Picturenaut

The most commonly used HDR or HDRI software (Photoshop and Photomatix) is expensive and slow. Creating an HDR or HDRI image, followed by Tonemapping in Photoshop costs several minutes. Photomatix is a little bit faster. But now there's Picturenaut: HDR software as a free download, which is much faster and also very good!

Although the dynamic range and signal / noise ratio of digital cameras is growing, there are still situations where it is impossible for the highlights and shadow areas with good image to highlight 1. In die situaties nemen HDR fotografen (waar HDR staat voor: “High Dynamic Range”) meerdere foto's van eenzelfde onderwerp, die verschillend belicht zijn. In these situations take HDR photographers (where HDR stands for High Dynamic Range) photos of several similar subject, that are exposed differently. Vervolgens wordt een dergelijk belichtingstrapje van meerdere (8 bits) jpg of (14 bits) RAW opnames gecombineerd tot 1 (32 bits) HDR opname, met schaduwpartijen zonder ruis zijn en goed belichte hooglichten. Then such a multiple bracket (8 bits) or jpg (14 bit) RAW images combined into 1 (32 bit) HDR image, with its shadow without noise, bright highlights. Als je de foto's niet van statief maat, weet de huidige HDR software de opnames toch nog goed over elkaar heen te leggen. If your photos do not stand size, the software knows the current HDR images still well over each other to submit. HDR opnames wordt nu nog meestal gemaakt met Photoshop of Photomatix, maar Picturenaut vormt een serieuze bedreiging. HDR images are now usually made with Photoshop or Photomatix, but Picturenaut constitutes a serious threat. Zeker omdat deze HDR software goed en snel werkt, makkelijk te downloaden en installeren is en ook nog eens gratis is. Especially since this HDR software works well and fast, and easy to download and install another free. De makers van de software, Mark Mehl en Christian Bloch, vragen je wel om een kleine bijdrage (5 dollar = 3 euro tachtig) via Paypal om hun eigen kosten te dekken. The makers of the software, Mehl and Mark Christian Bloch, you have to ask a small fee ($ 5 = 3 euro eighties) via Paypal at their own costs. Je bent hiertoe niet verplicht, maar het is wel zo attent om aan dit verzoek te voldoen. You are not obligated, but it is so attentive to this request.

De interface van Picturenaut is eenvoudig te begrijpen en te gebruiken. Picturenaut The interface is easy to understand and use. Voor de eerste stap: het maken van een HDR opname selecteer je de originele bestanden en vink je alle mogelijke opties aan. The first step: creating an HDR image, select the original files and check all possible options. Picturenaut kan overweg met de meest gebruikelijke bestanden: jpg, TIFF en RAW.  Het 32 bits HDR bestand is op te slaan in de meest voorkomende formaten: EXR, HDR en TIFF. Picturenaut can handle the most common files: JPG, TIFF and RAW. The 32-bit HDR file to save in the most common formats: EXR, HDR, and TIFF. Nadat je een HDR bestand hebt verkregen, kom je bij deze gratis HDR software aan de volgende stap: Once you've obtained an HDR file, you'll come to this free HDR software to the next step:

Tonemapping

In the second step, the 32-bit HDR image is transformed back into one (8 or 16 bits) LDR image with a special process called "Tonemapping". For this, there are two options in Picturenaut, again both easy to use:

• Adaptive logaritmic saturated colors in the highlights (with photos of colored lights such as neon signs or sunsets)
• Photo Receptor for all other situations

The uniqueness of the tone mapping Picturenaut is immediately visible on the screen (see the picture below, where both tone mapping to illustrate menus are shown simultaneously). Not in a small panel like PhotoMatix, but for the whole picture. Picturenaut is so fast that no act of the Tone Folder many minutes (Photoshop CS4) or minutes (PhotoMatix), but you have the immediate result. De kwaliteit van de uiteindelijke foto is bij tonemapping met Picturenaut minstens net zo goed als bij Photoshop of Photomatix. The quality of the final image is tone mapping with Picturenaut at least as good as Photoshop or Photomatix.

Now also with "anti-ghosting"

The main disadvantage of Picturenaut, where you find Picturenaut still in development, was the lack of "anti-ghosting" If you take 2 subsequent pictures, with someone passing by in one of the pictures, the software would create a "ghost": with the person being either half transparent or partially visible. Since version 3 is Picturenaut also features anti-ghosting.

The latest version of the free software Picturenaut HDR can be found at:

www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut www.hdrlabs.com / picturenaut

Start with HDRI, HDR software and download Picturenaut!