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When used in trial mode, Photomatix Pro is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to images produced with one of the two Tone Mapping methods and 3 of the 5 exposure fusion modes. Note : The above download pages are also for upgrading your registered version of Photomatix Pro. The upgrade to version 4 is free of charge for customers who purchased a license of version 3. Note : The above download pages are also for upgrading your registered version of Photomatix Light/Essentials. The upgrade to version 3 is free of charge. When used in trial mode, the plug-in is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to images produced with the Details Enhancer method.
Picturenaut provides (all automatically) image alignment, exposure correction, color balancing, noise level compensation, and derivation of the camera curve from the source images. It supports most formats, including PFM (Portable Float Map), HDR (Radiance), EXR (OpenEXR), TIFF (32-bit Floating Point), TIFF (LogLuv), LDR, JPEG, TIFF (only RGB color space), TGA (Targa, no alpha channel). It has now the ability to process RAW files. I have checked this out using my NEF RAW files and it worked like a dream.
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Picturenaut Overview
You want the accuracy of HDRShop, with all the low-level control to squeeze out the maximum on image quality. But you you also want all the modern convenience features like exposure detection from EXIF data, image alignment and ghost removal? And you want a tone mapper where the final result looks exactly like the preview? Picturenaut is for you. Picturenaut was born in the German photo community. It has been in the works for four years, with consistent improvements according to user feedback.
Essential HDR, the Revolutionary HDR Tonemapping Software from Imaging Luminary, LLC
"Essential HDR does work and it is very easy to use, works fast and the results look very, very good." "I'm not a professional photographer, but I wanted to tell you how much I've enjoyed using your software. It has made my pictures look better by orders of magnitude and increased my enjoyment of photography immeasurably." "A friend directed me to your software and so far I'm very impressed. The Wukong application seems to be extremely fast and efficient, and the results are excellent. ... ... to me, there seems to be more detail retained in the Wukong version and the overall lighting seems more natural"
However, there is a clear distinction to the Advanced variant: FDRTools Basic ist less suited for the processing of many and large images as it does not support parallelised - and hence much faster - image data processing. Furthermore FDRTools Basic is available as 32-bit version only, imposing limits on the size of processible images. FDRTools Basic is perfect for hobbyists who occasionally want to create high quality tonemapped images for free. If you are a first-time user trying to evaluate the possibilities of HDR imaging and Tonemapping, you should try FDRTools Advanced.
FDR Freeware
It is a big pleasure for me to announce that Luminance HDR won the award as May 2012 Sourceforge Project of the Month . It is an honour for us to win this award, that has been given to absolutely brilliant projects for the last 10 years . And it is also a good occasion to talk a bit more in detail on what is going on in Luminance HDR. I would like to start by saying my appreciation for the work made by Daniel and Franco: they are both seriously skilled developers and they compensate my lack of time by carrying on the development. It is all thanks to their work that we have a new beta version to play with after such a short time from the release of the 2.2.1 : if you are curious to test the latest progress, we will appreciate any kind of feedback.