Photomatix Pro 4.2.7

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Photomatix Pro is a software to create stunning photographs of high contrast scenes. It is a program that will extend 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 has all the features you need for producing HDR images, whether you are looking for a very natural look or the more extreme styles. The workflow is logical and easy to follow especially using the Lightroom integration. It’s easy to use and gives you simple controls for getting the awesome color effects you see in all those great HDR’s, without having to open up Photoshop and knowing how to tone map by hand. The Photomatix details enhancer does a better job of rendering shadow detail than the comparable local adaptation algorithm in Photoshop, and produces images with a distinctive ethereal appearance. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem: “Exposure Blending” and “Tone Mapping”.

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

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.

Changes in Photomatix Pro 4.2.6:
- Updated Raw conversion to add support for recent camera models such as the Canon 6D, G15, S110, or Sony A99 among others.
- Made the installer detect when the .NET framework 3.5 is missing (which may happen on Windows 8), and show dialogs to invite the user to install it.
- Bug fixed: On the File Open dialog, thumbnail of the selected image was not displayed in the case of Raw files.
- Bug fixed: On some configurations, running the Batch Bracketed Photos with Details Enhancer tone mapping resulted in a crash. Bug had been introduced in v4.2.5.
- Bug fixed: Clicking on the Utilities menu after having saved an image resulted in an Unhandled Exception error.
- Bug fixed: When the user does not have the right permission to access the “Application Data” directory, an error was generated upon loading the tonemapping/fusion windows.

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