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#EASYHDR COMMAND LINE PRO#
#EASYHDR COMMAND LINE SOFTWARE#

The finished HDR image comes into PhotoLab or Affinity for finishing. My best HDR results come with EasyHDR which is something like €20 for a personal license (commercial license is €50) and extremely fast and easy to use.

Since DxO is Paris based, they really should have sought out the top fashion photographers in Paris or art directors from the top photo agencies/ad agencies to add some contemporary high end presets. We should be able to remove the new presets. In fact, I’m quite annoyed that DxO added some mandatory presets by a not particularly well qualified retoucher professor at Rochester University. Completely different from the Trey Ratcliff/Luminar overly hot primitive HDR-eye candy looks.

#EASYHDR COMMAND LINE SOFTWARE#

The strength of Nik and why it remains legendary photo software even after a decade without real updates is the quality of the original presets. FilmPack 5 seems fine when you use it and does generate good to very good results.

#EASYHDR COMMAND LINE PRO#

The emulsions, presets and fine grain and handling of highlights within Color Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro blow away FilmPack 5. This document (my “cheat-sheet” for Color Efex Pro) might help you get started … ColorEfexPro_Filters(byPurpose).pdf (58.5 KB)Ĭolor Efex Pro and Silver Efex Pro are the two contemporary gems in the Nik set (everything else is a bit slow and/or replicated within PhotoLab Elite with FilmPack 5). To be honest, tho, I pretty much only use Color Efex Pro.Īs you imply, Define and Sharpener are a waste of time (in my assessment) if you have PhotoLab … those tools might be useful if you were using other (less capable!) tools for your RAW conversion.

Silver Efex Pro does a great job of monochrome conversion (with more options than are available via PL+FP).

HDR Efex Pro is handy to apply some “tone-mapping” to an image prior to conversion to B&W (for better monochrome contrast than would be gained from a standard image).

Analog Efex Pro is a bit like FilmPack - I rarely use it.

Viveza is a bit like Local Adjustments in PL - and therefore, rarely used by me.

Color Efex Pro is great for general enhancement - I use it on my better/favourite images, to give them just a bit more pop/punch …See my download-able document below.

In my view/experience, the useful Nik components are Sharpening? in PL and again in NIK later on? Really?) What module might be useful and which not (e.g.