November 10th, 2011· Zonerama online photo sharing integrated into Zoner Photo Studio
· GPU acceleration for the most demanding operations
· Improved dual monitor support
· Improved video playback
· Editor – effects on the Editing Layer (when adding images, text, and symbols)
· Editor – selection can be filled using surroundings (e.g. for retouching out unwanted objects)
· Editor – new Free Deform tool
· Editor – Filmstrip showing the other photos in a folder
· Editor – display of focus points from Nikon cameras
· Filters – new Advanced Noise Reduction filter, improved noise reduction in the RAW module
· Filters – new Damaged Photograph filter
· Filters – new Texture filter
· Filters – Stretch Only and Shrink Only options added for the Resize window
· Filters – more power for Specific Crop: cropping by both size and ratio
· Formats – faster JPEG saving and loading
· Formats – support for reading more formats (e.g. WebP) via WIC codecs
· Formats – support for the Radiance HDR format, support for processing via HDR tone mapping
· GPS – location searches by name in Google Maps
· GPS – junk data can be auto-filtered out of tracklogs
· Information – better compatibility with applications following Metadata Working Group standards (UTF8 EXIF encoding)
· Information – more kinds of data can be added in batch; data can be added with a no-overwrite option
· Browser – new HDR method added based on Tone Mapping
· Browser – Compare Images now a tab instead of a window
· Browser – thumbnail resizing slider
· Browser – works better in LANs
· Browser – better work with keywords
· Browser – improved downloading of camera photos and videos; better auto-sorting
· Browser – Sorting of photos by all supported EXIF data; support for relative paths
· RAW – faster previewing after settings changes; better camera support
· RAW – new controls, enabling correction of barrel distortion and chromatic defect
· RAW – improved color correction function
January 26th, 2011· Browser – Extensions were doubled when overwriting a picture on Windows XP
· Browser – Browser crashed when the Viewer was opened during a slideshow (e.g. on a 2nd monitor)
· Catalog – Error during language-neutral fulltext search with accent marks
· Catalog – Error when changing language for fulltext searches
· Editor – “Default” button for the Text tool window worked incorrectly
· Editor – Snap to edges—Alt key for temporarily turning Snap to Edges on/off was not working
· Publish – Calendars – Weekly calendars were being generated improperly (32-bit version only)
· Other – Screenshots – It was not possible to capture a window with transparency.
December 9th, 2010Feel the Speed with Every Click:
· Use your computer’s whole potential—Zoner Photo Studio now includes a includes a 64-bit program version that makes even huge photographs fly by, and optimizations to get more speed out of your multi-core computer.
· Breeze through your RAW tasks—we’ve optimized the RAW module so you can work with these files faster.
Every Picture at Your Fingertips:
· New navigator interface—switch easily between the tree view, the Catalog, and your favorite folders.
· Fulltext search in the Catalog—use the new Catalog Filter toolbar to easily find cataloged pictures by their keywords, shot location, exposure info, and more.
· Easy Management for RAW/JPEG pairs—let the program move and delete JPEG/RAW pairs together, so you don’t have to.
· Viewer now supports a second monitor, multiple tabs, and toolbar customizaion and helps you quickly rate and label pictures via a new toolbar.
· Pictures can be opened from Windows into multiple tabs.
More Editing Power Than Ever:
· More advanced RAW developing—adjust vignetting, output size, and underexposure method in the RAW module. Collapse side panels for better previewing.
· Keep transparency and add your own—edit transparent pictures without damage... or use the new Eraser for transparency edits of your own.
· Two great new brushes—Healing Brush touchups “learn” from the area where you use it, making retouches easier to do and easier on the eyes. The new Selection Brush brushes a selection onto the picture.
· A more flexible Magic Wand—the new brightness and contrast selection types make it easier than ever to let the wand do the work.
· Better text tools—you can now add symbols like arrows to your pictures and freely transform text.
· Top-of-the-line printing: XPS printing is now available for 16-bit images.
The State of the Art—And Beyond:
· Multi-exposures help you do the impossible—use the new multi-exposure tools to clear away tourists from a landmark, create a noise-free picture of a dim room, prepare HDR without a tripod, and more!
· Support for 10-bit monitors—Zoner Photo Studio is the first program of its kind to support the new 10-bit display technology, distinguishing one billion colors so you can perfectly see even the finest color changes.
Photo Sharing For Today:
· Direct upload to Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa Web Albums—your pictures are just a click away from where you share.
· Postcard maker—Want to turn your pictures into a postcard? It’s now a snap with Zoner Photo Studio.
· More ways to impress in slideshows—the new slideshow transition effects will make presentations feel more like a movie than a slideshow.
· Improved envelopes—better-looking results and a new Notebook Paper envelope.
And Even More:
· Direct scanning to PDF
· Support for XMP picture information in PNG files
· Support for the new JPEG XR format
· Time-lapse screen capture
December 14th, 2009The New Interface:
· Experienced Zoner Photo Studio users will immediately notice the new color scheme: the darker colors make it easy to concentrate on photos themselves. However, 4 alternative color schemes are also available. A deeper change is the division of Zoner Photo Studio into four modules—the Manager, the Viewer, the Editor, and RAW, which can be opened as tabs within the main window. This new system helps make work with photos easier and more efficient.
