History of Changes

Version 9.2

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2023

• Added support for new AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon RX 7600 / 7600S / 7600M / 7600M XT
  • Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7700S
  • Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Radeon RX 7900 GRE / 7900M

• Improved processing of certain error messages

• Minor corrections in GUI of Preferences

• Fixed several minor issues

Version 9.1.5

• Added support for a new version of a host applications: Affinity Photo 2.0+

• Added support for new GPUs:
  AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / 7900 XTX

• Added support for some AMD APUs based on gfx90c chips including AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / 5700G

• Several optimizations in the GUI

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 9.1

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2023
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2022
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2023

• Added support for new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace GPUs:
  GeForce RTX 40-Series (4090 / 4080 / etc.)

• Several corrections in reactions of controls and indicators

• Adjusted descriptions of controls

• Adjusted the size of images shown in message dialogs

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 9.0

Increased processing speed and improved hardware support

• Optimized CPU- an GPU-based processing

  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 support for several new AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon RX 6600 / 6600 XT
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT / 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT
  • Other GPUs based on the gfx1030 / gfx1031 / gfx1032 chips

• Improved compatibility with the new GPU drivers from AMD

Added support for the new version of Windows

• Windows 11

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

• Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):

  • Added new "Auto-detect brightness" theme
  • The "Normal brightness" theme has been re-designed

• Main tabs are now called "Prepare Noise Profile" and "Adjust and Preview"

• 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 support for high DPI displays as well as systems with monitors that have different pixel density

• Ability to toggle alpha channel in viewer (when present)

• Preview performance has been optimized

• Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different image sizes (Preferences > Preview)

• Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Image (Preferences > Performance)

• Numerous minor GUI improvements

• Improved detection of running applications that may interfere with installation

• Improved uninstaller with an option to erase settings and license

• Improved diagnostic data and error reporting

Other changes

• End-User License Agreement has been updated

• The 32-bit version is not produced anymore

Version 8.6.2

• Added support for new versions of host applications

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.6

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2020 (version 22.0)
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2020
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2021

• Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:

  • GeForce RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090

  Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 3.0 are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.5 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.6.

• Added support for new AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon RX 5300M / 5500M
  • Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT
  • Radeon RX 5600 / 5600 XT

• Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image 8.6 no longer supports most Radeon HD 7xxx / 8xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti
  
  The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.6 on Windows is: Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901, gfx906, gfx907, gfx1010, gfx1012

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.5

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop 2020

• Added support for AMD Radeon RX 5700 / 5700 XT

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.4.5

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2020
  • Corel Photopaint 2019

• Added support for AMD Radeon VII

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.4

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 / 2018
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2019
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2018

• Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:

  • GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
  • Titan V
  • Titan RTX

  Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.4.

• Added support for several AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon RX 540 / 540X / 550 / 550X
  • Radeon Pro WX 2100 / 3100

  Note: Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.

  The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.4 on Windows is:
  Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.3

• 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

• Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro 2018

• Improved hardware compatibility with AMD GPUs

  • Added support for AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, Vega Frontier Edition
  • Ensured compatibility with AMD Radeon RX 560/570/580

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.2

• Added support for Affinity Photo 1.5+

• Added support for Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2017

• Improved hardware compatibility for AMD GPUs

  • Re-implemented support for pre-GCN GPUs based on the following chip series:
    Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman
    These include most 57xx/58xx/59xx and 67xx/68xx/69xx cards.

• Improved compatibility with systems having multiple OpenCL platforms installed (AMD and Intel)

• Better support for computers with multiple versions of Photoshop and compatible applications
  during installation

• Improved the Filter Tuning Assist tool (former Filter Tuning Mode)

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.1

• Added support for the new version of Photoshop CC

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 15

• Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro X9

• 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.

• Added support for new AMD GPUs: Radeon RX 460/470/480
  Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported.
  In particular, Neat Image no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series:
     Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
  The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.1 on Windows is:
     Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin.

• Unicode support: file names containing Unicode symbols can now be processed in Neat Image

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.0

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)

• New AMD GPUs are supported:

  • AMD Radeon R9 Fury / Nano / Fury X / Fury X2
  • AMD Radeon R9 380/390/390X
  • AMD Radeon R9 255/250X/285
  • AMD Radeon R7 360/370
  • AMD Radeon R7 265

  Newer AMD Catalyst 15.7.1+ drivers are now supported.

