High Dynamic Range

To fix differences in the photo:

1. Select Remove artifacts.
2. Choose a method, Auto or By Brush, how to fix differences in the photos.



Auto Automatically fixes differences in the photos.

By Brush Lets you manually define areas in your photos that you want to remove or retain.

NOTE: If you choose Auto, you do not have to do the proceeding steps. If you select By Brush, continue with the procedure below.

3. Click an image in the Image List Panel. Select the image where there is an area you want to remove or retain.
4. Click Brush-out then drag over the area that you want removed.
5. Click Brush-in then drag over the area where you do not want any changes to be made.

When specifying the area to retain or remove, you don't have to be precise with the marked area. The area you want to fix or retain only has to be more or less covered by the brush strokes.

Tips:


• When the size of a zoomed-in image exceeds that of the preview window, you can right-click to pan the image.


• Select Stack images to superimpose all the photos to see if your brush-in/out areas have covered the areas that you want to remove/retain.


• You can adjust the Brush size to make the brush strokes thicker or thinner when painting over the photo.


• It is recommended that the brush stroke colors for Brush-out and Brush-in be different. Click the Color box to change the color.


6. Click Done.

   Tip: Select Erase then drag over brush strokes to erase them. If you want to delete brush-in strokes, Brush-in must be pressed. If you want to erase brush-out strokes, Brush-out must be pressed.

Optimizing the HDR image

To optimize the HDR image: Click the Optimization tab. Histogram clipping displays the full histogram data of the HDR image. Drag the two triangle sliders (black and white) to define the optimized histogram range to be used in the HDR image. The gray area is the optimized histogram range to be used in the HDR image while the pink area is the clipped histogram data not to be used in the HDR image. The pink area are the colors that cannot be displayed on screen. The Histogram adjustments are separated into Coarse and Details. Drag the Coarse Contrast slider to adjust the overall contrast of the image. Adjust the Highlight, Midtone or Shadow (both in Coarse and Details) to bring out finer details in the light, midtone or dark areas in the image.

Tips:


• Click View to view the HDR version of the composite image in the Preview window. Use the slider to preview different exposure levels of the image.


• Select Show HDR color to display the HDR image's luminance quantities as floating point RGB values. Move the mouse over the image in the Preview window to see the RGB values (displayed below the Preview window).