FDR Tools

HDR using FDR Tools

This piece of cross-platform software is notable for integrating the creation of HDR files from the source images with tone mapping. In other software this is a separate operation from tone mapping, with FDR Tools it is combined with the tone mapping in the sense that at any point during tone mapping you can return to the HDR creation and make a number of adjustments.

These include choosing which tonal ranges are used from which source images, tweaking the choice of images to use for ghosting removal, or even opting to drop one or more of the images. Although the interface is not as intuitive as other HDR software, FDR Tools is extremely powerful and versatile.

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