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kayseepics · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 442 Location: Here!

Hi folks

Been playing around with Photomatix (trial version) the last few weeks. I'm quite impressed with what it allows you to do and with the resulting images (with a few provisos). It is however a bit costly. Is anyone aware of either a plug-in for GIMP or other "freeware" version that does the equivalent? Thanks for any input.

aynia · Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:11 am

I can't vouch for this free open source hdr software, but I might download it.

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/about.php

There's a flickr group associated with it too.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/qtpfsgui

Then there's this one which costs €30 or so.

http://www.easyhdr.com/

or this one which a few people I know from another forum use.

http://www.mediachance.com/hdri/index.html

Cheaper than Photomatix.

kayseepics · Joined: 30 Apr 2009 Posts: 442 Location: Here!

Thank you for this information. I will check it out.

pharm · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8996 Location: Never quite sure

Google "Photomatix coupon code". You can usually find a code to enter when you purchase it that'll give you $15 or so off, netting it down to around $85.

lukaszb · Joined: 21 Sep 2009 Posts: 145

I really like photomatix and the qtpsfgui could never give me proper results of what I was really looking for. I never worked with easyHDR, but it looks pretty good.