Neat Image › Neat Image standalone (Mac OSX) 
To make images look better. 

Neat Image

Neat Image
standalone
for Mac OSX


History of changes

Neat Image standalone for Mac OSX

Version 7.3

  • Added support for AMD/ATI GPUs through OpenCL
    (GPU acceleration is now possible with both NVidia and AMD/ATI cards)

    The following AMD/ATI GPUs are supported:
    - ATI Radeon HD 5770/5870;
    - AMD Radeon HD 6750M/6770M/6970M;
    - Some other models of AMD/ATI cards (please directly try the app or contact support to verify)

  • Added support for reading and writing images in PNG format
  • New option to preserve original file timestamp in output image file

  • New Navigator panel to quickly locate image areas using a thumbnail display

  • Improved support for OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

  • More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)

  • Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata

  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

 

Version 7.2

  • Updated to CUDA 4.2 (Compute Capability 3.x):
    • GTX 680, 690 and newer GPUs are supported
    • improved performance of GPU filtration

  • Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs

  • Several cosmetic corrections in GUI

  • Improved handling of multiple images added using "Open input image" and via drag-and-drop to the list of tasks

  • Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata

  • Several bugs have been fixed

 

Version 7.1

  • Additional performance optimizations (5-10% faster processing)
  • Faster processing specifically for 32-bit per channel images

  • A new section in the user guide on using Neat Image standalone as an external editor in Lightroom

  • A command line version of Neat Image standalone
  • A new section in the user guide on using the command line version

  • Improved support for new CUDA-capable GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)
  • Improved GPU detection and error handling
  • Updated to new version of CUDA 4

  • Internal viewer can now preview larger areas
  • Improved the main window in the All tasks mode
  • Improved bevaviour of list of tasks when using the Auto Close option
  • Improved dialog showing the progress of adding new tasks
  • Progress of task processing is now in the caption of main window

  • Improved behaviour of Neat Image viewer with Apple Magic Mouse

  • Improved fault-tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata

  • Several minor bugs fixed

 

Version 7.0

Performance improvements: the first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Image standalone

  • 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

  • Additional performance optimizations throughout the application
    * Faster image processing: x1.2 faster than in previous version (of standalone in Windows)
    * Faster batch processing: x1.5 faster than in previous version (of standalone in Windows)

User interface improvements: completely re-designed GUI of the application

  • Multi-image and single-image modes
  • Improved task editor to work on individual images
  • Detailed and thumbnail-only list of tasks to work with many images
  • New and improved batching facilities

  • Redesigned graphics elements throughout the application
  • More intuitive noise profile equalizer with adjustable graphs
  • Improved image viewer with several modes and adjustable brightness
  • Component viewer built directly into image viewer
  • Automated filter preview (full window or selected area)

More improvements

  • Support for 32-bit images (in Pro edition, 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.


Older versions

History of older versions of Neat Image standalone for Windows.

 

 Changed on:  November 9, 2012  Copyright © 1999-2012 ABSoft. All rights reserved.  Privacy Statement