Photomatix Pro 3.2.8 Beta4 (x86/x64)

Increase the dynamic range of your photographs

If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem:
› HDR Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures.
› Exposure Fusion: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range. Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images, and runs on Windows. A free Lightroom Plug-in makes it possible to access the program directly from Lightroom, if desired. Some of the features of Photomatix Pro are also available as a Filter Plug-in of Photoshop CS2 or higher and an Edit Plug-in of Aperture 2 or higher.

Benefits for professional photographers:
• Saving on lighting equipment
• No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature of your camera, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.
• Great pictures on cloudy days
• Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix can turn them into great-looking images. Check this image as example.
• Saving time in post-processing
• Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity – automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs.
• Well exposed panoramas
• A panoramic scene is almost always a high contrast scene – you can't limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting a 360° panorama. By taking views under several exposures and processing them in Photomatix Pro, you can create a panorama that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene. Photomatix Pro offers both exposure fusion (also knows as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.