Dynamic Photo-HDR is a next generation High Dynamic Range Photo Software with Pin-Warping, Anti-Ghosting and Color Matching.
"Powerful alignment and deghosting tools for high-dynamic-range generation, six tone mappers, plus lots of postproduction adjustments make MediaChance's Dynamic Photo HDR a real winner for HDR imaging."
2008 Popular Photography Award for Outstanding Product
Overview
Overview
Many times you see a beautiful scene and of course you take a picture! The result is often far from being the magical scene you remember.
Our eyes are very adaptive and they are also more sensitive to intensity than color. The chip in camera is none of that.
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.
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.
For a well light outside scene such as the one on the right we could set our digital camera to correctly capture either, but hardly both:
- the foreground (left image) in which case the sky will become overexposed
- the sky (right image) but the foreground will be then underexposed
Using HDR technique we can combine the different exposures to create a single image that shows details in both sky and the land.
A High Dynamic Range photography can be created by taking few photos with different exposure, then combining them in the software into a high dynamic file.
The last thing is to tone-map the HDR image so we can see it in our screen, print it, post it on the web and enjoy.
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.
DPHDR has more effects than any other comparable software like the little Planet effect pictured on right.
For example it allows you to paint the Dynamic Light effect just where you want it by using brushes.
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!
What's New
What's New in DPHDR4
- 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
New features/improvements in the latest version:
- 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
Features
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
- 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.
Gallery
Screen
Requirements
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)
Trial
Version: 4.8
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Server 1 (from
Mediachance)
This file works for Windows XP, Vista 32/64 and W7 32/64 and also With Parallels or VMfusion on non Windows systems.
Tutorials
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."
Online Help
Check out the online Help files
Check Video Tutorials
Check the video tutorials for simple quick overview
Video
General Workflow
Review of some cool features
Little Planet Effect
MAC
MAC version
The MAC version has been done by
Codeweavers embedding their Crossover with the windows version of DPHDR.
As such you don't need anything else to run it
on MAC, yet it is still basically a windows
application.
It is not a windows emulation, rather a full "virtualization" but it may be confusing for the MAC users at times.
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 MAC version for
$55 click here. (If you still decide to get
rather windows version later, not a problem,
send us a message)
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.
Special Offer
MAC version
Site Dressing
We are currently updating the look of our pages. Some of the pages have the new look and some still have the old one.
Don't worry, you are still on the same site!