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.

 

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.

QuickHDR - a great companion to DPHDR

QuickHDR is a great companion to DPHDR. Sometimes you just want to quickly apply HDR look to an ordinary image or a folder full of your old images. QuickHDR is the soloution. It is very fast and highly enjoyable image enhancement software and a batch processor to apply many popular Film processing and HDR effects to the modern digital camera images.

QuickHDR is build from ground-up with the purpose of applying the HDR and Film effect to a single image source.

QuickHDR together with DPHDR and save!

New features/improvements in the latest version:

• Version 5.3 (9/Sep/2012) updated RAW for recent cameras (Now includes Sony RX100, Canon 5D III, Olympus E-M5 and more)
  Fixed refresh problem with thumbnail preview in Open Dialog, fixed some portrait RAW flip bugs
• July-August 2012, Mediachance is a proud sponsor of exhibition "Solitude in new York City", 556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
• Version 5.2 (12/Feb/2012) updated RAW reading for latest cameras, added 4GB memory support for Windows 64 bit.
• Version 5.1 Increased Tonemapper window size add Video Mode.
• Version 5.02 Some RAW changes
• Version 5 (15/Dec/2010) New release
• Version 4.8 (15/June/2010): RAW update for recent cameras  Canon 550D, Fuji S200EXR, Kodak Z981, Olympus E-P2, E-PL1, Panasonic G2, Sony NEX, Update PhotoBee. Process & Save is now set as default
• Version 4.7 (29/March/2010):
  Added Quick batch in Pseudo-HDR to process whole folder of jpg files. (Click the arrow next to Process & Edit/Save button) - currently only for WIN version
• Version 4.65 (04/Jan/2010):
  Updated RAW reading for newest cameras, including Canon G11, 7D, Nikon, Casio, Sony and others.
• Version 4.6 (18/Oct/2009):
  Updated RAW reading for newest cameras, including Olympus EP-1, Panasonic GF-1, Pentax K7, Nikon D5000 and others.
• Version 4.5 (21/July/2009):
  Updated RAW reading for newest cameras, fixed reading of few types of portrait oriented RAW files

General News for v. 5.x

• Guide how to run v.5 on MAC
• Pseudo part from DPHDR is now on iPad and iPhone
• New Fusion process for realistic looking photography
• HDR Fusion combines fusion and HDR tonemapping
• Improved anti-ghosting (Fusion, HDR Fusion)
• Automatic Anti-Ghosting (Fusion, HDR Fusion)
• Improved Aligning
• Experimental Video Mode - add Tonemapped look to your videos
• Other enhancements

Highlights from previous version

• New Halo-Matix Local operator to produce familiar style of tone-mapped images with a lot of variations and settings.
• Light Paint - apply Dynamic Light where you want it by using a brush
• Post Editor (Win Only) - for all the common basic image touch up and tons of effects (also support adobe plug-ins).
•  Live Preview - now you see real-time image feedback when moving sliders
• Enhanced Quick browser support for RAW files
• Raw Gamma/WB Options added in the Create New HDR

 

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
• 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 and Light Tuner - 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
• 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.

Largest amount of operators and combinations in one single software

DPHDR offers many different tone mapping operator groups and sub-operators with various combinations. You can produce image from single or multiple exposures with many different looks; from natural smooth image to having painterly effect.

 

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

Windows Version

• Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows 8, 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

MAC virtualized version

• Snow Leopard or Lion
• Any Intel MAC, including MacBook Air

 

 

 

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.

Virtualized MAC version

• Download DPHDR OSX for Snow Leopard and Lion (50 MB)
  This is a self contained virtualized OSX version build with WS7Wine1.3.28
• PDF guide: DynamicPhoto.pdf

Note: In the OSX virtualized version the drive Z: is mapped to your Macintosh HD
For example to find Pictures go to My Computer, Z:/Users/<Your Name>/Pictures
We suggest to use the built-in image browser in the application to add your images

DIY MAC version

If you want to make your own wrapper for the windows version 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 reg. code you will enter in the virtualized version on your MAC.

 

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.