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Focus Photoeditor Changelog

What's new in Focus Photoeditor 7.0.3

May 19, 2014
  • This fixes some glitches of the display while painting, the batch dialog for Drop-Shadow and other minor issues.

New in Focus Photoeditor 7.0.0 (May 10, 2014)

  • Version 7.0 interface was improved in many respects and it is now even faster to use and more intuitive.
  • We have added 5 automatic corrections the HDR Auto Enhancements, several vintage-like filters, manual and auto Dehaze, ability to batch process with photoshop compatible plugins in both automatic and manual modes, added several other manual and automatic corrections and reworked tens of existing corrections to make them even more effective and give better results.
  • One of the major improvement over version 6 is the greatly improved speed of almost every correction and filter. Some were improved by 500%.
  • A new Focus Photoeditor proprietary Project Format (fpp) now will include everything into a single file (before it was split in two files). Compatibility with the old format has been kept, so you can load your old projects as well.
  • Now you will be able to create as many groups of layers as you like. And there are quite a lot of things you can do with the layers in the same group. For example when rotating, or resizing a layer, you will be asked whether you want to apply this to all layers in the group or only the current one.
  • Version 7 also fixes several issues with the previous version.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.5.0.2 (Oct 25, 2012)

  • Improved Speed
  • Improved Photoshop Plugins compatibility
  • Improved Object Stamp, added option to change rotation and opacity of objects
  • Chromatic Aberration Reduction
  • Lens Distortion Correction
  • Now it's possible to choose Filters and Corrections Dialog Preview Size from the program options.
  • Improved Auto Adaptive Exposure
  • Improved Clarify
  • Improved Sepia Studio Filter
  • Added Contrast Mask Filter
  • Added Effects: ZoomBlur, MotionBlur, Radial Blur
  • Added Artistic Filters: Close, Open, Erode, Dilate, Oil Paint (5 types), Trace, Pencil Sketch, Cartoonize, Watercolor, Crayon
  • Improved many existing filters
  • Now Filters give expected results with higher resolution images
  • Added Edges Filters: 4 types
  • Added Threshold and Half-Tone Filters

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.4.0.5 (Oct 19, 2012)

  • Corrected several problems due to new release and new setup files

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.4.0.0 (Oct 19, 2012)

  • Improved interface, now supports 3 different skinning modes and has many usability as well as estethic improvements.
  • Some Menus were simplified and streamlined
  • Improved Speed of many corrections 100% or more
  • Magic wand and fill tool are now about 10 times faster
  • Added Lab Color Saturation and Vivacity option
  • Added Remove Dust and Scratches Filter
  • Added Bilateral Filter to remove Noise
  • Added ability to save a 32bits png from the save dialog, in order to save all the layers into a files with transparency channel
  • Improved Light-Studio
  • Improved Alpha Channel Editor

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.8 (May 22, 2012)

  • Updated Raw Support with latest formats and a few fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.7 (May 22, 2012)

  • Fixed Drop Shadow transformation with layers not working properly for some directions. A few minor fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.6 (May 22, 2012)

  • Fixed Warp / Deform Tool not working properly with very small radius values

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.5 (May 22, 2012)

  • Added support for new Raw Formats with DCraw update

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.4 (May 22, 2012)

  • Improved Unsharp Mask Interface with Details Size Selection

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.9.3 (May 22, 2012)

  • Gradient Replace Filter now supports gradients opacities
  • Improved and Reorganized Objects Factory Interface
  • Now opening PSD files containing layers will create an invisible layer on top that is the merged version of the file
  • Some Interface improvements and Restyling

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.8.4 (Dec 26, 2011)

  • Photoshop Plugins no longer require special dll
  • Layers now appear in descending order in the layers list. The top layer is the first item in the list and the background is the last item. This uniforms to other image editors standard.
  • Added Perspective Transformation
  • Some Interface improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.7 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • Some Minor Fixes
  • Some Interface improvements and restyling
  • Added a dialog for program and project options. Now it is possible to customize several aspects of the project and application
  • Now Saves Exif info to Tiff as well
  • Work Area sizes and margins can now be adjusted all together
  • New Options to create new projects (from layer, from object, etc..)
  • Now Layers can be exported directly without having to be converted to objects
  • Print Preview has been restyled and supports other measure units
  • Now Textures have ability to shift their alignment

