Free hdr sr11 software for mac

Hydra 2.1.3 is created as an effective editor tool using a number of regular photographs (up to four) with different exposures (darker and lighter) to create a superior one which is much closer to what one's eye can see. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light because of physical limitations in the sensor. This process is also known as a high dynamic range, or HDR, imaging. See the screencast tutorials for more information on how to acquire such images with your camera.

The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eye actually sees. You don't have to choose whether to have a beautiful sky or buildings, take 2 photos (or more) with perfect parameters for each of them, then combine them with Hydra.

The images that Hydra uses are not required to be taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. Hydra uses the same warping algorithm as Morph Age, which permits the alignment of images with offsets above a few pixels. This is a unique feature that means you can take photos anywhere without a tripod to later blend them in Hydra. This will change your way of making HDRs.

Major Features:

1. Input Images
   • Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PDF, RAW, DNG, PEF and most other file formats)
   • Exposure Value Calculator
   • Input filters (contrast, sharpness, color temperature)
2. Output Formats
   • Hydra Documents (.hydra)
   • JPEG Images (8-bit)
   • TIFF (8-bit and 16-bit)
   • OpenEXR (32-bit) only available in the stand-alone version
3. Aperture Support
   • Import from Aperture Library
   • Export to Aperture Projects
   • Plug-In (processing within Aperture with the same interface as in the stand-alone version)
4. Application Support
   • Real-Time Preview
   • Document Saving (choice of the file name and directory)
5. Alignment
   • Advanced Automatic Image Matching Techniques (free form and homography)
   • Multi-core acceleration
   • Manual Matching with Visual Feedback
   • Non-linear Warping based on Morph Age Technology (CeedMorph)
   • Real-time Previewing
   • Special image border handling (crop or mirror)
6. Merging
   • Ultra-fast GPU accelerated HDR image merging
   • Real-time Previewing
   • Individual Image Influence Parameterization
   • Output filters (saturation, sharpness, brightness, contrast)
   • Smoothness Tuning
   • Blending Tuning
   • Navigation through exposure
   • Loupe Tool with real time 1:1 preview
7. Tone Mapping
   • Perceptive
   • Highlights Compression
   • Local Adaptation
8. User Experience
   • Elegant and Intuitive Interface (the same in the stand-alone version as in the Aperture Plug-in)
   • Zoom and Navigation for Images
   • Switch Regular and HDR Viewing
   • Fullscreen Mode with HUD
   • Connection to iLife, input from and export to iPhoto library
   • Saving/loading HDR Presets, for user-defined effects

Enhancements:

• Fixed Automatic Alignment Crash in Snow Leopard
• Fixed Fullscreen Mode in Snow Leopard

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard or later
• Any Intel Mac or a PowerMac G5 with at least 64MB of VRAM (GPU) required.
• Mac with Intel processor and at least 128 MB VRAM highly recommended.
• 32-bit and 64-bit architectures supported

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later.

Photoshop Updater 9.0.1 is designed with the purpose is to fix a number of problems discovered after Photoshop CS2 (9.0) was released. With this updater installed Photoshop will no longer hang for several seconds when using painting tools with quick strokes, documents containing a large number of text layers will now open more quickly, palettes (slow redraw, palettes go white, possible crash)will now work properly, TIFF files from certain scanners will be opened correctly.

Major Features:

1. After editing an image in Photoshop CS2 via the TouchUp tool in Adobe Acrobat software, the image will no longer gets repositioned, XMP metadata from AI.
2. PDF files will now be retained in Photoshop, info palette numbers will now be displayed and updated when moving a curve point in Curves via the cursor keys, TIFF and PSB files greater than 2GB will now open properly, and Merge to HDR command will now function properly when using high-ASCII characters in user login.

Enhancements:

• A bug fixing release.

Photomatix extends the dynamic range of digital photographs or scanned films. If you have ever shot a high contrast scene, you probably know the problem -- blown out highlights and loss of contrast in shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this:
• Exposure blending: combining images taken at different exposures into one image with increased dynamic range
• Tone Mapping: processing a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to compress its tonal range while preserving local contrast.

The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while preserving the details of the original scene in highlights and shadows.

Enhancements:

• Better saving menu
• New help panels
• Output of offset after aligning possible
• Warning before replacing files
• Zooming and scrolling via mouse possible (beta)
• Small bugfixes

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

JahPlayer is a professional grade media player capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences at resolutions as high as 2K and 4K in real-time and features a robust set of image analysis and asset management tools.
Jahplayer uses a completely hardware accelerated pipeline, allowing you to maintain the aspect ratio of the source media or change it on the fly, and is capable of both disk based playback and ram based playback.
Jplayer sports real time pan and zoom, is resolution independent, can be run from the command line, has HDR sequence support, and includes a dynamic, real time video wall that can be used for the playback of multiple shots, color grading or digital dalies!
Main features:
- Variable frame rate control
- Real-time aspect ratio control
- RGBA color channel views
- A & B media playback channels with both A/B & A|B playback
- Full audio support (including audio only tracks)
- Real-time hardware based pan and zoom
- Dynamic edit points stored in the database
- Dynamic thumbnail generation
- GPU based visualization tools (RGB parade)