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Posted 5 September 2019
Aurora HDR 2018 for Win & MAC - now Free @ Skylum
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At the moment its possible to pick the image editing program Aurora HDR 2018 for Windows & Mac for free.
The link is in french but the software downloads ok and works for English, you might want to use google chrome as it auto translates.
On the get Deal page, enter your name and email address and confirm it. You then get the download links and key and off you go
Description
Aurora HDR 2018 is the most advanced and complete high dynamic range photo editor available for Mac and Windows. It contains everything you need to tackle tricky lighting situations that demand HDR photography techniques. Co-developed by renowned HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff, Aurora HDR 2018 delivers unrivaled results, whether you are striving for absolute realism or ultra-creativity. In fact, Apple named it their Mac App of the Year for 2017!
Features
Hope it helps someone.
The link is in french but the software downloads ok and works for English, you might want to use google chrome as it auto translates.
On the get Deal page, enter your name and email address and confirm it. You then get the download links and key and off you go
Description
Aurora HDR 2018 is the most advanced and complete high dynamic range photo editor available for Mac and Windows. It contains everything you need to tackle tricky lighting situations that demand HDR photography techniques. Co-developed by renowned HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff, Aurora HDR 2018 delivers unrivaled results, whether you are striving for absolute realism or ultra-creativity. In fact, Apple named it their Mac App of the Year for 2017!
Features
- Advanced tone-mapping for brackets or single exposures
- Over 80 professional one-click presets
- HDR Enhancer
- Automatic deghosting and chromatic abberation removal
- Detail and clarity controls
- Layers with blending modes
- Masking with brushes & gradients
- Lens correction and Transform
- Batch Processing
- Dodge & Burn filter
- Smart Tone, HSL & Curves
- HDR Denoise
- History panel
- Custom Textures
- Image radiance and Soft glow tools
- Fully non-destructive image editing
- Run standalone or as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom or Apple Photos
- And much more…
Hope it helps someone.
More details from
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Edited by a community support team member, 10 September 2019
73 Comments
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Imagine the hard work the poor email had to put in to get to you
On the get Deal page, enter your name and email address and confirm it. You then get the download links and key and off you go
English Language link
update? (edited)
Will install it later .
Last night when I tried this before posting the deal - the email came almost instantly.
You didn't read the instructions did you You need to activate it with the code they sent you
all sorted, blame it on the jet lag! again!
haha - must have been a long flight Either ways m glad its all sorted now.
I read that as... Hot, free "potato" editing software!
Definitely need some sleep!
Thanks buddy
i am guessing by detail they mean shadow and highlight details specifically, so obviously its 'there' but if in shadow or bright light isn't visible
in general though i find it loses a large amount of detail on use and am still waiting on someone confirming thats normal or how to fix
Its ok mate, as long as you benefitted from the deal, thats the main thing
Yeah thanks for this.
Just signed up and got an email pretty much instantly.
Yes, the detail is there and you could do the same in Paint on windows by adjusting the brightness or contrast and playing with the colour settings. However, this analyses the picture and lightens areas where it needs to (eg shadows) and darkens other areas (eg sky to highlight clouds) and applies colour filters to enhance water or foliage etc etc all automatially without you having to manually do it. There are lots of preset filters, all doing slightly different things. But yes, the detail has to be there in the first place, it just makes it much easier to get back.
HTH
Glad its been of help for you
Take bracketed exposures of a scene with wide contrast. For example very bright sky, shadowy foreground. You will then have 3 or maybe 5 or 7 images depending on your camera settings. 3 is most usual. Ideally one will be the middle exposure, then you'll have two more - one exposed for the shadows - another exposed for the highlights. Chuck them in this app then go mad for a few hours with the sliders.
Not liking the results though seems to be adding a lot of noise to the pictures and makes them look very contrasty...
also takes ages to process on my I5 laptop
back to my trusty faststone.org/FSV…htm does enough for me crop/auto adjust image /contrast,highlights etc