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.

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":

· Voice comments
· Sensor dust filter
· Haze compensation
· Spectral sensitivity controls
· Chromatic aberration filter
· Vignetting and barrel corrections
Stacking images to lower noise or increase dynamic rangeNoise 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·
· 16bit monitor
· 800x600 display resolution

Limitations:

· 30 days trial
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· A big set of artistic frames is added
· Interface for frames filter improved and new frames styles added (heart gradient etc.)
· Overall stability much improved



External Mirror 1 - Beta [EXE]

External Mirror 2 - 4.93.2 Free [EXE]