FocalBlade 2.11b

FocalBlade is a professional photo editor designed to sharpen images, reduce noise and produce great looking blur, soft focus and special effects. FocalBlade is ideal for sharpening and enhancing all kinds of photo, e.g. snapshots, landscapes photos, portraits as well as high-ISO shots, because it effectively sharpens and reduces noise at the same time.

FocalBlade transforms the most lifeless image into something unbelievably sharp and artifact-free so quickly and with so little effort, that the whole process can seem like magic. In fact the secret lies in its sophisticated and painstakingly fine-tuned algorithms. These enhance and uncover the smallest details with radius values smaller than 0.1 pixel and sharpening up to 2000% without damaging the image.

Edges and surfaces are sharpened independently, which means a photo can be sharpened overall without destroying the softness of areas such as sky, walls, skin and other even surfaces. The Adaptive Radius method even sharpens each image pixel with a different radius depending on its details level. FocalBlade avoids halos at high radius settings and even provides sliders for suppressing white and black halos independently. Furthermore, it allows the user to protect shadows, highlights and certain colors.

FocalBlade produces unmatched sharpening results and offers a tremendous amount of control of the sharpening process. Unlike other tools it features automatic sharpening, does not add visible halos, does not increase noise, retains a photographic look, respects edges, allows precise adjustments and instantly achieves a great result. FocalBlade is flexible as well as very easy to use.

FEATURES:

· Effectively sharpen your images for display and print without unwanted side-effects
· Reduce noise and produce great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects
· Several modes for novices as well advanced users
· Wide range of automatic and manual tools including a split view feature
· Ultra fast rendering with hyperthreading, multiple processors and cores
· Allows batch processing of image files
· Can be applied to images with 8bit and 16bit per channel
· More than 80 presets included

Release notes:

New Release
Affinity Photo:
Fixed control repositioning in Affinity Photo 1.6.4 when maximizing the window
Color dialogs are now displayed in Affinity Photo.
Standalone:
Support for the raw files of 35 new cameras based on MetaRaw 3.03.
Support for saving grayscale 8-bit images as PSD files
No more crash when reading the EXIF data from DNG files taken by the Huawei P20 (Pro).
Plugin Installer:
Works again under Windows XP
Support for the Microsoft Store version of Photoshop Elements 15
[ FocalBlade full changelog ]