Previous Geographic Imager Versions
Geographic Imager 6
Geographic Imager 6.7
Release date: September 27, 2023
Download: Windows | Mac (Intel) | Mac (Apple Silicon)
Release notes
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2024 compatibility
- Additional performance enhancements and bug fixes
Geographic Imager 6.6.1
Release date: September 5, 2023
Download: Windows | Mac (Intel) | Mac (Apple Silicon)
Release notes
- Apple Silicon processor support
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2023 compatibility
- macOS Ventura (version 13) compatibility
- New welcome screen design
- Additional performance enhancements and bug fixes
Release notes
- Photoshop Compatibility: Works with the newest Adobe Photoshop 2022 (23.0.x)
- Compatibility with Windows 11 and macOS 12
- GeoPackage Support: Import and export vector GeoPackages
- Terrain Shader Enhancements: “Document blending mode” options for image overlays with Terrain Shader
- Additional feature enhancements and bug fixes
Release notes
- Compatible with the most recent version of Adobe Photoshop 2021
- Save Photoshop documents (.PSD, .PSB) with embedded georeferencing
- Automation support for Export Points, Text & Vectors
- Updated coordinate system library
- New Avenza Map Store categories available when using the Upload to Avenza Map Store feature
Release notes
- Compatible with the most recent version of Adobe Photoshop 2021
- Compatible with macOS Big Sur
- Access floating licenses from the Cloud
- User interface and usability enhancements
- Official support for M1 Macs (still requires Photoshop to be opened with Rosetta)
- Install UXP panels at runtime, if necessary
- Fixed a Terrain Shader issue that prevented overlaying of documents
Release notes
- Compatible with Adobe Photoshop 2021 on Mac and Windows, powered by Adobe’s new Unified Extensibility Platform (UXP)
- Vector map data is now able to export to many industry geospatial formats*
- Ability to remove backgrounds from images during import
- Additional bug fixes and usability enhancements
Release notes
- Compatibility with Adobe Photoshop 2020 on Mac and Windows
- Import vector lines and areas from databases*
- Import points and text data from databases*
- Improved mosaic layer organization
- Additional bug fixes and usability enhancements
Release notes
- Import vector areas and lines
- Import text and point data
- Full compatibility with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 for Windows and Mac
- Support for Equal Earth Projection
- Interface available in Simplified Chinese
- User interface and usability enhancements
Geographic Imager 5
Release notes
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 on both Windows and Mac
- Fully compatible with macOS 10.13
- Adobe Photoshop resampling methods now available for tools that include a resampling option
- Input and display precision controls are now separately controlled in Preferences
- Advanced export options for specifying BigTIFF or DEM TIFF block size
Release notes
- Fully compatible with the latest Adobe Photoshop CC 2017.1 release
- Various user interface and usability enhancements
Geographic Imager 5.2
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CC 2017 on both Windows and Mac
- Sign-in and import Map Image Layers, Tile Layers, and web services from ArcGIS Online with complete spatial referencing
- New support for the ENVI HDR raster and DEM format
- Optimization to Tiling export
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements
Release notes
- Fully compatible with the latest Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.5 release
- Greatly improved WMS functionality and usability
- Dynamic preview zoom into selected area for image download
- Expanded list of supported services including worldwide coverage with OSM WMS
- WMS services can now be managed and organized into folders and categories
- Support for https-based services
- GeoPackage format is now supported as a Photoshop save type
- Improved Export to Web Tiles includes support for popular GeoPackage format tiling schema
- Improved GeoCrop with dynamic preview zoom and enhanced cropping tools
- Geographic Imager panel options menu returns for CC 2015.5
- Various additional bug fixes and improvements
Release notes
- Improved support for OS X 10.11
- Improved support for Windows 10
- Resolved an issue with cropping using a vector file in Advanced Import
- Resolved an issue where saving supported formats was not recording all parameters
- Improved OS X installer for CS5/CS5.5 and custom installs
- Various bug fixes and improvements
Geographic Imager 5.0
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CC 2015
- Redesigned Georeference tool: reference with online maps, coordinate system detection, and improved rectification process
