BenVista PhotoZoom Pro Changelog

What's new in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 8.0

Jul 5, 2019
  • Higher quality image enlarging & downsizing through new 'Reveal Fine Details' photo enhancement technology
  • Perfect for improving the quality of your photos (also if you don't want to resize them)
  • Optimized presets for different types of photos and graphics
  • New, powerful batch processing options
  • Faster image previewing
  • Improved Raw image support
  • Stand-alone application now also opens EXR images (plug-in already supported EXR)
  • Mac: Dark Mode support (requires macOS Mojave (10.14) or higher)
  • Supports the latest versions of Windows, macOS, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Corel PaintShop Pro

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 7.0.2 (Jan 5, 2017)

  • Here is a quick overview of the most important additions:
  • Enhanced S-Spline Max resize method with new Brighten Shadows and Fix Overexposure filters
  • Prints images directly from PhotoZoom
  • Now integrates with Adobe Lightroom
  • Optimized presets for different types of photos and graphics
  • Enhanced speed: even faster image processing
  • Stand-alone application now also opens PSD images (plug-in already supported PSD)
  • High-DPI interface support (compatible with 4K screens)
  • Official support for Windows 10, macOS 10.12 (Sierra), Adobe Photoshop CC 2017, Adobe Photoshop Elements 15, Adobe Lightroom 6.4, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X8, and Corel PaintShop Pro X9

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 6.1.0 (Jul 1, 2016)

  • Improved S-Spline Max resize method with new Crispness and Vividness settings
  • Optimized presets for different types of photos and graphics
  • Split screen previewing: compare different resize methods at a glance
  • Raw images are now also supported by the stand-alone application (plug-in already supported Raw)
  • Improved GPU acceleration for even faster image processing
  • Official support for Windows 10, OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Adobe Photoshop CC 2015, Adobe Photoshop Elements 14, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X7, and Corel PaintShop Pro X8

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 6.0.8 (Dec 1, 2015)

  • Fixed: Unable to save PNG images with an sRGB profile

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 6.0.6 (Sep 15, 2015)

  • New: Official support for Windows 10
  • Fixed: Opening BMP images with fully transparent alpha bein
  • Fixed: PNG files with error in ICC profile aren't saved

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 6.0 (Sep 10, 2014)

  • Enlarges and downsizes images at the highest possible quality, through BenVista's latest S-Spline interpolation technology. Also excels at reducing (JPEG) compression artifacts and noise from low quality originals.
  • New Crispness and Vividness settings for brilliant, lively photo enlargements
  • New, optimized presets for different types of images
  • Split screen previewing: compare different resize methods at a glance
  • Raw images are now also supported by the stand-alone application (plug-in already supported Raw)
  • Improved GPU acceleration for even faster image processing
  • Official support for Windows 8, and Photoshop CC

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.1.0 (Jul 12, 2013)

  • New: Official Adobe Photoshop CC support
  • New: Official OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) Developer Previews support
  • New: Official Windows 8.1 Preview support

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.0.8 (Mar 9, 2013)

  • Improved: Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translations
  • Fixed: Properly handle mismatched color profiles

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.0.6 (Feb 5, 2013)

  • New: Added Chinese (Simplified and traditional) and Russian manuals
  • Improved: Updated Polish translations
  • Improved: Prefer using dedicated graphic cards to integrated ones for acceleration
  • Fixed: Work around faulty graphic cards drivers causing abnormal program exits

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.0.4 (Dec 3, 2012)

  • New: Plug-ins support for adjustment layers
  • Fixed: Wrong resize results when using GPU acceleration with some graphics cards
  • Improved: Updated Japanese translations and manual
  • New: The software is now digitally signed

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.0.2 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • Improved: Crop window functionality
  • Improved: Updated Dutch and Italian translations and manual
  • Fixed: OpenCL (GPU acceleration) compatibility issue

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 5.0.0 (Oct 17, 2012)

  • New: GPU acceleration
  • New: Resize profiles
  • Improved: New interface layout
  • Improved: Additional crop options
  • Improved: Color correct previewing (with color profiles)
  • New: Official OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) support
  • New: Official Windows 8 support

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.1.4 (May 12, 2012)

  • New: Official Adobe Photoshop CS6 support
  • New: Official Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 support
  • New: Added more preview zooming levels
  • New: Added support for opening transparent GIF images
  • New: Added support for opening transparent PNG images containing a palette
  • Fixed: Saving of TIFF images with JPEG compression
  • Fixed: Thumbnails of saved images aren't updated
  • Fixed: Maintain image's orientation setting in saved TIFF images
  • Fixed: Precision of crop arguments in batch files
  • Fixed: Decoding certain BMP files while running under 64-bit

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.1.2 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • New: Added ability to drag and drop multiple files and folders to a batch
  • New: Made adding of a large number of files to a batch cancelable
  • New: Added support for opening tiled TIFF images
  • Fixed: Changing DPI in automation plug-in is now applied in Photoshop too
  • Fixed: Opening of TIFF grayscale images that are reversed
  • Improved: Updated French translations and manual

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.1.0 (Jun 6, 2011)

  • New: Large image support for Automation and Export plug-in
  • New: Official Adobe Photoshop Elements support
  • New: Added Japanese manual
  • Fixed: Reading ARGB Targa images with invalid alpha information
  • Fixed: Maintaining XMP metadata in Export plug-in
  • Improved: Updated Japanese translations
  • Fixed: Unable to change language with Windows Vista or Windows 7 since previous version (4.0.8)

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.0.8 (May 7, 2011)

