It is estimated that our eye can see over a dynamic range of nearly 24 f-stops while a digital camera can capture a dynamic range around 6 to 9 f-stops at best.

The High Dynamic Range Imaging is a set of techniques that has been developed nearly 20 years ago to overcome the limitations of electronic devices by combining multiple exposures into one great looking image.

 

We created our software to be fun to use, fast and straight forward. No fiddling with incomprehensible parameters. And as it is common for our products we added many cool features that you may not have seen in any other package.

You can use only 1 file!
Our Dynamic Photo HDR (DPHDR) can be actually used with a single RAW or JPG image with very good results using Pseudo-HDR process.

Granted, this will not expand the full dynamic range, but the process itself will in fact add a very distinctive "punch" to your image that may look just like the real thing. Try it!

Features

In a Nutshell:

• Easy to understand software with super fast preview
• Powerful Auto-Aligning, Manual or Auto-Assist Aligning of images with an innovative Pin Warping that can correct all types of misalignment, including camera roll, pitch or yaw
• Various tone mapping procedures that can create a whole range of images - from smooth photographic tone mapping to very dramatic images
• Fusion process for realistic looking photography
• Load and save HDR files
• Support for 360 Panoramic images
• Batch Processing to add images to queue and then process them all at once
• Live HDR preview during various steps, you can see tone mapped image preview even before you create HDR!
• Real-Time Preview - as you move the sliders you see the changes in real-time
• Paint the tone-mapping strength where you want it with a brush
• Many effects like Orton, Sepia, Black/White, Vignette, Mysterious Light
• You can use Pseudo-HDR process on a single 8-bit source
• Our new real-time Light Tuner will let you change the Tone-Mapped effect and see the feedback result immediately as you move the Light Orb, without any calculation
• Color Correction using Kelvin parameters with preview table
• Match Color will allow you to match your new tone mapped image to any other photo or painting.

 

Pin Warping

Aligning image taken by hand is not any big problem in our software. The unique Pin Warping method can align even most stubborn images where camera shifted, changed roll, pitch or yaw.

 

Anti-Ghosting

If an object moved while you were taking different shots, this would normally create a "ghost" on the final image. We added a powerful yet very simple to use anti-ghosting mask feature. Just paint over all instances of the moved objects (you don't even have to be very precise!) and it will without trace completely eliminate the ghosts from the final image. In Full version you can use Live HDR function. Just press Quick Preview button that will almost instantly show you the result HDR image with the anti-ghosting mask applied.

 

Silky-smooth sky

A common problem with over-processed HDR images is adding halo and noise blocks in large smooth areas such as clean sky.

3D Sky filter automatically adjust the tone-mapping to preserve the smoothness of the sky (Even if you really step on the "HDR effect" pedal as we did with the image below) And we added one for Skin too, so now you can tone-map portraits as well.

Add Effect to Video
Maybe you like to experiment with a video. Now you can!
DPHDR 5 adds Experimental Video processing as yet another mode to add artistic Tonemapped-look to your clips.

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Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Vista or XP (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
• 1 GHz processor or better
• 2 GB of RAM
• 1 GB of free disk space
• Minimum screen resolution: 1024 x 768 (highly recommended higher resolution)
• For Video Processing you need to have installed codec pack (such as free K-lite Basic) to read and write various video formats

 

 

Match Color Tutorial
Read about Match Color function and the Mysterious Dutch Light that can be simulated by it.

Anti-Ghosting Tutorial
Download and read quick overview of anti-ghosting function

Two or Three exposures?
Here we will compare tone mapped results of the same image combined from various two exposures.

PopPhoto tutorial and review of DPHDR
"A step-by-step tutorial and software review of an affordable, powerful High Dynamic Range (HDR) program we've just discovered."

Check Video Tutorials
Check the video tutorials for simple quick overview

Free Online Monitor Panel LCD test
Check out our new online LCD Monitor evaluation test. Within a minute you will know what type of LCD panel your monitor have (TN, S-PVA or S-IPS) and how it is suitable for photo-editing.

Video Support:
DPHDR uses DirectShow to open and write video. If you don't have correct codec installed to open your videos, the easiest way is to install the free K-lite Codec Pack Basic (Basic version is normally enough). Install it with the default settings which will add media splitter and you will be able to load many video formats, including HD.

MAC version

To get latest windows v.5 running on intel MAC we would suggest you to use wineskin and the latest windows trial version. You don't need any other commercial software to make it run on intel MAC.

The step by step guide is here:

• "How to" Guide; daponmac.pdf
• Icon file dphdrformac.icns

If the above works for you with the trial, you can then register the Windows version and receive windows reg. code you will enter in the wineskin version on your MAC.

Prepared virtualized version. (based on v.4)

This virtualized MAC version has been done by Codeweavers embedding their Crossover with the windows 4 version of DPHDR. As such you don't need anything else to run it on MAC, yet it is still basically a windows application.

 

If you run Windows OS on MAC by using VMware Fusion, Parallels or Bootcamp we would strongly recommend you get the windows version.

If you don't run or don't want to run Windows on your MAC here is a download for MAC of our virtualized application. However, please try it first before purchasing. Some people like it, some don't.

Tiger and Leopard version: Dynamic-PHOTO HDR4 (OSX) (51 MB)

Snow Leopard version: Dynamic-PHOTO HDR4 Snow Leopard (OSX) (56MB)

 

To purchase the prepared virtual MAC version for $55 click here. (If you still decide to get rather windows version later, not a problem, send us a message, it was a technical issue to have two reg. codes, not a plot to make you pay twice)
Please try the software first!

 

There are some differences in our virtualized MAC version from a normal MAC workflow:

DPHR having its roots on Windows, may be a bit confusing for the MAC users.
Please read the MAC user workflow.

Native "lite" MAC versions :

Those lite versions will work only as a pseudo HDR until we come with a full native port (not there yet)

Dynamic Light, iPAD, iPhone, MAC Version
We managed to squeeze the whole Pseudo HDR part from DPHDR into low cost IOS/MAC versions and we are quite pleased with the result. You can create an image that rivals anything "HDR" on iPAD/iPhone/MAC but with the simplicity of single image (you can also use the build-in Camera on iPhone and iPad2). We split the app to two versions: Dynamic Light for iPhone and DynaLight HD for iPad and Dynamic Light for MAC. (this was necessary for technical reasons)

For iPAD here and for iPhone here. Dynamic Light for MAC here.

 

Revitalize, our first native MAC app in AppleStore.