February 22, 2008

• Neat Image v4.5 plug-in /Mac (Universal Binary)

  Neat Image v4.5 plug-in /Mac is available. This version includes the following improvements:

  • Improved profiling
    Noise profiling has been made more reliable, fast and accurate, leading to more accurate noise reduction
    
    
  • Auto Profile and Auto Fine-Tune functions now work significantly faster
    
    
  • Auto Profile can now build noise profile using smaller image areas
    This capability is very useful when the input image contains only small featureless areas
    
    
  • Auto Profile and Auto Fine-Tune now produce more accurate profiles eventually leading to more accurate noise reduction with more actual details preserved and noise better reduced
    
    
    
  • Improved compatibility
    Neat Image plug-in adds support for new digital cameras and image editors
    
    
  • Improved compatibility with 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 Adobe Photoshop CS4
    
  • Improved compatibility with non-English versions of Photoshop
    
    
    
  • Improved action support
    Neat Image Pro plug-in now better supports Photoshop smart filters, Photoshop actions and Photoshop-based batching
    
    
  • Improved behavior of the plug-in in smart filters in Photoshop CS3
    
    
  • New controls for Photoshop action recording:
    the Action Setup window has been added to directly adjust the plug-in behaviour in actions and smart filters as well as to to configure the default startup behaviour of the plug-in
    
    
  • Improved error reporting for smoother action-based batching in Photoshop:
    - an error in processing one image will not stop the whole batch (errors can still be logged by Photoshop into file)
    - to get a description of a specific error in batch you can re-run the action (for the same image) with GUI enabled
    
    
    
  • Several other improvements and bug fixes
    Neat Image v4.5 plug-in /Mac incorporates several general optimizations, improved memory and resource management, improved overall stability and efficiency. The problem of performance degradation on 8-core Macs is fixed.
    
    Please see the full history of changes.
    
    
    
    
  Download Neat Image v4.5 plug-in /Mac
  
  

if you are a registered user of the Pro plug-in /Mac please use your license to log on to
download area of the Pro plug-in and download the new version



if you are a registered user of the Home plug-in /Mac please use your license to log on to
download area of the Home plug-in and download the new version



if you are not registered yet please download Neat Image Demo plug-in /Mac

• Many new noise profile sets have been published in the profile library

  Many new profile sets have been recently created and submitted to the profile library by generous users of Neat Image. We thank all the contributors who build new profiles for the community of Neat Image users. Please also participate in building new profiles for digital cameras and scanners.