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Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop Changelog

What's new in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 9.1.5

Jul 17, 2023
  • Added support for a new version of a host applications: Affinity Photo 2.0+
  • Added support for new GPUs:
  • AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT / 7900 XTX
  • Added support for some AMD APUs based on gfx90c chips including AMD Ryzen 5 5600G / 5700G
  • Several optimizations in the GUI
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 9.0 (Dec 10, 2021)

  • Increased processing speed and improved hardware support:
  • Optimized CPU- an GPU-based processing
  • As compared with the previous major version 8, Neat Image 9 shows the following speed increase:
  • CPU-based processing:
  • Up to 50% faster
  • GPU-based processing:
  • Up to 10% faster
  • Added support for several new AMD GPUs:
  • Radeon RX 6600 / 6600 XT
  • Radeon RX 6700 XT / 6800 / 6800 XT / 6900 XT
  • Other GPUs based on the gfx1030 / gfx1031 / gfx1032 chips
  • Improved compatibility with the new GPU drivers from AMD
  • Added support for the new version of Windows:
  • Windows 11
  • Higher accuracy and tuning precision
  • New tools to check accuracy and tune noise profiles
  • Improved Sharpening with more precise control
  • Easier than ever before:
  • Flexible Generic Profiles (fully adjustable, with visual assistance)
  • Visually assisted tuning for profiles and filters
  • Illustrated help dialogs for many filter settings and tuning modes
  • Variants now can be used to test different noise profiles too
  • Improved user interface:
  • Improved support for color themes (Preferences > General):
  • Added new "Auto-detect brightness" theme
  • The "Normal brightness" theme has been re-designed
  • Main tabs are now called "Prepare Noise Profile" and "Adjust and Preview"
  • The "Auto Profile" button changes to "Build Profile" when you select an area manually
  • The selection color in Prepare Noise Profile tab has slightly changed:
  • the blue color of the selection box now means 'profile was built using this area', not 'area was chosen automatically' as before
  • Undo/Redo operations and history of changes for noise profiles
  • Select/drag modes in viewer (useful for computers with touchpads)
  • Alt+Mouse wheel in viewer zooms to point even when selection is present
  • Improved support for high DPI displays as well as systems with monitors that have different pixel density
  • Ability to toggle alpha channel in viewer (when present)
  • Preview performance has been optimized
  • Preview cache size adjustment to optimize for different image sizes (Preferences > Preview)
  • Additional visual guidance to adjust the GPU memory allowed to Neat Image (Preferences > Performance)
  • Numerous minor GUI improvements:
  • Improved detection of running applications that may interfere with installation
  • Improved uninstaller with an option to erase settings and license
  • Improved diagnostic data and error reporting
  • Other changes:
  • End-User License Agreement has been updated
  • The 32-bit version is not produced anymore

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.6.2 (Nov 1, 2021)

  • Added support for new versions of host applications
  • Adobe Photoshop 2022
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.6.0 (Nov 12, 2020)

  • Added support for new versions of host applications:
  • Adobe Photoshop 2020 (version 22.0)
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2020
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2021
  • Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
  • GeForce RTX 3070 / 3080 / 3090
  • Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 3.0 are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.5 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.6.
  • Added support for new AMD GPUs:
  • Radeon RX 5300M / 5500M
  • Radeon RX 5500 / 5500 XT
  • Radeon RX 5600 / 5600 XT
  • Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older Graphics Core Next 1 GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image 8.6 no longer supports most Radeon HD 7xxx / 8xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti
  • The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.6 on Windows is: Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901, gfx906, gfx907, gfx1010, gfx1012
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.5.0 (Dec 3, 2019)

  • Added support for new version of Adobe Photoshop:
  • Adobe Photoshop 2020
  • Added support for Graphic Converter 11 (MacOS)
  • Added support for new AMD GPUs (Windows, Linux):
  • AMD Radeon RX 5700
  • AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT
  • Added support for new AMD GPUs (MacOS):
  • AMD Radeon Pro 5300M
  • AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.4.5 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Added support for AMD Radeon VII
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed
  • Added support for new versions of host applications:
  • Adobe Photoshop 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2020
  • Corel Photopaint 2019

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.4.1 (Sep 23, 2019)

  • Added support for new versions of host applications:
  • Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements 2019 / 2018
  • Corel PaintShop Pro 2019
  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT 2018
  • Added support for new NVIDIA GPUs:
  • GeForce RTX 2070 / 2080 / 2080 Ti
  • Titan V
  • Titan RTX
  • Note: due to changes in NVIDIA drivers and CUDA Toolkit, GPUs with Compute Capabilities 2.x and below are no longer supported. Only GPUs with Compute Capability 3.0 and higher can be utilized by Neat Image 8.4.
  • Added support for several AMD GPUs:
  • Radeon RX 540 / 540X / 550 / 550X
  • Radeon Pro WX 2100 / 3100
  • Note: Due to changes in AMD drivers, some older non-GCN GPUs are no longer supported. In particular, Neat Image no longer supports Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx cards and other devices based on the following chip series: Juniper, Cypress, Barts, Cayman.
  • The full list of GPU series supported by Neat Image 8.4 on Windows is:
  • Cape Verde, Pitcairn, Tahiti, Bonaire, Hawaii, Tonga, Fiji, Ellesmere, Baffin, gfx804, gfx900, gfx901
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed

New in Neat Image plug-in for Photoshop 8.3.5 (Aug 1, 2018)

  • Added a set of generic noise profiles to help preparing a noise profile in a situation when a photo contains no areas suitable for analysis by Auto Profile and no pre-buit profiles are available
  • Added support for Corel PaintShop Pro 2018
  • Improved hardware compatibility with AMD GPUs
  • Added support for AMD Radeon RX Vega 56, RX Vega 64, Vega Frontier Edition
  • Ensured compatibility with AMD Radeon RX 560/570/580
  • Improved metadata (EXIF) compatibility with the latest Nikon cameras
  • Several minor bugs have been fixed