HDR Photo Studio

With today’s innovative cameras and scanners capturing an amazing range of colors, highlights, or shadows is easy. The loss of visual dynamics happens in editing, when reducing the amount of data from 8-bit or 16-bit the much of the innateness of the picture is gone. That is why HDR’s pictures have become the entire buzz; the new PhotoStudio is a 32-bit editor and allows you to enjoy the maximum potential of HDR (high dynamic range) pictures. Real HDR is 32-bit but most common programs, like Photoshop, cannot support the full 32-bit editing.

The start up menu gives you three options: create/merge a new HDR image, open an existing image, or batch processing. The first option lets you select the images you want to combine into a new HDR picture. Usually you will use several captures of one scene, with different exposure or lighting, this helps you get a hold of as much data as possible in the shadows, highlights, and midtones for the final image. Importing will not be a problem the PhotoStudio supports all RAW file formats from all the major camera companies, it also supports TIFF and JPEG images.

To get the product to work all you have to do is choose the setting for Automatic Dynamic Range Mapping (None, Fast, Optimal, or Quality), you simply hit the merge key and the program does the rest of the work for you. The speed at which the final picture is completed depends on the size of the file and the number of images being processed. Its performance, features, and design are all top notch, and for $150 you can become a professional editor for your own photos.