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Choosing a processing method in Photomatix

Choosing a processing method in Photomatix

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Choosing a processing method in Photomatix

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- Photomatix Pro offers a number of methods to process your image. Depending on your scene and your preferences, we'll help you decide on which method you use. But let's take a look at the options. So what processing method is the best for this example of a photo? Well this is one of those examples where you could go a lot of different directions and you can choose a method of processing based on your vision for the final result. Very realistic, very artistic, painterly, even fake. Whatever you want to do, you can do in this situation. So let's talk about the difference in the processes. First of all there's tone mapping and exposure fusion. And tone mapping tone maps the 32-bit file that has been combined. Where exposure fusion is a much simpler kind of a process. It's much like when you layer images in a photo editor like Photoshop and then you paint in and out the areas you want to keep and that you don't want to keep. In other words, it's going to look for the best-exposed pixel…

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