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32bit versie: Photomatix Pro 324
64bit versie: Photomatix Pro 327

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If you have ever photographed a high contrast scene, you know that even the best exposure will typically have blown out highlights and flat shadows. Photomatix offers two ways to solve this problem:
? HDR Tone Mapping: Reveal highlight and shadow details in an HDR image created from multiple exposures.
? Exposure Fusion: Merge differently exposed photographs into one image with increased dynamic range. 

Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images, and runs on Mac OS X and Windows. A free Lightroom Plug-in makes it possible to access the program directly from Lightroom, if desired. Some of the features of Photomatix Pro are also available as a Filter Plug-in of Photoshop CS2 or higher and an Edit Plug-in of Aperture 2.1.


Benefits for professional photographers:
? Saving on lighting equipment
  No need to acquire expensive lighting equipment -and carry it- when you shoot high contrast scenes. Just enable the Auto Exposure Bracketing feature of your camera, and let Photomatix merge your photos into an image with extended dynamic range.
? Great pictures on cloudy days
  Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix can turn them into great-looking images. Check this image as example.
? Saving time in post-processing
  Photomatix Pro is designed for productivity -- automatic blending, unlimited stacking, easy comparison of results and batch processing save hours of masking and layers work in image editing programs.
? Well exposed panoramas
  A panoramic scene is almost always a high contrast scene -- you can't limit your view to areas with the same brightness when shooting a 360° panorama. By taking views under several exposures and processing them in Photomatix Pro, you can create a panorama that will show details in both the dark and bright areas of the scene. Photomatix Pro offers both exposure fusion (also knows as exposure blending) and HDR tone mapping.