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Photomatix Pro extends the dynamic range of digital photographs or scanned films. If you have ever shot a high contrast scene, you probably know the problem: blown out highlights and loss of contrast in shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this:
The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while
- Exposure blending: combining images taken at different exposures into one image with increased dynamic range
- Tone Mapping: processing a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to compress its tonal range while preserving local contrast.
The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while
What's New
Version 4.1.3:
- Bug fixed: When processing a single file, other than a 32-bit HDR file, with the Tone Compressor method, an error message was returned.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Photomatix Pro User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:60,039 |
| Version Downloads:1,144 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:20 Dec 2011 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $99.00 |
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Photomatix Pro extends the dynamic range of digital photographs or scanned films. If you have ever shot a high contrast scene, you probably know the problem: blown out highlights and loss of contrast in shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this:
The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while preserving the details of the original scene in highlights and shadows.
The trial is fully functional and never expires. However, a watermark will be applied to images produced via Tone Mapping, 48-bit Compression and 4 of the 6 combination modes. All other features are free to use.
- Exposure blending: combining images taken at different exposures into one image with increased dynamic range
- Tone Mapping: processing a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to compress its tonal range while preserving local contrast.
The result is an image that you can display on standard monitors, while preserving the details of the original scene in highlights and shadows.
The trial is fully functional and never expires. However, a watermark will be applied to images produced via Tone Mapping, 48-bit Compression and 4 of the 6 combination modes. All other features are free to use.
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Musselrock reviewed on 06 Jun 2011
While I now have CS5 with HDR Pro, I'm still using Photomatix for ease of use. I can arrive at the same end point in both CS5 and Photomatix, but much faster using Photomatix.
I intended to give it a 4 star review, but PorkPieHat's very unfair comment posted as a review has motivated me to make it 5 stars. I hope someone else who actually "uses" this application will join me
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PorkPieHat reviewed on 04 Jun 2011
Worse, the developer isn't even smart enough to write a bunch of other MacUpdate reviews for other apps so that when we click on his username to read his profile we don't immediately notice that the only review he's ever written here was the one above for Photomatix that's dated the same day as its last version was released!
But the real (retarded) evidence that this is Astroturf is that his review above uses extremely easy to identify marketing-speak FROM HIS OWN WEBSITE! That's pretty much the definition of an idiot. It's also the definition of a developer who deserves to be BOYCOTTED.
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Dkosiur reviewed on 28 Sep 2010
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26cab40 reviewed on 01 Apr 2010
However, no support for the likes of Sigma's raw format and a few outstanding glitches with others.
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jan13 reviewed on 16 Sep 2009
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jan13 reviewed on 13 Jul 2009
Otherwise I am very happy with it ...
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JonnyG75 reviewed on 02 Dec 2008
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You are right, Photomatix can be difficult for the novice. However, if You search the net You will find several good tuts on its use. Search for the blogs of "stuckincustoms" and "beforethecoffee". These photographers have made terrific tuts on HDR, more specifically HDR with Photomatix.
Furthermore, there are several recent textbooks on HDR by e.g. Christian Bloch, Ferrell McCollough, Michael Freeman.
On the other hand, the manual of Photomatix is rather good. If You read it (and reread it several times), You will understand the different possibilities of this software and how to use the myriad sliders.
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Kbeat reviewed on 17 Apr 2008
If you've been using the built in "merge to HDR" feature in Photoshop, I'd suggest downloading the free trial from hdrsoft and seeing how it compares. Don't do it unless you're prepared to drop 99 bones, because you won't want to go back to the hand work after you do.
There's an HDR plug in on the way for Aperture that I have high hopes for as I'd love to be able to stay in Aperture throughout my workflow, but it would have to be one heck of a plug in to measure up to Photomatrix.
JDar0 rated on 26 Jan 2012
Lrlieber rated on 17 Jul 2011