Digital photography opened lots of new opportunities of photo editing in-camera and on PC.

Photomatix Pro is a program that will extend the dynamic range of digital photographs. If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you probably know that selecting the correct exposure will not avoid blown out highlights and flat shadows.

Photomatix Pro offers two ways to solve this problem:

• Exposure Blending: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range. View examples.
• Tone Mapping: Reveal highlights and shadows details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures. The tone mapped image is ready for printing while showing the whole dynamic range captured. View examples.

The only limitation of the program is a watermark applied to images, which are produced via Tone Mapping, 48-bit Compression and 4 of the 6 combination modes.

Advantages of the Photomatix Pro include:

• Saving on lighting equipment
• Saving time in post-processing
• Great pictures on cloudy days
• Noise reduction
• Well exposed panoramas

Photomatix Pro 2.2.4 is the latest version of the program that sports some new features:

• New application icon.
• Function for zooming directly to 100% and for “Fit to screen”.
• Maximum preview size option for Tone Mapping increased to 1024.
• Ability to save the settings after having tone mapped the whole image.
• Bug fixed: Batch Processing now outputs TIFF tone mapped files when TIFF format selected, even if output bit-depth is set to 8-bit.
• Bug fixed: incorrect readings of White and Black clips settings from XMP files for values lower than 0.06%
• Bug fixed: crash while changing preview size after having maximized Tone Mapping preview
• Bug fixed: problem on computer using Unicode file naming (e.g. Chinese OS) when loading more than one image at a time from the Open panel
• Bug fixed: crash when aligning more than 3 images with same brightness level.

The program has the size of 2.98 MB and runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP. It retails for $99.

Read more: HDsoft ,  Softpedia  

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