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.5 (Jun 28, 2011)

  • Important fixes
  • Restyled Main Form Interface
  • Several Improvements to interface and usability

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.4 (Jun 21, 2011)

  • Added White Balance with Multipliers
  • Added more Raw Options
  • Added Latest Raw Formats support
  • Improvements and small fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.3 (May 11, 2011)

  • A few fixes and improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.2 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • Improved Splitlight Filter. Now it has many options
  • Reorganized Filters Menus and Categories
  • Improved User Interface of Corrections and Filters
  • Other Minor Improvements and fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.1.1 (Feb 5, 2011)

  • More powerful Layer Groups
  • Extended Batch automation, including many manual corrections. More powerful batch capabilities and interface
  • We plan to add Manual Corrections, Filters and Transformations to batch processing as well
  • More Transformations
  • More support of formats and 3rd party standards

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.1 (Feb 5, 2011)

  • Improved Performance and usability of the Print Preview
  • Solved issue with the skin not showing on the print-preview dialog

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3.0.2 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • A few fixes and improvements
  • More changes and improvements to Manual

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.3 (Jan 14, 2011)

  • Help Manual was largely rewritten and has now more examples and pictures
  • Improved Menu icons and user interface graphics
  • New Save Dialog (when using Focus Style)
  • Reorganized and improved manual corrections
  • Better White Balance / color temperature Correction
  • Added new "Copy Special" Options
  • Added new layers merge options
  • Improvements to layers
  • Improved speed of loading and switching between projects
  • Improved Painting
  • Solved a number of issues

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.9.1 (Nov 20, 2010)

  • Fixed a problem, introduced with previous release, that would make the program slow down after browsing files. This was due to misbehavior of a new component.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.9 (Nov 17, 2010)

  • Faster Undo-Redo Operations (10-15%)
  • Now Floating Windows are easy to organize
  • Now it is possible to have a magnified preview of the current pixel both with color picking tools and in the correction and filters dialog
  • Improvement to paint engine when painting on transparent layers
  • Patterns may now be rescaled and inverted (right-click on pattern icon in the tool window)
  • Improved Light Studio Filter
  • Now Also Transformations and alpha Channel editors have instant preview of changes and bigger preview windows
  • It is now possible to import objects and layers from any psd file and import / export of objects is now also easier
  • Now Texture scale is previewed when moving scale slider
  • Many different improvements to interface and usability
  • Fixed many minor issues
  • we have started to re-update the manual that should be comprehensive with upcoming v. 6.3

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.8.4 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Fixed two problems with Batch Processing in both "Save To FIle" and in general processing
  • Batch Process: Added option to undo any single change of a script (see main menu > Options > Batch)

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.8.3 (Oct 15, 2010)

  • Support for Panasonic RW2 format has been added to the picture browser together with other formats (Mamiya, Hasseblad, Epson, Apsus etc..) that were already supported but did not appear in the browser
  • Fixed a problem with the tiles filter

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.8.2 (Oct 11, 2010)

  • Some both cosmetic and functional improvements to User Interface
  • Improved Bumping Filter
  • Fixed a problem picking colors from the previews
  • Some other fixes
  • Some changes to the splash screen

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.8.1 (Oct 9, 2010)

  • Fixed Flickering problem with rulers, from previous release

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.8 (Oct 9, 2010)

  • Now Photoshop PSD files are both opened as projects containing image layers and as flattened images
  • Added support for more RAW files
  • Several Bug Fixes
  • Many Small improvements to User Interface
  • Faster Preview in Correction Dialog
  • Improved Auto-White Balance (now preserves high-lights better)
  • Improved other Algorithms for photo correction
  • New Light-Zones Curve Correction

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.7 (Oct 5, 2010)

  • This release fixes a problem with deleting image layers introduced with the previous version and a few other improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.6 (Sep 8, 2010)

  • Internal reorganization of code to allow new planned features
  • Added ability to select a range of frames when importing images from animated gif and Multi-Tiff documents. Now the import also works properly for video files.
  • Now "Preserve Aspect Ratio" is remembered for each layer
  • Improvements to Erase-Restore Layer tool
  • Some performance improvements
  • Improved interface and some menus
  • Solved a bug with groups operations not linked properly to their menu items
  • A few bug fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.5 (Aug 9, 2010)

