A crowded slate of Mac apps aim to make building a full-featured, modern website drag-and-drop simple. Many even support one of the most crucial new web trends: responsive design, which can automatically switch up your layout to look good on a widescreen monitor, a tiny smartphone, or anything in between. While no single program currently offers all the power, flexibility, and simplicity I’d hoped for, I did find two particularly strong contenders that at least came within shouting distance of that ideal. Top choice for complete beginners: Blocs If you have no idea how to start building a site, start with ( ).

At $70, it’s $10 cheaper than most of the other programs in this roundup. And thanks to its extensive library of well-crafted chunks of code, it makes assembling an impressively slick site almost as simple as snapping together a pile of Lego blocks. Even before you begin, Blocs has done the hard work for you, building snippets of sample code that you can mix, match, customize, and stack. Just pick a clearly color-coded section of your design—header, body, or footer—and choose a chunk of layout to add, whether it’s a fancy screen-filling photo, a few columns of text, or a swath of smaller icons or images.

Once it’s in place, you can tweak the template to suit your needs. At every turn, Blocs tries to sweat the small stuff so you don’t have to, including a navigation menu that’ll automatically update as you add new pages to your site. Spartan but clear thumbnails help you choose which chunk to add next, and accurately represent what you’re getting. While you’re limited largely to that ready-made collection, Blocs offers a wide enough selection of appealing elements to build an appealing site. And since all the code’s prebuilt, every site you make in Blocs has responsive design support baked in, without any extra effort on your part.

The sample site I built looked great on big and small computer screens, good on my iPad, and decent enough on my iPhone 5S. Blocs: A few quick clicks let you drop in predesigned, customizable chunks of your new webpage.

Blocs’ balance between a sparse selection and effective results also applies to its feature set, including a limited but appealing roster of fonts, and its extremely basic control over text styling and padding. That deliberate simplicity helps keep new users from getting overwhelmed, and further flattens out the already gentle learning curve. Blocs’ stark, dark design departs from Mac conventions, and some aspects take a little time to learn. Instead of bringing up contextual menus, right-clicking brings up a palette of individual page elements you can add to the existing code. Placing objects on the page can occasionally feel a tad squirrely, though it’s easy to undo mistakes or move a misplaced item. Blocs is a work in progress, and its creator’s laid out an ambitious, intriguing slate of potential upgrades.

For now, Blocs sets modest goals, but carries them out impressively well. Top choice for everyone else: EverWeb If you know just enough HTML and CSS to get yourself in trouble, trust ( ) to keep you out of it. It’s more flexible and freeform than Blocs’ do-it-for-me simplicity, and it’s full of thoughtful tricks to help users get around the program’s own limitations. When creating a site, you can choose from an extensive slate of great-looking, up-to-date templates, or start from scratch. Like Pages, EverWeb lets you draw text and image boxes or other shapes directly onto your page, then position and style them as you wish. I liked the program’s clean design and well-crafted interface. It lacks a grid or guides to keep your page tidy, but EverWeb will automatically or manually align elements by their edges or centers.

The layout engine sometimes had trouble accurately aligning full-width elements, but otherwise proved fun and responsive. EverWeb offers more options for CSS styling than Blocs; it won’t give you precise control of every element, but it provides enough choices to make a nice-looking site. Top-notch prebuilt widgets, including image sliders, image galleries, navigation menus, and more, are easy to edit and customize, and they yield great results.

I was particularly impressed with the PayPal widget, which lets you build a full-featured online store with minimal time and effort—an ability most rivals either don’t offer or charge extra for. While it doesn’t offer precise CSS styling, EverWeb’s options are still good enough to make a slick, modern-looking site. Rather than supporting responsive design, EverWeb provides mobile versions of many templates, and builds in an easy way to redirect mobile users to those pages from their desktop counterparts. That solution gobbles extra server space and bandwidth, but can also be less hassle than trying to reconfigure the same design to fit different-sized screens. Other clever workarounds let you expand EverWeb’s font roster with your own picks, a feature found in too few of its competitors.

