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	HDR / Tone Mapping - Generation of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images from differently exposed images › Option for automatic image alignment. Two alignment methods are available. › Option for reducing ghosting artifacts in two different cases: one for ghosting due to moving objects, the other for ghosting artifacts due to background movements. › Option for automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations. › Option for automatic reduction of noise. › Reading of exposure information from Exif data. › Source images can be either 8 bits/channel or 16 bits/channel images, or RAW files from several camera models as well as DNG files. › In the case of RAW files, White Balance and output color space can be adjusted. - Conversion of single RAW file into pseudo-HDR image › Enables to apply the Tone Mapping tool to single RAW file. › White Balance can be adjusted in Preferences. - Tone Mapping tool for revealing highlights and shadows details in HDR image › Two tone mapping methods available: Details Enhancer, based on a local operator, and Tone Compressor, based on a global operator. › Preview enabling to adjust the following settings for Details Enhancer: Strength, Color Saturation, Light Smoothing, Luminosity, Gamma, Black and White Point, Color Temperature, Saturation Highlights, Saturation Shadows, Microcontrast, Micro-smoothing, Highlights Smoothing, Shadows Smoothing and Shadows Clipping. For Tone Compressor the settings are: Brightness, Tonal Range Compression, Contrast Adaptation, Black and White Point, Color Temperature and Color Saturation. › Settings can be saved as Presets for quick access, or saved to and loaded from XMP files › Loupe to get a crop at 100% resolution. › Option for different preview sizes (small, medium, large and fit) › Undo and redo buttons for the settings done. › Output image is in 16 bits/channel mode, with the option to save it as 8 bits/channel jpeg or tiff, if desired › In the case of Details Enhancer, input image can also be a 16 bits/channel image file. › Option for output as equirectangular image set to be viewed in a 360 degree panorama viewer in the case of Details Enhancer. › Tone Mapping can be undone. - HDR Viewer shows local HDR image data at the appropriate exposure - Display of HDR Histogram (logarithmic) - Ability to batch tone map single HDR images. - Function to tone map large HDR image files while benefiting from a preview. - Read and Write support for Radiance RGBE (.hdr), OpenEXR (.exr) and Floating Point TIFF - Color managed HDR workflow: passing trough of ICC color profiles from the source to the tone mapped images, and color managed display.

	Exposure Blending/Fusion - Four algorithms for Exposure Blending: Highlights & Shadows - 2 images, Highlights & Shadows - Auto, Highlights & Shadows - Adjust, and Highlights & Shadows - Intensive - Automatic alignment option for hand-held images with two alignment methods available - Preview and Loupe available for all Exposure Blending methods. - Ability to select the images for method 'H&S - 2 images' › Settings for method H&S - Adjust are: Accentuation, Blending Point, Shadows, Color Saturation, White Clip, Black Clip, Midtones and 360 degree image.

	Automatic Batch Processing - Automatically loads and processes images of the specified input location, and saves resulting images to the specified output location - Works for HDR generation, Tone Mapping and exposure blending - Strip processing option to generate an HDR image from large TIFF files without exceeding available RAM. - Ability to set the Exposure Value spacing for HDR image generation - Processes all sets of bracketed images stored under a given folder (number of bracketed images in each set specified by user before running the batch) - Ability to process all sub-folders of a given folder, combining all image files stored under each sub-folder - Options for naming the the resulting image files.

	General - Support of the following image file formats: JPEG (read & write), TIFF 24-bit, 48-bit and Floating Point (read & write), Radiance RGBE (read & write), OpenEXR (read & write), PNG (Mac version: read & write), PSD (read only) RAW files from several camera models, as well as DNG files (read only) - Basic image operation tools › Cropping (also works with HDR images) › Resizing (also works with HDR images) › Rotating (also works with HDR images) › Sharpening › Brightness & Contrast › Remapping of mirror ball (also works with HDR images) - Includes Lightroom Export Plugin to Photomatix Pro › HDR processing settings are selected directly in the Lightroom plug-in › Option to automatically save the resulting tone mapped or blended image and re-import it into the Lightroom library

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