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. The solution is High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography processing:

› Take multiple photographs at varying exposure levels
› Merge the photos into an HDR image that reveals highlight and shadow details
› Adjust the settings to get the look you want: from natural-looking with Exposure Fusion to painterly or surreal with Tone Mapping

Photomatix Pro and Photomatix Light are stand-alone programs running on Windows and Mac OS X. A free Lightroom Plug-in makes it possible to access Photomatix Pro directly from Lightroom, if desired. Some of the features of Photomatix 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 out this image as an 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 known as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.

Update log
25-Oct-11 - Updated in v4.1.3

- Updated Raw conversion function, adding support of Raw files from the Olympus E-P3, Leica D-LUX 6 and V-LUX 2, Panasonic G3/G3F, and Sony NEX-C3 and SLT-A35.
- Bug fixed: Saving via the "Save Image" menu item did not work properly in some cases, saving with a file extension different from the actual file format written.
- Bug fixed: Photomatix settings embedded in image saved as JPEG did not display when clicking on the "View Settings" button.
- Bug fixed: 32-bit HDR histogram was not working. Bug had been introduced in v4.1.
- Bug fixed: Batch was not taking into account custom directory for temporary files set in Preferences.
- Bug fixed: The exposure of 32-bit HDR image file created with deghosting on was 9 to 10 stops higher than exposure of 32-bit HDR image file created without deghosting. Bug prevented to stitch 32-bit HDR files when some of the frames needed deghosting and others not.
- Bug fixed: When height of source image is particularly height (e.g. 10500 pixels high), using the options for reducing chromatic aberrations caused bands of color artifacts in the upper side of the image.
- Bug fixed: Options for deghosting, noise and chromatic aberration reduction could be selected when using strip by strip processing in batch.
- Bug fixed: Changing the radius setting of the Fusion Intensive method on multiple core computers could generate a crash.
- Bug fixed: Rotating an image after having cropped it returned an error.
- Bug fixed: Workflow shortcut panel could not be reopened after having been closed.
- Bug fixed: 32-bit HDR image generated from Raw files with ProPhoto RGB as color primaries was different depending on whether the merge was done in batch mode or from the main interface.
- Bug fixed: Processing images having different sizes via the Lightroom plug-in resulted in garbled output.

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