![]() ![]() If you then open the tonemapped file for further editing you’ll be presented with the Missing Profile warning. You can go to File>Plugin Extras>Export to Photomatix Pro but using this, what might seem the logical route, doesn’t give you the option to tag the input files. There are two routes in LR to export the files. If you’re using the LR plugin to load files into PM, it’s a bit wonky to get the files tagged with a profile. Your choices are sRGB, AdobeRGB and ProPhotoRGB. If you load RAW files into PM directly, you can choose what colour space to assign to the primary input files. You can tag your HDR files with a colour space so that everything stays in a colour managed loop from start to finish. For users of LR this is a convenient workflow though. ![]() Using this route, your speed will be limited by how fast Lightroom converts the files. The Lightroom plugin for Photomatix uses LR to convert the RAW files to TIFF before loading to PM. You can load RAW files into it and it will interpret the RAW files but it works faster if you load it with TIFFs even though the TIFF files are much larger. When creating a merged HDR file, Photomatix works best with TIFF files. Until HDR Pro in CS5, it was certainly the fastest I’ve used but now it seems that CS5 has moved to the top step in terms of speed. Photomatix has always been reasonably fast in terms of loading and processing a bracketed sequence, applying tonemapping adjustments and rendering out the tonemapped LDR file. It’s been continually improved over time and integration with other applications has been added (more later). Photomatix is probably the most used HDR application out there. Instalment two in this series is to look at Photomatix Pro from HDRSoft. ![]()
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