Creating an HDR image in Photomatix

Photomatix from HDRsoft is an incredibly popular HDR merging and tone mapping…tool and with good reason.…It's been around for years, seen a number of updates, it's got a very full…featured set, and it produces great images.…We're going to be working with Photomatix throughout the rest of this course…and in this movie we're going to take a look step-by-step through of…Photomatix's controls.…If you don't already have Photomatix, you should run off and download the free…demo version, which you can get on hdrsoft.com.…

This is a fully functional demo except that when you're done and you go to save an image,…it's going to put a watermark across it, but otherwise, you're going to be able…to follow along with everything we do here.…Obviously, I'm not in Photomatix right now. I'm in Bridge.…There are a lot of ways of getting images into Photomatix.…The way that I like is to simply start with my workflow tool, which is Bridge.…I'm going to select the three images of a bracketed set.…Each one of these was exposed one stop apart and I'm just going to pick those up…