can photoshop open photomatix hdr files?

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

03/01/2015 07:51:46 PM · #1

Instead of doing tone mapping within photomatix (really don't like the results), is it possible for photoshop to open the HDR files it produces, and then converting it to a tiff in there? a way of making this happen?

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

03/01/2015 08:19:14 PM · #2

You mean just using Photomatix to merge the bracketed set and not do anything else? I am using Photomatix light and there are enough options that I can avoid the tonemapping from it if I want.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/01/2015 09:15:43 PM · #3

The merged source file is a 32-bit file that MUST be mapped in some way even to be displayed on a computer screen. Just accept Photomatix's default rendering then go to town on it elsewhere if you prefer. You have several options as to what mapping algorithm is your base in Photomatix. Alternatively, Photoshop itself will do an HDR merge,

Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

03/01/2015 10:44:21 PM · #4

hm yeah that was a bummer. I did manage to open the .hdr photomatix produced, but the tone mapping in photoshop seemed even worse than photomatix. i wonder if there's some way to map the file as accurately as possible (like, do away with all those "tone mapping special effects", and all that rigamarole), just get as much detail and as much of the histogram into a flat, unsightly, but highly malleable 16 bit file as possible, and then work on it in photoshop from there.

nam

Sony DSLR-A580

03/01/2015 10:46:01 PM · #5

I often accept the "natural" default from Photomatix.

Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

03/01/2015 10:47:25 PM · #6

Originally posted by nam:

I often accept the "natural" default from Photomatix.

the natural default setting still has too much nonsense.

nam

Sony DSLR-A580

03/01/2015 11:23:38 PM · #7

Originally posted by LanndonKane:

Originally posted by nam:
I often accept the "natural" default from Photomatix.

the natural default setting still has too much nonsense.

ok :)

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

03/02/2015 12:20:11 AM · #8

Your best bet might be to learn the art of manual blending, you'll have absolutely none of that "nonsense" then...

Giles

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/02/2015 01:59:56 AM · #9

Unless you play with photo matix makes very dirty HDR'd

Use nik HDR efex produces nicer results for me

What you shooting? 3 shot brackets at 1,2,3,4 ev?

jgirl57

03/02/2015 07:55:48 AM · #10

I am learning to edit the photos first in lightroom then bring it in photomatix..

It does produce nasty halos if I put it in first, but for free you can't beat that..

I have not tried it from photoshop to photomatix