Helicon Filter

Helicon Filter is a powerful graphic editing application that comes packed with several interesting features for both novices and experienced users.

The interface of the application is attractive, clean and intuitive. You can use either the Explorer-based layout, file browser or "drag and drop" method to import photos.

But you can also work on samples, publish pictures to web, set GPS coordinates, set an image as wallpaper, zoom in and out, and switch to full screen mode.

You can make various image adjustments which include resize, brightness, color balance, noise, sharpening, distortions (e.g. skew, barrel correction, bend horizon), text (e.g. file name, full shooting info, date and time watermark), retouching (e.g. red eye reduction, blur) and frames.

You can view image information, rotate, mirror and copy pictures, use a color profile, save a set of filters for further use, change the interface color scheme and language, merge focused areas, reduce noise by averaging, add the current image or folder to the queue, and more.

In "Preferences" you can change the background color and resample method, select the size of the magnifying glass, enable Helicon Filter to automatically rotate images when opening and to adjust the brightness of the magnifying glass, allow multiple instances, and others. Settings can be restored to their default values.

The graphic editing tool supports several keyboard shortcuts, requires a pretty high amount of system resources, includes a well-written help file with snapshots and has a very good response time. No errors have occurred during our tests and we highly recommend Helicon Filter to all user levels.