Photomatix pro 5.0 beta
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The deghosting as been changed too and is better. I have never really had any problem with the one from Photomatix 4 – but improvements of course is good. The algorithm for aligning images should be improved, but that is fairly hard to test. The Button “Process” has been changed to “Apply and Finish”. There are a couple of others of these wordings that has changed for the better. Straight talk for normal human beings to understand, not engineer talk that only a small group of people can understand. I’m a great fan of usability and this is great usability in it’s essence. For instance instead of calling a feature ‘Align source image – by correcting vertical and horizontal shifts’ it gets a lot easier to understand from the new wording: ‘Align source images – Taken on tripod’.
Photomatix pro 5.0 beta software#
By using the right words you can do a lot for the ease of use of a software program. The wording – that is the usability – has changed in general to the better. After having played around with for a awhile I am a bit disappointed, but there are a few goodies too. The official beta 4 is now available and I have had a quick glance at it. Some of you might have noticed that a new version of Photomatix Pro 5 is on its way. I did use a final filter High Key from Topaz Adjust to get the more pseuchedelic look. The Long exposure I made using my 10 stop ND filter from B+W.
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Other than that, it’s a fairly decent exposure.Ĭlick on the image on the right to see a more detailed version.London Tower Bridge – a 5 shot HDR photo processed with Photomatix Pro 5 beta 4 and then mixed with a long exposure image for the fountain and the clouds.
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My only issue is with some of the halo artifacts that show up where the sky meets the tree tops. The detail in the shadow areas under the trees looks very natural and the noise level is acceptable. I’m very impressed with the results using the default settings in Photomatix Pro 3.1 beta. Click on the image above on the right for a larger version. Post processed using Photomatix Pro and Lightroom 2’s Develop module.
Photomatix pro 5.0 beta iso#
Shots taken with a Canon 40D tripod mounted, 17-40mm f/4 L at 19mm, f/8, 1/125th, 1/350th and 1/1000th of a second at ISO 200 on SanDisk digital film. The image on the left was processed entirely in Lightroom while the image on the right was merged from three “bracketed” raw (.dng) exposures, tone-mapped in Photomatx Pro 3.1 (beta) and then cleaned up in Lightroom. Here’s my first test using an image with a moderate dynamic range (mostly dark shadow areas and fairly bright highlights).
Photomatix pro 5.0 beta license#
So I took the plunge, bought a license and installed everything in just a matter of minutes. At the end of all this research I still wasn’t sure how HDR processing would fit into my Lightroom workflow until I saw a note on HDRSoft’s web site about a beta version of Photomatix Pro 3.1 and their new Lightroom 2 plug-in. I’ve spent the past few weeks reading literally hundreds of blog posts about different HDR shooting and processing techniques and reviewing the software available from various vendors. After all, who wouldn’t like their images to show more detail in the shadows without blowing out the highlights? Like most photographers, I find the idea of expanding the dynamic range displayed in certain images to be very compelling. I’m just beginning my exploration of HDR (high dynamic range) processing and how it fits in my current Lightroom 2 workflow.