Other improvements

• Support for HiDPI-modes (including Retina displays) in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop
  (when the host application supports that)

• 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

• Added support for the latest versions of Photoshop CC

Version 7.6

• Added support for Photoshop CC 2014 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 13 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Added support for Corel Photopaint X7 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro X7 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Added support for Serif PhotoPlus X7 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Improved tolerance to corrupted EXIF metadata

• Improved compatibility with EXIF metadata of Apple devices

• Updated to CUDA 6: added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with Compute Capability 5.0
  (such as GeForce GTX 750 Ti and more)

• Improved error reporting of GPU-specific issues

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 7.5

• Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro X6 (64-bit and 32-bit)

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 12

• Added support for new AMD GPUs:

  • AMD Radeon HD 7790;
  • AMD Radeon HD 87xx/88xx/89xx;
  • AMD Radeon R7 260X;
  • AMD Radeon R9 270X/280X/290X;
  • Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Bonaire, Hainan, Hawaii

  The following AMD/ATI GPUs remain supported as well:

  • ATI Radeon HD 57xx/58xx/59xx;
  • AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
  • AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
  • Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti

• 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 Photoshop CC

• Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro X5

• Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Compute Capability 3.5
  (such as GeForce GTX Titan and Tesla K20)

• Improved reliability on systems with multiple OpenCL platforms (AMD/ATI and Intel)

• Improved Navigator panel (adjustable in menu Tools > Navigator)

• 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 57xx/58xx/59xx;
  • AMD Radeon HD 67xx/68xx/69xx;
  • AMD Radeon HD 77xx/78xx/79xx;
  • Another AMD/ATI GPU based on one of the following chip series:
    Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman, Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti

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

• Minor corrections in the reduced brightness color theme

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 11

• Improved support for Corel Photopaint X6 and Corel Graphics X6

• Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 7.2

• Support for Photoshop CS6 added

• 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

• Support for Photoshop CS5.1 and Photoshop Elements 10 added

• Support for Corel Paint Shop Pro X4 added

• Photoshop selection is now also taken into account in Neat Image internal preview

• Neat Image will show a warning when working on empty layer/selection

• Internal viewer can now preview larger areas

• Additional performance optimizations (5-10% faster processing)

• Faster processing specifically for 32-bit per channel images

• Improved support for new CUDA-capable GPUs (Compute Capability 2.x)

• Improved GPU detection and error handling

• Updated to new version of CUDA 4

• Running Bitdefender could cause Neat Image to freeze, fixed

• 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

• Additional performance optimizations (32-bit version)

  • Faster image processing: x1.2 faster than in previous version

32-bit and 64-bit versions

• Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop now comes in two builds: 32-bit and 64-bit

  • the 64-bit plug-in continues to support the latest 64-bit versions of Photoshop CS5 / CS4
  • the 32-bit plug-in additionally supports older 32-bit host applications (32-bit versions of Photoshop and other compatible editors)

More improvements

• Support for 32-bit images (in Pro plug-in, in addition to 8-bit and 16-bit ones) to enable HDR post-processing workflows

• 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.

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0

Version 6.2

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CS5 64-bit

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras: D3S, D3X, D300S, D3000, D5000, etc.

• Improved compatibility with Windows 7

• 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

• Fixed incorrect matting of selections in some cases

• Several minor bugs and incompatibilities are fixed

Version 6.0

• First release of a new product: Neat Image plug-in for 64-bit version of Photoshop CS4

Version 9.2

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2024
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2024
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 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

Version 9.1.5

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Affinity Photo 2.0+
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 (version from Apple AppStore)
  • PhotoLine 24

• Added support for new GPUs:
  Apple M2 Pro / M2 Max / M2 Ultra

• Several optimizations in the GUI

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 9.1

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2023
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2022 / 2021 / 2020 / 2019
  • PhotoLine 23
  • Graphic Converter 11.5.4 working in native Apple Silicon M1 mode

• Added support for MacOS 13 Ventura

• Added support for new GPUs:

