![]() This is a bit different than other add-ins I’ve used in Lightroom. The only awkward thing I noticed is that you have to go File | Export with Preset and choose Photomatix Pro from the menu (or directly in the export dialog) to get to this option. Here’s a shot of what you get when you generate a HDR image from within the stand-alone user-interface on the left, and from Lightroom 2.4 on the right:Īs you can see the Lightroom version also includes the Blend Exposures option built right in and has a cool option to re-import the newly created output file back into Lightroom. The cool thing about this product is that they also make a Lightroom add-in which works very well from my experience. Scott Kelby offers a decent explanation of Tone Mapping with Photomatix in his book The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers, and there’s a great tutorial included in the product, so I’ll not dive to deep into Tone Mapping in this review. ![]() You’ll spend most of your time in the Tone Mapping section when you use this product, so the image on the right shows what it looks like. ![]() Some users may wish to skip the whole HDR/Tone Mapping phase and simply blend multiple exposures into one properly exposed image so you just need to use Exposure Blending to accomplish that objective. Next, you choose Tone Mapping to convert that image into something that isn’t hideous looking because your display can’t display all of the colors found in a HDR image. Here’s a quick look at the stand-alone Windows user interface:īasically the way this product works is you choose Generate HDR image and select one (yes, multiple images are not required) or more images to convert into a high dynamic range (HDR) image. In this review I’ll compare it to some alternatives to see if it really helps or if it is just another way to get into the wallets of photographers. In this respect, the best still is qtpfsgui with eight different operators and access to the full 64bit addressing space of my computer (Windows 32bit applications are still limited to less than 4GB RAM).The latest rage these days is High Dynamic Range (HDR) image processing, and the product that all the real experts in this field recommend is HDRSoft Photomatix Pro Plus for Windows (or Mac). Now my wish is for Photomatix to adopt a plug in architecture that will allow third parties to add tonemapping operators.
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