HDR PhotoStudio
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HDR PhotoStudio screenshot | |
| Developer(s) | Unified Color |
|---|---|
| Stable release |
Discontinued (latest version 2.15.42)
/ March 2010 |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| Type | High dynamic range imaging |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website |
www |
HDR PhotoStudio was an advanced HDR (High Dynamic Range) digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X. In addition to being a HDR-merge application, HDR PhotoStudio offered a set of image editing operations that work in its dynamic range (the website showed an example of processing an image with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio), human color range (gamut), and in high precision (32-bit floating point). It also had a Color Integrity feature that allowed users keeping an image's color tone during HDR PhotoStudio image editing operations — for example changing the contrast of an image would not change image's chromatic (color tone) data. This problem is usually referred to as "color shift".[1][2][3][4]
HDR PhotoStudio implemented an advanced HDR image compression format called BEF, and a plug-in for opening and saving files in Adobe Photoshop was also included with the application.[5] HDR PhotoStudio was discontinued in July 2010.
Features
- Unified Color model: support for merging and editing HDR images with any dynamic range, human color range, and Color Integrity (to avoid "color shift" issue).
- Support for RAW camera formats.
- Support for import HDR images from Radiance HDR and OpenEXR formats.
- An advanced technique of HDR data rendering.[6]
- Scripting support via image recipe.
- Halo removal technique.
- Powerful noise elimination.
- 32-bit/channel floating point high precision representation of image data (96 bit/pixel).
- Multi-core processors support.
References
- ↑ "HDR PhotoStudio features".
- ↑ Christian Bloch (Jun 1, 2009). "HDR PhotoStudio sets a new standard for HDR editing".
- ↑ Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta (Jan 13, 2010). "HDR PhotoStudio Creates Vivid, Detailed Images".
- ↑ "Comparison of tone-mapping between HDR PhotoStudio and Photomatix".
- ↑ "BEF file format" (PDF).
- ↑ "HDR Rendering Comparisons".