  • AMD Radeon RX 6600 / RX 6600 XT
  • AMD Radeon 6900 XTXH
  • Apple M2 GPUs

• 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

Version 9.0

Increased processing speed and improved hardware support

• Optimized CPU- an GPU-based processing

  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

• Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):

  • Added new "Auto-detect brightness" theme
  • The "Normal brightness" theme has been re-designed

• Main tabs are now called "Prepare Noise Profile" and "Adjust and Preview"

• 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)

• Preview performance has been optimized

• Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different image sizes (Preferences > Preview)

• Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Image (Preferences > Performance)

• Numerous minor GUI improvements

• Improved 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

Version 8.6.2

• Added support for new versions of host applications

  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.6

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2020 (version 22.0)
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

• 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

  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

Version 8.5

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop 2020

• Added support for Graphic Converter 11

• Added support for AMD Radeon Pro 5300M / 5500M

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.4.5

• Added support for MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020

• Added support for new AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon VII
  • Radeon Pro Vega 48
  • Radeon RX 590

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.4

• Added support for new versions of host applications:

  • Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 / 2018

• Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:

  • GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
  • Titan V
  • Titan RTX

  Note 1: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.4.

  Note 2: Apple's recently released OS X 10.14 (Mojave) does not support CUDA. NVIDIA is working with Apple to get Mojave to support CUDA. Meanwhile Neat Image will only be able to utilize NVIDIA GPUs on OS X 10.13.x and below.

• Added support for new AMD GPUs:

  • Radeon Pro Vega 16 / 20
  • Radeon Pro Vega Frontier Edition
  • Radeon Pro WX 7100 / 9100

  Note: due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.

  Newer AMD GPUs remain supported on OS X 10.7.5 and above (including version 10.14).

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.3

• 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 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

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.2

• 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

• Improved the Filter Tuning Assist tool (former Filter Tuning Mode)

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 8.1

• Added support for the new version of Photoshop CC

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 15

• 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

Version 8.0

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

  Notes:

  1. Due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 1.0 and 1.1 are no longer supported
  2. Mac OS X: NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA Capability 5.0 are only supported in 64-bit applications due to a limitation of the CUDA driver (please refer to known issues)

• New AMD GPUs are supported

  • Radeon R9 M290 / M290X / M295X / M370X / M380 / M390 / M395 / M395X

Other improvements

• Support for HiDPI-modes (including Retina displays) in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop
  (when the host application supports that)

• 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

• Added support for the latest versions of Photoshop CC

• Added support for Affinity Photo

Version 7.6

• Added support for Photoshop CC 2014

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 13

• 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 Adobe Photoshop Elements 12

• Added support for Photoline 18 and 17

• 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 Photoshop CC

• 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

• Added support for Photoshop Elements 11

• Improved support for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)

• Better support for GraphicConverter

• More accurate GPU speed measurements (in Optimize and Benchmark)

• Improved tolerance to corrupted image metadata

• Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 7.2

• Support for Photoshop CS6 added

• 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

• Support for Photoshop CS5.1 and Photoshop Elements 10 added

• Photoshop selection is now also taken into account in Neat Image internal preview

• Neat Image will show a warning when working on empty layer/selection

• Internal viewer can now preview larger areas

• Additional performance optimizations (5-10% faster processing)

• Faster processing specifically for 32-bit per channel images

• 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

• 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

• Support for 32-bit images (in Pro plug-in, in addition to 8-bit and 16-bit ones) to enable HDR post-processing workflows

• 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.

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0

Version 6.2

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CS5 32-bit and 64-bit

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0

• Fully re-designed graphical user interface

• Standard and Advanced interface modes for beginners and power users

• 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 for noise profiling of digital cameras, flatbed and film scanners

• Numerous optimizations, increased efficiency of the noise filter

• Improved compatibility with OSX 10.6

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras: D3S, D3X, D300S, D3000, D5000, etc.

