#Retinex rawtherapee pro#
#Retinex rawtherapee software#
#Retinex rawtherapee series#

The originals are poor quality images and the effects result in poor quality garbage, IMO. Sorry to be blunt, but there are no merits to those effects. would much appreciate feedback on their relative merits. Machinery HDR 2.9 with fairly extreme settings MEP 2014 with Contrast = 75, HDR = 60, Blur = 40 MEP 2014 with Contrast = 70 HDR = 70 Blur = 70 For each one I've shown the original and four effects and would much appreciate feedback on their relative merits please, even though I realise I'm straying a tad OT. Below are three different photos in my current DVD project (a short walking holiday in Tenerife, largely under grey skies).

#Retinex rawtherapee pro#

My video editor (Movie Edit Pro Plus 2014 Premium) itself includes an HDR facility, but it's no match for the versatlity of the external tool which I mentioned.

Much of my material for holiday videos consists of JPG photos, mainly landscapes. It simply doesn't work as well as specialised programs.

#Retinex rawtherapee software#

This is one of the problems when one piece of software tries to be something for everyone. I would rather see someone use a dedicated program rather than give up on HDR/Tonemapping due to a poor program. In truth PSP has never had a strong HDR/Tonemap capability. Jpeg can be used but jpegs only have a fraction of the data to work with so the results can be less than ideal. I would always suggest correcting RAW images and saving them as 16bit tiffs. Unless corrected first your HDR/Tonmapped images with not be its best. Corrections for exposure and white balance are just two example of correcting a RAW file. The RAW file first needs to be corrected. For example an under exposed RAW image sent to HDR/Tonemapping will not give the 'correct' result. RAW images have/should/may need correcting. However using a raw file has often been touted as the way to do it. You can use multiple images or a single image. (HDR images have to be tonemapped but any image can be tonemapped). There are a number of ways of TONEMAPPING a photo. Others may think of other ways, but in PSP8 (released back about 2003) HDR was only in its infancy and not thought of much. This can be done roughly by erasing, or by masking.

Now you need to show in your final image the highlights of one image the mid tones of another image and the shadow tones of the last image. In each case you will have three layers.) (With the three images from the raw you would copy and paste as new layers. Now process the highlight image to give the best appearance for the highlights, then the shadow image to get the best shadow areas. Label them highlight, midtones and shadow.

#Retinex rawtherapee series#

Whether you use a series of three images processed from a raw file or use a single jpg the processs if simulating a HDR result will be similar.įor the jpg duplicate the jpg layer three times. You can process these three images from a raw image file. Trying to do it from a jpg would not give you the quality that using a raw image would do.Īs you probably realize, to use HDR you require an image exposed for the shadow areas (burnt highlights), an image exposed for the mid tones (highlights a bit bright and shadows a bit dark) and an image exposed for the h1ghlights (midtones and shadows are darker. Depends if you have the raw image or not.