- #HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX MANUAL#
- #HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX FULL#
- #HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX PC#
- #HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX MAC#
This works as a plugin for Lightroom, and the first advantage of this product is there is no need to separately export images as TIFF’s because Lightroom renders them ‘on the fly” for LREnfuse as required. LREnfuse dialogue box, launched from within Lightroom Limited use unless you always use a tripod, I did not include test images from this product below. I tried some that weren’t and they were unusable. Most importantly though it does not have an alignment capability, so this will only work with images taken on a tripod.
#HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX PC#
This has a rather clunky interface (obviously designed for the PC first!). I was looking for a cross platform front end to Enfuse and came across EnfuseGUI. This happened infrequently with 3.4, but the Snow Leopard version crashed after every third image had been Enfused. During batch processing they would often crash, and I’d have to remove the files that had been completed from the folder and restart the batch.
I did experience problems however with both version 3.4 (Leopard) and versions 4.2.1 (Snow Leopard). This has a very attractive interface and is very easy to use both for individual and batches of images. Alignment works well, but seriously slows down the whole process.
There is also a batch processor, this can be pointed at a folder of images – as long as there are an equal number of images in the folder to combine – (eg. The TIFF files can then be dragged and dropped onto the Bracketeer window for “enfusing”. I found that highlight recovery of the dark image, and lightening the lightest image – particularly lightening shadows with fill light, lead to images that accurately matched the original, central exposure. Adjust brightness and contrast of the brighter images. Lightroom for many) with the edits embedded, such as white balance fixed, chromatic aberrations removed, and highlights on the darkest image recovered if necessary.
#HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX MAC#
This Mac only application will work with RAW images, but it is recommended that you export images as TIFFs from your image editing application (eg. For the Enfuse based products I left the settings at default values.īracketeer. It is worth pointing out some differences to the ways of working with the Enfuse products. LR Enfuse – (Donationware – donate what you like) Ī Lightroom plugin with very slick integration into Lightroom, does align images. Mac or PC standalone application, basic interface with no alignment option Mac only standalone application with brilliant user interface and comprehensive batch mode and the ability to align images (when not shot with tripod)ĮnfuseGUI -(Donationware – donate what you like) The defacto HDR software, very comprehensive, and thus complicated – largely responsible for the popularity of HDR, but by the same token a number of awful images too! To see some awful over saturated unreal images, look at their website! I am not interested in using “tone mapping” for creative effect. This would be like having a 24 stop exposure range on the camera. There is much less control than Photomatix, but as you will see, this seems to be an advantage in terms of the quality of output.īefore I start I should state that my interest here is to obtain a natural exposure – as close as possible to the original optimum exposure – but with the highlight and shadow detail from the lighter and darker exposures “added in” in a way that looks completely realistic. And the process of Enfusing also reduces noise – Tone mapping increases it. I’m very impressed with the ease of use and the results from some of the Enfuse based systems. This is partly due to frustration when using the Photomatix Lightroom plugin or standalone application at the difficulty of obtaining a natural image. Recently I have been carrying out an extensive test of Photomatix against various competitors that use the “Enfuse” open source algorithms to fuse multi-exposure images to give a more natural look than the classic “HDR”. However, HDR has received bad press due to the unreal results that can be obtained with it.
#HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX MANUAL#
The launch of HDR software like Photomatix and the features progressively added to Photoshop have made this somewhat easier – no need for masks or manual blending. In the early days of digital, this was little more than making an exposure for the sky, and another for the ground and merging them in Photoshop – often with mixed results. Combining several exposures in post processing will recover the highlight and shadow detail.
There are many situations when this will not be enough, resulting in blown highlights and shadows dominated by noise.
#HDR PROJECTS 4 VS PHOTOMATIX FULL#
(Though it is in reality actually rather more difficult to extract the full range). Digital cameras have a come a long way in the past ten years, and now a RAW file from a full frame camera can have a 12 stop exposure range.
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