• Improved ghost reduction and alignment – has now been enabled through the use of new algorithms and the ability to select a reference image to dramatically improve the initial merge results.
• Chromatic aberration reduction – now brings new controls to reduce the appearance of the unsightly purple and blue fringes where the dark tones meet the lighter tones.
• Update tone mapping and enhancement panel – has completely redesigned the controls for enhancing your image. This gives you better overall control over you image and making it much faster and easier to get the look that you want.
• Depth control – will allow you to pull out the areas in your image so that you are not left with the flat, dull look that sometimes comes with HDR imaging.
• Improved White Balance controls – now gives you a tint control providing a much more complete White Balance system and better leverage when processing your images.
• Graduated Neutral Density control – lets you correct or stylize your image with access to the full 32-bit depth of the merged image. This will provide you a much more natural effect especially on images with a strong horizontal line.
• Improved visual preset browser – gives you the ability to single click starting points for a wide variety of HDR looks. They have also been newly categorized for quicker results.
• History browser – gives you the ability to quickly compare your results to previous edits or even the middle exposure of a series.
• Improved Loupe tool – now can show you clipped highlights and shadows.
• Extended language support – now includes English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified and Mandarin), and the Japanese languages.
On my machine, I could tell the difference in speed from this version from the last, I suspect if you have an older machine with an older card, it may not be as noticeable. Some of the things that I really did like was the updated merging interface where you could see what you were importing and could do some analysis on the images. If you had any problems with some of the images – such as the same exposures, you would get a warning.
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