Helicon Filter
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Helicon Filter, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Helicon Filter's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free mode | Free | After 30-day evaluation, output image resolution limited to 4 Mpixels without a license |
The facts
Each one read from Helicon Filter's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI retouching
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Batch editing
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Batch processing
- Users can apply presets to image queues for batch processing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Color management
- The software supports setting color profiles for saving, display, and printing images.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Image adjustments
- It offers brightness correction, white-balance adjustment, monochrome conversion, noise reduction, red-eye removal, cropping, rotation, resizing, framing, text and effects, retouching brushes, chromatic-aberration suppression, distortion and vignetting correction, and sharpening.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Image preservation
- Quick Save copies the original image to an Originals subfolder before saving the edited result.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License updates
- The licensing page says updates are free after purchasing a license.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Masking tools
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Photo sharing
- The integrated Helicon Web Gate utility is described as uploading images to Picasa, Facebook, and Flickr.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Photoshop compatible plug-ins
- The help page lists automatic plug-in registration for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Corel Paint Shop, and Jasc Paint Shop Pro.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Plug-ins
- The help page says Helicon Filter automatically registers its plug-in with Adobe Photoshop 6.0+, Photoshop Elements 2.0+, Corel Paint Shop, and Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8.0+.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Presets
- Users can create their own presets as well as use or delete the supplied presets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Presets and batch processing
- Presets can be applied to queues of images, and users can create their own presets.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Helicon Filter is image-enhancement software designed for amateur and advanced photographers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- RAW converters
- The program includes embedded, DCRAW, and Adobe DNG converters for processing RAW files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- RAW photo support
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Security
- The save dialog includes an option to encrypt an image with a password; the help says viewing it requires Helicon Filter and decryption requires Helicon Photo Safe.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The help page lists email and the Helicon Soft forum as support channels.checked 12 Oct 2026
- System requirements
- Minimum requirements listed are a 2 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and 1024 × 768 display resolution.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Unlicensed limit
- After the trial, output image resolution is limited to 4 megapixels without a license.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free mode
- The help page describes the product as shareware that switches to a free mode with limited functionality after 30 days.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Trial
- All features are available during a free 30-day evaluation period; afterward, unlicensed output is limited to 4 megapixels.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Platform
- desktopchecked 22 Sep 2026
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