The code EverWeb produced was somewhat messy in the version I tested, though by the time you read this, an update promising sleeker results may be available. Still, I enjoyed EverWeb’s terrific balance between friendly design and a robust feature set. Top contenders Macaw ( ) talks a big game but doesn’t entirely deliver. Aimed at high-end pros, it offers more power and flexibility than any other program here. However, it’s also the most intimidating and frustrating app of the bunch, in part because it feels only half-finished. Macaw excels at its finer points. You can tweak nearly every CSS style attribute via well-designed palettes, and build custom style classes to apply to any element on your page.

Smart scripting support lets you drag in existing variables and color swatches as you write your code. And only Macaw offers pixel-precise control over responsive design, letting you set breakpoints at multiple screen widths, then rearrange your design to best fit each one. But while it gets the little things right, Macaw seems to struggle with the big ones. I found layout exasperating, as if the program were always fighting me. The help files are sometimes confusing and often incomplete—bad news for a program as dense as this one.

You can only add to its limited list of fonts by paying for a subscription to Adobe Typekit. And rather than focusing on fixing these gaps in the existing version, Macaw’s creators seem instead to be working on its new sibling, Macaw Scarlet, which promises even more sophisticated features. RapidWeaver If you just want to pour your content into a limited set of sharp-looking templates, with responsive design already built in, ( ) will work great. This powerfully extensible program can do far more than that, too‑but you’ll have to pay a good deal extra to unlock its full potential. RapidWeaver’s by far the best choice here for building a blog or a podcast, with excellent, easy support for adding new entries and episodes.

But I didn’t like how it forced me to flip back and forth between the raw content on my pages and a full preview of how they’d look online. If you want to branch out beyond its small slate of templates, keep your wallet handy.

The app’s online market of powerful plugins offers tons of new capabilities and professionally designed themes. But their considerable cost could quickly add up to more than you paid for RapidWeaver itself. The rest of the pack Sandvox ( ) loses points for its limited customization and big but outdated selection of designs. However, it’s delightfully easy to use, including a super-simple integrated hosting service that seems fairly priced for what it offers.

And changing the whole look of your site is as easy as choosing a new template. I think Sandvox would make a great choice for teachers and students, or for parents who want to help their kids build a fun, basic site. Sparkle ( ) is a perfectly respectable app that unfortunately gets outshined by EverWeb, which feels like Sparkle’s very similar-looking but ultimately superior cousin.

I give Sparkle kudos for at least trying to make it easy to add third-party web fonts, even if the execution’s a little clunky. Its preset page sizes for responsive design also work better in concept than reality.

Sparkle could become a real gem, but it needs more polish first. Freeway Express Living up to its name, ( ) is free. And if you endure its labyrinthine help files, you can build some nifty things relatively quickly. But its cluttered interface can prove frustrating, and it renders pages with such sorely outdated techniques—years behind every other app here–that you’re probably better off avoiding it. A paid pro version offers a much more power and sophistication, but also costs a whopping $150.

Bottom line Text editors are cheap or free, as are resources to teach yourself HTML, CSS, and jQuery—all more intuitive than they sound, even for non-geniuses. But that education demands dedication, time, and persistence, especially since today’s cutting-edge code quickly becomes tomorrow’s cobweb-covered embarrassment. If you’d rather opt out of that Red Queen’s race, you’ll at least have a few good choices, whether you pick Blocs’ sleek simplicity or EverWeb’s user-friendly flexibility. I suspect Mac users will have even better, more complete options for building websites in a year or two.

But for now, those two are the best of the bunch.

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Note that this code does not need to be installed separately and all the required components are contained in PIPP's installer. Revision History 2.5.9 07 Jan 2017 Bug Fixes: Fixed issue where PNG format calibration frames crashed PIPP. Fixed issues with PIPP running on Windows XP. Enhancements: Added NeuQuant neural-net colour quantisation algorithm for improved GIF generation. 2.5.8: 21 Nov 2016 Bug Fixes: Fixed issues when creating animated GIFs while 'Input Frame Dropping' is enabled. 2.5.7: 15 Nov 2016 Bug Fixes: Fixed issue with raw image format calibration files.