The new Modules (Manager, Viewer, Editor, and RAW):
· Each one is open here as one tab in the main window.
· The new dark look... and the new option to choose from among a total of five different looks.
RAW Processing:
· For users who take pictures in RAW, high-quality RAW processing with a wide range of possible edits is the foundation for a superb final output. To serve this part of our user base, we've prepared the new RAW module, with sections for work with exposure, white balance, sharpening, the histogram curve, noise reduction, rotation, HDR, color correction, and grayscale conversion. You will also now find a reworked and optimized system for creating RAW previews, plus the new file queue—you can enter conversion settings for individual files and then run RAW conversion on the whole queue at once.
· The all-new RAW processing module, in a tab by itself.
· The RAW module’s optimized preview creation system.
· RAW conversion queue.
· RAW conversion is more customizable than ever.
Easier Work with Large Collections:
· Users with very large or unsorted photo collections will adore the new Catalog function, which "virtually" sorts photos by the year, month, and day they were taken, while still leaving the actual photo files in their original locations. It's also an easy way to browse and process photos from a time period of your choice without needing to care about where the photos reside. Work with large photo archives is also easier than ever thanks to the greater ease of quick searches, reloadable search criteria, and easy repeat searches.
· The Catalog function, for work with all the photos from a given period, no matter where they are.
· Searching in large photo archives is now quicker than ever.
· Reloadable search criteria and easy repeat searches.
· Work with Documents
· Users who frequently work with postscript documents will definitely appreciate the program's new ability to thumbnail PDF, EPS, and PS documents, with the help of the freely available program Ghostscript. There are also several more useful features in this area, including the ability to acquire pictures from PDF documents.
· Thumbnailing for PDF, EPS, and PS documents.
· The new function for acquiring pictures from PDF.
· Panoramas
· More and more users want panoramas as mementos of their holiday trips, but it's not always possible to take the ideal source pictures for a panorama. The panoramas wizard has been rebuilt from the ground up, to give better results than before no matter what you start from… but especially if you start from "difficult" photos.
· The completely reworked panoramas wizard.
Optimizations:
· Photo processing requires more processor power every year, so advanced optimization for multi-core processors is becoming more important than ever. This optimization is most evident in the latest version when you are processing RAW files.
· Advanced optimization for multi-core processors.
· Transforming Pasted Pictures
· The Paste Image tool - freely transform what you pasted.
· A shadow for a pasted object in the layer settings for the Paste Image and Paste Text tools.
· New Ways to Get Creative
· The Droste Effect—a special kind of picture that repeats inside itself.
· The Soft Contours effect.
· The Color Shifting effect.
· The new Postage Stamp and Puzzle publishing options.
· Savable presets for Editor tools.
· Improved Information panel, with more editable information than before.
· New file-selection types: landscape only and portrait only.
· A new way to acquire pictures: Acquire via JPEG Extraction.
· New Random Order playback option for slideshows.
· Selection can now be moved with arrow keys for easier fine-tuning.
· Improved path box in the Browser.
· Reworked color picker window.
July 13th, 2006· faster startup;
· optimizations for computers that offer MMX and SSE (mainly faster supersampling);
· faster loading of EXIF information and of small previews from the RAW format;
· complete reworking of the thumbnail cache (lower memory demands, you can now resize the cache without emptying it, etc.);
· network optimizations - lower bandwidth demands, faster work with networks
· lower memory demands (GDI objects);
· interruptible loading of files in the Editor and during slideshows.
· Filtering and searching by EXIF data (ISO, exposure time,
· f-stop, etc.);
· you can now sort file listings based on any EXIF attribute;
· new menu technology in the Browser and Editor - they now behave like standard Windows menus;
· new "Windows" skin that respects your current Windows color scheme, fonts, and size settings;
· content-based thumbnails in the Browser for folders;
· a new Browser menu, Information, with all the commands for managing information in one place.
· pre-loading of image thumbnails up to the end of a folder;
· you can now rename files when collisions occur during copying;
· you can now visually compare images when deciding how to solve a name collision;
· improved keywords panel - faster adding of keywords, faster searching, and a Collapse All command;
· in the status bar and previews, variable text can now be emphasized with (bold) a (italics);
· improved status bar (overall count and file size);
· improved indication of ongoing searches and easier canceling of searches;
· custom sorting expanded to also include folders.
· Editor
· you can now define your own list of ratios and fixed sizes in the crop tool;
· all tools and filters now respect the active selection;
· new zoom level option, "shorter side" (great for viewing panoramas);
· display of active focusing points for unedited photos from Canon DSLRs;
· areas can now be added to/subtracted from a selection with varying levels of blurring (previously only one blurring level per picture)
· improved display of selections in the Editor (now respects selection blurring);
· zoom can now be locked against changes to zoom level when moving among pictures.
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