Artizen HDR 2.6 Beta 3 released

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: Tlock
Post Time: 07-19-2008 at 08:55 PM
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Hello Everyone

The beta 3 version of Artizen HDR is now available for download. Please post all your feedback and questions, so that we can make this version as good as it can be!

beta 1

- New Graphic User Interface
- New work flow.
- New Auto Alignment algorithm when creating HDR files.
- Phase 1 of new merging algorithm when creating HDR files.
- New support for upto 32 exposures when creating an HDR file.
- New Dramatic Tone Mapping Operator based on Lock05.
- Reduce memory usage.
- Better Performance Right across the board.
- Only SSE2 support.
- New Vignette functionality.
- Major Core Enhancements.
- Flickr support tags.
- Many updates and bug fixes.

beta 2 additions

- New Batch Processor for both LDR and HDR images.
- Reduce memory overhead.
- Support for 32 MP HDR files.
- Faster workflow.
- Boosted Dramatic Performance.
- Major HDR Core Update.
- New Tone Mapping Architecture

beta 3 additions

- International support for single values, such as "3.0" and "3,0", which caused fatal crashes in HDR Tone Mapping, Batch Processing, and other settings values.
- Fixed Memory leaks in new HDR creation.
- Updated Tone Mapping default settings.
- Drag and Drop support when selecting file for HDR creation.
- Updated Dramatic Tone Mapping operator.
- Single file HDR batch processing.
- Fixed HDR batch processing 8 and 16bit tiff output.
- Support to only generate HDR files when Batch Processing.
- Dozens of minor GUI fixes.
- Fixed memory leak when loading Digital Camera RAW files.
- Fixed saving and loading 32bit Tiff's.

Now to address some of the questions ppl have;

- Livewire updates is not support by 2.6 as of yet, only once it is officially released.
- Video Tutorials will be made available with the final release.
- Only SSE2 support will be available in all future versions.
- Artizen 2.5.36 will still be available for download.
- This is a free update to all registered users.

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