| 8 September 2008: |
Version 3.2 of Enblend and Enfuse are now available.
- This is the first official release of Enfuse: a tool for automatic exposure blending and focus stack creation.
- Added support for reading JPEG, PNG and
OpenEXR files.
- Added support for writing JPEG output files (8 bit only).
- Bugfix to correctly interpret the alpha channel of float (HDR)
images.
- New --compression option for selecting the compression type of the output image.
- This release includes a Windows binary that does not require a SSE2-capable
processor.
- There will not be a 3.1 release. This is to
avoid confusion with the numerous CVS snapshot releases that
self-identify as version 3.1.
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| 27 January 2007: |
Version 3.0 of Enblend is now available.
- New, faster image processing algorithms for computing
Gaussian and Laplacian pyramids.
- Optional optimization of seam line placement to try
to avoid mismatches and parallax errors in the image overlap region.
- Masks can now be saved and loaded from files. This
makes it possible to manually edit the location of the seam before
multiresolution spline blending is applied.
- Checkpointing of partial results is now optional.
This improves speed.
- Optional blending using the CIECAM02 color appearance
model. Your TIFF files should have embedded ICC profiles in order to
use this option. This replaces the CIE L*a*b* color blending in Enblend
2.X that never worked properly.
- Optional use of the graphics processor to speed up
certain
computations. This feature is experimental and may not work on all
systems.
- Like other X.0 releases, please consider this a beta.
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| 11 December 2005: |
Version 2.5 of
Enblend is now available. This release fixes bugs in version 2.4.
- Fixed a bug where Enblend would crash when the -w
parameter was used.
- Fixed a bug where Enblend would sometimes say "mask
transition line bounding box undefined."
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| 3 December 2005: |
Version 2.4 of Enblend is now available.
- Added support for cropped and shifted TIFF files,
such as those produced by Nona.
- Enblend will now create output files with embedded
ICC profiles, if a profile is found in one of the input images.
- Improved the speed of the mask generation algorithm.
- See the complete
release notes at Sourceforge.
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| 17
April 2005: |
Version 2.3 of
Enblend is now available. This release fixes bugs in version 2.2.
- The maximum number of levels you can specify with the
-l parameter has been reduced from 30 to 29. While both of these are
impractically large, at least 29 does not lead to arithmetic overflow
and a subsequent crash.
- Fixed a bug in temporary file handling in the Windows
version of Enblend. This should solve the "unable to open temporary
file" error.
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| 5
February 2005: |
Version 2.2 of
Enblend is now available. This release fixes some issues with the
Windows binary. If you are using Enblend on UNIX, you do not need to
upgrade.
- The Windows version should now run on pre-Win2K
systems.
- Support for additional TIFF compression methods such
as Deflate and Packbits is compiled into the Windows binary.
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| 15
November 2004: |
Version 2.1 of
Enblend is now available. This release fixes bugs in version 2.0.
- Compression is no longer the default option in
Windows.
- TIFF library warning messages have been turned off.
- Fixed a bug that caused primary-color spots to appear
in overexposed areas of 16-bpp images.
- Fixed a problem with Enblend crashing on large
panoramas.
- Ported source to compile natively on Win32 using MSVC.
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| 8
November 2004: |
Enblend is now
hosted on Sourceforge. The new project
page features forums,
trackers,
CVS
and more. |
| 17
October 2004: |
Version 2.0 of
Enblend is now available. New features include:
- Support for signed and unsigned 16-bit, 32-bit,
single- and double-precision floating point pixel types.
- No more banding artifacts in the sky, even with 8-bit
images.
- Sophisticated memory/disk balancing. You can tell
Enblend how much memory it is allowed to use, and it will swap to disk
after that.
- Support for large
panoramas. I have tested that Enblend can blend a 1.2
gigapixel, 16-bit per channel color image. You should be able to go
right up to 4 gigabyte limit of the TIFF format.
- Optional blending in CIE L*a*b* color space.
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| 23
May 2004: |
Version 1.3 of
Enblend is now available. This update fixes issues on big-endian
architectures. If you are using a little-endian machine you do not need
to update. |
