Helicon Filter features

d-Studio provides distribution services for Helicon Soft. Therefore we can offer Helicon Filter for you with discount,
as well as other products of the Helicon Soft Ltd.

File management:

Voice comments and video playback
Support for all popular file types including all RAW
Fast folder browser
Lossless rotate, copy, delete, move operations
Template-based rename
Full EXIF and IPTC information
Support of color profiles

Noise reduction:

Noise level auto detection
Selective noise reduction in highlights and shadows, in defined hue, in color range.
Dead pixels filter (v.4.50+)
Dust sensor filter (v.4.50+)

Brightness:

Gradient haze compensation (v.4.50+)
Brightness equalizer/curve
Brightness in Highlights, Shadows
Contrast, Gamma, Exposure
Local contrast
Levels (black point, white point)

Colors:

One-click White Balance tool
Color map and RGB sliders for manual WB
Memory colors list (several skin types, green, sky, etc.)
Saturation for bright and dull colors
Equalizer for selective saturation
Spectral sensitivity controls
Black&White conversion
Exposure warnings

Aberration:

Reduction of chromatic aberration on high contrast areas (e.g. sun behind the tree)

Sharpening:

Fine details extraction
Edge sharpening
Threshold to keep noise from sharpening
White halo control
Equalizer to sharpen only selected color ranges.

Distortions:

Vignetting correction
Barrel/pincushion correction
Perspective correction
Rotation, squeezing, stretching
Skewing, bending

Crop/Resize:

Presets for popular paper sizes, monitor resolutions, mobile phones
Proportional selection (e.g. 2:3, 3:4, user defined)
Batch crop/resize

Frames:

Blurred or black&white image as a frame texture
Color picker to choose frame color

Text:

Placeholders for EXIF data (date, ISO, aperture, etc).
Several text styles including embossed, shadowed, semi-transparent, inverted text

Retouching:

'Delete scratches' brush to remove scratches, wires, pimples on the face, etc.
'Clone' brush
'Change brightness' brush to make some areas darker or brighter
'Change color' brush to paint with color or to change the hue keeping the brightness the same
'Change saturation' brush
'Blur/sharpen' brush
'Reduce noise' brush
'Fix red eye' brush
'Distort' brush to fix protruding ears and similar problems
'Erase changes' brush to delete effect of the brushes and/or filters
All brushes can be edge-sensitive
Undo/redo is available

Save:

Image can be saved to disk, emailed, printed
Save dialog shows file size for give JPEG quality
JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF (24 bit, 48 bit, lzw compression), PNG, PSD, BMP formats are supported

Advanced features:

Creation of high dynamic range images
Multiprocessor support
Batch processing
Support of external plug-ins
User settings support
16 bit precision image processing

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