Helicon Filter

Helicon Filter is a very powerful and easy to use photo editing program. With it, you can perform a few basic operations: crop, resize, adjust brightness and contrast, adjust balance, etc. with just a few clicks. Besides, it also integrates many advanced features.

Helicon Filter provides many tools to meet all your needs. You will easily create memorable photos by adding interesting effects, frames and text.

Some notable features:

Straighten, crop and resize photos

Automatic straightening, cutting and resizing

You can draw a line along the area that needs to be straightened, such as: horizon and image will be rotated.

Provides a list of predefined ratios for images

When you want to change the aspect ratio of an image, just choose from a list of preset ratios or create your own aspect ratio for your photo.

Choose the exact position to cut

You can set the coordinates of the part you want to cut, measured in pixels from the top left corner.

Offers many flexible resizing options

Users are allowed to set the number of pixels (mm, cm or inch) on either side of the image or change the size as a percentage.

Adjust the brightness

Automatically adjust the brightness

The program will analyze your image and change its brightness. Simple, just select the appropriate level of adjustment.

Customize the brightness manually

For advanced adjustments, you can control many aspects of brightness. For example, increase or decrease the contrast, brightness or lighten or darken highlights and shadows.

Provide warning

When you adjust the brightness, you can see which areas are too bright (shown in red) and lack of light (blue).

Adjust the contrast manually

You can set the 'black points' and 'white points' to customize the contrast of the photos.

Customize the colors

Automatically adjust the color balance

Selecting white or gray points on an image and all colors are automatically adjusted.

Full control over color balance

You can drag the RGB slider or select the desired color on the color map.

Convert images to monochrome

Now, users are allowed to convert their photos to sepia or gray. In addition, they can also choose any color they want.

Adjust the saturation

You can increase or decrease the saturation of all colors, or select one or more saturated colors, etc.

Adjust brightness for the selected colors

You are allowed to increase or decrease the brightness for the selected colors.

Noise reduction

Automatic noise reduction

The program will automatically detect the noise level and remove it.

Noise reduction for selected colors

You can choose the color you want to reduce the noise. In addition, it is allowed to control some parameters of the noise reduction algorithm if desired.

Insert text into photos

Supports many text input effects

You can choose from embossed paper effects, blurred text, highlighted text, added transparency and rotated text.

Add lots of image metadata and special characters

You can easily insert special symbols such as: '©' and image metadata such as: date and time taken, aperture and camera model.

Arrange photos

See EXIF ​​information

For example, you can track the time and date the picture was taken, the resolution, etc.

Geotag

You can save EXIF ​​GPS information by pointing to the location on the Panoramio map where the image was taken. If the camera automatically stores GPS data, you can browse the photos on the map.

Upload photos to Picasa, Facebook and Flickr

This software allows users to upload photos to popular libraries on the Internet so they can save their pictures.

Publish images to the web with fast speed

Automatically convert, resize web and upload photos to Heliconsoft secure servers with just one click. You will receive a unique URL that can instantly be sent to anyone to show you images.

Supports many image formats

Common format

• Bitmaps (* .bmp)
• JPEG (* .jpg, * .jpeg)
• JPEG 2000 (* .jp2)
• TIFF (* .tif, * .tiff)
• Portable Network Graphics (* .png)
• Graphics Interchange Format (* .gif)
• Adobe Photoshop (* .psd)
• Digital NeGative (* .dng)

RAW image format

• Minolta Raw (* .mrw)
• Olympus Raw (* .orf)
• Nikon NEF (* .nef)
• Canon Raw (* .crw, * .cr2)
• Sony Raw (.srf, * .sr2, * .arw)
• Sony PMP (* .pmp)
• Epson Raw (* .erf)
• Panasonic RW2 (* .rw2)
• Samsung Raw (* .srw)
• FujiFilm RAF (* .raf)
• Pentax * ist D PEF (* .pef)
• Kodak PDC format (* .dcr)
• Kodak KDC format (* .kdc)
• Foveon X3F (* .x3f)
• Leaf Valeo MOS (* .mos)

Stereo format

• Multi Picture Object (* .mpo)
• JPEG Stereo (* .jps)
• Stereo PNG (* .pns)

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