ImBatch 5 adds multithreading for 400% speed increase

High Motion Software has updated its powerhouse image processor ImBatch with multithreading support for even greater performance. The new feature is only available in the $29.95 licensed edition, but is it worth the money? We took a look. We used a test set of 345 PNG images, 918 megapixels in total, and set up only two processing tasks: just a "Sharpen" and a "Save as JPG". Running this job with a single thread took 266 seconds on our test system. Repeating the process with four threads (after clearing the disk cache) cut execution time to 77 seconds, that’s 29 percent… [Continue Reading]