HDR tools - Rating
April 2, 2008
We offer you here Myphotosoft rating of HDR tools based on each tool performance. The examples of tonemapped images can be found in HDR tools-comparison article.
HDR tools - Comparison
March 25, 2008
HDR imaging is becoming more and more popular in digital photography world. The creation of hdri gives a number of challenges to software developers, with merging and tone mapping the most important of them. The versatility of programs gives the user a choice and we are trying to give some guidance as to how to choose properly.
This last article in the series is devoted to comparison of all the reviewed hdr making programs. We shall look at the default results of each of them and compare them using basic quality characteristics such as alignment, ghost artifacts, tonal compression, noise, etc. The illustrations set side by side will speak for themselves in most cases.
Dynamic Photo HDR
March 20, 2008
A production of Multimedia and graphic tools company, Dynamic Photo HDR is a tool for creating and tone-mapping high dynamic range images from a set of differently exposed photos. First thing that draws attention in the program is the interface, different from the usual functional light grey and looking quite stylish with its dark lit diagrams. The main concern of any user though is not the interface but the performance. Let’s see what Dynamic Photo HDR can do. [Read more]
EasyHDR
February 28, 2008
Easy HDR program is fully devoted to hdr images processing. The three workflow steps it employs include merging, tone-mapping, and post-processing. The third step makes Easy HDR more or less independent and lets users to produce hdri without referring to any other image editor.
Easy HDR interface with tools and functions reduced to hdr making is not overloaded. Main window only contains major functions as loading/saving images, preferences, projedct saving/loading, help and the like. All tools and settings for each of the hdr images production steps are set in three tabs.
Merging hdri with Artizen
February 21, 2008
Artizen offers its users not simply an hdr converter but an image editor with a set of tools and functions comparable to Photoshop, and hdr merging and tonemapping is one of them.
Consiquently, opening Artizen you see the editor with it’s numerous tools and palettes.
But what really interests us is the menu entry ‘HDR’.
To produce an hdr image you can open files to be merged to hdri first or directly go to HDR > Merge and load your images within the dialogue space of the command.
Photomatix
February 14, 2008
HDR Soft Photomatix Pro is a standalone program (there exists also a Photoshop plug-in version) creating High Dynamics Range images from a set of differently exposed shots. Photomatix easy interface and good quality makes it one of the most popular software dealing with hdr. This article takes a look at what and how the program can do.
Photomatix installation is a usual procedure with no hidden obstacles. It goes smooth and predictable. On the first launce you are offered a quick tutorial (very clear and to the point) and a user manual. Right there on the screen you get menu paths for generating, tone mapping and blending images.
Merging to HDR in Photoshop
January 29, 2008
Starting with SC2 Photoshop offers merging of several differently exposed photos to an HDR (High Dynamics Range) image. As there are many standalone programs capable of producing HDR images and in many cases solely devoted to this task we start the series on HDR with this Photoshop command lying so closely at hand.
Making hdr in Photoshop has same two steps as in any other program. First we merge several differently exposed photos to an hdr image. After that we have to adapt the resulted hdr image for accessible media through tone mapping procedure - the adaptation of high color range to the usual low range.