Hydra 1.6 — July 2008

• Aperture PlugIn: Installable package
• Aperture PlugIn: better viewing window (resizeable)
• Aperture PlugIn: shift-click Save, saves one image but stays in the plugin
• Aperture PlugIn: stacks output image to inputs as an option
• Aperture PlugIn: add a render sheet with cancel button
• Aperture PlugIn: output file format options (before aperture import)
• Aperture PlugIn: remove temporary image from disk
• Aperture PlugIn: add license support
• review localization (plugin and s/a app)
• updated User Guide
• updated French localization
• fix colorspace in output
• fixed bug in canon eos 10D images (check)
• fixed bug in DNG image processing, leading to no output
• fixed bug in match checkbox (manual alignement panel)

Hydra 1.5.3 — June 2008

• Italian localization
• fix final rendering coordinates system
• Aperture Plugin: rotated 90° images support
• Aperture Plugin: coordinate system based on correctly oriented image
• Aperture Plugin: fix Match View drawRect:
• Aperture Plugin: bring back alignment panel
• Aperture Plugin: automatch
• Aperture Plugin: manual match
• Aperture Plugin: move / create point tools
• Aperture Plugin: density setting in settings sheet.
• Aperture Plugin: add tag to identify HDR outputs
• Aperture Plugin: PPC support (>= G5)
• Aperture Plugin: 3D perspective view as an option
• Aperture Plugin: support for setting preferences
• Aperture Plugin: quality of preview

Hydra 1.5.2 — May 2008

• Fixed Intel GMA chipset bug + PPC for Aperture PlugIn
• Single image processing added (tone mapping RAW)

Hydra 1.5.1 — May 2008

• Fixed Intel GMA chipset bug + PPC

Hydra 1.5 — May 2008

• better UI concepts
• better fullscreen handling (HUD for window controls)
• HUD for zoom and image navigation
• import from Aperture
• export to Aperture
• OpenEXR output
• RAW import
• Improved warping quality
• EV histogram representation
• True Tone-mapping implementation
• Tone Mapping: Local Adaptation
• Tone Mapping: Highlight Compression
• Support for presets
• Increased speed final rendering
• more than 4 images
• new reference point image
• examples added
• Aperture Plugin Beta
• french localization update
• documentation update

Hydra 1.0.4 — March 2008

• French Localization

Hydra 1.0.3 — February 2008

• More accurate and faster automatic image alignment
• Added an option for controlling the density of ref points
• Alignment made by default when importing images (can be disabled in Hydra Preferences)
• Updated User Guide

Hydra 1.0.2 — February 2008

• Added TIFF Output

Hydra 1.0.1 — January 2008

• Fixed crash when quitting Hydra
• Fixed bad labels in Welcome window

Hydra 1.0 — January 2008

• First Release