Fixed handling of zero value pixels in flat frames. Fixed error message when generating Animated GIFs. Fixed bug where broken TIFF files were generated. Fixed issue with gain and gamma controls on computers using languages that use a ',' for a decimal point.

Enhancements: Created a 64-bit version of PIPP as well as the old 32-bit version. Improved Animated GIF generation by using GIF code from SER player instead of using FFmpeg. Added function to resize frames to a smaller size. Added support for summation binning as well as average binning. Allowed surface stabilisation to function without actually moving frames. 2.5.6: 27 May 2016 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where reading PNG files would fail after around500 files.

Fixed bug where writing PNG files would fail after around 500 files. Fixed bug when saving colour images split into RGB channels as PNG files. Fixed colour cast bug when opening.dng files generated by Magic Lantern. Fixed support for Magic Lantern.MLV video. Fixed start-up crash caused by corrupted PIPP data file. Fixed bug when calculating total brightness of colour images for 'quality' estimation.

Enhancements: Added support for keeping original image filenames when saving images. Updated DCRaw to version 9.27 (Improves support for raw images from cameras). Updated FFMpeg to v3.0 (Improves read support for video formats).

Improved surface feature image stabilisation code to be more tolerant to changes of brightness. 2.5.5: 20 Feb 2016 Bug Fixes: Updated handling of AVI files so as to not misidentify codec. Enhancements: Added support for reading and writing PNG image files. Fixed bug where quality weighting did not work when output format was an image format. Added missing support for colour C32BITFLOAT FITS images.

Various updates to surface stabilisation code to make it more sensitive and more robust. 2.5.4: 05 Sep 2015 Bug Fixes: Fixed surface stabilisation bug when cropping to AOI.

2.5.3: 06 Jul 2015 Enhancements: Added support for pixel binning. 2.5.2: 06 May 2015 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug when surface stabilised frames were quality sorted when Area Of Interest is not enabled. Fixed crash when planetary processing a video with multiple completely black frames at the start. Fixed filename bug when writing RGB-split image files with quality value in filenames. Fixed 'Cannot open codec' bug when generating MPEG4 AVIs with large frames and high quality. Updated RAM buffer usage to ensure more memory is always available for other operations.

Enhancements: Added ability to specify generated output subdirectory name. Added support for setting non-integer frame rates for output AVIs and animated GIFs. Added 'Optimise Options for Planetary Animation GIF' option. 2.5.1: 17 Feb 2015 Bug Fixes: Fixed crash when processing more than 1 file in batch mode. V2.5.0: 16 Feb 2015 Bug Fixes: Fixed broken WinJUPOS compatible filename generation. Fixed bug when multiple raw images are processed without 'Debayer Raw Image Files' enabled.

Enhancements: Added frame stabilisation for solar/lunar surface videos. V2.4.3: 29 Dec 2014 Bug Fixes: Re-added video file extensions that got lost during recent changes to filter list (.mkv,.mts,.m2ts and.m2t).

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V2.4.2: 16 Dec 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed colour cast bug when using flat frame correction with raw colour and colour data. V2.4.1: 05 Dec 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed 'Error: Unknown Argument '-' crash reported in Windows 8.1. V2.4.0: 06 Nov 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where raw image file extension list is missing for new PIPP installs. Fixed bug where frames cropped to a size larger than the original frames and quality sorted using RAM buffers caused PIPP to crash. Mainly seen when processing full frame solar videos because the default crop size is larger than the original frame size. Fixed broken 'Save Rejected Frames' functionality. Enhancements: Added support for dark, flat and flat-dark calibration frames.

