The results differ, but keep in mind all images were stored without changeing any setting in Photomatix or HDR Efex Pro. Resultsīefore you might take a look at the video here are the results with default settings: converted from raw without any changes Photomatix balanced HDR Efex Pro Default converted from raw without any changes Photomatix balanced HDR Efex Pro Default But besides this easier handling the results are very much the same so you need one tool only. HDR Efex Pro offers a handling advantage because you can mark one raw file within Lightroom and the tool operates with this file, which is converted to 16 Bit tiff first. HDR Efex Pro from the free of charge Google Nik collection offers such a function too. The built-in display and Apple Pro Display XDR support Dolby Vision, HDR10, and HLG. Photomatix writes a 16-Bit Tiff file which cna be processed in Lightroom or on Photoshop CC.Īfter loading the raw file into Photomatix you instantly get the HDR preview. MacBook Pro introduced in 2018 or later MacBook Air introduced in 2018 or later (HDR on external displays requires a model with Apple silicon) iMac introduced in 2020 or later iMac Pro Mac mini introduced in 2018 or later Mac Pro introduced in 2019 Supported HDR formats. The file then is loaded without any corrections probably applied to file in Lightroom, but of course you can process the resulting image. Instaed of using 3 16 Bit Tiff images wie load the raw file directly into Photomatix (sory i somehow didn’t make it getting Photomatix to speak english). Photomatix isn’t mandatory this could be SNS-HDR or HDR Efex from Google Nik collection. The resulting 3 Tiff images then were merged with Photomatix to one HDR. To do this we export 3 16 Bit Tiff images manually at exposure settings of 0, -2 EV and + 2 EV. The base of the older blog post was one raw file having enough resources to export a series of different exposure image which were capable to be merged to an HDR image with your favorite HDR software. In the todays post i want to describe an alternative. Maybe you remember the blog post “ HDR from one RAW” which described the situation to generate a HDR image from one RAW file.

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