Photomatix Pro 3.2.4

Photomatix Pro 3.2.4 is a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. Using advanced algorithms, Photomatix Pro combines differently exposed shots into one image with increased dynamic range.

• Blend exposures hassle-free
• Generate an HDR image from multiple exposures
• Reveal details in highlights and shadows in HDR image

Designed for professional photographers and advanced amateurs, Photomatix Pro is a standalone application offering two methods of tone mapping, six methods of exposure blending, an alignment tool for out-of-register images, 16-bit support, and batch processing.

Major Benefits

• Saving on lighting equipment
• • No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature of your camera, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 360° 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. Photomatix Pro offers both exposure blending (also knows as exposure fusion) and HDR tone mapping.
    

Major Features:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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, Smoothing, Luminosity, Gamma, Black and White Point, Color Temperature, Saturation Highlights, Saturation Shadows, Microcontrast, Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothness, Shadows Smoothness 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 rations and magnification
   • 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
   • 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.
4. HDR Viewer shows local HDR image data at the appropriate exposure
5. Display of HDR Histogram (logarithmic)
6. Ability to batch tone map single HDR images.
7. Function to tone map large HDR image files while benefiting from a preview.
8. Read and Write support for Radiance RGBE (.hdr), OpenEXR (.exr) and Floating Point TIFF
9. Color managed HDR workflow: passing trough of ICC color profiles from the source to the tone mapped images, and color managed display.

Requirements:

• Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher (including 10.6) - Universal Binary