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Photomatix Pro features list
  
 
 
Merge of bracketed photos into HDR (High Dynamic Range)
› Option for automatic image alignment of hand-held shots. Two alignment methods are available, the "by matching features" method corrects for translation, rotation, scaling and perspective distortion.
› Selective deghosting tool for effective removal of "ghosts" in dynamic scenes: users can select ghosted regions with a lasso tool, and change the preferred image taken for each selected region. An option for automatic ghost removal is also available..
› Option for automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations.
› Option for automatic reduction of noise.
› Reading of exposure information from Exif data.
› Source images can be either 8 bits/channel or 16 bits/channel images, or RAW/DNG files. In the case of RAW files, White Balance and output color space can be adjusted.
 
 
HDR image adjustments with Tone Mapping and Exposure Fusion
› Two methods for Tone Mapping: Details Enhancer, based on a local operator, and Tone Compressor, based on a global operator.
› Four methods for Exposure Fusion: Highlights & Shadows - 2 images, Highlights & Shadows - Auto, Highlights & Shadows - Adjust, and Highlights & Shadows - Intensive
› Tone Mapping methods may be applied to single image.
› Dialog with preview for adjusting the following settings:
Details Enhancer: Strength, Color Saturation, Smoothing, Luminosity, Gamma, Black and White Point, Color Temperature, Saturation Highlights, Saturation Shadows, Microcontrast, Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothness, Shadows Smoothness and Shadows Clipping.
Tone Compressor: Brightness, Tonal Range Compression, Contrast Adaptation, Black and White Point, Color Temperature and Color Saturation.
Fusion/Adjust: Accentuation, Blending Point, Shadows, Sharpness, Saturation, Black and White Point, Midtones Adjustments.
Fusion/Intensive: Strength, Radius, Saturation.
› Settings can be saved as Presets for quick access, or saved to and loaded from XMP files
› Preset thumbnails panel: built-in and user presets for tone mapping and fusion show as thumbnails in a panel alongside the preview. Panel can be set in horizontal or vertical orientation.
› Ability to select a region on the Tone Mapping/Fusion preview and replace it with a source photo. Three lasso tools are offered for the selection and "Attach to Edges" button automatically adjusts the selection to follow the nearest edges.
› Loupe to get a crop at 100% resolution.
› Option for different preview ratios and magnification
› Undo and redo buttons for the settings done.
› Luminance and per color channel histogram.
› Output image is in 16 bits/channel mode, with the option to save it as 8 bits/channel jpeg or tiff, if desired
› "360 degree image" option for equirectangular image set to be viewed in a 360 degree panorama viewer.
› Tone Mapping can be undone.
 
 
32-bit HDR image support
- HDR Viewer shows local 32-bit HDR image data at the appropriate exposure
- Display of HDR Histogram (logarithmic)
- Read and Write support for Radiance RGBE (.hdr), OpenEXR (.exr) and Floating Point TIFF. Read support for 32-bit PSD and PSB.
- Ability to batch tone map single HDR files in Radiance or OpenEXR file formats.
- Function to tone map large Radiance files while benefiting from a preview.
  
 
 
Automatic Batch Processing
- Automatically loads and processes images of the specified input location, and saves resulting images to the specified output location
- Works for HDR generation, Tone Mapping and exposure fusion
- Advanced selection options: automatic detection of bracketed photos and ability to process a sub-set of each bracketed set.
- Strip processing option to generate an HDR image from large TIFF files without exceeding available RAM.
- Ability to set the Exposure Value spacing for HDR image generation
- Processes all sets of bracketed images stored under a given folder (number of bracketed images in each set specified by user before running the batch)
- Ability to process all sub-folders of a given folder, combining all image files stored under each sub-folder
- Options for naming the the resulting image files.
  
 
 
General
- Support of the following image file formats: JPEG (read & write), TIFF 24-bit, 48-bit and Floating Point (read & write), Radiance RGBE (read & write), OpenEXR (read & write), PNG (Mac version: read & write), PSD (read only) RAW files (read only)
- Ability to tag saved image with keyword
- Viewing of tone mapping or fusion settings embedded in processed image.
- Option to customise default filename.
- Basic image operation tools
› Cropping (also works with HDR images)
› Resizing (also works with HDR images)
› Rotating (also works with HDR images)
› Sharpening
› Brightness & Contrast
› Remapping of mirror ball (also works with HDR images)
- Multi-threading support for tone mapping: complete multi-threading for Tone Compressor method and partial for Details Enhancer method. The maximum number of cores used can be adjusted in Preferences.
- Color managed HDR workflow: passing trough of ICC color profile from the source to the processed image, and color managed display.
- Includes Lightroom Export Plugin to Photomatix Pro
› HDR processing settings are selected directly in the Lightroom plug-in
› Option to automatically save the resulting tone mapped or fused image and re-import it into the Lightroom library
  
 
 
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