Photomatix
HDR using Photomatix
Photomatix is the pioneer HDR application for photography (as has already been noted, HDR has other uses, notably in computer-generated imaging), and in the current crop of available software is noted for the large number of user controls that it offers. One result of this is that it enables a wide range of possible treatments for any image, including some highly non-realistic ones. Photomatix offers a basic choice between Tone Compressor (its global operator) and Details Enhancer (its local operator).
As with other HDR software, the global operator sticks close to “photographic” realism, but is much less effective in tone mapping, so that with a wide range of exposures in the original sequence, the local operator—Details ...
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