Comments on: Photomatix Pro & HDR Max Compared http://projectvisual.net/2008/12/photomatix-pro-hdr-max-compared/ Intensify Your World With HDR Photography. Learn How To Create High Dynamic Range Photographs With Photomatix. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:39:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://projectvisual.net/2008/12/photomatix-pro-hdr-max-compared/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Stephen Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:23:09 +0000 http://projectvisual.net/?p=448#comment-538 Personally I do prefer HDR Max (at the moment) because I prefer the more painting-like, rather than super-realistic, image I can get from it. What each of us wants out of our shots vary I think. Don't get me wrong, Photomatix is great and I intentionally used the image above to compare the two softwares precisely because I couldn't get the results I wanted with Photmatix for that particular shot. Others have turned out great though. I Intend to do another comparison with a photo that Photomatix has given great results with. The problem with saving to TIFF or JPG in HDR Max is a real deal breaker and a few people at least have been having this problem. If this isn't sorted then I'll definitely be dropping it for PM. Cropping from about 4000x2500 to under 1000x600 is out of the question! Nice catch noticing the cloud's :) Personally I do prefer HDR Max (at the moment) because I prefer the more painting-like, rather than super-realistic, image I can get from it. What each of us wants out of our shots vary I think. Don’t get me wrong, Photomatix is great and I intentionally used the image above to compare the two softwares precisely because I couldn’t get the results I wanted with Photmatix for that particular shot. Others have turned out great though. I Intend to do another comparison with a photo that Photomatix has given great results with.

The problem with saving to TIFF or JPG in HDR Max is a real deal breaker and a few people at least have been having this problem. If this isn’t sorted then I’ll definitely be dropping it for PM. Cropping from about 4000×2500 to under 1000×600 is out of the question!

Nice catch noticing the cloud’s :)

]]> By: A.B.C. Photography http://projectvisual.net/2008/12/photomatix-pro-hdr-max-compared/comment-page-1/#comment-537 A.B.C. Photography Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:50:30 +0000 http://projectvisual.net/?p=448#comment-537 Hi, tried out the new software after reading your post and I cannot agree with you that HDR MAX is a clear winner. I have the same problem, all the information gets lost and the image looks terrible after you convert it to TIFF or JPG. Besides it's full of weird spots full of noise and the image is overall very noisy compared (could that be because it's a trial version..? I don't think so). However you cannot make an HDR without tweaking it in PS, which I did and after 30 minutes dodging and burning I got a more or less decent result. But it's still far away from photomatix. However, if they can solve the conversion problem, this could be a rival. Looking at you comparison I can say, yes the HDR max MAX has much more detail, but unfortunately it's just a crop, and you don't get that in JPG. Besides, look at the cloud on your left hand under the tree branch. In PM version you clearly see a gray cloud, but in MAX you see only blown highlights where there are no highlights, actually. I think they still have a lot of work to do. And thanks for the visit and comment ;-) Hi, tried out the new software after reading your post and I cannot agree with you that HDR MAX is a clear winner. I have the same problem, all the information gets lost and the image looks terrible after you convert it to TIFF or JPG. Besides it’s full of weird spots full of noise and the image is overall very noisy compared (could that be because it’s a trial version..? I don’t think so). However you cannot make an HDR without tweaking it in PS, which I did and after 30 minutes dodging and burning I got a more or less decent result. But it’s still far away from photomatix.
However, if they can solve the conversion problem, this could be a rival.
Looking at you comparison I can say, yes the HDR max

MAX has much more detail, but unfortunately it’s just a crop, and you don’t get that in JPG. Besides, look at the cloud on your left hand under the tree branch. In PM version you clearly see a gray cloud, but in MAX you see only blown highlights where there are no highlights, actually.

I think they still have a lot of work to do.

And thanks for the visit and comment ;-)

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