  • Fixed: Wrong rightmost alpha pixels on smaller images
  • Fixed: Unexpected quitting of Automation plug-in when using it in a Photoshop action
  • Fixed: Collision of Automation plug-in when installed alongside PhotoZoom Pro 3 plug-in
  • Fixed: Out of memory messages when reading TIFF images with huge layers
  • Improved: Support international and very long layer names in Automation plug-in
  • Improved: Speed of adding a lot of images to a batch

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.0.6 (Jan 14, 2011)

  • Improved: Remember the window location separately for plug-ins and stand-alone application
  • Improved: Updated Swedish translations
  • Fixed: Empty program folder in start menu with some languages after installation
  • Fixed: Unexpected quitting of Photoshop after doing a check for update from a plug-in

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.0.4 (Dec 30, 2010)

  • Fixed: Automation plug-in being unresponsive when resizing certain sized layers
  • Improved: Support for different decimal separators in several languages
  • Improved: Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translations

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.0.2 (Dec 30, 2010)

  • New: Added Italian manual
  • Improved: Updated Italian translations

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 4.0.0 (Dec 30, 2010)

  • Introduced new technology for reducing JPEG compression artifacts and noise (comes with S-Spline Max)
  • New: Sharpness slider (for S-Spline Max)
  • Improved: Additional resize method presets for different types of images
  • New: Plug-ins now support 64-bit versions of Photoshop (Windows/Mac)
  • New: Stand-alone application now supports 64-bit operating systems (Windows/Mac)
  • Improved: Additional common size presets
  • New: Sub-menu structure for common size presets

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.10 (May 18, 2010)

  • New: Official Photoshop CS5 (32-bit) support
  • New: Romanian language support
  • Fixed: Alpha channel in a saved TIFF image now appears as transparent in Photoshop

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.10 (Mar 10, 2010)

  • Fixed: Some valid unlock codes were erratically refused

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.8 (Mar 6, 2010)

  • Improved: Increased precision when processing 16 or 32 bits/channel images with S-Spline Max and XL
  • New: Added Japanese and Portuguese (Brazilian) translations and user guide
  • Fixed: Extreme under-/overexposure pixel values in HDR images are now properly preserverd
  • Fixed: Some valid unlock codes were erratically refused

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.6 (Oct 16, 2009)

  • New: Support for maintaining XMP metadata (in addition to Exif and IPTC) in plug-ins
  • New: Added French user guide
  • Fixed: Erratic behaviour using the Automation plug-in in some versions of Photoshop

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.4 (Sep 25, 2009)

  • New: Added Dutch, German, and Spanish user guides
  • New: Updated Farsi, German, Polish, and Spanish translations
  • Improved: Reversed resize method options: S-Spline Max now can be found at the top of the list, and Nearest Neighbour at the bottom
  • New: Official Windows 7 and Windows 2008 support
  • Fixed: Popup slider always appeared on main monitor only with multiple displays

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0.2 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • Fixed: Window layout with some longer translations

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 3.0 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • New & improved S-Spline interpolation technique: S-Spline Max
  • Higher quality image enlargements & higher quality downsizing
  • Makes short work of interpolation artifacts, such as halos
  • Film Grain functionality for an increased natural look
  • Multi-processor support: huge speed increase!
  • Now works as a stand-alone application and as an Automation plug-in and Export plug-in for Photoshop
  • Increased image support (metadata, ICC profiles, color spaces, layers, 16 bits/channel (including Raw) and 32 bits/channel (HDR) images, etc)
  • Can also be applied as a Photoshop Action
  • Compatible with the latest versions of Microsoft Windows

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 2.3.4 (Jun 17, 2008)

  • New: Added French and Japanese manuals
  • New: Updated French and Japanese translations
  • Fixed: No Exif is stored in JPEG at all when Exif information is larger than 64 KB (the maximum size for Exif in JPEG)

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 2.3.0 (Nov 3, 2007)

  • New: Exporter plugin now maintains metadata
  • New: Remember position and size of application window
  • Improved: Faster image opening when using the Exporter plugin
  • Fixed: Unable to save images containing invalid metadata

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 1.2.8 (Mar 16, 2007)

  • Official Windows Vista and Adobe Photoshop CS3 support / Added preset and image formats preferences / Added new manual / Speeded up working with large source images

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 2 2.1.4 (Sep 12, 2006)

  • Added new resize method S-Spline XL / Added EXIF and IPTC maintenance support

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 2 2.1.0 (Aug 24, 2006)

  • Added new resize method S-Spline XL / Added EXIF and IPTC maintenance support

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 2.1.0 (Aug 24, 2006)

  • The most important new feature of PhotoZoom Pro 2 is our new revolutionary enlargement technology S-Spline XL.This is a major improvement on our patented and many times awarded S-Spline interpolation method. Compared to the original S-Spline, the new S-Spline XL method allows you to create even better enlargements in terms of sharpness, natural look and feel, photorealism, and lack of artifacts, blurring or jagged edges.
  • Support for IPTC, EXIF and ICC profiles, making sure your photo's metadata is properly maintained.
  • The processing speed of the enlargement algorithms has been improved: enlargements are now created up to 40% faster.
  • Improved selection / cropping functionality, as well as miscellaneous other interface improvements.
  • PhotoZoom Pro 2 comes as a Universal Application on Mac OS X, allowing it to run natively on both Power PC as well as Intel based systems.
  • Besides running as a stand-alone application and plugin for Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoZoom Pro 2 also works in Adobe PhotoShop Elements, Corel Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photo-PAINT.

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 1.2.8 (Aug 3, 2006)

  • Added Paint Shop Pro X exporter plugin support
  • Added Turkish language
  • Several minor fixes

New in BenVista PhotoZoom Pro 1.2.6 (Jun 15, 2006)

  • Cropping crash