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Photomatix Pro

Free trial - License costs $99

Standalone program with all tools you need for creating HDR photos

  • Merge to HDR and Tone Mapping
  • Exposure Fusion
  • Automatic Alignment of hand-held photos
  • Automatic Ghost Removal and Selective Deghosting tool
  • Options for Reduction of Noise and Chromatic Aberrations
  • Automation with Batch Processing
  • Lightroom Plugin

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The trial Photomatix Pro is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to final images.

If you purchased a license of Photomatix Pro 3 or 4, you can upgrade for free to the latest version by downloading here.

Photomatix Essentials

Free trial - License costs $39

Easy-to-use standalone program for creating HDR photos

  • HDR Tone Mapping
  • Exposure Fusion
  • Automatic Alignment of hand-held photos
  • Automatic Ghost Removal
  • Options for Reduction of Noise

The trial of Photomatix Essentials is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to final images.

All upgrades of Photomatix Essentials are free of charge.

Photomatix Plug-In for Aperture

Free trial - License costs $79

Edit Plug-In of Apple Aperture

  • HDR Tone Mapping
  • Exposure Fusion
  • Automatic Alignment of hand-held photos
  • Automatic Ghost Removal
  • Options for Reduction of Noise and and Chromatic Aberrations

The trial of the plugin is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to final images.

If you already have a license of the plugin, you can upgrade for free to the latest version by downloading here.

Tone Mapping Plug-In for Photoshop

Free trial - License costs $79

Photomatix Tone Mapping available as a plugin of Photoshop CS2 to CS6.


This is a Filter plugin. It is applied to a merged 32-bit HDR image created from bracketed photos via Photoshop's 'Merge to HDR Pro' command.


Though this plugin works in Photoshop Elements, it can only be used for HDR in Photoshop CS2 to CS6.


The trial of the plugin is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to final images.

Merge to 32-bit HDR Plugin for Lightroom

Free trial - License costs $29

Plug-in for Lightroom 4. Merges photographs and creates Floating Point TIFF file.

  • Automatic Alignment of hand-held photos
  • Automatic Ghost Removal
  • Creation of Floating Point TIFF file for Tone Mapping with Lightroom

Note: This plugin is not part of the Photomatix family. The plugin for using Photomatix from Lightroom is included in the Photomatix Pro download.


The trial of the plugin is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to final images.

If you already have a license of the plugin, you can upgrade for free to the latest version by downloading here.

PhotomatixCL

Command line program offering some of the functions of Photomatix Pro.


Comes in the installer of Photomatix Pro for Windows and is included in a license of Photomatix Pro. Intended for software developers or for users interested in running Photomatix from the command line.


Note: The program runs on Windows OS and is not available for Mac OS.