High-contrast scenes are prone to either overexposure or underexposure errors, resulting in, respectively, overlit or underlit shots that are far from the memories you have of that scene. Photomatix Pro allows you to correct all those exposure mistakes by merging various takes of the same scene and applying HDR to them. You can turn your badly lit images into realistic or artistic shots that are closer to what you really saw that day.
Sunsets, sunrise, interiors... are some examples of pictures that rarely turn out as they should. One way of overcoming this recurrent problem is to take series of pictures of the same scenes using different exposure values, and then merge them using Photomatix Pro to produce a more realistic rendition of your favorite shots. The program will use High Dynamic Range algorithms to take the best of every picture in the series to create the perfect photograph, so that all elements in it are perfectly lit and clear. It does not matter how savvy you are about HDR or the problems that the wrong exposure values bring to your pictures – this tool has been designed to produce professionally stunning results in a fairly straightforward and simple way.
Once the original set has been processed, the program will offer a long list of possible HDR-based results for you to choose from. The range goes from realistic to artistic, from natural to onirical, from surreal to vibrant, etc. The possibilities are endless, especially if you then use the many features provided to enhance, fine-tune, and retouch the different options to make them your own. You can change the contrast, color, and sharpness values to make your picture look smoother or crisper.
Alternatively, you can also use Photomatix Pro simply to enhance your pictures, correct common exposure mistakes, or to give them a creative touch. Besides, you can combine different scenes in one single shot to create a double exposure effect, and thus produce impressive ghostly or dreamy scenes easily. It does not matter if you use it as a simple image editor or make use of the full potential of its HDR capabilities – this professional tool is capable of turning your overexposed and underexposed pictures into the most astonishing shots.
v5.0 [Nov 26, 2013]
29-Oct-14 - Updated in v5.0.5
- Added support for recent camera models such as the Panasonic GH4 and Nikon D750 and D810.
- On Batch Bracketed Photos, resizing options now differentiate between landscape and portrait orientation (by letting the user resize the long and short edge instead of width and height), and offer the ability to automatically set the short edge based on the long edge.
- Bug fixed: Processing Nikon D600 Raw files could result in pink highlights. (Bug had been fixed in version 4.2.7 but reintroduced in version 5.0)
- Bug fixed: With some specific images, the Batch Bracketed Photos could crash when the "perspective correction" option was left unchecked.
- Bug fixed: The '360º image' option of the Fusion/Real-Estate method did not work.
- Bug fixed: The Fusion/Real-Estate method didn't properly support 64-bit addressing, resulting in incorrect result when fusing a relatively high number of large files, such as 7 or more 200 MegaPixels panoramas for instance.
- Windows 8 users can now run Photomatix without having to install an older version of the .NET Framework. Bug fixed: Crop feature required to start the crop selection from the top left.
- Bug fixed: Crash when running Photomatix on systems with more than 32 cores.
- Bug fixed: Button to choose custom output location was sometimes incorrectly disabled in Batch Processing window.
- Bug fixed: Loading ZIP-compressed TIFF files coming from an iPhone could result in a crash.
- Bug fixed: No error message was shown when TIFF files with unsupported compression format failed to load.
- Bug fixed: With greyscale JPEG images, the preview on the Deghosting Options window did not display correctly.
- If a font needed by Photomatix is missing on the computer, the FontViewer utility is started to allow installing the missing font directly.
24-May-14 - Updated in v5.0.4
- Added support for Raw files from recent camera models such as the Sony A6000, Canon 1200D, and Nikon D4s, D3300 and Coolpix P340.
- Bug fixed: Images with a very high aspect ratio caused a crash upon loading the tonemapping/fusion windows.
- Bug fixed: When merging a high number (e.g. 20 or more) of bracketed images, the alignment could fail due to improver 64-bit addressing.
- Bug fixed: On computers where the font 'Arial' or 'Times Regular' was not installed properly, launching Photomatix resulted in an error.
- Bug fixed: Preset Thumbnails panel showed when option "Show Preset Thumbnails" was unchecked in Preferences.
- Bug fixed: Merging photos having different pixel sizes and with the "Remove ghost" option selected resulted in a crash.
- Bug fixed: Batch Bracketed Photos with Fusion methods did not create the 32-bit HDR file even though the "Create intermediary 32-bit HDR" option was selected.
- Bug fixed: Temporary files created when using Photomatix Pro via the Lightroom Export Plugin weren't deleted if the process was canceled by the user, or failed.
- Bug fixed: In Selective Deghosting mode, clicking on "Remove selection" did not immediately remove the selection from the deghosting Preview
- Bug fixed: When the Batch Bracketed Photos or Batch Single Photos was running while another program (e.g. Adobe Bridge) was accessing the files created by the batch, there could be small additional files created in the destination folder.
- Bug fixed: On some computer configurations, the error message "Path not of legal form" could be returned when invoking the Batch Bracketed Photos.
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