  • Extended Batch automation, including many manual corrections. More powerful batch capabilities and interface
  • We plan to add Manual Corrections, Filters and Transformations to batch processing as well
  • More Transformations
  • More support of formats and 3rd party standards

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.4 (Jul 21, 2010)

  • Added support for more RAW Formats, including Canon 1d MK 4
  • Fixed a problem in automatic detection of skin tone, sometimes going wrong. Now the auto-Smooth Skin should work properly in every case
  • Some minor interface improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.3 (Jul 17, 2010)

  • Added two more parameters to the Auto-smooth skin correction
  • Some improvements to the quick fix algorithm

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.2 (Jun 28, 2010)

  • Fixed Issue with duplicated layers ending-up with identical names (introduced in most recent versions)
  • Dynamizer now does not leave halos
  • A few other improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2.1 (Jun 22, 2010)

  • Some fixes and improvements
  • Instant Preview implemented in the "Quick Fix Wizard" when changing sliders
  • New "Fill Alpha" command under the process menu
  • Some minor user interface reorganizing

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.2 (Jun 12, 2010)

  • New Dynamizer Correction! To apply Light by zones, using the curve tool
  • Better RGB Curves algorithm for smoother results and more control
  • Working faster with layers
  • Improvements to quick-fix and other algorithms
  • Faster Exposure-Contrast correction
  • Faster Gamma/Levels correction, also added ability to modify for each channel
  • Added warning when not saving project files
  • Many other improvements to both usability and features
  • Fixed several minor issues
  • New and bigger Splash Screen at start-up :P

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.11 (May 22, 2010)

  • Corrected problem with the "Tiles" filter
  • Improved speed of filters using gradients
  • Added ability to synchronize gradients colors and transparencies
  • Added Smooth Color in the right-click menu to smooth any color in the image
  • Improvements to quick-fix: smarter histogram stretch algorithm
  • Improvements to user interface

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.10.1 (May 13, 2010)

  • Filters values were mistakenly reset always to minimum value in previous version. This caused some filter start value to be too low (such as in the USM filter). Restored in this over-night patch.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.10 (May 12, 2010)

  • History tool now also restores a layer's alpha channel
  • Added Color masking capabilities to the filters dialog
  • Filters interface was improved
  • Some menus were slightly reorganized
  • Now when histogram is minimized the histogram is not calculated every time (performance improvement)
  • Now the actual pixels are not saved when moving a layer with the move tool (performance improvement), only the coordinates are.
  • Added Intensity slider for all colorize filters
  • Added tool buttons on the top bar for "Gamma/Levels" and for "Colorize HLS Filter"
  • Some minor issues solved with the undo

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.9.1 (May 3, 2010)

  • There was a problem loading a Focus Project containing text layers. It was solved in this patch release
  • The maximum amount of text layers is now 200 (previous limit was 30)
  • Some problems with text layers also solved

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.9 (May 3, 2010)

  • Corrected a issue about the ctrl and alt keys not doing correctly their job while selecting with polygon lasso
  • A few minor improvements to the GUI

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.8 (Apr 14, 2010)

  • Added Automatic Skin Smoothing - under Auto menu
  • Quick-Fix now better regulates the amount of contrast
  • Buttons on the Top toolbar are displaced now in a more intuitive order
  • Some Filters menus and order was changed
  • a few more improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.7 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Text rendering algorithm was improved and has now increased speed. Displaying of text layers is now faster.
  • Some improvements to both user interface and features.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.6 (Mar 29, 2010)

  • A few minor fixes
  • Small improvement to Quick-fix
  • Now Layer Alpha Channel Menu Item has submenu

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.5 (Mar 6, 2010)

  • Several fixes
  • Added ability to select borders colors in "Add Borders" Transformation
  • Solved issue with paint bucket and selections
  • Solved issue with transparence gradient in alpha channel editor

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.4 (Feb 27, 2010)

  • Some bug fixes
  • Performance Improvement
  • Added Reset buttons for gradients
  • Improved Quick-fix and Auto-dynamic Range algorithms
  • Improved Unsharp-Mask + corrected lack of contrast and strength in algorithm
  • Improvements to paint engine + fixed some issues painting on transparent layers
  • Although the program is not in beta status anymore, should you find any issue please report it using our support page here - so we can solve it in the shortest time as possible

