HDR Software

[rizla01]

Hi,

Fancied experimenting with HDR and wondered if any of you lot could point me towards any free/shareware HDR software.

Thanks in advance

 

[Priority 7]

Hey Rizla, I started with photomatix but I have moved to something more subtle Topaz Adjust its not really HDR but can give similar results as well as many others. Photoshop does a job too...

 

[rizla01]

Thanks.

Photoshop mightbe good but it costs LOADS!

Need something good to try out before forking out.

 

[Munchh]

I can point you in the direction of freebie HDR software but whether it's good or not I wouldn't know.

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-high-dynamic-range-hdr-software.htm#Quick_Selection_Guide

 

[cptpies]

I've used Picturenaut in the past. It's pretty simple though.

 

[jools]

A couple of months ago I bought a "Wacom Bamboo Fun Pen and Touch - Small" graphics tablet from Amazon,,,,,,, and it included Photoshop elements 8 for windows 7 ,,,,,£62 new and free postage!!

HDR?? I'm not really impressed but perhaps I'm crap at it,,,,,,,,,,,,it seems to be a lot of trouble to make a picture unrealistic,,,,,,,,,,,,I can do that without any editing,,,, without trying really

 

[Mole Man]

Have done a bit of HDR but I find Tone mapping works better as it keeps the picture as it should be but you can bring out the detail in the darker parts of a picture, the bridge in this post was done with tone mapping and it looks great on a 27 inch monitor.

Link to the Picture:

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[highcannons]

http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ This is opensource freebee, GIMP (yeah) for Linux and winows based stuff. Nice and as good as photoshop.

 

[Judderman62]

mac or micro$oft.

I'm on mac and use hdrtist - limited but I like that about it - piddel easy to use

 

[Mole Man]

If your question is to me Judderman, I use Photomatix Pro 3.1 on a PC but there is a mac version to, its now up to version 4.1.

 

[Judderman62]

no question was to Rizla

 

[wappy]

no question was to Rizla

you can download photoshop off the torrent sites if you dont mind doing that otherwise i dont think your going to get anything near any good for free sorry. But for what its worth ia not a massive fan it looks ok ar first then does get abit too much