If you have a different version of Photomatix or are a Mac user, I suspect you will be able to follow along fine but I apologise if you find this is different from the interface you are used to. The following step-by-step list is based on the Windows version of Photomatix Pro 3.2. Note that, if you are an Adobe Lightroom user (as I am), there is a better way to accomplish this but I will describe the method using Photomatix on its own first and add the Lightroom info at the end of the page. I’ll assume you are using Photomatix 3.2 for the following but I expect the process is somewhat similar with Artizen HDR and FDR Tools. By the way, the kind folks over at HDRSoft are offering readers of this tutorial 15% off the usual price of Photomatix if you enter “DaveWilson” in the coupon code box when you check out (By way of full disclosure, I should also point out that they give me a commission on copies sold via this site but I used the product happily for 4 years before signing up as an affiliate and am a delighted customer regardless of this arrangement.)Īssuming you’ve downloaded and installed one of the tools, you are now ready to generate an HDR image. I’ve not tried either Artizen HDR or FDR Tools but have seen some superb results from each and will definitely be trying them out sometime soon. I’ve played with HDR Max and quite like its user interface. I use Photomatix and Photoshop so will concentrate on these two in this tutorial. The evaluation copy will generally be crippled somehow, either allowing use for a limited time or watermarking any images it saves but they are well worth downloading to see which tool fits your style of photography. I use it in one very particular case, however, which I will cover later in this section.Īll of these tools have an evaluation version you can download for free to try out. You may be surprised to see Photoshop in this list since it’s not normally considered an HDR application. You have several choices here including the following:
The first thing you need to do is make sure that you have software capable of merging your bracketed images. Assuming you’ve already read parts 1 and 2 and played with some of the information there, you probably have a bunch of bracketed exposures of a scene that you want to turn into a High Dynamic Range image.
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