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.3 (Feb 23, 2010)

  • A few bug fixes
  • Further Performance Improvement
  • Other minor improvements
  • Although the program is not in beta status anymore, should you find any issue please report it using our support page here - so we can solve it in the shortest time as possible

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1.2 (Feb 20, 2010)

  • A few bug fixes
  • Minor improvements
  • Now the alpha channel editor adopts the same gradient system as the rest of the program
  • Although the program is not in beta status anymore, still if you find any issue please report it using our support page

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.1 Beta (Feb 12, 2010)

  • A lot of improvements - code was heavily modified
  • New Gradients System
  • Much improved performance
  • Improved Quick Fix and several other corrections
  • New "Black - Gray - White Point" Correction
  • Many bug fixes
  • Work is still in progress - but enjoy what has been made so far! I was myself surprised about the performance improvement, when working on a 12 MP image.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.19 (Dec 23, 2009)

  • Improved performance working with selections
  • Fixed issue with the preview of the regulations and filters dialog not remembering the last preview position

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.18 (Dec 20, 2009)

  • A few Bug fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.17 (Dec 18, 2009)

  • Solved problem with flattenig layer with selections introduced with previos version
  • Solved some minor issues
  • Solved a problem with Quick Fix not adequately stretching the histogram of some pictures
  • Improved several corrections
  • Improved Interface
  • Added new alpha channel editor features

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.16 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • New Unsharp Mask filter options which allow wider control over the sharpening process
  • Unsharp Mask and Gaussian Blur now can be easily accessed from the program top toolbar
  • Solved an issue with the thumbs-browser misinterpreting thumbnails orientation in some raw files and in some jpegs
  • Solved bug with the "optimized palette" correction
  • Solved a bug while using the history tool
  • Several other issues were resolved
  • Several improvements to the User Interface
  • Added suport for newer raw formats (canon eos 7D, etc..)

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.15 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • Now Focus adopts the same convention for alpha channels as other image editors. White for full alpha value and Black for zero value.
  • Several improvements to interface

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.14 (Nov 10, 2009)

  • Solved some issues introduced with v. 6.0.13
  • Improved Speed of many operations
  • Improved layers window interface. Also now the window can be resized vertically.
  • Solved several bugs and annoying issues

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.13 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • Many improvements and bug-fixes
  • Much faster Correction and Filters dialogs
  • Now Focus Photoeditor supports Graphic Tablet and Pressure Sensitivity

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.11 (Sep 28, 2009)

  • Added Thereshold selection
  • A few improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.10 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Added RGB - Luminance Slider to RGB Curves Correction
  • Several improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.10 (Sep 21, 2009)

  • Added RGB - Luminance Slider to RGB Curves Correction
  • Several improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.9 (Sep 19, 2009)

  • Some Bug Fixes
  • Improvements to Cloning dialog.
  • Several improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.8 (Sep 15, 2009)

  • Added new Selection: Select Range
  • Improvements to quick fix.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.6 (Aug 24, 2009)

  • Added Luminance option in Curves, that allows to modify the luminance channel
  • using a special algorithm
  • Added "Only Midtones" option to Negative Overlay Decontrast
  • Improvements to quick fix.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.5 (Aug 24, 2009)

  • Added Zone Size Control in Smart Flash and other manual corrections
  • Improved gamma correction and contrast in quick-fix

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9.4 (Aug 7, 2009)

  • Improvements to Unsharp Mask and Autosharpen Filter. Now the sharpening result is stronger and cleaner. The radius value used has been made the equivalent of the ones found in most image editors. (1 radius = 1 pixel)
  • Corrected bug with blur/Emboss/etc.. Retouch tool, when editing a layer with alpha channel editing enabled
  • Cosmetic Improvements to Clone Window - also now it is possible to select any type of file to import as clone source.
  • Minor fixes / improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.9 (Jul 20, 2009)

  • Last Raw Settings can now be memorized and will not be prompted every time you import a raw file.
  • The batch scripts will now be executed in the same order they have been selected
  • Added Decontrast - Negative Overlay Manual and Automatic correction. Also added to the batch script list.
  • A few minor bug fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.8 (Jul 14, 2009)

