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Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that
Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that
What's New
Version 3.0.2:
- Fixed a crash when importing images on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Italian localization
Requirements
- Intel
- Mac OS X 10.7.1 or later
- 64-bit processor
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| Version Downloads:1,905 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Demo |
| Date:03 Jan 2012 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $99.99 |
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We are also selling Hydra Express for only $37.49 (25% off!)
Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that means you can take photos anywhere without a tripod to later merge them in Hydra.
Hydra uses an advanced image processing pipeline that first aligns the imported images and then merges them in a smart way to preserve the interesting inputs of each image. This method has been entirely implemented on the GPU to provide interactive previewing. This allows you to finely tune all parameters in real-time while observing the changing result until you are satisfied, and then render the full resolution image (resolutions above 20 Mega Pixels supported) in less than a minute. The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eyes actually see.
Hydra is also available as a Aperture Plug-In for Aperture and Lightroom so that you can create HDR images right from within Aperture or Lightroom.
Last but not least, Hydra 3.0 introduces many new options: ghost handling, cropping, vignetting, batch processing, tone mapping presets... Thanks to these pro options, you can preprocess and postprocess your photographs and get the result you are looking for.Hydra (stand-alone version and Aperture/Lightroom plug-ins) is available in English, French, and German.
Hydra Pro (was Hydra + Aperture Plug-In) provides human eye-like perception to your photographs by allowing you to create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images from a series of regular photographs (up to 7), either from DSLRs or traditional point-and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that means you can take photos anywhere without a tripod to later merge them in Hydra.
Hydra uses an advanced image processing pipeline that first aligns the imported images and then merges them in a smart way to preserve the interesting inputs of each image. This method has been entirely implemented on the GPU to provide interactive previewing. This allows you to finely tune all parameters in real-time while observing the changing result until you are satisfied, and then render the full resolution image (resolutions above 20 Mega Pixels supported) in less than a minute. The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eyes actually see.
Hydra is also available as a Aperture Plug-In for Aperture and Lightroom so that you can create HDR images right from within Aperture or Lightroom.
Last but not least, Hydra 3.0 introduces many new options: ghost handling, cropping, vignetting, batch processing, tone mapping presets... Thanks to these pro options, you can preprocess and postprocess your photographs and get the result you are looking for.Hydra (stand-alone version and Aperture/Lightroom plug-ins) is available in English, French, and German.
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Roger Kelley reviewed on 04 Feb 2012
http://lightroomkillertips.com/2012/new-lightroom-4-preset-the-hdr-look/
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benoit311080 reviewed on 23 Jan 2012
PS : If the developers read this thread, I would like to have Quick Look implemented on the document files.
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IloveBurma reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
Ciao!
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Marilou53 reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
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Birdy53 reviewed on 03 Jan 2012
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Steph26 reviewed on 06 Dec 2011
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Yes, I know there is Google Translate. But writing on English website/forum in own language seems arrogant to me: you are wasting time of people looking for information just because you are too lazy to translate.
And now something about main topic: Hydra Pro is crappy. And new version brings nothing new except fancy new interface and a few cheap filters.
It is ok if you have perfectly aligned photos. I am sorry, but I don't. Hydra offers alignment (which is nicely done and works OK - it is far less efficient than what you can get with Autopano, but it works), but yet I not found a method to keep aligned image on render screen... It is either aligned or rendered....
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Please contact the support team, and we'll help you with this issue.
Basically, you only need 4 points to align the images. You can review each point, and move it if it is on the right place on the picture. When you are ready, simply click "Develop" to preview the HDR image.
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...also not version 3.0.1 !! Exactly the same habit (1,5 GB RAM used, Core2Duo on 10.7.2 gets blocked totally, crash with bigger files) like the previous version. And still NO AMSWER from the DEV. Just as a reminder: I did send the Dev an exact description with URL of my test files.
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Surfspirit reviewed on 10 Oct 2011
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Wolf01 reviewed on 07 Oct 2011
Bref une MàJ vraiment intéressante et qui rends cette application encore plus prometteuse. Je l'a recommande à tous les photographes amateur et pro qui se lancent dans le HDR.
Bravo à Creaceed.
babba1981 rated on 06 Feb 2012
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Akame rated on 04 Feb 2012
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