The tools are slider-based, and will be very familiar to anyone who has used other Nik products (or any other image editor, for that matter). With HDR Efex Pro, the tool set remains the same regardless of the tone-mapping options you choose. Photomatix uses a multiple menu approach to its interface, and sometimes you can accidentally bury menus underneath other windows on your computer screen. All of the controls are within the same window, as are image previews, histograms, and preset thumbnails.
Nik Software has applied a unified graphical user interface for HDR Efex Pro.
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Nik Software has announced that an update to offer 32-bit Photoshop support is due in early 2011. HDR Efex Pro does not currently operate within 32-bit versions of Photoshop (you need CS4 or higher on PCs, CS5 on Macs, and a 64-bit OS). Both HDR Efex Pro and Photomatix Pro support 32-bit smart objects with Photoshop CS4/5 Extended. You can run HDR Efex Pro as a stand-alone program, too, but it is not designed with this workflow in mind. Photomatix Pro is also available as a stand-alone application, and it supports drag and drop file loading (which is very convenient). Host Platformsīoth HDR Efex Pro and Photomatix Pro are available as plug-ins for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. I like both programs, so here’s a quick comparison and review. In October, 2010, Nik Software released HDR Efex Pro, a plug-in for Photoshop/Lightroom/Aperture that performs HDR tone-mapping. While there are lots of HDR software options available today, I have always gravitated towards using Photomatix Pro ( for my images, because I was able to get good results for my natural landscapes. I’ve seen a lot of bad attempts at tone-mapping, and part of the reason is that the on-board Photoshop tools just aren’t very easy to use.
Tone-mapping controls not only the global image contrast, but also local contrast (micro-contrast) between adjacent tones.
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Tone-mapping is where you tell the software how to squish the 32-bit/channel (HDR) image into a 16-bit/channel color space. The big challenge with HDR in Photoshop has always been the tone-mapping step. I’ve been dabbling in high dynamic range (HDR) photography since 2005, when Adobe released Photoshop CS2 and the “ merge to HDR” command. Sunrise over the Maroon Bells, Aspen, CO.
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