Helicon Filter
Helicon Filter is a full-feature photo editor for digital photography. It features an easy-to-use interface, live preview, contextual help for editing photos and a step-by-step workflow structure to assist you through all stages of post-processing in photo editing. It supports all popular formats including all RAW files. It provides a fast browser for its folders, operations to copy, delete, move and lossless rotate, full IPTC and EXIF data, template-based rename and color profile support. It features selective noise reduction in defined hue, shadows and highlights and color range. It has auto detection of noise level. Brightness features include brightness curve/equalizer, gradient haze compensation, local contrast, brightness in shadows and highlights, exposure, gamma, contrast, black point and white point levels. Colors features exposure warnings, RGB sliders and color map for manual WB, one-click White Balance tool, list of memory colors, saturation for dull and bright colors, selective saturation equalizer, black & white conversion and spectral sensitivity controls. It provides chromatic aberration reduction for high contras areas. Sharpening features include edge sharpening, fine details extraction, white halo control, threshold to prevent noise sharpening and equalizer for sharpening selected color ranges only. Distortions are provided such as perspective correction, pincushion/barrel correction, vignetting correction, squeezing, stretching, rotation, bending and skewing. You can cop and resize using presets for monitor resolutions and popular paper sizes, batch crop or resize functions and proportional selection. You can add or edit frames with overlay frames, color picker for frame color and black & white or blurred image for your frame texture. You can edit your text with placeholders for EXIF data and text styles such as shadowed, semi-transparent, embossed and inverted text. You can do your retouches using clone brush, change brightness brush, delete scratches brush [removing wires, scratches, facial pimples, etc.], change color brush to add color or change hue, change saturation brush, sharpen/blur brush, fix red eye brush, distort brush [to remedy protruding ears, etc.], erase changes brush, edge-sensitivity for all brushes and undo/redo function. You can save your work to disk, print or email it. It supports TIFF [24bit, 48bit, lzw compression], JPEG, JEPG2000, PNG, BMP and PSD formats. Its advanced features are batch processing, user settings support, multiprocessor support and 16bit precision image processing.