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Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open[1][2]) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animation, glass, and translucency; interface guidelines for phrasing and tone of instructions and other text in applications were available. New cursors and sounds based on Windows Aero design principles were also introduced.
Windows Aero was used as the design language of Windows Vista and Windows 7. The flat design-based Metro design language was introduced on Windows 8, although aspects of the design and features promoted as part of Aero on Windows Vista and 7 have been retained in later versions of Windows (barring design changes to comply with Metro or Fluent).
For the first time since the release of Windows 95, Microsoft completely revised its user interface guidelines, covering aesthetics, common controls such as buttons and radio buttons, task dialogs, wizards, common dialogs, control panels, icons, fonts, user notifications, and the "tone" of text used.[3][2]
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 computers that meet certain hardware and software requirements, the Windows Aero theme is used by default, primarily incorporating various animation and transparency effects into the desktop using hardware acceleration and the Desktop Window Manager (DWM). In the "Personalize" section added to Control Panel of Windows Vista, users can customize the "glass" effects to either be opaque or transparent, and change the color it is tinted. Enabling Windows Aero also enables other new features, including an enhanced Alt-Tab menu and taskbar thumbnails with live previews of windows, and "Flip 3D", a window switching mechanism which cascades windows with a 3D effect.
Windows 7 features refinements in Windows Aero, including larger window buttons by default (minimize, maximize, close and query), revised taskbar thumbnails, the ability to manipulate windows by dragging them to the top or sides of the screen (to the side to make it fill half the screen, and to the top to maximize), the ability to hide all windows by hovering the Show Desktop button on the taskbar, and the ability to minimize all other windows by shaking one.
Use of DWM, and by extension the Windows Aero theme, requires a video card with 128 MB of graphics memory (or at least 64 MB of video RAM and 1 GB of system RAM for on-board graphics) supporting pixel shader 2.0, and with WDDM-compatible drivers. Windows Aero is also not available in Windows 7 Starter, only available to a limited extent on Windows Vista Home Basic, and is automatically disabled if a user is detected to be running a non-genuine copy of Windows.[4][5] Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 also support Windows Aero as part of the "Desktop Experience" component, which is disabled by default.[6]
Wizard 97[7] had been the prevailing standard for wizard design, visual layout, and functionality used in Windows 98 through to Windows Server 2003, as well as most Microsoft products in that time frame. Aero Wizards are the replacement for Wizard 97, incorporating visual updates to match the aesthetics of the rest of Aero, as well as changing the interaction flow.
The Segoe UI typeface is the default font for Aero with languages that use Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic character sets. The default font size is also increased from 8pt to 9pt to improve readability. In the Segoe UI typeface prior to Windows 8, the numeral zero ("0") is narrow, while capital letter "O" is wider (Windows 8's Segoe UI keeps this difference), and numeral one ("1") has a top hook, while capital letter "I" has equal crown and base (Windows 8's "1" has no base, and the "I" does not have a crown or base).
The Vista User Experience Guidelines also address the issue of "tone" in the writing of text used with the Aero user interface. Prior design guidelines from Microsoft had not done much to address the issue of how user interface text is phrased, and as such, the way that information and requests are presented to the user had not been consistent between parts of the operating system.
The guidelines for Vista and its applications suggest messages that present technically accurate advice concisely, objectively, and positively, and assume an intelligent user motivated to solve a particular problem. Specific advice includes the use of the second person and the active voice (e.g. "Print the photos on your camera") and avoidance of words like "please", "sorry" and "thank you".[10]
The Aero interface was unveiled for Windows Vista as a complete redesign of the Windows interface, replacing Windows XP's "Luna" theme. Until the release of Windows Vista Beta 1 in July 2005, little had been shown of Aero in public or leaked builds, with alpha builds containing interim designs such as "Plex".[11]
Retrospectively, a design style and Internet aesthetic and UI/UX design trend based on Windows Aero called Frutiger Aero has been identified, which was popular from roughly 2004 to 2013.[32][33]
Frutiger Aero is characterized by modern and organic themes associated with nature, glass, water and air.[34] Common features of Frutiger Aero include shiny and glossy textures, CGI renders of scenes with nature and technology together, grass, transparency, sparkles, bubbles, nature symbolism, a tertiary color palette, bokeh photography, and elements of skeuomorphic design.[35][36][32][37][38]
In the 2000s, Frutiger Aero came as a necessity for tech companies to make new technologies accessible to as many people, using familiar, skeuomorphic and humanist designs.[36] This change came after the futuristic "Y2K" interface that was primarily used on Windows operating systems in the early to late 1990s.[41]
Between 2012 and 2014, user interfaces on desktops, mobile devices, and websites underwent a cardinal shift towards flat design.[42] This shift coincided with the decline of Frutiger Aero and Windows Aero. Later in the early 2020s, Frutiger Aero has known a nostalgic revival on Reddit, YouTube, Instagram as well as TikTok where the hashtag #frutigeraero was used over 30 million times.[34][41]
I am running Windows 7 64 bit, 16gb ram and I2600K processor and I still find it somewhat slow. On my 3 year old machine I found it too slow to use - took up to 5-6 seconds to process especially when using multiple filters at once. I found Nik Color Efex Pro 3 to be much faster, in fact I might just go back and start using 3 again for most processing.
Since I'm just running an older Athlon system with integrated AMD graphics and XP-32bit with 4GB RAM (only recognizes 3.2 of course) both versions run slower for me than for you; but I have not noticed version 4 to be significantly slower unless I stack a bunch of filters for it to process. And even then it is faster than having to add the extra filters to separate layers in Photoshop (or running the software again from Lightroom).
I only use the software on maybe 10% of my photos, so I don't mind the wait. I don't even time it, but I'm guessing 10 to 20 seconds. I'd be perfectly happy with 5 or 6 seconds. Is it really that long given how much time you might spend selecting and tweaking the filter?
That said if version 3 is faster for you then you can use it for times when you don't want to stack filters. And yes, you can have both versions installed. I can choose either version from both Lightroom and Photoshop.
One thing: My Samsung has graphic card that works well as accelerator for cs5, and probably to NIK (I did not realized that it may be so important while I was buying this computer 3 years ago or so).
BTW, NeatImage is slower with GPU usage than with CPU only.
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I would contact the support for clarifications and recommendations related to graphic cards GPU acceleration, most of the time there is a minimum and optimum graphic card recommendation, they probably have a table with benchmark results.
I have the same impression, namely that CEP3 is faster in starting up and processin than CEP4. This may be due to the previews of the presets now offered in the new version. What bugs me, however, is the phenomenon of vertical lines appearing in the preset windows and the processed files when using e.g. the tonal contrast filter that does not occur with CEP3 (see gallery). I advised NIK of this issue and got the following reply:
Nothing to worry about. It is on par with other 64 bit plug-ins. Try to disable GPU acceleration and see what happens, maybe it's a little faster, but you'll also lose some special features. Not worth the hassle for just 2 seconds.
Something like the FOG filter sometimes takes over 30 seconds to run the preview.
This is in standalone or when run from LightRoom.
From within Photoshop the same filters all run under 1 second.
They gave instructions forcing some safe-mode setting to ensure GPU is not used. It runs faster, but still about five seconds to run the plugin... nowhere near what I see when it is run from within CS5.
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