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SAR Image Processor, version 4.0

Description

SAR Image Processor is an image editing program for the PC. Most people will want SAR for its enlargement capabilities. See Comparisons of Image Enlargement Methods. Also, SAR has made substantial progress with HDR Tone Mapping. See HDR Gallery. The unregistered program has disabled file saving and printing, but is, otherwise, fully functional. Once the correct registration code is entered, file saving and printing will be enabled.

Features

Image Upsampling by Pseudo-LAD (New with version 4.0!)
Improved Noise Reduction by Contourlets (New with version 4.0!)
Add Noise (New with version 4.0!)
Contrast Enhancement based on Edge-Preserving Decompositions for Multi-Scale Tone and Detail Manipulation by Z.Farbman et. al..
Contrast Enhancement based on Hysteresis Filter
Pyramidal Stacking (similar to Tufuse)
New Extended DOF Stacking (2.7X the speed of old method)
Improved HDR Tone Mapping 1
Ergonomic Improvements
Purple Defringing
Fast Approximation to Bilateral Filter
Custom curves using new splineless method
Seam Carving with Derivative Blending (Gradient Domain Carving)
Seamless Cloning
Floating Point TIFF Support
Stacking for High Dynamic Range (HDR)
HDR Contrast Equalization (based on work of R. Mantiuk)
Automatic Variable Shift Alignment, "Block Alignment"
Geometrical Transformations Including Arbitrary Rotation via Lanczos Interpolation
Elastic Image Alignment
Automatic Image Alignment by simultaneous Rotation, Resizing and Translation
Fast Automatic Image Alignment by Translation
Extended Depth of Field Stacking
Noise Reduction by Non-Local Means (NL Means)
Gaussian Weighted Median
Image Enlargement with Super Rez. Postprocessing
96 bit Internal Processing
Stacking by multivariate median to remove passing objects.
Deconvolution (Deblurring) and Image Magnification by Least Absolute Deviations (LAD)
Image Magnification by Data Dependent Lanczos
Periodic Smoothing for Pattern Removal
Image Magnification by Xin Li and Zhao-Xin Li
Image Magnification by Triangulation
Image Magnification by Jensen Hybrids
Image Magnification by Iterated Function Systems (IFS)
Backprojected Enlargement Methods
Capability to Make Objective Measurements of Enlargement Quality
Isophote Smoothing Filter
Bilateral Filter
Jensen Edge Enhancement
Weighted Majority with Minimum Range (WMMR) Filter
XSharpen Filter
Shock Filter
Texture Inpainting
Tschumperle Inpainting
Eight Color Space Modes: RGB, CMY, YCbCr, HSV, HSI, log CMY, RGB Gamma 2.2 and YCbCr Gamma 2.2
One, Two, and Four Point Registration
Image Stacking for Dynamic Range Increase
Reads and Writes 48 bit TIFF, 48 bit PNG, 48 bit FITS and 96 bit FITS files.
Modified Unsharp Mask
Inverse Operations: Add/Subtract, Multiply/Divide, Interpolate/Extrapolate and Gamma
Input (as well as output) Masking for Lens Blur, Median, and WMMR
Batch Operations
Programmed Operations (Actions)
Lanczos Interpolation
Printing with automatic, internal resizing to optimum size.
Paint (Most operations can be applied with paint strokes)
Histogram
Channel Selection
Masked Operations
Mask by Color
Mask by Edge Detection
Perspective Crop
Stacking
Noise Removal
Lens Blur
Reads and Writes 24 Bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and BMP files.
Nearest Neighbor, Bilinear and Bicubic Interpolation
Histogram
Gradient
Negative
Crop
Rotate
Flip Horizontal
Flip Vertical
Gaussian Blur
Median

Download SAR 4.0 (997 KB)

Download GDIPLUS (945 KB)(Not Needed by Windows XP users.)

Attention Previous Registrants of SAR version 2.xx and 3.xx!

Despite price increases, upgrades will continue to be free to previous registrants of SAR v. 2.0 and above. However, versions 4.xx require a different registration code than 2.xx and 3.xx. Please, email me for the free code and, as proof of identification, provide the email address and date under which you registered 2.xx or 3.xx. Previous registrants of versions 1.xx, who did not upgrade to 2.xx or 3.xx, must pay the price difference of $30 (email me for instructions).

Registration

The registration fee is $50. Registered users will receive a 10 digit registration key code that eliminates nag screens at startup and enables save and print functions.

Upgrades will be free to version 2.xx and 3.xx registrants (see above). Please, routinely check this site for free upgrades. You will not be notified by email of available upgrades.

If you wish to register and live in a country not served by PayPal, please, contact me for information necessary to make payment by Western Union

New Registration by PayPal:

After payment, please allow me two days to email you the Registration Key Code. In case of difficulty, please contact me,
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