- New export DEM formats: ArcInfo ASCII Grid and BIL
- New online help and help integrated into dialogs
- New ability to export a PDF Maps package and upload it directly to the PDF Maps Store
- New ability to record operations, errors, and messages to event log
- New mosaic options including ability to apply blending mode and place mosaic layers above destination layer
- Optimized Export to Web Tiles and now includes image interpolation methods and support for OpenStreetMap and TileMill formats
- Enhanced scripting support now includes WMS import
- New Preferences interface and options
- Various other bug fixes and user experience enhancements
Geographic Imager 4
Release notes
- Geographic Imager Basic License now supports saving and opening BigTIFF files without size limitation
- Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite officially supported
- Improved SGI format support and added compatibility with third-party software
- Optimized import of large files
- Resolved an Advanced Import issue while using Mosaic with alpha channels
- Resolved an issue while recording area measurements
- Resolved Undo and Revert issues
- Various other bug fixes and user experience enhancements
Geographic Imager 4.5
- Compatible with Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud 2014*
- Geographic Imager panel was refreshed for easier access to tools, image information and features
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements
- * Adobe Photoshop CC (2014.1.0 and 2014.2.0) for Mac has a compatibility issue with Geographic Imager.
Release notes
- Significant read performance improvement for Mr.SID format
- Significant performance improvement when transforming an image using maximum precision
- Significant performance improvement when mosaicking images
- Improved ability to maintain layer structures during mosaic
- Improved Adobe Photoshop crop option support
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements
Geographic Imager 4.4
- Significant improvements to read and write performance for all geospatial formats supported by Geographic Imager. This is most noticeable when reading or writing very large files in BigTIFF, DEM, IMG, NITF, and MrSID formats and reading ASCII GRID, FLT, and BIL formats. Many formats read up to 20x faster and write up to 30x faster for very large files. Individual read and write speeds may vary depending on system performance, format, and file size.
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Release notes
- Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud compatible (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Export to USGS DEM format
- Tile DEM images to USGS DEM and grayscale GeoTIFF formats
- Panel improvements, including new DEM statistics and ability to copy tab values to clipboard
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Release notes
- Available in a Geographic Imager Basic license
- DEM TIFF write support, format saves raw DEM values
- Ability to Export Web Tiles to Google Maps or Microsoft Bing Maps format
- Geographic Imager panel improvements, including new Survey and Ruler tabs
- Crop by Vector File Extents, use the geographic extents of a vector file to crop an image
- Streamlined user interactions with command boxes and simpler messages
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Release notes
- Available Geographic Imager Basic license
- MrSID write support (when Lizardtech GeoExpress is installed, Windows only)
- BSB format import support
- Added support for IMG channel names
- Geographic Imager panel improvements, including new Measure tab
- New ability to load DEM layers individually and to set transparent alpha channels in Advanced Import
- New option to overlay (drape) and image in Terrain Shader
- Streamlined user interactions with command boxes and simpler messages
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Release notes
- Adobe Photoshop CS6 compatibility – Geographic Imager 4 is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS6. A refresh of the Geographic Imager panel matches the updated CS6 light and dark user interfaces.
- Enhanced ECW import support
- Automatic checking for maintenance updates and new versions.
- Added support for IMG channel names
- Improved main panel with access to Channel Management dialog box.
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Geographic Imager 3
Release notes
- New import support for MrSID/MG4 LiDAR (*.sid) format (raster and LiDAR data [as DTM]).
- New export support for ERDAS IMAGINE (*.img) raster format.
- Channel management dialog box for easy control of channel mapping and assignment of color roles for false-composite multiband imagery.
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements.
