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New Features:

• Add split Bayer image into sub-sampled planes.

Updates:

• lib PNG version 1.4.5 of December 10, 2010

Bug Fixes:

• Fix problems with computers with only one core

Updates:

• lib PNG version 1.4.4 of September 23, 2010

Bug Fixes:

• Fix problems with computers with more than 2 cores as White Balance, Resample ...
• Alpha channel viewer for images with a resolution higher than 8-bit

Updates:

• lib boost version 1.44.0 of August 13, 2010
• lib PNG version 1.4.3 of June 25, 2010
• dcraw version 9.02 of June 11, 2010
• lib TIFF version 4.0.0beta6 of June 11, 2010
• lib CFITSIO version 3.25 of June 9, 2010
• lib jpeg 8b of May 16, 2010.
• lib wxWidgets version 2.8.11 of April 22, 2010
• zlib version 1.2.5 of April 19, 2010

Improvements:

• Application's icon is now compliant with the Windows Vista (and Seven) format.

New Features:

• Add the choice for the demosaicing method loading raw files

Improvements:

• Loading raw file with a more natural image.
• All the following cameras are supported and samples are available at:
  http://elynxsdk.free.fr/datas/iff.suites/raw/
  • CANON EOS 10D, 20D, 30D, 40D, 50D, D30, D60, DIGITAL-REBEL, DIGITAL-REBEL-XTI, 1D-MARK II, 1D-MARK IIn, 1D-MARK III, 1DS-MARK III, 1D, 1DS-MARK II, 5D, 5D-MARKII, 7D, 300D-DIGITAL, 350D-DIGITAL, 450D, 400D-DIGITAL, 500D, 550D, 1000D,- CANON POWERSHOT A610, A620, A640, A650, A720, G1, G2, G3, G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, PRO1, S2IS, S30, S3IS, S40, S45, S50, S60, S70, S90,
  • CANON POWERSHOT A610, A620, A640, A650, A720, G1, G2, G3, G5, G6, G9, G10, G11, PRO1, S2IS, S30, S3IS, S40, S45, S50, S60, S70, S90,
  • FUJI FINEPIX E550, E900, F700, S100-FS, S2-PRO, S205-EXR, S3-PRO, S5-PRO, S5000, S5600, S6500-FD, S9500,
  • KODAK DC120, DC50, DCSPRO-SLR-N, P880-ZOOM,
  • MINOLTA DIMAGE 5, 7HI, 7I, A1, A2,
  • MINOLTA DYNAX 5D, 7D,
  • NIKON COOLPIX 5700, E5400, P6000,
  • NIKON D1, D1X, D2X, D2Xs, D3, D3X, D40, D40X, D50, D60, D70, D70s, D80, D90, D100, D200, D300, D700, D5000, E8400,
  • OLYMPUS C5050Z, C5060WZ, C8080, SP350, SP500UZ, SP510UZ, SP550UZ,
  • OLYMPUS E1, E3, EP1, EP2, EPL1, E10, E20, E30, E300, E330, E400, E410, E500, E510, E620,
  • PANASONIC DMC FZ8, FZ18, FZ28, FZ30, FZ50, FX150, FX180, G1, GF1, L1, L10, LX2, LX3,
  • PENTAX *IST-D, *IST-DL, K7, K10D, K20D, K100D, K100D-SUPER, K200D, KM, OPTIO-S4,
  • SONY DSLR A100, A200, A300, A350, A500, A550, A700, A900, DSC R1
  • LEICA DIGILUX2, DLUX3, M8, M9, VLUX1, X1
  • RICOH GR-DIGITAL2, GR-DIGITAL3, GXR
  • SAMSUNG GX10, GX20, NX10, PRO815
  • EPSON RD1
  • HASSELBLAD CFV
  • LEAF APTUS22
  • MAMIYA ZD

New Features:

• Add reading of *.DCR, *.KDC, *.K25 files from Kodak cameras
• Add reading of *.BAY files from Casio cameras

Improvements:

• Adjust balance available for HLS & CIE Lab color spaces
• Adjust Shadow/Highlight available for HLS & CIE Lab color spaces

Bug Fixes:

• Update curve on reset with Adjust Midtone.
• RAW camera rotation
• Restore the contextual menu from image tabs

