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Photomatix Pro v3.2.7 


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. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem:
› HDR Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures.
› Exposure Fusion: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range.

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Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images, and runs on Mac OS X and Windows. 
A free Lightroom Plug-in makes it possible to access the program directly from Lightroom, if desired. Some of the features of 
Photomatix Pro are also available as a Filter Plug-in of Photoshop CS2 or higher and an Edit Plug-in of Aperture 2.1.
One license for Photomatix Pro costs US$99 and one license for Photomatix Light US$39.

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 this image as 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 s
hooting 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 knows as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.