I tend to work from 70-100%, usually I will push it to 100% unless it’s a land or cityscape. Strength: This slider is used to determine how much tone-mapping or contrast is applied to the image. There are only 8 sliders that I adjust within the adjustments panel of Photomatix Pro, the rest I leave at default. Now let’s look at the Tone-mapping adjustments within Photomatix Pro 4. But like always I remove this in post production by applying it selectively.Īs you can see all of the boxes are usually left unchecked. It does do a nice job of reducing those galactic red and green edges from light to dark transitions in your shot. Reduce Chromatic Aberrations: I leave this box unchecked as well. So most of the time I am leaving this box unchecked. Because I shoot up to 9 brackets at 1EV I find little noise in my images unless I’m dealing with sky, but even still you could remove noise in Photoshop using layers.
If left on I use “On Source Images” for “Normal exposure and underexposed”, Strength at 100%. Reduce Noise: I teeter with this on and off. Reduce Ghosting Artifacts: I usually leave this box unchecked, but if you have moving elements in your shot why not reduce the ghosting effect before tone-mapping! Photomatix Pro 4 does a great job of removing ghosting and I would suggest using “Semi-manual” and detection “Normal”, so you have the control over the areas and brackets used for ghosting control. (This will save you aggravation later if you have to use layer masking in Photoshop) If you did shoot your brackets by hand you will want to make sure that “By correcting horizontal and vertical shifts” is selected and that the “Crop aligned images” are Unchecked.
PHOTOMATIX PRO 4 INSTRUCTIONS SOFTWARE
Welcome to Part 3 of the HDR Series – Getting Started! This time you are going to learn about the settings in a HDR Tone-Mapping software I use called Photomatix Pro 4. Before you get to the adjustments window you will be prompted with this window first.Īlign Source Images: I always keep this box unchecked unless I was using brackets shot by hand (which I never do).
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