In many cases when people need to just spice up the photo it is not necessary (or possible) to go through the multi- exposure process and the QuickHDR is exactly that sort of "lazy HDR" application (maybe I should call it that?) , where you open its image browser and you can quickly apply the effects to your images and see the result right away. Its logic sort of operates like a baby lightroom.
This software uses 128bit per pixel to avoid any "processing clipping" but despite of that it is pretty fast.
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I did release it just now
http://mediachance.com/quickhdr/index.html
I personally like its workflow logic and I didn't want to make it too complicated (we have DPHDR for that
) so I didn't add everything including kitchen sink to it, I try to keep it lean and mean and to the point. However there may be things or settings that would become useful for that sort of lazy HDR application and I would be happy to listen to comments or suggestions.There are some nifty things you can do, if the input image is nice (not too over or underexposed), which lots of new cameras do just well:
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DPHDR redesign
You may ask, why this didn't go to DPHDR? I had this process developed for some time and the QuickHDR seems to be the logical and currently only way how to wrap it. The process itself could eventually work in DPHDR for multiple images (don't yet know how well) - but currently there is no way to force it there without a whole UI redesign, which brings me to the other point and that is the complete overhaul of DPHDR.
I want to get rid of the whole current GUI split personality "logic" with all that small pop up windows for every important step and a big window for unimportant HDR file that nobody really use anyway. So i would like to get some feedback or ideas how a new DPHDR should work so its workflow is smooth and preferably less confusing. Think of the functionality DPHDR has now (minus video part as this will have to go to separate app because it preventing me to make it fully x64), but wrap it around much more logical workflow....
. And - btw - picture browser can't show correct non-english characters, so folder names are misspelled. But overall impression about QuickHDR is very very good.