Stellar Magic History

v1.11.2 changes
1) Fixed a bug in Custom Color Balance where the Hi Clip could reset gamma to the wrong value.
2) Added a subtract option to the Dodge and Burn tool
3) Added Screen and Multiply options to the Image Combiner
4) Modified the Debayer process to prevent processing files with an odd number of rows or columns
5) Fixed bugs in the recording of image processing history by the Image Combiner
6) Updated the tutorial

v1.11.1 changes
1) Fixed bug in gradient removal program
2) Fixed inconsistent behavior in keyboard movement of alignment marks
3) Improved code in DLL
4) Updated the tutorial

v1.11 changes
1) Stellar Magic Pro renamed as Stellar Magic.
2) Increased speed for most operations.
3) Added widescreen 16:10 displays.
4) Added 16 bit grayscale and 48 bit color for TIFF and PNG.
5) Added Sigma-Kappa, Artificial Skepticism and Entropy Weighting to the image stacking operations.
6) Added a batch pixel-squaring option.
7) Added region extraction and meteor track suppression to the Image Aligner.
8) Added an image toggle and midrange luminance to the color programs.
9) Changed color processing to permit saving multiple versions without reloading.
10) Added a grayscale multiresolution control to the Image Processor.
11) Added luminance controls to the wavelet multiresolution programs.
12) Changed the luminance scaling operations to permit tweaking the slider after the initial calculation.
13) Changed the filter operations to permit changing the strength after the initial calculation.
14) Changed the FT Wiener and inverse filter to permit changing the slider after the initial calculation.
15) Added focus unsharp mask and extended the range of all unsharp mask operations. 
16) Added a Sigma filter option to the Image Filter program
17) Added an Inverse Filter option to the Fourier Transform program.
18) Updated the tutorial


v1.10 changes
1) Corrected an error where the grayscale histogram color bar did not update immediately after changing the display gamma.
2) Fixed an error in the extended debayering program that tended to make the luminance values too high.
3) Added the conjugate gradient method to the image restoration program.

v 1.09 changes
1) Fixed an error in the Image Aligner where a very long series of changes between saves could cause an error.
2) Fixed an error in the Image Aligner where automatic closing after alignment  could occasionally close the wrong image.
3) Fixed an error in Luminance Scaling where huge luminance values could cause an error on gradient subtraction.
4) Fixed an error on the maximum entropy methods where saving after an error test halt would display the wrong luminance values.
5) Changed the Edge algorithm on the Image Processor to a very high resolution version.
6) Added a more elaborate debayering method to the Image Combiner program.
7) Added a Linear Taper option to the Mosaic program to permit seamless mosaics even with very poorly matched images.
8) Changed the name of the Deconvolution program to Image Restoration and added an anisotropic diffusion option to reduce image noise.
9) Revised the tutorial and changed the format to PDF from Word document

v 1.08 changes
Unfortunately, version 107 was released without incorporating the final version of the color composite program. Version 108 corrects this error.


v 1.07 changes
1) Corrected a bug in the horizontal flip option in the Image Aligner program which did not properly perform an Undo operation or correctly save in other than the Batch option.
2 The resolution of the Hi and Low sliders on the Luminance Scaling program has been increased.
3) Errors in drawing  the slider settings on the histogram for DDP in the Luminance Scaling program have been corrected.
4) Corrected an error where the default setting of the color balance option was not correctly saved to the FITS header in the RGB Composite program.
5) Corrected an error in the median average color stacking program where the wrong image was displayed and saved.
6) Added an option to the Image Combiner to lock the current choices for the shrink and debayer modes.
7) Increased the speed of the batch flat-field algorithm on the Image Combiner.
8) Added a preferences option to the color program. Preferences now control setting the color display gamma to 1, and displaying the entire color image by fitting it to the current window size.
9) Added an option to lock the multiresolution controls together so they may all be adjusted equally.

v. 1.06 changes
1) Added a complete list of the component color files to the FITS header when stacking color images and saving them in FITS format.
2) Changed the code in the manual color balance program so that the range of luminance values is never modified.
3) Fixed a bug in the Image Processor program where magnifying an image and then adjusting the position scroll bars could cause an error if the displayed image was changed away and then back to the original image if the larger size had not been saved.
4) Fixed a bug in the LRGB mode of the manual color balance program where adjusting the high clip point of all colors simultaneously would occasionally not reproduce the same colors if the image was first saved and then reloaded.
5) Changed the default mode back to No Color Balance per user requests.
6) Fixed a bug in the Luminance Scaling program where saving an image with a reduced value of BITPIX would not always properly update the luminance adjustment sliders with the new smaller values.
7) Corrected errors in the Help and Tutorial files where old features had not been properly updated.


v. 1.05 changes
1) Removed the extreme value filter and added morphological smoothing, inverse gradient and tophat filters.
2) All filters now have strength or contrast blending adjustments available after the initial calculation.
3) Added a FFT smoothing filter and made both sharpening and smoothing blending adjustable after the initial calculation.
4) Removed the separate mask program and added the mask functions to the luminance scaling program.
5) Added a focus option for shrinking and symmetrizing stars to the deconvolution program.
6) Added a clockwise 90 degree rotation to the Image Aligner to go with the counterclockwise 90 degree rotation.
7) Added two circular shapes to the dodge and burn options.
8) Added a bin / interpolate choice to the Image Combiner batch shrink option.
9) Fixed a bug on the color fits save routine where high values of saturation were sometimes saved incorrectly.
10) Fixed a bug on the histogram where the median line was incorrectly drawn.
11) Fixed a bug on the Image Processor sub programs where repeated do / undo swaps could occasionally give the wrong image.
12) Fixed a bug in the color programs where keyboard commands to transfer the image occasionally moved the right image, but the wrong data.
13) Added a Ctrl G toggle to the color programs to turn the display gamma correction on and off.
14) Added a minimal white balance choice to the color program and made it the default choice.
15) Added an LRGB option to the manual color balance program.
16) Added a preferences icon to the toolbar on the Image Processor.
17) Modified the fits header for color images to make it more readable.
18) Updated the tutorial for the new features.