What is Helicon Filter?
Helicon Filter is a set of unique and easy-to-use tools for enhancing images from digital cameras.
Helicon Filter is designed for amateurs and advanced photographers who want to obtain high quality images
without spending too much time.
Helicon Filter includes the most popular operations from professional
workflow:
- noise
reduction
- red eye suppression
- chromatic aberration suppression
- geometric distortion and vignetting correction
- sharpening
- brightness management and levels
- color
adjustment and advanced black and white conversion
- crop with rotation and resize
- text and frames
- full set of retouching brushes |
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Versions
Helicon Filter is released in two versions: Home and Pro. After thirty (30)
days of evaluation period both editions switch to Free mode.
Please see the comparison table below:
| Feature/Version |
Helicon
Filter Free |
Helicon Filter
Home |
Helicon Filter
Pro |
RAW, TIFF, JPEG2000 support
Support for external
PS-plug-ins
|
yes |
yes |
yes |
Noise reduction filter
Red eye filter
Sharpening filter
Color adjustment filter
Text inscriptions and Frames
filter
Crop & Resize filter
Distortions filter
'Clone' brush
'Change brightness' brush
'Change color' brush
'Change saturation' brush
'Blur/sharpen' brush
'Fix red eye' brush
'Erase changes' brush |
simple mode |
expert mode |
expert mode |
Chromatic aberration filter
Distortions/Vignetting filter
16-bit support Batch processing
Export to TIFF (8 and 16 bit)
Copy and Paste to Clipboard
Increase dynamic range function
'Delete scratches' brush
'Distort' brush |
no |
expert mode |
expert mode |
| PhotoShop plug-in |
no |
no |
yes |
Licensing
Helicon Filter in Free mode can be used without
limitation.
Helicon Filter Home and Pro are shareware
programs. After thirty (30) days of evaluation period both versions switch
to Free mode. More details at home page (http://www.heliconfilter.com/).
The updates for registered users are free.
You can buy a license online by following the instructions on the product home page.
Please see the detailed instructions here: http://www.heliconsoft.com/filter_help.html