Photomatix pro4/6/2023 ![]() ![]() It mainly shoot landscapes and use HDR for the greatest tonal range and tend towards a more saturated look. I have been a long time user of Photomatix Pro for HDR and PS for other post production tasks. What are your thoughts from what you’ve seen demo’d so far in CS5? Are you a Photomatix user? Will you switch? Are you brand new to HDR and curious to check it out in CS5? Oh yeah, if you hate HDR then just don’t comment □ I think there will be lots of folks that make the move to HDR Pro, and lots that stand by Photomatix, the product that they know (and rightfully so in many ways). It’s whether or not HDR Pro will convert existing Photomatix users into HDR Pro users that remains to be seen. Newcomers into HDR will definitely start using HDR Pro in CS5. The entire product is just such a compelling upgrade this time around. I think a large majority of people out there (Photomatix user or not) will end up making the upgrade to CS5. Photoshop really racks one into the win column there. It was something we had to live with and remove later. Wow! I promise you, every time I teach Photomatix to a live audience, the first question everyone asks is “What about all that noise?”. 2) The noise-less-ness of the Photoshop image. If things aren’t perfectly still in your series of photos, Photoshop’s Remove Ghosts checkbox is really good at aligning them. Where Photoshop wins for me is two things: 1) The Remove Ghosts feature rocks. In Photoshop CS5 it takes me fiddling with 3-4 sliders to get similar results. One of the things I liked about Photomatix is that I can get 90% of the results I’m looking for in Photomatix from two sliders (Smoothing and Strength). HDR Pro (I think) is meant more for them. There’s hundreds of thousands of Photoshop users that haven’t invested (time or money) in Photomatix that may still want to give HDR a try. Adobe recognized that HDR is growing in popularity. And honestly, I think that HDR Pro wasn’t necessarily created with them in mind. So I fully expect that Photomatix users will defend their use of Photomatix. Xbox gaming console owners would probably defend their XBox against any newcomers to the market. Amazon Kindle users will probably defend their Kindle against other new eBook readers (except the iPad □ ). ![]() Regardless of what the product is, when you use a product (and you’re happy with it) you become passionate about it. Who will switch: The way I see it is this. There’s a Detail slider and once you realize that Detail controls all in that dialog and all the other settings rely on that, it clicked. After a few more attempts I figured it out. You basically can’t transfer your Photomatix knowledge into Photoshop.īut I stuck with it because I had seen some great results from HDR Pro and it had some killer features (like Deghosting and noise-less images) that I wanted to use. HDR Pro in CS5 is different enough that it requires you to learn what new sliders do. Not because I wasn’t getting good results, but more because I was comfortable using Photomatix. My Thoughts: OK truth be told, after my first attempts with CS5’s new HDR Pro feature, I was a little disappointed. Adobe recognized that HDR was growing and they’ve included some far superior technology (compared to what they used to have) in CS5. One of the big new features in CS5 is the new HDR Pro dialog. It was and still is a great program and produces some great results whether you’re going for the natural style or the surreal grungy style of HDR.Ĭatch up to today: Photoshop CS5 was announced on Monday. So most photographers that have gravitated toward HDR, chose a program called Photomatix by. They both save right back into the Lightroom catalog so all is good. So we’re on pretty even ground at this point when it comes to Lightroom. Photomatix is available under the File menu. Photoshop’s HDR tools are available under the Photo > Edit In menu. Well, they both have hooks into Lightroom. Since there’s Lightroom integration built into both of these products and HDR is gaining in popularity I figured I’d take a quick moment to give you some thoughts. Since Photoshop CS5 was announced on Monday, I’ve been getting lots of questions about whether or not I like the HDR features in Photoshop better than Photomatix. ![]()
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