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Refining performance with preferences

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Refining performance with preferences

A hallmark of a mature application is the ability to refine its performance using preferences. And HDRsoft's Photomatix offers several to really benefit the power user. To open up your preferences just chose Preferences. Shortcuts usually Cmd or Ctrl comma. When you do this, there are three categories of preferences. I'll be bopping in and out of these to show you some of the differences. The first thing here is when you start to do a tone map or fusion, what do you want to see happen? I usually choose to use my previous defaults. A lot of time when I'm working, I'm processing several images from a shoot, so generally speaking, it's often useful to use my last image as a starting point. If not, you could just start clean with the default settings. One thing that I really like, if you have adequate system performance, is the ability to see previews refresh as you drag the slider. So, for example, as I start to make changes here, saturation of the highlights, you'll note as I drag I can…

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