V2.3.8: 15 Aug 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed crash when generating animated GIF files. Enhancements: Added the ability to include the quality level for each frame in the output image filenames. Added support for reading (8-bit and 16-bit) FITS files. V2.3.7: 04 Jun 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where all video FPS values were reported as 10 fps for videos decoded by FFmpeg. FIxed bug where FPS value in generated AVI files could not be forced if video files used as input.

Fixed obscure bug where PIPP could crash if badly corrupted videos files were added. Fixed potential divide by zero bug in bayer pattern detect code. Enhancements: Updated FFmpeg to version 2.2.2 (Required as part of a bug fix). V2.3.6: 24 Apr 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed RAM buffer bug when colour frames are processed with quality weighting. Fixed RAM buffer bug which sometimes caused crashes when quality sorting frames.

Enhancements: Added support for writing animated GIF files. Added support for writing FITS files.

Added control to allow disabling of leading zeros in image filename numbers. Now automatically does a test run when the first source file is added. Added bayer detection for mono AVI files, now works similar to SER files with a bayer pattern. Modified Bilinear and Smooth Hue debayer algorithms to reduce smoothing of the green channel. Updated FFmpeg to version 2.1.3. Extended noise filter to work with raw colour data (monochrome data with a bayer pattern).

V2.3.5: 05 Apr 2014 Enhancements: Speeded up quality sorting by saving temp images in RAM buffers (when available) instead of on the hard drive. Changed the way debayering of SER files with bayer pattern and AVI files with BY8 codec is controlled. It should hopefully be more intuitive now. Improved automatic threshold level calculation for object detection.

DCRaw version updated from 9.17 to 9.20. Moved 'Bayer Pattern Protection' control to 'Colour Debayer' control group. Changed default size of cropping from 450x450 to 448x448 as some programs incorrectly handle AVI widths that not a multiple of 4. V2.3.4: 16 Mar 2014 Enhancements: Added check for updated version of PIPP on start up. Improved 'Test Detect Threshold' functionality. V2.3.3: 06 Mar 2014 Enhancements: Increased maximum number of input frames that quality sorting can handle from 65536 to.

Added code to handle incorrect timestamps in SER files created by PlxCaptureARRANDALE. V2.3.2: 24 Feb 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed mono SER file generation when input files are not SER files (COLORID field was set incorrectly). Enhancements: Minor updates to GUI design. V2.3.1: 21 Feb 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed local to UT time conversion that was broken in last version.

Fixed ignoring of part minute field when decoding WinJUPOS format time in header. Enhancements: Added HQ Linear Interpolation debayer algorithm. Updated design to handle international characters in file names and file paths - Please report any issues with this as I wont see them!

V2.3.0: 14 Feb 2014 Bug Fixes: Fixed obscure temp file deletion bug with quality selection, TIFF/BMP output, split RGB channels and output frame dropping. Fixed bug where Setting SER Pixel depth to 16 or 15 forced colour detection to mono or colour. Fixed SER debayering when bayer pattern is specified in the SER header. Fixed renumbering of output images when quality selection is disabled. Fixed crash when Smooth Hue debayering was used with 16-bit data.

Fixed bug where debayer pattern was incorrect when image height was an odd number of lines. Enhancements: Support for reading and writing 8/16-bit colour SER (V3) files. Monochrome conversion function updated to allow any 2 colour channels to be used. Offset function can now be used when object is centred but cropping is not enabled.

Modified order of quality weighted frames so duplicate frames are not output one after another in AVI or SER files. SER file to SER file processing now keeps timestamps if present in source file.

SER file to SER file processing now keeps header strings (Observer, Instrument & Telescope) from source file. Added AVI & SER file details boxes, accessed by right-clicking the files list.

V2.2.21: 08 Dec 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where incorrect framerate was displayed for some AVI files with audio. Fixed bug when generating FMP4 codec AVI file from AVI file with framerate denominator 65535. Fixed crashes when planet not detected during animation video generation. Enhancements: Added Filesize column to Source File List. Increased quality levels for generating MP4 video files (at the cost of filesize). Level 6 is now the same as the old level 10.

