Helicon Filter was designed for digital camera enthusiasts who are looking for a powerful, high quality and easy digital processing program. The Helicon Filter covers 99% of the photo enthusiast's digital images processing needs. The usual workflow includes the following steps:
- Noise reduction (otherwise noise will be amplified by sharpening and brightness changes)
- Exposure correction (brightness, contrast, shadows, etc.)
- Red eye correction
- White balance and saturation adjustment
- Cropping, rotating and resizing
- Sharpening
- Frames and text (adding picture frames, text, shadow, 3D, fade out and other special effects)
Advanced users will appreciate the following features:
- Chromatic aberration (correction of blue or purple fringing near overexposed areas)
- Distortion and vignetting correction
- High dynamic range images (merged underexposed and overexposed images)
- Batch processing