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 | | Take Better Pictures Than Your Camera CanPhotoAcute Studio (http://photoacute.com/studio/) allows professional photographers and photo enthusiasts to get better pictures with more spatial resolution and less noise and other artifacts (such as chromatic aberration and geometric distortions) with just a slight change to the workflow. Improve your photos as if you had much better camera!
Using the innovative RAW-in-RAW-out type of processing, PhotoAcute Studio can be used together with your favorite RAW processing and post-processing suite instead of replacing it.
While there is no way to add missing detail to a single picture, modern image processing algorithms can do wonders when combining several images and pulling hidden image details to increase MTF and visible spatial resolution. PhotoAcute Studio does not sharpen or super-size your images. Instead, it pulls every little detail from several shots taken from the same point to produce a single final image in super-resolution. You can even use this technique to obtain a photo-quality super-resolution shot by combining several frames of a webcam or a video camcorder. If you have enough frames, you can even print it poster-size - a hopeless mission without PhotoAcute Studio!
Don't let the numerous sharpness enhancers and image resize tools discourage you! PhotoAcute Studio provides a real, measurable increase in MTF numbers that can be proven with independent analysis tools such as Imatest. Have a look here (http://photoacute.com/mtf.html) at the MTF graphs of the original picture and of the one processed with PhotoAcute Studio.
PhotoAcute Studio is not limited to just increasing spatial resolution. It squeezes every bit of extra information available in the several shots to produce a final image that strikes you with its clean appearance, fine details and deep colors. While HDR processing is hardly new, PhotoAcute Studio still combines color and exposure information from several images to produce a final image with naturally deep colors and no under- or overexposed areas.
Combining several images allows discriminating between noise and the genuine details of an image. The unique noise reduction technique applied by PhotoAcute Studio produces naturally clean images with a smooth background and all fine details carefully preserved. Unlike still-image noise reduction algorithms, PhotoAcute Studio applies motion-based noise reduction similar to the ones used in movie production.
Macro photographers will undoubtedly appreciate the increased depth of field resulting from image stacking. Simply taking several pictures with slightly shifted focus and combining the images in PhotoAcute Studio produces sharp images with an amazingly wide dynamic range and deep depth-of-field that is hard or impossible to achieve otherwise.
Producing sharp, vivid, super-resolution images out of several pictures and supporting RAW file formats of all major photo manufacturers, PhotoAcute Studio is irreplaceable for any serious photographer or photo enthusiast. Download the free evaluation version at: http://photoacute.com/studio/ |
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| Photomatix Pro
by HDRsoft |  | HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo processing
Platform: Windows, Mac
Media: CD-ROM
| Product Features:- Creation HDR images
- Tone Mapping
- Exposure Fusion
- Automatic alignment hand-held photos
- Reduction of noise and chromatic aberrations in HDR images
| About the Product:
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 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista. Some of the features of Photomatix Pro are also available as a Filter plug-in of Photoshop CS2/CS3/CS4 and an Edit plug-in of Aperture 2.1. | Benefits for Professional Photographers:
- Save 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 Cloudy Day Pictures
Shadowless hazy sunlight or an overcast sky usually results in dull-looking photographs. The tone mapping tool of Photomatix Pro can turn them into great-looking images.
- 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 blending (also knows as exposure fusion) and HDR tone mapping.
| About the Developer:
HDRsoft develops innovative software in the field of High Dynamic Range imaging for photography.
The first version of its HDR software Photomatix was released in February 2003 as the result of a research project started in July 2002. The project was awarded a grant from the French Ministry of Research, as laureate of the national contest 2003 organized by ANVAR (National Agency for the Valuation of Research).
The company is owned and controlled by its two founding members, one of them being a professional photographer with over 25 years' experience. HDRsoft was previously known as MultimediaPhoto (the company changed its name in December 2006). |
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