History of Changes

Version 7.6

• Improved compatibility with the latest versions of Aperture

• Improved support for new Mac OS X 10.10

• Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata

• Improved compatibility with EXIF metadata of Apple devices

• 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

Version 7.5

• 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 plug-in installer

  • Checking CUDA driver during installation
  • Checking for running copies of host applications

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon, Canon and Pentax cameras

• Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 7.4

• 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 OS X 10.8

• Plug-in could crash when using multiple OpenCL GPUs on MacPro, fixed

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 7.3

• 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)

• New Navigator panel to quickly locate image areas using a thumbnail display

• Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

• Improved support for OS X 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

Version 7.2

• 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

Version 7.1

• 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

Version 7.0

Performance improvements: the first GPU-accelerated version of Neat Image standalone

• 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

More improvements

• Smart Profile: automatically uses two different profiling methods and selects the better resulting profile for more accurate noise reduction

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras:
  D7000, D3100, P500, P300, P7000, S8100, etc.

Version 6.2

• 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

Version 6.1

• 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

Version 6.0

• First release of a new product: Neat Image plug-in for Aperture (Mac)