Release notes
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (also known as Photoshop 12.1 in Adobe CS5.5) in both 32 and 64 bit
- New import support for ERDAS IMAGINE (.img), Esri ArcInfo Binary Float Grid (.flt), and “DEM” grayscale GeoTIFF (*.tif) formats, including ability to import georeferenced images from Web Map Service (WMS) sources
- New export support for BigTIFF, ECW (up to 0.5 GB), and NITF formats
- Major enhancements to Advanced Import, including options to:
- import multiple files of differing formats
- resample and crop images prior to import
- modify bands/channel color mapping and select specific channels to import for multiband/hyperband images
- mosaic and import images as layers into existing documents specify and adjust DEM and DTM information and combine multiple DEM files on import
- Enhanced Quick Save feature for quick format conversion
- New ability to measure areas in images using the Adobe Photoshop Measurement Log panel
- Various bug fixes and user experience enhancements
Release notes
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements
Geographic Imager 3.3
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 (also known as Photoshop 12.1 in Adobe CS5.5) and Adobe Photoshop CS5 (12.0.4)
- New Pixel-As-Point option: A new preference is available when saving GeoTIFF images. The Pixel-As-Point reference method option uses the center of the pixel as the reference point.
- New Create Single Layer option in Terrain Shader: A new option in Terrain Shader creates a single colorization layer when multiple DEM layers are present.
Release notes
- Faster import for most of GI-provided raster formats
- New higher-precision colorization method for the Terrain Shader
- Better handling of DEM precision across the product
- Improved handling of third-party image format writers
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements
Geographic Imager 3.2.1
- Various minor bug fixes and optimizations
Geographic Imager 3.2
- Fully compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X
- Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS5 (including 64-bit)
- New Terrain Shader feature
- New Geospatial PDF support allows import and export
- Redesigned Geographic Imager panel for CS4 and CS5
- Improved Advanced Import feature
- New Transform options
- Export > Paths to Illustrator function now exports an RSF file. Use in conjunction with MAPublisher for Adobe Illustrator to create a new MAP View
- Various minor bug fixes and optimizations
Geographic Imager 2
Release notes
- Adds import support for the following DEM formats: ArcInfo ASCII GRID and Binary GRID, DEM USGS/CDED ASCII, Military Elevation Data/DTED, SDTS transfer and SRTM
- Adds import support for the following additional formats: ECW, JPEG 2000, MrSID, PCI EASI/PACE, SGI
- Automatic coordinate system transformation during mosaicking – allows images with different coordinate systems and pixel sizes to be mosaicked by automatically transforming the images to the same coordinate system and pixel size as the destination image in a single process.
- Crop on import – crops incoming images in the newly supported raster formats to a specified size upon import thus allowing large images, which could not be opened, to be successfully imported.
Release notes
- Full compatibility with Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Quick georeference allowing referencing using fewer than 3 tie-points
- Quick georeference allowing referencing using a second referenced image
- Reference points can now be exported as a csv or log file
- Reference points can now be entered using DMS and decimal degrees
Release notes
- New GeoCrop tool allows image cropping based on geographic coordinates
- Automated scripting allows for use of Geographic Imager tasks in conjunction with Photoshop’s automation tools
- New and improved control over spatial transformations, including support for multi-layer and multi-spectral images
- New and improved conversion to GeoTIFF functionality
- Custom co-ordinate system database file
- Support for previously unsupported Adobe Photoshop functions including Trim, Flip and non-angular Crop
Geographic Imager 1
Release notes
- Support for Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Support for Windows Vista operating system and for Intel-based Mac hardware
- New spatial image tiling function
- New and improved coordinate system database
- Numerous cosmetic fixes and improved overall application stability
Release notes
- Improved memory management allowing reprojection of larger images
- Unrestricted mosaicking of multi-layered images
- Additional colour-mode support for GCP transformations
- Coordinate system details now accessible from the main palette
- Various GCP viewing precision and usability fixes
- Numerous cosmetic fixes and improved overall application stability