New Features:

• Add reading of *.RW2 files from Panasonic cameras
• Add adjust Shadow/Highlight filter
• Show the camera informations when opening a raw file

Bug Fixes:

• Posterize slider accuracy
• RAW reading with camera rotation
• RAW conversion to RGB with better luminosity

New Features:

• Add reading of *.ARW files from SONY cameras
• Add reading of *.RRW files from NIKON cameras

Bug Fixes:

• Adjust Hue/Saturation with gray
• Desaturate with gray
• RAW reading with camera rotation
• RAW conversion to RGB applying bias and white balance from camera settings

Improvements:

• lib zlib updated to version 1.2.4 of March 14, 2010
• lib JPEG updated to version 8a of February 28, 2010

Bug Fixes:

• UI bugs fixed for update with the Image view controller

New Features:

• split channels
• swap channels
• copy image in clipboard
• paste image from clipboard

Improvements:

• lib PNG updated to version 1.4.1 of February 25, 2010
• lib boost updated to version 1.42.0 of February 2, 2010
• lib CFITSIO updated version 3.24 of January 26, 2010
• lib JPEG updated to version 8 of January 10, 2010
• lib RAW (dcraw) updated to version 8.99 of December 25, 2009
• lib TIFF updated to version 4.0.0 beta5 of November 4, 2009

Some fixes

New Features:

• Add normalization by channels for all color spaces.

Bug Fixes:

• AutoBrightness for all color spaces.
• FFT low pass filter.

• Fix negative for CIE Lab mode.
• Some fixes.

• Update internal libraries: wxWidget to version v2.8.10 and boost to version v1_38.
• Fix color space transformation (gray to pink).
• Add sharpen filter.
• Add Canny edge detection filter.
• Add list of available image file format plugins in help menu.

• Update raw plugins with dcraw Version 8.93 of March 10, 2009.
  Add support of dng (Digital Negative) format.
• Update fits plugin with CFITSIO Version 3.130 of February 3, 2009.
  Add support of alpha channel for gray and rgb images with all resolutions.
• Update png plugin with libpng Version 1.2.35 of February 18, 2009.
  Fixes a longstanding uninitialized-data security vulnerability.
• Update tiff plugin with libtiff Version 4.0.0 beta3 of January 21, 2009.
  Log of Changes.
  
• Add tga plugin.

• Now Save as proposes only the supported list of formats for the selected image.
• Support 64 bits floating point resolution images.
• More options with conversion of images with alpha channel.
• Enhanced viewer for Bayer image. Luminance plane is now call "Bayer" and the image icon represents its Bayer matrix.
• PSD plugin: add support of LA and RGBA for 8- and 16-bits format for reading.
• Fix crash on mode change when selected viewer tab wasn't the first.
• Fix open of file by drag n drop with filename containing extra char (>128).

• Optimized code generation based on VC9 compiler from Visual Studio 2008.
• Handle multicore processing to improve run-time performance.
• Many fixes.

• Some fixes.

• Update of tiff file plugin. Update libTIFF to Version 4.0.0 beta2 of May 24, 2008.

• Update of png file plugin. Update libPNG from v1.2.12 to v1.2.34 (December 18, 2008). Full support for read & write 8bit and 16bit, grey and RGB color image formats, with or without alpha channel.
• Update of FITS file plugin. Update cfit from v3.006 to v3.100 (August 20, 2008), handling fits compression for reading.
• Update of raw file plugin. update dcraw from v8.43 to v8.89 (December 22, 2008), support new cameras such as:
  • Nikon D40X, D3, D 300, D60, D700, D90, P6000, Coolpix S6
  • Canon EOS 450D, EOS 1000D, EOS 40D, EOS 50D EOS-1Ds Mark III
  • Canon PowerShot A460, A530, A610, A620, A630, A640, A650, G9, SD300, A720, S3 IS, S5 IS
  • Olympus E-3, E-420, E-520,
  • Sony A300 et A900,
  • Kodak DCS200, C603,
  • Fuji S100FS, IS-1
  • Panasonics DMC-FZ18, LX3, FZ28,
  • Sony DSLR-A700, DSLR-A200, DSLR-A350
  • Apple QuickTake 200
  • Pentax Optio 750Z, K10D, K20D,
  • Nokia N95.

