
Section 2: HDR Generation and Tone Mapping
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• Step one of the two-step process is now complete.
• Until Tone Mapping is applied, the 32-bit image seen on screen cannot display its full
tonal range.
• The small view on top of the “HDR viewer” window shows a local section of the HDR
image viewed at the appropriate exposure.
Saving the 32-bit HDR image at this point will allow you to apply different Tone Mapping
settings to the HDR source image without repeatedly following the Generate HDR procedure.
Since version 3.0, Photomatix Pro saves the name of the color profile in the header of HDR
images saved in the Radiance (.hdr) format. This means you will not have to re-assign the color
profile, provided the HDR image file have been saved as Radiance and the color profile is either
sRGB, Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB
. However, the color profile information of the source
images will not be preserved if the HDR image has been saved in the OpenEXR format.
Photomatix Pro allows you to create a 32-bit HDR image from a single RAW file. To do
this, open one RAW file using File->Open, and Photomatix will convert it into a pseudo-
HDR image. It is important to note that an image created with a single RAW file cannot
really be considered High Dynamic Range. The important characteristic of this pseudo-
HDR image is that it is unprocessed. Its dynamic range is not much larger than the range
of an already converted file.
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