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	Photomatix Pro Photomatix Essentials Aperture Plugin Photoshop Plugin Merge to 32-bit HDR Plugin Merge bracketed photos to HDR Yes Yes Yes No (*) Yes Tone Mapping with Details Enhancer Yes Yes Yes Yes No Advanced Details Enhancer settings Yes No Yes Yes No Exposure Fusion / "Natural" preset Yes Yes Yes No No Finishing Touch (sharpening, contrast, saturation) Yes No No No No Undo tonemapped/fused image Yes No No Yes No Automatic alignment of hand-held photos Yes Yes Yes No (*) Yes Automatic ghost removal Yes Yes Yes No (*) Yes Selective Deghosting tool Yes No No No No Thumbnails of built-in presets Yes Yes Yes No No Thumbnails of custom presets Yes No No No No Display options for preset thumbnails Yes No No No No Saving and loading of user presets Yes Yes Yes No No Batch processing of bracketed photos Yes No No No No Batch of single files Yes No No No No Automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations Yes No Yes No No Automatic noise reduction Yes Yes Yes No Yes Maximum number of photos per bracketed set Unlimited 5 Unlimited n/a Unlimited Read/write in 32-bit HDR image formats Yes No No No (*) Floating Point TIFF only Integration with Lightroom via free export plugin Yes No n/a n/a n/a Application type Stand-alone Stand-alone Requires Aperture 2 or higher Requires Photoshop CS2 or higher Requires Lightroom 4 or higher
	(*) Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 includes the merge of bracketed photos into 32-bit HDR with automatic alignment and read/write in 32-bit HDR image formats. Photoshop CS5 and CS6 add an option for ghost removal.
	You can also visually compare Photomatix Essentials and Photomatix Pro through their introduction videos.
	Note: If you buy a license of Photomatix Essentials, you can later upgrade to Photomatix Pro for the $60 price difference between both products.

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