HDRSoft Photomatix v3.2.2 | 6.8 MB

Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. The Tone Mapping tool is also available separately as a plugin compatible with Photoshop CS2.

The benefits of using Photomatix Pro include:
› Saving on lighting equipment
Given that most digital cameras can auto-bracket at different exposures, you do not need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when shooting high contrast scenes. Just enable Auto Exposure Bracketing, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.

› Saving time in post-processing
Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity — automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs.

› Taking advantage of your 32-bit images
Have you created a 32-bit HDR image in Photoshop CS2 and could not get a good HDR conversion? The Photomatix Tone Mapping tool may help. See how it compares to Photoshop CS2 HDR conversion.

› Great pictures on cloudy days
Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix Pro can turn them into great-looking images. Check this image as example.

› Noise reduction
The Exposure Blending functions of Photomatix Pro merge any number of bracketed photos — this process is equivalent to image stacking, which tends to reduce noise in the resulting image.

› Well exposed panoramas
A panoramic scene is almost always a high contrast scene — you can’t limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting a 360В° panorama. By taking views under several exposures and processing them in Photomatix Pro, you can create a panorama that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene.

HDR / Tone Mapping
- Generation of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images from differently exposed images
› Option for automatic image alignment. Two alignment methods are available.
› Option for reducing ghosting artifacts in two different cases: one for ghosting due to moving objects, the other for ghosting artifacts due to background movements.
› Option for automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations.
› Option for automatic reduction of noise.
› Reading of exposure information from Exif data.
› Source images can be either 8 bits/channel or 16 bits/channel images, or RAW files from several camera models as well as DNG files.
› In the case of RAW files, White Balance and output color space can be adjusted.
- Conversion of single RAW file into pseudo-HDR image
› Enables to apply the Tone Mapping tool to single RAW file.
› White Balance can be adjusted in Preferences.
- Tone Mapping tool for revealing highlights and shadows details in HDR image
› Two tone mapping methods available: Details Enhancer, based on a local operator, and Tone Compressor, based on a global operator.
› Preview enabling to adjust the following settings for Details Enhancer: Strength, Color Saturation, Light Smoothing, Luminosity, Gamma, Black and White Point, Color Temperature, Saturation Highlights, Saturation Shadows, Microcontrast, Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothing, Shadows Smoothing and Shadows Clipping.
For Tone Compressor the settings are: Brightness, Tonal Range Compression, Contrast Adaptation, Black and White Point, Color Temperature and Color Saturation.
› Settings can be saved as Presets for quick access, or saved to and loaded from XMP files
› Loupe to get a crop at 100% resolution.
› Option for different preview sizes (small, medium, large and fit)
› Undo and redo buttons for the settings done.
› Output image is in 16 bits/channel mode, with the option to save it as 8 bits/channel jpeg or tiff, if desired
› In the case of Details Enhancer, input image can also be a 16 bits/channel image file.
› Option for output as equirectangular image set to be viewed in a 360 degree panorama viewer in the case of Details Enhancer.
› Tone Mapping can be undone.
- HDR Viewer shows local HDR image data at the appropriate exposure
- Display of HDR Histogram (logarithmic)
- Ability to batch tone map single HDR images.
- Function to tone map large HDR image files while benefiting from a preview.
- Read and Write support for Radiance RGBE (.hdr), OpenEXR (.exr) and Floating Point TIFF
- Color managed HDR workflow: passing trough of ICC color profiles from the source to the tone mapped images, and color managed display.

Exposure Blending (Combining differently exposed images)
- Four algorithms for Exposure Blending: Highlights & Shadows - 2 images, Highlights & Shadows - Auto, Highlights & Shadows - Adjust, and Highlights & Shadows - Intensive
- Automatic alignment option for hand-held images with two alignment methods available
- Preview and Loupe available for all Exposure Blending methods.
- Ability to select the images for method ‘H&S - 2 images’
› Settings for method H&S - Adjust are: Accentuation, Blending Point, Shadows, Color Saturation, White Clip, Black Clip, Midtones and 360 degree image.

Automatic Batch Processing
- Automatically loads and processes images of the specified input location, and saves resulting images to the specified output location
- Works for HDR generation, Tone Mapping and exposure blending
- Strip processing option to generate an HDR image from large TIFF files without exceeding available RAM.
- Ability to set the Exposure Value spacing for HDR image generation
- Processes all sets of bracketed images stored under a given folder (number of bracketed images in each set specified by user before running the batch)
- Ability to process all sub-folders of a given folder, combining all image files stored under each sub-folder
- Options for naming the the resulting image files.

General
- Support of the following image file formats: JPEG (read & write), TIFF 24-bit, 48-bit and Floating Point (read & write), Radiance RGBE (read & write), OpenEXR (read & write), PNG (Mac version: read & write), PSD (read only) RAW files from several camera models, as well as DNG files (read only)
- Basic image operation tools
› Cropping (also works with HDR images)
› Resizing (also works with HDR images)
› Rotating (also works with HDR images)
› Sharpening
› Brightness & Contrast
› Remapping of mirror ball (also works with HDR images)
- Availability of Lightroom Export Plugin to Photomatix Pro

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