and-shoot cameras. This is because a single photograph cannot represent the full gamut of light due to the physical limitations in the sensor.
Hydra does not require pictures taken with a tripod, as it is usually the case with HDR software. This is a unique feature that means you can take photos anywhere without a tripod to later merge them in Hydra.
Hydra uses an advanced image processing pipeline that first aligns the imported images and then merges them in a smart way to preserve the interesting inputs of each image. This method has been entirely implemented on the GPU to provide interactive previewing. This allows you to finely tune all parameters in real-time while observing the changing result until you are satisfied, and then render the full resolution image (resolutions above 20 Mega Pixels supported) in less than a minute. The output produced by Hydra is much closer to what your eyes actually see.
Hydra is also available as a Aperture Plug-In for Aperture and Lightroom so that you can create HDR images right from within Aperture or Lightroom.
Last but not least, Hydra 3.0 introduces many new options: ghost handling, cropping, vignetting, batch processing, tone mapping presets... Thanks to these pro options, you can preprocess and postprocess your photographs and get the result you are looking for.Hydra (stand-alone version and Aperture/Lightroom plug-ins) is available in English, French, and German.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.0:
• Completely new user interface
• Additional features available in the Express version (image processing features, plug-ins...)
• Localized in English, French and German
• Better interactive visualization:
◦ Full resolution image, fast display
◦ Interactive adjustments
◦ Overview/manipulation of displayed image area within the whole image
◦ Mouse scrolling and zoom in/out
◦ Optional flashing low/highlights alerts
◦ Better fullscreen support
◦ Improved display of photo information
• Image processing:
◦ 2 modes of operation: Photo Preparation, and Photo Development
◦ Better camera response function estimates
◦ Automatic or zone-based ghost removal (due to moving objects in different exposures)
• Image alignment:
◦ Much improved automatic alignment, even for farther apart exposures
◦ Interactive point placement, with increased contrast display for easier manual matching
◦ Subpixel point matching with subpixel user input
◦ Reset button for individual alignment points
◦ Better support for low contrast/less textured images
• Tone mapping:
◦ Entirely rewritten tonemapper
◦ Full 32-bit floating point pipeline (per color component)
◦ 32-bit EV histogram and 8-bit tone-mapped histogram
◦ Realtime adjustments on full resolution image
◦ Reset of any slider by double-clicking it
◦ Better central exposure determination
◦ Better quality & user control
◦ New controls - adjustable per scope: Overall exposure adjustment, shadows & highlights enhancement, details enhancement, hue, saturation, brightness, contrast
◦ 12 presets available
◦ User presets can be stored per document (snapshots)
◦ Scope-based adjustments to target only bright or dark areas, red, green, or blue tones
◦ Probe-based adjustments (Pro version only)
◦ Probes are used to select areas based on distance/color/brightness tolerance (Pro version only)
◦ Interactive probe placement (Pro version only)
• Post-processing:
◦ Crop
◦ Glow
◦ Vignetting
◦ White frame
• Workflow - Batch processing (Pro version only):
◦ Drop files and folders, Hydra groups them as exposure sets
◦ Photo sets can be modified by user (add/remove photo, split set)
◦ Photo sets can be given different processing options (tone mapping preset, automatic alignment, ghost removal...)
◦ Can create final images and/or Hydra documents for later manual editing
◦ Display of batch processing progress
• Export:
◦ Improved export to iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom
◦ Export to Flickr
◦ Export to Twitter
◦ Export to Facebook
◦ Export to Mail
◦ Better EXIF information handling
◦ Copyright information added to EXIF data
• Optimized for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion:
◦ Fullscreen Mode
◦ Autosaving and Versioning
◦ Automatic Termination and Restart
• Improved Aperture plug-in
• Improved Lightroom plug-in
REQUIREMENTS
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later.
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