Allowed reversal of frame order with animation options. Added code to catch situation when processing is started with quality estimation and animation options enabled together.

V2.2.20: 16 Nov 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where the last few frames of videos with inter-frames were not read. Enhancements: Added support for extra video formats which need to be scanned to get framecount (.mts/m2ts/m2s,.mpg/mpeg, mkv & wmv). V2.2.19: 08 Nov 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug in bayer pattern protection algorithm. Enhancements: Quality progress bar label updated to indicate type of quality algorithm used. V2.2.18: 06 Oct 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed colour (RGB) channel splitting when outputting AVI file with Ut Video codec.

V2.2.17: 29 Sep 2013 Enhancements: Updated the format of the 'Old Format' AVIs generated by PIPP so that they are accepted by AviStack 2. Added a control to select whether 'Old Format' AVIs are split at 4GB or 2GB. Added option to only generate DIB codec AVI files with 'safe' frame widths to work around buggy software such as VLC Media Player and AviStack 2. V2.2.16: 25 Sep 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where image files duplicated by quality weighting were output in the wrong directory. V2.2.15: 07 Sep 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where processing multiple MP4 AVI files failed.

Enhancements: Added front page option to 'Optimise Options For AVI Archive'. Added option to generate output files in the same directories as the source files. Added option to set the output filename suffix rather than always using 'pipp'. V2.2.14: 29 Aug 2013 Enhancements: Added functionality to flip and rotate frames.

Added support applying gamma correction to each frame. Removed use of C# XmlSerializer object that caused PIPP to crash on start up on some machines. V2.2.13: 08 Jul 2013 Enhancements: Histogram stretch function updated to stretch black point to zero as well as white point to a fixed position. Updated object detection threshold algorithm to work with bright backgrounds (daytime moon). Added function to display pixels above the object detect threshold. Helps when manually setting the threshold value.

Added more information to the image viewer. Added the ability to save the frame in the image viewer as an image file. Added support for reading BMP and TIFF files with alpha channels. Added support for reading and writing AVI files with non-integer FPS values. Improved error reporting when all frames are discarded. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where video files decoded by FFmpeg ignored the last few (4 usually) frames.

Fixed animation functionality when input frame range is limited. V2.2.12: 04 Jun 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug introduced in v2.2.11 where files processed in batch mode could have half of their frames discarded. V2.2.11: 30 May 2013 Enhancements: Added experimental median noise reduction filter (supports monochrome files only).

Added option to use individual colour channels for converting colour to monochrome as this can produce better results for lunar and solar imaging. Bug Fixes: AS!2 alignment issues fixed by changing the colour of off-frame pixels (these are generated when objects are centred) from black to the average background colour of the frame. V2.2.10: 17 May 2013 Bug Fixes: Corrected build option that caused PIPP to crash because of missing DLLs on machines without MSVCP100.dll installed. V2.2.9: 16 May 2013 Enhancements: Changed minimum value of 'Minimum Object Size' from 10 to 4. Regenerated FFmpeg DLLs to be smaller. Disabled all tabs except the 'Do Processing' tabs while processing is happening. Modified image preview window ready for more changes to come.

Added option to install Ut Video Codec to PIPP's installer. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug in writing Ut Video and MPEG4 codec AVIs that could theoretically cause crashes.

V2.2.8: 21 Apr 2013 Enhancements: Re-writes of critical code sections to make PIPP faster. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug in the structure of generated large DIB codec AVI files (Though no software seemed to notice this error in the files). V2.2.7: 01 Apr 2013 Enhancements: Added input gain control to apply a fixed gain to all frames prior to processing. Added maximum pixel value data to test image viewer window. Added a hot pixel filter for Raw images. Added ability to accurately align lunar images with part of the disc in shadow to prevent alignment errors in RegiStax 6. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug which caused broken 'Ut Video' or 'MPEG-4' AVI videos to be generated with 16-bit source data.

