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How does the Aperture plugin differ from Photomatix Pro? |
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The Photomatix plug-in for Apple Aperture offers the following features:
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Merge of bracketed photos into a 32-bit HDR image |
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Option for automatic alignment of the merged photos |
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Options for automatic reduction of chromatic aberrations and noise in the HDR image |
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Tone Mapping with the Details Enhancer and Tone Compressor methods |
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The standalone Photomatix Pro offers all above features. It also offers exposure blending/fusion, ghosting reduction, read/write support of 32-bit HDR image format, and a powerful batch processing. These features are missing in the Photomatix Plug-in for Aperture. |
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Does the plugin work in Aperture 3? |
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Yes. The Photomatix Plug-in for Aperture is 64-bit compatible since version 1.1.3 and thus accessible within Aperture 3. If your version of the plug-in is older than v1.1.3, please download the latest version from the download page. |
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Do you plan to add exposure fusion and batch processing to the plug-in? |
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Yes, we intend to offer the exposure blending/fusion of Photomatix Pro in a future version of the Photomatix plugin for Aperture. This will be done in a 1.x sub-version, so the upgrade will be free of charge. |
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Our plug-in for Aperture is an Edit plug-in, which means it is not suited to batch processing. It may be possible to offer a batch-like functionality with an Export plug-in, but we have no plans for it at the moment. |
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I see you have a new version of Photomatix Pro. When can I expect the Aperture plugin to be updated? |
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The standalone Photomatix Pro and the Photomatix plugin for Aperture are separate products and they are developed separately. Also, Photomatix Pro offers several features that the plugin for Aperture does not have, or does not yet have as further detailed above. This means that the updates of both products are done independently of each other, the same way updates of our plug-in for Photoshop are done independently of updates of the standalone Photomatix Pro. |
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Be ensured, though, that we are committed to update the Photomatix plugin for Aperture on a regular basis. Also, updates to our plugin for Aperture will be free of charge for several years to come. |
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Note that our Lightroom export plugin is very different from our Aperture plugin (there is more details on this below). Our Lightroom plugin only exports to the standalone Photomatix Pro -- it is an auxiliary tool part of Photomatix Pro, which is why it is updated together with Photomatix Pro.
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Why do you charge for your Aperture plug-in while the Lightroom plug-in is free? |
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This question is answered in the Photomatix Pro FAQ here. |
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The colors of my HDR image in the Aperture plug-in look different than in Photomatix Pro, though I processed the same RAW files. |
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When you use an Edit plug-in with RAW files, Aperture will first convert these images to TIFF or PSD in order to enable the plug-in to edit them. This is what the message "Preparing image for output" means. |
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When you process your RAW files directly in the standalone Photomatix Pro, you leave the task to convert the RAW files to Photomatix. RAW conversion is a complex task. It involves color conversion from camera
to output space among other things, and each RAW converter has its own "secret" recipe to perform the color conversion. Photomatix does not know how Aperture perform its color conversion, so it can't do the
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If you want to compare results from the standalone Photomatix Pro and the plugin for Aperture, you will have to use the same files as input to HDR tone mapping, which are the TIFF (or PSD) versions exported by Aperture. Note that this is the recommended workflow for Photomatix Pro as detailed here. |
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I already purchased Photomatix Pro. Is there an upgrade path to the Aperture plug-in? |
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Yes. Please see the details here. |
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