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FDRTools Basic Changelog

What's new in FDRTools Basic 2.6.1

Nov 9, 2012
  • Windows: GUI: "Missing Paths Recovery" functionality crashed the program, caused by Unicode paths related changes.
  • Tonemapping: postprocessing axis scaling setting was not saved as part of module state, see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fdrtools/message/95
  • GUI: partly missing label text, see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fdrtools/message/95

New in FDRTools Basic 2.5.2 (Jan 31, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • HDR Creation: Creative: when dragging one of the global weighting curves the resulting HDR image could become (and stay) black.
  • HDR Creation: Creative: when deselecting all layers the resulting HDR image is (and stays) black.
  • HDR Creation: switch off exposure value adjustment via dragging the mouse.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.5.1 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Tone Mapping: quick adjustments to tone mapping sliders resulted in false parameter values.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.5.0 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Make the source images directory the default for the output file chooser.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: redesign of "History" functionality. Using "Tabs" for branches it is now easier (and faster) to switch among branches.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: "History" resp. "Undo/Redo" functionality added.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: "Save/Load module state" feature added, also known as "Save/Load settings".
  • GUI: improve responsiveness of scrolling in Preview mode.
  • GUI: the Preview can now be zoomed via the mousewheel.
  • GUI: make selection in the "small" Navigator within Preview moveable by dragging via left mouse button.
  • GUI: hide (evtl. visible) Preview when closing a project.
  • Projects: derive project name and output file name from input images.
  • Preferences: option to configure the program language added.
  • Preferences: add "output color space" parameter to "Raw Conversion" tab.
  • System: add entry to the Windows registry so that FDRTools executable can be found from other applications.
  • External software: "dcraw" updated to v9.10 and "ExifTool" updated to v8.65.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Calling FDRTools with images as arguments resulted in a small black stripe at the bottom of the Navigator.
  • HDR Creation: Creative: ease a memory allocation peak possibly slowing down machines with little RAM.
  • GUI: several redrawing issues with Progress indicator and Navigator/Preview window.
  • HDR Creation: Creative: produced visible tiles in the saved image.
  • GUI: Navigator: pressing the Panorama buttons repeatedly could crash the application.
  • While loading images more memory than necessary was allocated.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: Contrast: Luminance failed to work for certain image types.
  • GUI: application may crash while resizing/scrolling the image preview.
  • Windows: program could not be started after installation.
  • Preferences were not saved when quitting the program.
  • HDR Creation: Separation: strange colors may occur in regions with moving objects (multithreading related).
  • HDR Creation: Separation: color shifts can occur when switching from Exif to Auto and back to Exif.
  • HDR Creation: Separation: choosing all color channels as separators causes grain in regions with strong colors.
  • HDR Creation: Separation: pressing the 'Defaults' button does not switch off separation mask and does not deselect layers.
  • HDR Creation: Separation: with active Separation module the program could crash during image saving.
  • HDR Creation: Separation: active separation mask caused crash when switching between tonemapping modules.
  • Projects: thumbnails from .dng's were not recognized.
  • Projects: project settings are lost if the "Save" dialog is active while the project settings are being saved.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: Postprocessing curve: changing dynamic range and collapsing the curve caused problems.
  • Tone Mapping: Compressor: the label text of slider "Smoothing" is not always redrawn if the tooltip of the "Compressor" slider is being displayed.
  • GUI: improve behaviour of the main window Close button.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Tone Mapping: added slider "Color Contrast" to the Compressor module. Color Contrast allows to adapt the contrast of colored regions.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Navigator/Preview: dragging the image in Preview mode is sluggish.
  • Navigator/Preview: correct Preview scale slider range so that zoom value increases from left to right.
  • Projects: exiting FDRTools after modifying the project name without leaving the name text field looses the modifications.
  • Tone Mapping: curve control has a problem drawing first and last knot under certain conditions.
  • Tone Mapping: correct Receptor Compression range.
  • Gui: opening the Save Image dialog via the "Images->Save as..." menu entry crashes the program.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 6 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Make "Simplex" the default tonemapper (because of computational requirements of "Compressor").
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Save file dialog: delete file name when closing the project.
  • Tone Mapping: modified the value range of Black and White Point sliders in order to avoid possible display problems.
  • Application could crash when pressing the main window "Close" button while processing is going on.
  • Disable curve control function to change axis ranges via first/last curve point. While this functionality is handy it puts restrictions to the first/last curve points.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 5 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Integrate HDR and LDR save dialogs.
  • Create replacement for former HDR Inspector view. Consider HDR as a special case of tone mapping, i.e. identity mapping.
  • Augment curve control capabilities by allowing to change y-axis range interactively.
  • Add new controls to tone mapping dialogs (Exposure, Dynamic Range, Black Point, White Point).
  • Add possibility to modify "image resolution" metadata fields prior to saving the resulting image.
  • Color space of HDR image is now configurable.
  • Preview zoom range extended to 400%.
  • Module xDOF temporarily removed. xDOF makes real sense only with comprehensive image alignment which is not there yet. I'm sorry.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Zoomed view could crash when dragging the scrollbars (related to multi threading changes).
  • Make controls in alignment and HDR creation modules responsive.
  • Remove blockade between push and drag events in curve widgets.
  • Pink highlight problem of some Canon 50D cameras fixed.
  • Problem reading project files of future FDRTools versions fixed.
  • Program crashed when pressing the Close button of the main window during a computation.
  • Various issues of the White Balance tool solved. The issues are mostly related to multithreading support introduced with v2.4.0.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 4 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Integration of former 'Navigator' and 'Preview' windows.
  • Integration of former 'Progress' window with the Main window.
  • Make controls "responsive". E.g. when dragging a slider the screen is updated without the need to release the slider.
  • Performance: reduced memory usage, especially when working with many source images.
  • Performance: optimisations in tone mapping modules.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Reading 16 bit TIFF images could crash the program.
  • Memory leaks fixed.
  • Fixed potential crash situations caused by introducing multithreading.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 3 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Performance: several optimizations in order to speed up algorithmic calculations and image loading.
  • Preferences: added feature to detect system display profile. If enabled the detected profile is used instead of the manually configured profile.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • "Out of memory" message close button showed no reaction hence application couldn't terminate.
  • Quick repeated use of the white balance tool pipette freezes the program.
  • Receptor tone mapper had a bug introduced in the course of the modifications for v2.4.0.
  • Projects: added missing parameters and repaired unsaved check.
  • Switching among HDR generators could cause a crash in certain situations.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 2 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Program crashed when trying to read project files from versions earlier than 2.3
  • Once in a while crash on cancelling project changes.
  • Coordinates and RGB value within Preview were not displayed correctly.
  • Resulting images of integer formats were always scaled to the maximum integer value thereby foiling deliberate downscaling by the user.
  • Images were not correctly "prepared". When reading prepared images histograms were missing alongside other side effects.
  • Histograms were not always drawn correctly - missing histograms or flickering.
  • Redraw behaviour of Preview had a few shortcomings.
  • Drawing of tabs has been slightly modified.
  • "Color Plus" button was activated when pressing "Defaults" with only one image loaded.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.4.0 Beta 1 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • New or changed functionality:
  • Ability to process large images.
  • Support for multicore processors / multiprocessor systems.
  • New controls broaden the tone mapping options and allow for more precise adjustments.

New in FDRTools Basic 2.3.3 (Jan 24, 2012)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Reading project files of future FDRTools versions (e.g. the 2.4.0 Beta versions) crashes the program.