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Photomatix Tone Mapping Plug-In

 
 
Download Tone Mapping Plug-In 2.1 for Photoshop CS5  (32/64-bit Universal - works in CS5 only)
Download Tone Mapping Plug-In 2.0.1 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.  If you are merging to HDR Pro using Photoshop CS5, make sure to select 32 Bit on the 'Mode' combo-box.
5. Choose Filter > Photomatix > Tone Mapping.
 
 
 
More information
FAQ on the Tone Mapping plug-in for Photoshop
 
 
 
Update log
02-Oct-11 - Updated in v2.1 (Photoshop CS5 only)
- List of thumbnails of built-in presets.
- More flexibility for resizing the preview and addition of scrollbars when the preview does not fit in window
- Double-clicking on sliders resets to default value for the setting.
- Change in presentation of Details Enhancer settings as in version 4.1 of Photomatix Pro.
 
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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