Lr enfuse updaye
It cost me S$400 for a minty piece of this lens. I just picked up a used MFT Fisheye lens. I will go on record with a Photomatix preference mostly due to the familiarity with the program and ease of use.Lumix DMC-GF1 + Samyang 7.5mm 1:3.5 UMC Fish-eye MFT. I think it’s funny when people remark that they dislike Photomatix and/or HDR when, as you can see, the final outcome is so close. So, that said, which do I prefer? I’ll start by asking you, can you tell which is which? Ultimately fantastic images can be created with both programs, if given the proper time and a better starting image. I did, however, have to work the desaturation brush a bit on the french doors and then dodged them to balance out the color a bit (I just dodged them on the Enfuse version).
Instead of using curves to create the depth of color I wanted I did a quick Selective Color: Black adjustment and that was it.
I did not have to do any color correcting for the Photomatix image, only had to push the saturation a few points. The processing in CS3 is where I noticed the big differences. Once settings were applied the blending took about the same amount of time as the Enfuse blend. Like Enfuse I have a Photomatix plug-in for Lightroom (I don’t use LR in my normal workflow but used it for the purposes of this comparison) but unlike the Enfuse plug-in you’re taken to the Photomatix program where you can adjust your settings and see previews of the final image. (Note: I tone map in Photomatix for a true HDR). I’m pretty comfortable with my Photomatix settings and have them saved as a preset. It took a bit of futzing to get the color vibrancy and contrast where I wanted it and worked the curves and saturation pretty hard. The exterior/window pull was pretty amazing, color accuracy-wise, and if window pulls are important to you, Enfuse does a pretty good job with them. The 40D – and all Canons from what I understand – shoots heavy on the reds and I had to color balance pretty heavily for the reds in the image. The final blend, taken into Photoshop CS3 for the processing, required more color correction than I anticipated. I’m not sure how you know what adjustments you need to make – it only gives you two options anyway – without having a preview. I didn’t care for the fact that it doesn’t give you a preview of the final image. The plug-in for Lightroom makes the process very easy – took under a minute for the final image to be blended. Both images also got a quick dodge on the ceiling and around the french doors. Each image was composed of three bracketed images +/- 2 stops.īoth images were run through Noise Ninja and Shadows/Highlights with the same settings and as close to the same settings as I could get for rotation and vertical correction. I can’t say I’m an expert at Enfuse (or Photomatix for that matter) but thought I’d post a comparison between images for you.įor the test,to make it a more honest comparison, I spent only ten minutes on each image.
LR ENFUSE UPDAYE DOWNLOAD
I recently acquired a new computer (that’s a whole other post) and decided to download the Enfuse plug-in for Lightroom, just to see. I’ve always been a Photomatix girl – I just prefer the user interface and the simplicity of the program over Enfuse. There are two popular programs to create HDR and Exposure Blend images: Photomatix and Enfuse.