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Photomatix Tone Mapping Plug-In

 
 
Download Tone Mapping Plug-In 2.0.1 for Photoshop CS5  (32/64-bit Universal - works in CS5 only)
Download Tone Mapping Plug-In 2.0 for Photoshop CS4, CS3 and CS2
 
Installation instructions
1. Go to the place where you downloaded the plug-in (normally your 'Downloads' folder). You should see there a folder named 'ToneMappingPlugin2.0' containing a file named ToneMapping.plugin.
2. Using the Finder, move the file ToneMapping.plugin to the Filters folder of your Photoshop Plug-Ins directory:
If you have Photoshop CS5, move the file ToneMapping.plugin to
Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS5/Plug-Ins/Filters
If you have Photoshop CS4 instead, then move it to
Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS4/Plug-Ins/Filters
If you have Photoshop CS3, to:
Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Plug-Ins/Filters
And if you have Photoshop CS2, to
Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS2/Plug-Ins/Filters
3. Start or restart Photoshop.
4. Merge images to HDR or open an image in 32 or 16 Bits/Channels mode.
5. Choose Filter > Photomatix > Tone Mapping.
 
 
 
More information
FAQ on the Tone Mapping plug-in for Photoshop
 
 
 
Update log
12-Apr-10 - Updated in v2.0.1 (Photoshop CS5 only)
- 64-bit support.
- Ability to apply the plug-in to images in 8 bits/channel mode.
 
15-Feb-10 - Updated in v2.0
- Added Tone Compressor tone mapping method.
- Multi-threading support: complete multi-threading for Tone Compressor method and partial for Details Enhancer method.
- Added support for tone mapping larger files than was previously possible
- Details Enhancer's Light Smoothing setting (renamed "Smoothing" in v1.1) has now two modes. The new mode is in the form of a slider and produces a slightly different effect. The behavior of previous versions corresponds to the "Light" mode which is in the form of five buttons named "Min", "Low", "Mid", "High" and "Max".
- Details Enhancer's Highlights Smoothness setting (i.e. the setting that avoids grey highlights and preserves "clean" skies) has been significantly improved.
- Added built-in presets for Details Enhancer. Presets are "Natural", "Smooth Skies", "Painterly" and "Grunge", and are accessible from the Presets combo-box.
- Added buttons for 'Undo' and 'Redo' of the last settings done
 
Updated in v1.2.1
- Fixed issue of license information not remembered on computers running Mac OS 10.5.
 
Updated in v1.2
- Universal Binary so that the plug-in loads in Photoshop CS3 on Intel-based Macs.
- Added six new settings: Gamma, Color Temperature, Saturation Highlights, Saturation Shadows, Highlights Smoothing, Shadows Smoothing and Shadows Clipping.
- Ability to zoom in the preview to get a crop of the tone mapped image at 100% resolution.
- Increased the maximum value possible for the White and Black Clip sliders to 10%.
- Bug fixed: trying the plug-in on the new layer of an HDR image should not crash Photoshop anymore.
- Bug fixed: scripting should now be correctly supported.
- Bug fixed: actions calling the Tone Mapping plug-in should now play with the correct settings.
 
Updated in v1.1
- Added setting "Micro-smoothing". This setting smoothes out local details enhancements, which has for effect of reducing noise in the sky for instance and tends to give a "cleaner" look to the tone mapped image.
- Made the settings sticky.
- Renamed setting "Smoothing" into "Light Smoothing" and "Microcontrast" into "Micro-contrast", and changed the controls of both settings from pull-down menus to radio buttons. A value of "High" for Light Smoothing is now the equivalent of +1.
- Extended the range of setting "Light Smoothing": it can now take a value of +2 (equivalent of "Very High") as maximum instead of +1 (equivalent of "High").
- Fixed bug that produced almost black output, or white corners with some images.
 
 
 
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