Comments on: Photomatix vs Enfuse: Two Ways To Do HDR

By: Brandi

Brandi — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:45:33 +0000

Anyone use Topaz Adjust?

By: larry

larry — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:42:02 +0000

@Gerry- Thanks for the link. I’ll give it a try.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:18:42 +0000

I found a very comprehensive HDR software called Dynamic Photo HDR at http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html
I have been experimenting with the trial version for only a few days and have become impressed with its many features as well as the final result.
In my mind, this is probably the best pkg I have found for uninterrupted workflow. You really never have to exit it from
raw to finished 16 bit tiff, psd or just regular jpeg for web.
It has automatic transfer from processed hdr into it’s own photo editor. It even searches your hard drive for all compatible adobe plug ins and does an
automatic install of them into it’s own editor. Additionally it is very reasonably priced.

By: Gary Shepard

Gary Shepard — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:12:43 +0000

My primary question with HDR is this: In a mixed light situation when you have both tungsten lighting a room and daylight coming in throuh large expanses of windows what do you use for a white balance setting. If you choose tungsten white balance how do you keep the daylight lit areas from going blue. If you choose daylight white balance how do you keep the tungsten lit areas from going yellow/brown?

By: alex

alex — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:38:57 +0000

hi,

photomatix allows the production of LDR
with ONE CLICK using the added commandline-tool
PHOTOMATIX CL alone !

http://www.hdrsoft.com/download/command_line.html

the result is much better than with enfuse.

regards

alex

By: larry

larry — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:06:07 +0000

Jesicca- Thanks for the info. Sounds like those will be great improvements.

By: Jessica Hughes

Jessica Hughes — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:12:38 +0000

I got this e-mail from the guys over at photomatix:

Question: are you planning a version of photomatix that works more like the enfuse lightroom interface?

Answer: Dear Jessica,

The Enfuse plug-in does not provide a decent preview of the resulting image because the current version of Lightroom does not make it possible to build plug-ins like is possible with Photoshop unfortunately. We believe that offering a good preview of the effect of blending or tone mapping is very important, which is why we use the dialogs of Photomatix Pro.

The next version of our Lightroom plug-in will make the integration with Lightroom tighter by offering to set the alignment and HDR generation options from Lightroom directly, and also make it possible to automatically reimport the blended or tone mapped image into the Lightroom library. However, we will still continue using Photomatix Pro for the tone mapping and blending dialogs because of the availability of a preview and histogram.

Sincerely,

Geraldine Joffre
HDR Imaging for Photography
http://www.hdrsoft.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:50:50 +0000

Can Photomatix do focus blending? How does it compare to Enfuse in that area?

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:41:28 +0000

Read your article with great interest.
Trying to get Enfuse to work but can’t.
I’ve downloaded droplets, Enfusegui, hugin, nothing seems to work.

I did manage to get a wildly curved HDR panorama out of Hugin but the images were identical except for exposure.

Can someone direct me on how to get Enfuse to work?

Thanks, Bob

By: Bill Vaughn

Bill Vaughn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:00:28 +0000

Thanks Larry,
I have fused 7 from a 1D MkIII and it seemed to take about the same time. It may just be the size of the files on the Ds, they are between 15-17MB per.