Fixed bug in histogram stretching 16-bit colour data. Adjusted gain for raw image files to match previous CR2 only version. V2.2.6: 20 Feb 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where file extensions for RAW image files were not recognised the first time PIPP was ran after being installed. V2.2.5: 18 Feb 2013 Enhancements: Better handling of obscure AVI formats. Added FPS (frames per second) column to source files list. Bug Fixes: Fixed memory leak when encoding AVI files with Ut Video codec. V2.2.4: 15 Feb 2013 Enhancements: Added support for generating AVI files with Ut Video codec (lossless compression suitable for stacking).

Added support for generating AVI files with MPEG-4 part 2 codec (lossy compression for generating animations and videos to upload to YouTube). Upgraded and improved Animation generation.

Bug Fixes: Fixed crash caused by DLL dependency on some Windows 7 64-bit installs when file was added or Help-About viewed. V2.2.3: 07 Feb 2013 Enhancements: Added a processing complete sound. Updates to Options menu. Bug Fixes: Fixed colour detection for AVI files that are only handled by FFmpeg. V2.2.2: 03 Feb 2013 Enhancements: Added code to split generated AVI files before they get too large to be valid.

Removed some unused functions from FFmpeg DLLs to reduce size. Bug Fixes: Fixed YUY2 encoding codec for 16-bit data (It was just generating all black frames with 16-bit data). V2.2.1: 01 Feb 2013 Bug Fixes: Fixed number of frames calculation for.MOV files and possibly other video types. V2.2.0: 01 Feb 2013 Enhancements: Added code to use FFMPEG DLLs for opening video files. This means most video formats and codecs can now be opened. Added DCRAW code so that all (well most) image raw files formats can be supported instead of just Canon CR2 files.

Added support for generating new format AVI files (odml) so that 2GB (or 4GB) limit no longer applies (new limit 120GB). Added option to limit the input frames to the centre frames of the input AVI/SER file. Added option to specify the number of best quality frames as a percentage of the total frames rather than a fixed number. Added support for generating WinJUPOS compatible filenames using date/time in the input filenames. Added support for moving selected items up and down in the source file list. Updated object detection algorithm to ignore artefacts at the border of the frames.

Bug Fixes: Added check for attempts to write different sized frames to an AVI or SER file. Fixed histogram stretch bug when 16-bit data (colour or monochrome) is used.

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Fixed strict decoding of Y800 codec AVI frames - not that I can imagine this mode ever being useful! V2.1.9: 17 Nov 2012 Enhancements: Added option to use YUY2 codec for output AVI files (for planetary animations). Added 'Optimise Options For Planetary Animation' control to simplify use when generating planetary animations.Bug fix: 'Number of last frame playbacks 1' broke output AVI file when 'Number of complete playbacks = 1'. Bug Fixes: 'Input Options-Input Frame Colour/Monochrome' not being set to 'AutoDetect' caused crash for non-video input files. V2.1.8: 15 Nov 2012 Enhancements: Added function to repeat last frame in generated AVI file. This allows repeating animations to 'pause' at the end of each playback. V2.1.7: 10 Nov 2012 Enhancements: Slight update to output AVI format so YouTube now correctly plays the repeats.

V2.1.6: 09 Nov 2012 Enhancements: Added AVI playback repeat functionality for output AVI files (for generating animation presentations rather than stacking). V2.1.5: 30 Oct 2012 Enhancements: Improved handling of AVIs from wxAstroCapture with inconsistent header fields. Changed behaviour when reading AVI frames with bad lengths, now skips frames rather than issuing a fatal error. V2.1.4: 20 Oct 2012 Enhancements: Added input frame dropping control (Drop X frames after each input frame).

Moved 'Limit Frames' control to 'Input Options' tab. Added control to specify whether source frames are colour, mono or auto-detected. Added icons to each option group to aid navigating the options. V2.1.3: 12 Oct 2012 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where opening bitmap files with image data size field set to 0 would crash PIPP's core. V2.1.2: 11 Oct 2012 Enhancements: Added new control to GUI to set start and end frames that are processed from input files. Bug Fixes: Fixed handling of SER files with little endian data. Added support to automatically debayer SER frames with bayer pattern (uses SER header data).

