Helicon Filter Free

Professional post processing of digital images. Now intuitive and easy to learn. Helicon Filter Free offers full set of the easy to use post processing tools to the digital photographer. Intuitive interface, context help and full screen preview make it easy to learn.

The Helicon Filter Free covers 99 percent of the needs of the photo enthusiast whose usual workflow includes the following steps:

The Helicon Filter Free is one of the best tools in each of the above categories and received many awards. It also includes the Red Eye tool.

Here are some key features of "Helicon Filter Free":

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


Requirements:

64M RAM

800x600

16bit monitor


Limitations:

The free version has the functionality of the full version during the first 30 days. To obtain the registration key you need to purchase a license first.