Now, now, don't get your hopes up, the Nokia 808 advanced image processor utility PhotProc, which I introduced here, is as slow as ever. In fact, it's often slower, especially if you bump up the JPG quality or resolution. But there have been some improvements to the interface, see below for a quote from its developer.
Here's how the developer introduces version 0.9.3:
A new version of PhotProc is out. Only a small number of requests are in the new version, but more are on their way. The new version should produce higher-quality images. You can now set the JPEG save quality level and some of the filters are a little easier to use. I am hoping (fingers crossed) that the crashes are gone.
The light map size and threshold are re-named and it is more obvious what they do. Light map size changes the area that the filter looks at to determine if something is a local highlight or a shadow. Setting the light map to large can really slow things down but make clouds look much more dramatic.
The light map threshold has been changed a bit and renamed as "reduce halos", which highlights what it does: it reduces the "halos" around dark or light objects when some of the dynamic operations are used.
The whole program needs speeding up, still, and still needs more work on user interface.
So very much a work in progress, obviously, and yes, the developer knows that things need to be sped up. He's working on it!
Adjusting output quality (a number would be helpful here!)
Fiddling with 'Light map size'...
This remains a distinctly niche application, of course. Processing full resolution images is slow - the previews come up almost instantly but the background 'processing' (to produce a final JPG) takes minutes. Note that the main limitation is not the Nokia 808's processor power or its RAM, the bottleneck seems to be restrictions in the Qt environment used for the application.
Still, progress is progress. You can download PhotProc 0.9.3 here directly. General project information about PhotProc is here.