• Several minor bugs and incompatibilities are fixed

Version 4.7

• Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras

• Optimized consumption of system resources

• Incorrect matting of selections in some cases, fixed

• A minor incompatibility in saving plug-in preferences, fixed

• A few minor bugs in GUI, fixed

Version 4.6

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CS4

• Batch Profiler to automatically build a set of profiles using images of the Calibration Target

• Improved compatibility with Nikon D700, D90 and several more new Nikon cameras

• Neat Image plug-in window is now resizable (via the commands in the popup menu)

Version 4.52

• Several speed optimizations in the plug-in for Photoshop CS2 / CS / 7

• Improved support for large images in Photoshop CS2 / CS

• The plug-in sometimes gave a "Missync occured" error when using image viewer, fixed

• Crashes in Japanese versions of OSX and Photoshop CS2 / CS / 7, fixed

Version 4.51

• Corrupted metadata in images saved by Capture One crashed plugin, fixed

• Auto fine-tuning was not correctly applied in actions, fixed

• Crashes during profiling and using preview in Photoshop CS and older on dual-core machines, fixed

Version 4.5

• Neat Image can now build noise profile using smaller image areas: this is very useful when the input image contains only small featureless areas

• Several speed optimizations in the noise filter

• Increased profiling speed (Auto Profile and Fine-Tune)

• Added indicator of profiling progress

• Improved compatibility for Nikon D40, D40X, D60, D300, D3 and several more new Nikon cameras

• Improved compatibility with several new Samsung digital cameras

• Added preliminary support for Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 and Photoshop CS4

• Improved behavior of the plug-in in smart filters in Photoshop CS3

• Improved recording of noise profiles and presets in Photoshop actions

• Improved Neat Image plug-in's controls for Photoshop action recording:

  • the Action Setup window is now used to directly adjust the plug-in behaviour in actions and smart filters
  • the same Action Setup window is used to configure the default startup behaviour of the plug-in

• Modified error reporting for smoother action-based batching:

  • errors in processing one image will not stop the whole batch
  • error codes can be logged by Photoshop
  • to get a description of an error re-run the action (for the same image) with GUI enabled

• Improved support for large images in Photoshop

• Improved memory and resource management, improved overall stability and efficiency

• Several cosmetic improvements in plug-in GUI

• Major performance degradation when running on an 8-core Mac, fixed

• Crashes during/after noise profile saving/loading in PS CS3, fixed

• Crashes during profile matching when running on Intel Macs, fixed

Version 4.3

• Universal version of Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop (Mac) including:

  • a native Intel version of the plug-in for Intel Macs (MacTels)
  • a native PowerPC version for traditional G3 / G4 / G5 Macs

• Added support for Adobe Photoshop CS3

• Added support for smart filters in Adobe Photoshop CS3

• Improved accuracy of profile matching

• Incorrect detection of some ISO values in Pentax K10D images, fixed

Version 4.2

• Added support for Nikon D80, D2Hs, D2Xs and several other Nikon cameras

• Improved support for Canon cameras (more accurate reading of ISO values in Auto mode)

• Auto Profile now selects better areas for noise analysis producing higher-quality profiles

• Using some profiles for Canon cameras built with earlier versions of the plug-in produced crashes, fixed

• A minor bug in Auto Profile, fixed

• A bug in installer, fixed

Version 4.1

• Improved support for Pentax EXIF data

• Using profiles for some Pentax camera models caused the plug-in to crash, fixed

• Loading some ready-made noise profiles for Nikon D70 RAW crashed the plug-in, fixed

• A bug in the PKG installer, fixed

Version 4.0

• Profile matching to automatically load a noise profile that matches an input image:

  • Match level indicator to control the degree of image-profile match
  • Image-Profile Match Details window to see the specifics of profile matching
  • Support for profile matching in actions

• Profile quality indicator to control quality of used noise profiles

• Profile Viewer to check profile details

• User interface improvements:

  • Keyboard shortcuts for zoom level of the image viewer in the plug-in:
    • Cmd - '+' : zoom in
    • Cmd - '-' : zoom out
    • Cmd - '0' : reset to 100%
    • Cmd - Opt - '0' : zoom to fit image to window
    • Cmd - Shift : temporary fit image to window (can be used to quickly select an area of interest for profiling)
  • Double-click in an area of the image quickly brings the selection to the area (in the Profiling mode)

• Improved plug-in installer to support more versions of Photoshop and Photoshop Elements