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Added control to set pixel depth of input SER file overriding value from SER file header. Thanks to Grischa Hahn for his help with these SER file bugs - v2.1.1: 06 Oct 2012 Bug Fixes: Fixed bug that stopped image viewer working when 'Split RGB Channels' option was enabled. Fixed bug that could cause long output SER files with cropped frames to be corrupted. V2.1.0: 15 Sep 2012 Enhancements: Added support for reading TIFF files (8-bit and 16-bit). Added support for writing TIFF files (8-bit and 16-bit). Added support for reading Canon RAW (.CR2) files. Added support for processing 16 bits per pixel samples.

Added option to convert colour frames to monochrome. Added option to maintain colour balance when stretching colour frames' histograms. Modified the options selected when selecting 'Optimise Options for Full Solar/Lunar disc imaging'. Added option to protect bayer pattern when centring/cropping frames but not debayering. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug where finding object with hard edge could cause crash. V2.0.2: 02 Jul 2012 Enhancements: Added support for loading jpeg files.

Added zoom control to viewer window. Added average pixel value quality algorithm for detecting cloud on full disc solar/lunar images.

Modified 'Optimise Options' to support Solar/Lunar Close-up and Solar/Lunar Full Disc imaging. V2.0.1: 22 Jun 2012 Enhancements: Changed capitalisation of some control labels for consistency. Bug Fixes: Fixed crash when Save Options dialogue is cancelled. V2.0: 12 Jun 2012 Enhancements: A huge update on the previous command line versions of the program, hopefully much more usable. GUI project added to control command line code and display output.

Added installer to check for.NET Framework 4 and install all required components. Bug Fixes: Fixed bug in minimum pixel estimation. V1.8: 01 May 2012 Added histogram based quality algorithm. Fixed generated mono AVI files compatibility with QuickTime Player and possibly other video software.

Changed default operation so that rejected frames are not saved. Added option to save rejected frames if required. V1.7: 13 Apr 2012 Reordered help output text. Updated -histostretch option accept% values or use default value (80%).

Added support for writing AVI video files (supports colour or monochrome images). Fixed bug where processing multiple.bmp files (no quality) created multiple.avi/.ser files. Fixed bug where source images with mixed case file extensions are not processed. Changed the default output file type to match the first input file type. Fixed bug where -norenumber option did not work for AVI and SER output files.

Updated generated directory structure and filenames. Updated output text. Now works in batch mode by default with new option '-join' ('-j') to treat multiple input files as a single file. Fixed SER and AVI generation with quality enabled and RGB split enabled. Added option to use the original quality algorithm (as taken from Ninox). V1.6: 27 Feb 2012 Added support for writing SER video files (Does not support colour images). Removed '-delete' command line option.

Added check to ensure qmax = qmin. V1.5: 21 Feb 2012 Image filename indexing begins at 1 instead of 0. Rejected frames are saved in a rejected directory. Added support for reading SER video files. Added option to not renumber frames into quality order. Added quality sorting log file generation. Fixed bug in planet detection algorithm.

Histogram stretch updated to accept stretch value. Added quality weighting support.

V1.4: 06 Feb 2012 Updated output directory name creation to create unique directory names. Planet detect threshold calculated from first frame's histogram instead of using a constant. Fixed bug in both types of debayer algorithms. Added histogram stretching functionality. V1.3: 30 Jan 2012 Added support for BY8 video codec.nocheck and -nocentre options changed to -check and -centre options. Fixed overexposed frame rejection. V1.2: 29 Jan 2012 Added support for quality estimation non-planet type objects such as the moon.

Fixed handling of short output directory names. Added handling for 0 length data chunks in AVI files. V1.1: 29 Jan 2012 Fixed blank frame bug when no crop is specified. V1.0: 28 Jan 2012 Initial Release.