#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR PRO#
#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR SOFTWARE#
#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR ISO#

but after trying easyHDR things start to be more simplified on the final part of the photos on Photoshop. Up until today and after having exchange a lot of emails with the creator of easyHDR (Bartek Okonek) I was using Photomatix with some success.

#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR SOFTWARE#

I select “Export” and then “Photomatix Pro”.A lot of people have been asking me what software I've been using for the HDR creation and what is for me the best one. I just select my five raw images and right click on one. Once Photomatix is installed, it appears as an Export option. I use Lightroom so it’s dead simple to create an HDR. The latest Photomatix release gives you a lot of control to limit ghosting by letting you choose which photo “wins” for selected portion of the photo that experienced movement. Again, ghosting is what you get when something in your photo moves between the exposures.

From what I’ve read, the HDR processing engine is the same but it offers you more control over the ghosting I mentioned earlier.

#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR PRO#

I only have v3.9.2 of Photomatix Pro but version 4 is out now. Don’t overlook this simple option! HDR in Photomatix Once you do some blending, no one will know it was a composite. For example, in Photoshop Elements, you could overlay two pictures leaving the nice sky from one exposure and the bright foreground from another. It’s worth noting that you can create HDRs manually by combining photos and cutting out the areas you don’t like. All the other HDR options are simpler forms of image blending or “exposure fusion”. You’ll know intense it is by how long it takes to perform the merge. It’s the most intense and mathematical of the options. Photoshop uses the term “Local Adaptation” as well. These packages let you create HDR images several ways but the most popular is called “Tone Mapping” ( Wikipedia definition). Adobe Photoshop (its “HDR Pro” feature is included with Photoshop CS5).

HDRsoft Photomatx Pro - $99 (works alone or with Lightroom and Photoshop).I think the two most popular options are: To create an HDR, you need desktop software that lets you automatically merge the separate images into a single photo. Now it’s time to combine them to create the image seen at the top of this post. The others show the sun and clouds but require significant underexposure. This ensures the internal mirror doesn’t need to move which reduces internal vibration.Īs you can see in my shots above, the bright exposures bring up detail in shadowy areas but blow out the sky. For advanced shooters, don’t forget your mirror lockup option or use Live View. Using a cable release is very helpful if you’re using your camera’s bracketing feature as it lets you hold down the shutter (bracketed shots are like burst shots and require the shutter to be held down for all three exposures). Photomatix and Photoshop can do this with a single file.ĭefinitely use a tripod as stability counts (even during the day). You can process a raw for the darks and then re-process it for the highlights. A raw image file has so much data that there’s even a way to do HDR with a single image. This provides the HDR process much more information to work with. It is ideal to shoot in your camera’s raw format, not JPEG.

#PHOTOMATRIX VS EASYHDR ISO#

You should also lock your ISO to a low low level like 100 or 200 to minimize noise. If you vary only your shutter speed, blending will be smooth. To do that, shoot in aperture priority mode (Av). Just be sure to keep your focus and aperture the same across the shots. If you can only take three shots, shoot a standard exposure first, then take one at -2 ev and another at +2 ev. You can take any number of exposures but 3 to 7 is recommended.

Photomatrix vs easyhdr