What's new in Neat Image for Aperture 7.6
Oct 9, 2014
- Improved compatibility with the latest versions of Aperture
- 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 for Aperture 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 for Aperture 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
- Plug-in could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed
- Several minor bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image for Aperture 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 for Aperture 7.2 (May 24, 2012)
- Updated to CUDA 4.2 (Compute Capability 3.x): GTX 680, 690 and newer GPUs are supported
- improved performance of GPU filtration
- Additional optimizations of filters for multi-core CPUs and GPUs
- Color themes: normal and reduced brightness options, in Preferences
- Several cosmetic corrections in GUI
- Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata
- Several bugs have been fixed
New in Neat Image for Aperture 7.1 (Dec 16, 2011)
- Additional performance optimizations (5-10% faster processing)
- Improved support for new CUDA-capable GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)
- Improved GPU detection and error handling
- Updated to new version of CUDA 4
- Improved behaviour of Neat Image viewer with Apple Magic Mouse
- Internal viewer can now preview larger areas
- Improved fault-tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata
- Several minor bugs fixed
New in Neat Image for Aperture 7.0 (May 5, 2011)
- Performance improvements: the first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Image plug-in for Aperture
- CUDA support: faster noise reduction using modern CUDA-compatible GPUs (on Intel Macs)
- For example, on NVidia GTX 470 Neat Image is about x2.5 faster than on Intel i7 and x3-x7 faster than on Intel i5 or Core2 Duo
- Multiple GPU support: Neat Image works even faster with two or more CUDA GPUs
- CPUs and GPUs working together: Neat Image can use CPUs and GPUs at the same time for even faster processing
- Automated optimization of performance settings for multi-core, multi-CPU and multi-GPU systems
- Built-in performance optimizer in Neat Image Preferences
- Built-in benchmark to measure image processing speed on specific hardware
- Smart Profile: automatically uses two different profiling methods and selects the better resulting profile for more accurate noise reduction
- Redesigned graphics elements throughout the plug-in
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras: D7000, D3100, P500, P300, P7000, S8100, etc.
New in Neat Image for Aperture 6.2 (Mar 10, 2010)
- Added 64-bit compatibility with Aperture 3 (version 6.1 was already compatible with Aperture 3 in 32-bit mode)
- Improved compatibility with OSX 10.6
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras: D3S, D3X, D300S, D3000, D5000, etc.
- New image viewer modes are added
- Many improvements in GUI
- Additional performance optimizations
- Several minor bugs and incompatibilities are fixed
New in Neat Image for Aperture 6.1 (May 28, 2009)
- Graphical noise profile equalizer is now available in Advanced mode.
- Manual fine-tuning of noise profile is now also available.
- Improved image viewer:
- Several alternative viewer modes are now available.
- Adjustable viewer brightness to make noise in very dark or very bright areas more visible.
- Preview is automatically prepared and updated, either in the whole visible image area or in manually-selected image area.
- Built-in Calibration Target is now available in plug-in.
- Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras.
- Several minor bugs are fixed.
New in Neat Image for Aperture 6.0 (Jan 21, 2009)