What's new in Neat Image 9.2.0
Nov 28, 2023
- Added support for new GPUs: Apple M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max
- Improved processing of certain error messages
- Minor corrections in GUI of Preferences
- Fixed several minor issues
New in Neat Image 9.1.5 (Jul 17, 2023)
- Added support for new GPUs: Apple M2 Pro / M2 Max / M2 Ultra
- Several optimizations in the GUI
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 9.1.0 (Nov 2, 2022)
- Added support for MacOS 13 Ventura
- The minimum version of MacOS required for Metal GPU support is now 11.0
- Several corrections in reactions of controls and indicators
- Adjusted descriptions of controls
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
- Added support for new GPUs:
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
- AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
- Apple M2 GPUs
New in Neat Image 9.0.0 (Apr 19, 2022)
- Increased processing speed and improved hardware support:
- Optimized CPU- an GPU-based processin.
- As compared with the previous major version 8, Neat Image 9 shows the following speed increase.
- CPU-based processing: Up to 50% faster
- GPU-based processing: Up to 10% faster
- Added CPU support for Apple Silicon (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max)
- Works up to 10% faster than via Rosetta;
- the combined improvement up to 35%
- Added GPU support for Apple Silicon (M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max)
- Added support for Metal GPU interface in MacOS 10.15
- (in addition to OpenCL supported since MacOS 10.13.6)
- Added support for several new AMD GPUs:
- Radeon Pro W5500 / W5500X / W5700
- Radeon Pro W6800X / W6800X Duo / W6900X
- Ensured compatibility with the new versions of MacOS:
- Added support for MacOS 12 Monterey
- Improved support for MacOS 11 Big Sur
- Higher accuracy and tuning precision:
- New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles
- Improved Sharpening with more precise control
- Easier than ever before:
- Flexible Generic Profiles (fully adjustable, with visual assistance)
- Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters
- Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes
- Variants now can be used to test different noise profiles too
- Improved user interface:
- Added support for color themes (Preferences > General):
- Normal brightness (light colors)
- Reduced brightness (dark colors)
- Auto-detect brightness (match operating system colors)
- Main tabs are now called "Open Input Image", "Prepare Noise Profile", "Adjust and Preview" and "Save Output Image"
- The "Auto Profile" button changes to "Build Profile" when you select an area manually
- The selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab has slightly changed:
- the blue color of the selection box now means 'profile was built using this area', not 'area was chosen automatically' as before
- Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles
- Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads)
- Alt+Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present
- Improved retina support (viewer now uses full resolution)
- Improved support for systems with displays that have different pixel density
- Ability to toggle alpha channel in viewer (when present)
- Ability to load and save alpha channel when working with TIFF files
- Preview performance has been optimized
- Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different image sizes (Preferences > Performance)
- Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Image (Preferences > Performance)
- Numerous minor GUI improvements
- Added uninstaller with an option to erase settings and license
- Improved diagnostic data and error reporting
- Other changes:
- End-User License Agreement has been updated
- CUDA is no longer supported on MacOS
- The minimum supported version of MacOS is now 10.13.6
New in Neat Image 8.6.2 (Oct 29, 2021)
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 8.6.0 (Nov 11, 2020)
- Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported. Please test directly or contact support to verify.
- Improved stability on certain custom Mac machines
- Due to changes in drivers and development tools, several older versions of MacOS are no longer supported. Beginning with Neat Image 8.6, the minimum supported version is MacOS 10.9.5.
- Due to changes in drivers and development tools, the 32-bit versions of the host applications are no longer supported. Beginning with Neat Image 8.6, only 64-bit version of Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, etc., are supported.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
- Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
- Radeon Pro 5300 / 5500 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
- Radeon Pro 555X / 560X / 570X / 575X / 580X
- Radeon Pro 5600M
- Radeon Pro W5700X
- Radeon Pro WX 5100
- Radeon Pro Vega II / Vega II Duo
- Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT / 5600 / 5600 XT / 5700 / 5700 XT
New in Neat Image 8.5.0 (Dec 3, 2019)
- Added support for AMD Radeon Pro 5300M / 5500M
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 8.3 (Jun 28, 2018)
- Added a set of generic noise profiles to help preparing a noise profile in a situation when a photo contains no areas suitable for analysis by Auto Profile and no pre-buit profiles are available
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
- Improved hardware compatibility with AMD GPUs
- Added support for AMD Radeon Pro 555/560/570/575/580
- Added support for AMD Radeon RX 460/470/480/560/570/580
New in Neat Image 8.2 (Apr 27, 2017)
- Improved the Filter Tuning Assist tool (former Filter Tuning Mode)
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest cameras from Fujifilm and some other manufacturers
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
- Improved hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs:
- Added support for new MacBook Pro GPUs: Radeon Pro 450/455/460
- Added support for Radeon RX 460/470/480 and similar GPUs
New in Neat Image 8.1 (Nov 3, 2016)
- Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs: GeForce GTX 1060/1070/1080, Titan X (Pascal).
- Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.3 and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 2.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.1.
- Due to changes in GPU drivers, toolkits and development tools GPU support is now only available in 64-bit versions on Mac OS X and Linux. 32-bit versions will still be able to work in CPU-only mode.
- Improved Unicode support
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 8.0 (Jun 27, 2016)
- Higher quality of noise reduction:
- High Quality mode for better detail preservation and sharper image (at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5–3 times slower than Normal Quality)
- Highest Quality mode for better detail preservation (at the cost of reduced processing speed: 1.5–3 times slower than High Quality)
- Detail Recovery function helps to recover fine details that standard filter can not recover
- Artifact Removal filter to remove speck artifacts (specks are typically introduced by in-camera denoising and compression)
- More accurate profiling of Very Low and Ultra Low frequencies when using small selection
- Very Low and Ultra Low frequency ranges are now always automatically processed and can be separately adjusted
- Enhanced Edge Smoothing function
- Improved sharpening quality: less halos, sharper edges
- Optimized workflow:
- Auto Profile function has been improved to find better areas for noise analysis. In addition, larger areas can be used for building profile when possible. Using more suitable areas leads to more accurate noise reduction.
- Profile Assist viewer mode helps to choose area without details while profiling
- Overall noise levels of the current selection and of the whole current profile are displayed in Device Noise Profile panel (in Advanced Mode). Quick evaluation of the noise level helps to find the most suitable area for analysis.
- Better grouping of filter settings. Filter modules can be enabled/disabled individually to evaluate effect of each module on the overall result.
- Preview Assist viewer mode gives a detailed look to filtration process
- Filter Tuning Mode allows to temporarily raise Noise Reduction Amount for easier filter tuning
- New collection of filter presets with a detailed description of each preset including specification of key settings, purpose, applicability, recommendations for use and possible side effects
- Variants of Filtration feature to visually compare results achieved with different filter settings
- Multi-step Undo/Redo for filter settings
- Estimation of processing speed and optimization of performance settings can now be done directly from the Filter Settings panel. This facilitates optimizing for specific filtration parameters.
- Options to set up the default noise profile and filter preset (in Neat Image Preferences)
- Option for independent open/save folders for profiles and presets (in Neat Image Preferences)
- Faster processing and more responsive GUI:
- Preview is optimized to update faster when filter settings are adjusted
- Significantly improved GPU performance — x1.5–2 times in GPU-only mode and x1.4–1.7 in mixed modes (as compared with the older Neat Image 7 using comparable filter settings)
- Better support for systems with a large number of CPU cores (32 and above)
- CUDA Compute Capability 5.0 is now supported on Mac OS too allowing Neat Image to take advantage of the latest NVIDIA GPUs
- New AMD GPUs are supported: Radeon R9 M290 / M290X / M295X / M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X
- Other improvements:
- Support for HiDPI-modes (including Retina displays)
- Option to automatically check for the availability of software updates (in Neat Image Preferences)
- Improved progress indicators: easier to see, smoother movement, more accurate
- Numerous minor GUI improvements
- Several bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 7.6 (Oct 9, 2014)
- Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata
- Improved compatibility with EXIF metadata of Apple devices
- Improved support for new Mac OS X 10.10
- Added support for some new AMD GPUs based on Pitcairn, Tahiti and Hawaii chip series, for example, R9 270, R9 280, R9 290 etc.
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 7.5 (Oct 26, 2013)
- Added support for new Mac OS X 10.9
- Added support for new AMD GPUs: FirePro D300/D500/D700
- Improved support for AMD GPUs conforming to the Graphics Core Next Architecture
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon, Canon and Pentax cameras
- Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
- Improved plug-in installer:
- Checking CUDA driver during installation
- Checking for running copies of host applications
New in Neat Image 7.4 (May 29, 2013)
- Added support for new Mac-compatible GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7950 Mac
- Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5 (such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)
- Improved Navigator panel (adjustable in menu Tools > Navigator)
- Improved compatibility with OSX 10.8
- Program could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image 7.3 (Nov 14, 2012)
- 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
New in Neat Image 7.2 (May 28, 2012)
- Updated to CUDA 4.2 (Compute Capability 3.x) GTX 680 and newer GPUs are supported; improved performance of GPU filtration
- Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs
- Improved handling of multiple images added using "Open input image" and via drag-and-drop to the list of tasks
- Several cosmetic corrections in GUI
- Improved fault tolerance to corrupted image metadata
- Several bugs have been fixed