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