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HDRtist 1.1
HDRtist brings users a great HDR software which creates HDR photos and tone maps them in a single step. more>> <<less
Ohanaware - HDRtist is advanced and useful Mac HDR photography tool that creates HDR photos and tone maps them in a single step. HDRtist. HDRtist 1.0 is advanced and useful Mac HDR photographyLicense:Freeware

Hydra 2.1.3
Hydra 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 ones eye can see more>>
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:
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- Application Support
- Real-Time Preview
- Document Saving (choice of the file name and directory)
- 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)
- 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
- Tone Mapping
- Perceptive
- Highlights Compression
- Local Adaptation
- 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
This process is also known as a high dynamic range, or HDR, imaging. The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eye actually sees. You don't have to choose whether to have a beautifulLicense:update/patch
Photoshop Updater 9.0.1
Get the latest features and fixes for your registered copy of Adobe Photoshop 7.0. more>>
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:
- 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.
- 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.
Photosphere 1.2
Photosphere is a professional and smart image browser and cataloging application that works on local files only, and is not internet savvy at this time. more>>
Photosphere 1.2 is a professional and smart image browser and cataloging application that works on local files only, and is not internet savvy at this time. It reads and writes JPEG, TIFF, OpenEXR, and Radiance-RGBE (often called HDR for "high dynamic range") image formats. A BMP file reader was added more recently, but no writer.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Photonator 0.942
Photonator - extra strength digital imaging organizer more>>
A point and click interface can then be used to create complex queries against this information as well as all digital photo metadata.
This version as provides support for grouping, processing and reviewing panorama projects as well as for managing bracketed photos for comparison or for processing by an HDR application.
Other utilities in this release allow you to find all duplicated images on your hard drive, and a database repairing utility.
Version restrictions:
- expires on June 30th, but will be replaced
Jahplayer 3-0.2.2
Jahplayer - professional grade media player capable of playing uncompressed video and image sequences more>>
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)
Photomatix Pro 3.2.6
Photomatix Pro is described as an unique and handy tool that can enable you to recover highlights and shadows details of a high-contrast scene. more>>
Photomatix Pro 3.2.6 is described as an unique and handy tool that can enable you to recover highlights and shadows details of a high-contrast scene.
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.
Enhancements:
- Made the ratio and preview magnification settings remembered separately depending on whether the image is in landscape or portrait mode.
- Made the text boxes of the Tone Mapping and Exposure Fusion settings in batch mode editable.
- Bug fixed: Position of the Tone Mapping Preview dialog was not correctly remembered.
HDRsoft - Photomatix Pro 3.2.4 a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images. PhotomatixLicense:update/patch
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Jasper's DRIMaker 1.3
Jaspers DRIMaker provides a completed solution to help you automatically produce DRI images. more>> Jasper's DRIMaker 1.3 provides a completed solution to help you automatically produce DRI images. This application does not produce 32-bit HDR-images which will be changed to LDR via tone-mapping but uses the so called Exposure Blending in order to crossfade each image iteratively.
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.
Jaspers DRIMaker 1.21
Jaspers DRIMaker - automatically create HDRI pictures from your photos more>>
So in the end, the manual technique that people do in e.g. Photoshop, is simulated.
You will find more information about this kind of technique on this page. Everything you need is an exposure sequence in JPEG/TIFF format.
My aim in this implementation is to get the most natural results, as i think that for photographers the whole DRI thing is made to compensate the bad dynamic range of digital sensors. If the final image has a greater dynamic range than the human eyes could normally adapt to, you have gone much too far imho.
Enhancements:
- Saving is possible again (in v1.2 was a missing connection!)

SkyORB 1.8.2
SkyORB comes as a useful and high quality 3D planetarium, star gazing and epheremis that are based from V3X.net engine. more>>
SkyORB 1.8.2 comes as a useful and high quality 3D planetarium, star gazing and epheremis that are based from V3X.net engine. It features a modern 3D interface, search engine, a large catalog of stars, planets, moons and updatable comets and asteroids database, and lets you choose see the actual sky from any point on Earth or from any planet from the solar system.