  • Introduced manual settings to control Raw Files Decoding process
  • Now Importing Raw Files always applies in-camera White Balance by default
  • Implemented support for sony SR2 and ARW raw formats and Olympus ORW in picture browser. Also it is possible now to have previews of Sigma SD14 raw files (Still problems reading the SD14 actual raw data though - will be solved in next versions)
  • Fixed a problem with the history tool
  • A few minor bug fixes

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.7 (Jul 10, 2009)

  • Slightly improved Quick-Fix
  • Improved automatic raw conversion when importing raw files
  • Minor and esthetical interface improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.6 (May 22, 2009)

  • Added New Applying Options in Filters and Regulations
  • Added ability to set a custom color mask in the Regulation Dialog
  • Other Minor improvements

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.5 (May 15, 2009)

  • Fixed bug on start-up occurring only with Windows 98
  • In batch save, it is now possible to set the jpg quality
  • Minor improvements to interface and a few algorithms

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.4 (May 15, 2009)

  • Web Album now works correctly on Safari and other browsers.
  • Web Album builder interface was reorganized and slightly simplified.

New in Focus Photoeditor 6.0.3 (Apr 20, 2009)

  • Improved interface - The program is more intuitive to use, floating windows are now easily managed and can be closed or docked.
  • Formats: Added support for newest cameras. View updated list of supported cameras .
  • Improved speed of several editing and displaying operations
  • Added some photo corrections and improved existing ones.
  • Added "Auto Crop"
  • Paint Engine was improved, now follows the mouse movements more smoothly and precisely
  • Improved "Quick Fix" correction
  • Added Automatic and Manual "Dynamic Range" Correction
  • Corrected many bugs
  • Improved many other features.

New in Focus Photoeditor 5.2 (Jul 2, 2008)

  • Added full compatibility with Vista.
  • If you are a Windows Vista user, you can now launch the program normally (no tricks are any longer necessary).
  • Solved several bugs and problems
  • Improved interface
  • Improved Performance working with picture files
  • Improved Unsharp Mask Filter, AutoSharpen and many others.
  • Now it is possible to resize the crop area without loosing the proportions
  • Improved Group Layers Operations, solved some bugs
  • Now Raw formats work! Over 120
  • cameras supported.
  • New Remove Chroma Noise correction: removes all kind of chroma artifacts. Tested with Panasonic cameras jpegs, which have this problem when shooting in low light.
  • New Selections are now available from the main menu.

New in Focus Photoeditor 5.1 (Jul 3, 2006)

  • Added support for DNG and for other RAW formats. Automatic RAW color conversion is now performed more precisely.
  • All Smart Corrections were made about 50% faster
  • Added Zoom Tool
  • Added manual Exposure Compensation.
  • Added manual Fill Light / Back Light / Midtones Compression
  • Added manual Smart Flash / Reduce Hilights
  • Added Manual Smart Contrast
  • Added RGB Channels color correction
  • Now it's possible to create, load and save your own color palettes: some presets are also provided.
  • Now the Hue-Saturation Color Blend mode works precisely, letting you easily recolor pictures using the paint brush and all other editing tools.
  • Now you can choose preset color gradients
  • Now you can change the hue, saturation, lightness of a whole gradient.
  • Now it's possible to make a Selection by Color from right-click menu directly
  • Now you can save all objects in the repository to file and reload them.
  • Added the Task Wizard to perform special tasks
  • New Negative Variations Filter
  • Program remembers now many settings after you close it.
  • Selections: added fill holes
  • Some improvements to interface
  • Added ability to disable skinning, in case you prefer using the standard windows look and feel.
  • Faster Preview of thumbnails in browser (especially improved raw files preview)
  • Corrected many bugs

New in Focus Photoeditor 5.0.2 (Apr 23, 2006)

  • Corrected a bug that sometimes would hang the picture browser
  • Added new correction: Smart Contrast
  • Added new correction: Smart Decontrast
  • Added new correction: Smart Exposure Compensation
  • Added new correction: Compress Midtones
  • Improved Autocolors and Auto White Balance
  • Better Quality of all smart corrections
  • Faster refreshing of display when zooming picture containing layers
  • Faster Alpha channel's editor loading
  • Now it's possible to change color of the environment's background.