Difference between revisions of "HDR and Tonemapping dialogs in detail"
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− | '''FDRGui'''<font size="2"><br /> focuses on the correct HDR creation and flawless tone mapping of single and panoramic images. I especially like the visual feedback over every single step in the process - you even can visually influence the blending level of each bracketed image as you can see in the screenshot at the right.<br /> FDRGui works with 2, respective 3 independent Windows:<br /> One for the process itself, one for the "Navigator" with a preview and some process details in the main window - and one resizable "Preview" window which should show the influence of the parameters on a 100% preview of the image.</font><font size="2">It is not an exclusive problem of FDRGui that I think, the 100% preview of the tone mapped image is less significant as it should be:<br /> This is due to technical reasons: The so-called "local" or "compression" methods need to be restrained with global image information but will heavily modify small image features. As long as you don't calculate the whole image, you can't exactly know how your small "preview" ought to finally appear after the complete process. On the other hand, you can't calculate the whole image for the preview. Somethimes you may get surprised by too dark or too dull images.</font><font size="2">Besides of this common problem of image previews, FDRGui is the most exact tool for the photographer to create HDR images - even if you are a visually oriented person who desn't feel like studying HDR technologies before starting to work on this topic.<br /> Too bad that there is no batch option available and no intuitive drag & drop, making multiple image processing very time consuming.</font><font size="2">From a technical point of view it may be interesting to know that FDRGui | + | '''FDRGui'''<font size="2"><br /> focuses on the correct HDR creation and flawless tone mapping of single and panoramic images. I especially like the visual feedback over every single step in the process - you even can visually influence the blending level of each bracketed image as you can see in the screenshot at the right.<br /> FDRGui works with 2, respective 3 independent Windows:<br /> One for the process itself, one for the "Navigator" with a preview and some process details in the main window - and one resizable "Preview" window which should show the influence of the parameters on a 100% preview of the image.</font><font size="2">It is not an exclusive problem of FDRGui that I think, the 100% preview of the tone mapped image is less significant as it should be:<br /> This is due to technical reasons: The so-called "local" or "compression" methods need to be restrained with global image information but will heavily modify small image features. As long as you don't calculate the whole image, you can't exactly know how your small "preview" ought to finally appear after the complete process. On the other hand, you can't calculate the whole image for the preview. Somethimes you may get surprised by too dark or too dull images.</font><font size="2">Besides of this common problem of image previews, FDRGui is the most exact tool for the photographer to create HDR images - even if you are a visually oriented person who desn't feel like studying HDR technologies before starting to work on this topic.<br /> Too bad that there is no batch option available and no intuitive drag & drop, making multiple image processing very time consuming.</font><font size="2"><br>From a technical point of view it may be interesting to know that FDRGui and Photomatix seem to be the only software products in this overview supports multiple CPU cores.</font> |
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HDR generation<br />[[Image:fdrgui_generate.jpg]][[Image:fdrgui_navigator.jpg]] | HDR generation<br />[[Image:fdrgui_generate.jpg]][[Image:fdrgui_navigator.jpg]] | ||
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− | '''Photomatix Pro<br />'''<font size="2">Photomatix is deservedly a very well known software amongst Photographers and Panorama creators.<br /> If you ever came back with several GB of images that have to be converted to HDR, you will thank God for Photomatix' batch feature, especially as the automated process works quite flawlessly without user intervention. Even intuitive work with drag and drop is possible to some extent - and if you want to extend the dynamic range of your images without hassling around with HDR at all, you have some clever methods handy with this software.<br /> On the negative side, further post-processing of HDR images is at best basic and lacks good UI functionality, and the variety of tone mapping methods is very sparse compared to what I would expect from this software. The powerful "Details Enhancer" is the main tone mapping method and has a steep learning curve - steep enough to let your hair become grey.</font><font size="2"> Though - if you want to do high volume professional HDR photography, you should consider downloading the trial version and have a look.</font> | + | '''Photomatix Pro<br />'''<font size="2">Photomatix is deservedly a very well known software amongst Photographers and Panorama creators.<br /> If you ever came back with several GB of images that have to be converted to HDR, you will thank God for Photomatix' batch feature, especially as the automated process works quite flawlessly without user intervention. Even intuitive work with drag and drop is possible to some extent - and if you want to extend the dynamic range of your images without hassling around with HDR at all, you have some clever methods handy with this software.<br /> On the negative side, further post-processing of HDR images is at best basic and lacks good UI functionality, and the variety of tone mapping methods is very sparse compared to what I would expect from this software. The powerful "Details Enhancer" (gets the most out of HDR scenes and works with multiple CPUs) is the main tone mapping method and has a steep learning curve - steep enough to let your hair become grey...</font><font size="2"> Though - if you want to do high volume professional HDR photography, you should consider downloading the trial version and have a look.</font> |
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HDR generation<br />[[Image:photomatics_generate.jpg]]Batch workflow:<br />[[Image:photomatics_batch1.jpg]] | HDR generation<br />[[Image:photomatics_generate.jpg]]Batch workflow:<br />[[Image:photomatics_batch1.jpg]] |
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