Enhancements:
- HDR configuration.
- Graphical compass in local view.
- Improvements in the OpenGL renderer.
Requirements:
- G4 or better
- Mac OS X 10.4 or later
- OpenGL compliant video card.
BWF Reader 1.4
BWF Reader processes all metadata included within a BWF more>>
BWF Reader does process finally all metadata included within a BWF and does compare the found data against file or user settings and FCP launch settings.
This allows to double check whether the audio HDR file settings would match a users idea or a FCP launch setting.
App Remote 2.0
App Remote - A highly functional app launcher widget. more>> Award-winning SilverFast from LaserSoft Imaging, Kiel, Germany, is now available for Heidelberg CHROMAGRAPH 3300/3400, TOPAZ, TANGO/XL, NEXSCAN and PRIMESCAN scanners on Windows up to Vista and Macintosh OS-X up to 10.5 Leopard. SilverFast Ai Studio allows to write the full dynamic range of its hardware into TIFF-data. This makes the reduction to 24 bit RGB obsolete. This opens up a whole new workflow....
Best compatibilty for scanners is ensured when using hardware and firmware revisions which work with LinoColor 6 or NewColor 2.0. To test compatibility please install our free demo version. We recommend to test with the targeted hardware.
Among the various highlights you will find our IT-8 calibration with color correction (up to 12 colors), Plug&Play CMYK, batch mode, Jobmanager and the professional multiple densitometer.
Softproof with PhotoProof and printing with layout through PrinTao are also implemented. So SilverFast Ai STUDIO and SilverFast HDR STUDIO becomes your dedicated workflow solution.<<less
HuginOSX 0.7.0
A panorama Tools frontend and photo stitching program. more>> A panorama Tools frontend and photo stitching program.
With HuginOSX you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
HuginOSX uses the same open source library used by many other software including shareware like PTMac from Kekus Digital. HuginOSX is, however, free and you can start making panoramic photos without buying any expensive software or equipment.
You can use your usual digital camera to take photo, and HuginOSX can stitch number of photos together quite nicely.
For advanced users, HuginOSX also has many features available for making panorama with special equipment including two types of fisheye lenses.
Enhancements:
- Online help
- Hugin now has comprehensive help documentation for the
- entire user interface, the manual now includes glossary
- items explaining many panorama stitching and related
- photography concepts.
- Languages
- New translations include Slovak, Korean, Bulgarian and
- Spanish. This means that hugin is now usable with a total
- of twenty languages.
- New Assistant panel
- Creating simple panoramas is much easier, hugin now starts
- showing an Assistant with a simple 1-2-3 approach for
- loading images, aligning and creating the final output.
- The Assistant will estimate lens and camera parameters,
- then pick a suitable output projection and size, advanced
- options are still available for manual adjustment.
- Photometric model
- Previous versions of hugin and panotools had basic support
- for correcting vignetting and exposure differences between
- photos.
- This has been completely overhauled, hugin now internally
- uses the EMoR model for representing exposure
- photometrically. This means that the camera response curve,
- vignetting, colour balance and exposure can now be
- optimised in much the same way as geometrical properties
- such as position and lens distortion.
- The result is that blending between photos is better than
- ever before.
- HDR
- Previously hugin supported High Dynamic Range imaging
- solely by allowing stitching of HDR floating-point TIFF
- photos - These images themselves had to be created in
- another tool.
- Now, thanks to the internal photometric model, hugin can
- now create HDR output from normal exposure bracketed
- photos. The photos dont have to be perfectly-aligned,
- they dont even need to be nearly-aligned or have
- consistent exposure differences - The hugin optimiser will
- sort all this stuff out, and the stitcher will create
- OpenEXR or TIFF HDR output files for later tonemapping or
- use as lightprobes.
- Exposure blending
- HDR and tonemapping isnt for everybody, enfuse introduced
- exposure blending to the world, and hugin supports aligning
- and fusing bracketed stacks of photos, perfectly, all as
- part of the stitching process.
- So now with hugin-0.7.0 and enblend-3.2 you can create
- realistic, photographic panoramas that have no over-exposed
- or under-exposed areas.
