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View Poll Results: Which HDR version do you like better? | |||
Dynamic Photo version |
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8 | 50.00% |
PhotoMatix version |
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8 | 50.00% |
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#1 |
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HDR - PhotoMatix vs Dynamic Photo
Tired as heck from my finals today, but I still wanted to play around with my new HDR software. These are using older pics of my car, but I wanted to make a new background for my laptop. Let me know which one you guys like better. Sorry if they're a little too big, let me know if you want them resized.
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I like the first one better... the second one looks blurry and a little less intriguing... IMO.
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1st one is definately looking better
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The color of the Yaris in the Dynamic Photo picture seems to be a little better. But I had to vote for the PhotoMatix because of the compression.
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neither's perfect but neither is bad... I vote Dynamic
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Yeah, I noticed that, but I figured since I've only played around with it a couple of times, I still have lots to learn about the settings. May be I can get it to the point where the picture doesn't have those compression areas.
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I agree, and I think that's where Dynamic Photo is sort of a cheat. LOL. You can pick and choose which hue range(s) is more saturated individually. There's also manual aligning of the pictures in Dynamic Photo. But once again, I don't know as much about its settings as I do with PhotoMatix.
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Look at the sky in the first one. See the pixelation? It looks like it was saved as a GIF file (258 color maximum).
The second photo has smooth color gradients - more like a JPG file would. You sure we're comparing apples to apples?
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Yup, Garm, both are JPEG's. I'm still getting used to the program that was used for the first one.
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Another one using more recent pics:
Dynamic Photo: ![]() PhotoMatix: ![]() |
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That one came out too vivid, and I still can't manage to rid of the pixels. I guess I might just stick with PhotoMatix for that reason.
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Really it's "beauty is in the eye"...etc. Dynamic appeals to me more. Both are exaggerations of reality. And I also agree with Cali.
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I think the Photomatix one looks better, the Dynamic Photo one looks like it has a high contrast. Photomatix one has better colour in my opinion.
I just tried to edit one of my old photos in Photoshop, by just adjusting the exposures from -5 to 5 and saving invidual Jpegs. I used Photomatix like you have. Sorry to post the photo in your thread, didn't wanna start a new thread with it. Haha. ![]()
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That came out pretty good. Dang you guys and your clouds! LOL.
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I vote for your car! LOL.
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やりすぎだ~
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Your can do it through Image > Adjustments > Exposure. I'm pretty sure only the newer versions of photoshop have it.
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