• Support of Alpha channel:
  -Grey (LA) and color (RGBA) formats with résolutions: 8-bits, 16-bits and float 32-bits,
  -Loading with alpha (png,tiff),
  -Drawing with or without care of alpha channel,
  -Processing of alpha channel,
  -Removal of alpha channel with or without blending,
  -Saving with alpha.
  
• Add filter "Digital Development".
• Bugs fix.

• Fix of Adjust Hue/Saturation filters.
• Add Adjust Desaturate filter.
• Add bilateral filter.
• Add selective blur filter.
• Add FFT low pass filter.
• Add Morphological Open, Close and Top Hat filters.
• Improve Emboss filter with azimut selection.

• New Adjust Sigmoid filter, apply the sigmoid transfert function to an image:
  
• New Colorize filter, set the hue and the saturation of an image:
  
• New Adjust Hue/Saturation filter, adjust the hue and the saturation of an image:
  

• New Adjust Midtone filter:
  
• Demosaicing algorithms:
  • New Bin2x2,
  • New "Pattern Recognition Interpolation",
  • New "Pattern Matching Interpolation",
  • New "Color Filter Array Recovery Using a Threshold-based Variable Number of Gradients" by Ed Chang, Shiufun Cheung and Davis Pan.

Demosaicing algorithms:

• Improve performance for AHD,
• New "Hybrid color filter array demosaicking for effective artifact suppression" by LanLan Chang and Yap-Peng Tan,
• New "Edge-Adaptive color reconstruction for single-sensor digital camera" by Xiaomeng Wang, Weisi Lin and Ping Xue.

• Fixes for AHD demosaicing algorithm.
• New demosaicing algorithm "High-quality linear interpolation" by Malvar, He and Cutler.
• Now you can adjust brightness, constrast and gamma correction with Bayer images.

• Fixes of demosaicing algorithms Cok and AHD (Adaptive homogeneity-directed).
• New demosaicing algorithm "Image Reconstruction from Color CCD Samples" by Ron Kimmel.
• Now you can directly convert raw files to RGB at loading.

• New installation. Correct bug when you have installed eLynx lab and astRaw with none compatible libraries. Now eLynx lab and astRaw do no more share libraries and plugins.

New demosaicing algorithms:

• "Smooth Hue Transition Interpolation" by David Cok,
• "Median filter for reconstructing missing color samples" by W.T. Freeman,
• "Apparatus and method for adaptively interpolating a full color image utilizing chrominance gradients" C. A. Laroche and M. A. Prescott,
• "Adaptive color plane interpolation in single sensor color electronic camera" by J. F. Hamilton Jr. and J. E. Adams,
• "Color Filter Array Demosaicking" by Wemmiao Lu,
• "Pixel Grouping for Color Filter Array Demosaicing" by Chuan-kai Lin.

• Move and zoom can be applied for previsualized image in filter dialog.
  

• Fixes for AHD demosaicing algorithm.
• New functionnality: Mode=>Convert to Bayer, convert a RGB color image to grey with a given Bayer matrix pattern. This allows to generate 'raw' from RGB images. We used this to see demosaicing algorithm features face to different natural images.

Fixes for loading raw files.
When loading a raw file, a new dialog with two boutons appears:

• [Do not alter raw datas] allows to load raw file without altering datas.
• [Process raw datas for viewing] Process normalization, white balance and gamma correction to have a user view.

• Gamma transfer function has been replaced by midtones one.

• Loading speed of raw files has been improved.
• Tif plugin now can load and save grey and color images with 32-bits floating point resolution.

New functionnalities for decoding and viewing RAW files (grey with Bayer matrix).

• AutoBrightness, White balance, AHD demosaicing algorithm,
  
• Mean filter, new blending parameter (result = original*(1-b) + mean*(b) ).

• Add new morphological image filters:
  • min (erode),
  • median (salt and pepper noice removing),
  • max (dilate).
  

• Now you can use filters in color spaces such as RGB, HLS, HSV, CIE XYZ, CIE Luv, CIE Lab, CIE Lch and Hunter Lab.