- Makefile stitching
- hugin-0.7.0 introduces a new stitching back-end: previously
- the various stitching tools were executed directly by the
- GUI, now all the commands required to generate the output
- are written to a Makefile which is then processed
- independently of hugin itself.
- Aside from easier debugging and customisation; this
- background stitching allows you to get on with creating a
- new project while waiting for the previous job to finish -
- Stitching can also be deferred or shifted to another
- machine, even headless servers can now be used.
- Projections
- Hugin has always had the ability to save panoramas using
- simulated normal and fisheye lenses, or 360 degree
- cylindrical and spherical projections.
- Now a whole series of alternative cartographic mappings are
- available, of particular interest are the conformal
- stereographic and Mercator projections which can be used to
- show extremely large angles of view with no local
- distortion.
- Project templates
- Hugin project files can now be used as templates for new
- panorama projects. This is useful if you take a lot of
- panoramas with exactly the same camera positions.
- Other improvements
Theres a whole lot of other new stuff in this release:
- numbering in the control-point editor, straight-line
- control-points, numeric transform, clicking to rotate the
- preview, a straighten button, cropping of the output and
- probably more.
- Command-line tools
This release provides new command-line tools:
- align_image_stack: align a nearly-aligned stack of photos
- pto2mk: create a stitching Makefile from a pto project
- vig_optimise: optimise photometric parameters
- tca_correct: calculate lens chromatic aberration
- hugin_hdrmerge: assemble a bracketed stack to HDR
- matchpoint: classify control point features
- Control point generators
- Hugin doesnt yet ship with a Patent Free control point
- generator. So you either need to pick control points
- manually - Not as difficult as it sounds - or install and
- configure one of the following control-point generators as
plug-ins, in no particular order:
- autopano-sift-C
- panomatic
- Autopano-SIFT
- Autopano freeware version
- Upgrading
- Upgrading from previous versions of hugin should be
- seamless. If you do have problems with old settings, these
- can be reset in the Preferences by clicking Load defaults.
ChocoFlop 0.909
ChocoFlop 0.909 is known as a preview release of the upcoming ChocoFlop, a graphics manipulation program. more>>
ChocoFlop 0.909 is known as a preview release of the upcoming ChocoFlop, a graphics manipulation program. As a preview it is entirely free but still unstable and not feature complete.
ChocoFlop is an image manipulation program based entirely on Apple's new CoreImage technology which takes advantages of the processing power in your GPU (graphics card).
Major Features:
- Small, Launches in a pair of seconds
- Real Time non-destructive filters
- Rich Text Layers
- Load and opens many image formats
- Supports layers, layer masks, selections
- Paint tools with table pressure support
- HDR (128 bits per pixel)
- Universal Binary
- Easy to use for photoshop users
- Can import many additional RAW formats with dcraw
HDR (128 bits per pixel) Universal Binary. Easy to use for photoshop users. Can import many additional RAW formats with dcraw. Major features: Non-destructive image editing. Chain multiple filtersLicense:Freeware

TNGViewer 1.0.0.450
TNGViewer is a good tool possessing desirable qualities in displaying TNG 3D realtime interactive presentations, a service offered by Immaginaria. more>>
TNGViewer 1.0.0.450 is a good tool possessing desirable qualities in displaying TNG 3D realtime interactive presentations, a service offered by Immaginaria. This free application also allows for viewing and navigating FBX, 3DS, OBJ, DXF, DAE, LWO and LWS models and scenes. Users can walk around, fly within and explore the 3D environments freely; they can even save screenshots and movies of live presentations and of simple models and scenes. TNGViewer provides a fully-resizable window, with fullscreen support, antialiasing and HDR display on modern graphics cards; older cards are supported as well, with fewer rendering features.
Enhancements:
- Fixed launch failure on machines with unsupported audio hardware.
- A serious issue was fixed on systems where OpenAL could not establish a connection to the underlying audio hardware, causing a startup failure. The applications and plugins should now run fine on said machines, but obviously no sound output shall be produced.
- The software update dialog in TNGViewer now supports a 'Version History' button, which points to the relevant page on the Web site. The Media sub...
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