I'll certainly be interested when they have a Mac version.
Meanwhile, Photomatix users, don't forget the Exposure Blending mode (or use "Tone Compressor" rather than "Detail Enhancement" in recent versions) which won't cause halos and can do a good job if you are willing to do some selective enhancement in Photoshop afterwards. Also, turn down that Strength slider if you tone map!
Oh my this is nice. I am impressed with the initial results that this program is giving. Much better than Photomatix without having to jack around with a bunch of sliders that irk the living urine out of me.
It is much faster than CS3's HDR merge feature, and much easier to use. In fact, I just pointed the tool at a set of 7 exposures I took last week. These seven were pretty drab, in and of themselves. Here's what this new tool did to them...
Also, I noticed that I saved the resultant image as a TIF file and the program saved it as 8-bit, not 16-bit. Is there a way to save as 16-bit TIF? I've posted this question on the official bug report/wishlist site.
Oh, and Robert, I don't believe there will be a Mac version anytime soon. You see, this application takes full advantage of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
I combined a set of each (RAW) in Photomatix and then Wukong. Both were then tonemapped in Wukong at default settings, saved, and resized in CS3. I wasn't thinking and saved in jpg in Wukong but the HDR conversion is what I'm trying to illustrate.
7 exposures, Photomatix & Wukong:
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I'm not sure what happened in Wukong to make it look this way but it also did it if I aligned images.
3 exposures, Photomatix & Wukong & C3:
[thumb]633281[/thumb] [thumb]633279[/thumb] [thumb]633286[/thumb]
I had a exr saved from a CS3 conversion so that's here too. What I find interesting is how Photomatix and Wukong combined the headlights in a similar fashion but CS3 used the darkest exposure. Wukong seems to have chosen a different image for the clouds; they appear to move if you click back and forth between Wukong and one of the others.
Wukong seems to have chosen a different image for the clouds; they appear to move if you click back and forth between Wukong and one of the others.
Thoughts anyone?
Wukong and CS3 have same cloud location, different rendering. Photomatix is using a different base image for the clouds, apparently. What's happening in the river shot I have no idea.
Wukong seems to have chosen a different image for the clouds; they appear to move if you click back and forth between Wukong and one of the others.
Thoughts anyone?
Wukong and CS3 have same cloud location, different rendering. Photomatix is using a different base image for the clouds, apparently. What's happening in the river shot I have no idea.
R.
The more I look at them the more they all look different... I'll try some more on another day.
Wukong seems to have chosen a different image for the clouds; they appear to move if you click back and forth between Wukong and one of the others.
Thoughts anyone?
Wukong and CS3 have same cloud location, different rendering. Photomatix is using a different base image for the clouds, apparently. What's happening in the river shot I have no idea.
R.
The more I look at them the more they all look different... I'll try some more on another day.
Well, the clouds are moving during the span of the exposures. Stands to reason different algorithms use different locations of the clouds...
If you could, Mark, send me a link as I would love to give this a try and beta it as well. I sent a PM but I was at work and I'm not sure it went through. I looked on the site and saw you have a photo on the main page, nice!
