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(More customer reviews)Photomatix Pro is a great tool if you take photos with a wide range of lighting in one scene, such as landscapes with deep shadows and brihgt skies, or buildings that cast a shadow. It lets you blend 3 (typically) images shot with exposures that are each about 2 stops apart. The resulting image has great shadow detail without blowing out the highlights -- much better than even a high end digital SLR can deliver. It handles both JPEGs and RAW file. You can save files as TIFFs or JPEGS (but not PSD, DNG or RAW).
It's simple to use in its automatic mode, but you really do benefit if you read the manual, which you can download from the company's website. I think most buyers just get this via a download from the company's site, and you an find discount coupons on the web that give you 15% off. Be sure to get the right version for your operating system.
Edit added 9/29/09: The on-line help and downloaded manual are useful to get started, but if you really get into this, buy "The HDRI Handbook" by Christian Bloch. Chapter 4.3 and 4.4 are superb explanations of excatly how to use the controld you have in Photomatix.
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