This Photomatix Tutorial will be geared towards the beginning user. When I was a newbie to Photography in general I didn’t even know the difference between aperture and shutter speed. When I was new to HDR I felt a similar sense of ignorance when I ran across certain terms related to HDR. I only began using Photomatix myself a few months ago but due to a pretty heavy immersion I’ve picked up quite a lot of information in that period of time.
I’m breaking this tutorial up into two main parts. Part one is a very basic walk-through of HDR and Photomatix. Part two will go into the various adjustment sliders in the Details Enhancer mode, which is the most commonly used mode in Photomatix.
Although there are several versions of Photomatix (including a Light version), I’m going to talk mostly about Photomatix Pro. This is the standalone version of the software and is the most commonly purchased version.
I actually initially bought the Light version because I was feeling pretty tight with money at the time. Although it is less expensive than the Pro version, it’s also considerably “Lighter”. After upgrading to the Pro version I ran some experiments using the same three bracketed images. The final result from the Light version was pretty good but the result from the Pro version was better. (...)
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