470 Neat Image is about x2.5 faster than on Intel i7 and x3-x7 faster than on Intel i5 or Core2 Duo
  
  
• Multiple GPU support: Neat Image works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs
  
  
• CPUs and GPUs working together: Neat Image can use CPUs and GPUs at the same time for even faster processing
  
  
• Automated optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
  * Built-in performance optimizer in Neat Image Preferences
  * Built-in benchmark to measure image processing speed on specific hardware

More improvements

• Support for 32-bit images (in Pro plug-in, in addition to 8-bit and 16-bit ones) to enable HDR post-processing workflows
  
  
• Smart Profile: automatically uses two different profiling methods and selects the better resulting profile for more accurate noise reduction
  
  
• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras:
  D7000, D3100, P500, P300, P7000, S8100, etc.
  
  
• Added support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0

Version 4.7

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras
• Optimized consumption of system resources
• Incorrect matting of selections in some cases, fixed
• A minor incompatibility in saving plug-in preferences, fixed
• A few minor bugs in GUI, fixed

Version 4.52

• Several speed optimizations in the plug-in for Photoshop CS2 / CS / 7
  
• Improved support for large images in Photoshop CS2 / CS
  
• The plug-in sometimes gave a "Missync occured" error when using image viewer, fixed
• Crashes in Japanese versions of OSX and Photoshop CS2 / CS / 7, fixed

Version 4.5

• Neat Image can now build noise profile using smaller image areas: this is very useful when the input image contains only small featureless areas
• Several speed optimizations in the noise filter
  
• Increased profiling speed (Auto Profile and Fine-Tune)
  
• Added indicator of profiling progress
  
  
• Improved compatibility for Nikon D40, D40X, D60, D300, D3 and several more new Nikon cameras
  
• Improved compatibility with several new Samsung digital cameras
  
  
• Added preliminary support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Photoshop CS4
• Improved behavior of the plug-in in smart filters in Photoshop CS3
  
• Improved recording of noise profiles and presets in Photoshop actions
  
  
• Improved Neat Image plug-in's controls for Photoshop action recording:
  • the Action Setup window is now used to directly adjust the plug-in behaviour in actions and smart filters
    the same Action Setup window is used to configure the default startup behaviour of the plug-in
• Modified error reporting for smoother action-based batching:
  • errors in processing one image will not stop the whole batch
    
  • error codes can be logged by Photoshop
    
  • to get a description of an error re-run the action (for the same image) with GUI enabled
• Improved support for large images in Photoshop
  
• Improved memory and resource management, improved overall stability and efficiency
  
• Several cosmetic improvements in plug-in GUI
  
  
• Major performance degradation when running on an 8-core Mac, fixed
  
• Crashes during/after noise profile saving/loading in PS CS3, fixed
  
• Crashes during profile matching when running on Intel Macs, fixed

Version 4.2

• Added support for Nikon D80, D2Hs, D2Xs and several other Nikon cameras
• Improved support for Canon cameras (more accurate reading of ISO values in Auto mode)
• Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles
• Using some profiles for Canon cameras built with earlier versions of the plug-in produced crashes, fixed
  
• A minor bug in Auto Profile, fixed
  
• A bug in installer, fixed

Version 4.0

• Profile matching to automatically load a noise profile that matches an input image:
  • Match level indicator to control the degree of image-profile match
    
  • Image-Profile Match Details window to see the specifics of profile matching
    
  • Support for profile matching in actions
    
    
• Profile quality indicator to control quality of used noise profiles
• Profile Viewer to check profile details
  
  
• User interface improvements:
  • Keyboard shortcuts for zoom level of the image viewer in the plug-in:
    • Cmd - '+' : zoom in
      Cmd - '-' : zoom out
      Cmd - '0' : reset to 100%
      Cmd - Opt - '0' : zoom to fit image to window
      Cmd - Shift : temporary fit image to window (can be used to quickly select an area of interest for profiling)
  • Double-click in an area of the image quickly brings the selection to the area (in the Profiling mode)
    
• Improved plug-in installer to support more versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements