Artizen HDR 2.6 Beta 4

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: Tlock
Post Time: 08-23-2008 at 01:40 AM
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SCI has just made Artizen HDR 2.6 beta 4 available for download. This latest update is rather significant cause it really enhances the RAW converting capabilities of Artizen as well as the HDR workflow.

beta 4 additions
-New Color Histogram in the Tone Mapping Window.
-Updated HDR Creation Auto Alignment algorithm.
-Updated Natural Tone Mapping Operator to be more Natural.
-Optimized HDR Creation Manual Alignment GUI.
-New White Balance Adjustment Filter.
-6 New Vignette Styles added.
-GUI Enhancements.

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.

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 1 first release

- 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.

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