Aurora hdr pro vs photomatix software#
Aurora hdr pro vs photomatix code#

I'm sorry but this software is awful, the hype was too much and it under delivered by a long stretch. I've watched the tutorials and everything but I just can't get usable results from that software. To be honest I can't elaborate much further beyond what I said above. I'll say one thing for you guys, your customer service is the best (I genuinely mean that having dealt with you before). Basically I'm a bit pissed off with it and out of pocket. I fell for the hype which is my own fault (especially seeing as Lightroom does a better job of HDR's and gives you a RAW file of the finished HDR). But after this I would be very hesitant to buy from them again. I've bought a lot of Macphun software in the past, Intensity Pro is fantastic (one of the best bits of software I've come across actually), Focus Pro (meh), and Tonality Pro (pretty decent to be fair).

Aurora hdr pro vs photomatix code#

It's like they took the code from that software and crammed it into this one and then told Trey to have at it. (6) This software feels like a harder to use version of Intensify Pro. To be honest I can get over it but it would be a cool feature to have. (5) This is a Macphun issue really, but when you are using masking within the app there is nothing like the Pen Tool or the Lasso Tool to make a more accurate selection to mask. That's your sense of humor pal, keep it to yourself maybe. I can guess whose idea that was and to be honest it just came across as lame. (4) Again this is nitpicking, but when I buy software I at least expect a bit of professionalism in the preset names, but what we get here is names like 'the first time I did mushrooms' and 'party in my HDR pants' 'XXX Hmmm'. What did we get? Already finished jpegs?!? WTF? And I wouldn't mind but some of them are so 'smooth' they look rubbery. (3) Maybe I'm nit picking here but I pre-ordered the software and as part of the pre-order people were meant to get 'Sample photos to create HDR masterpieces'. (2) It's clunky (for want of a better word), you zoom out and the picture reverts back to its original state and then back to the HDR preview, you zoom in it reverts back to its original state and again you wait for it to go back to the 'HDR' preview that you were working on. I know HDR can be a tough sell to a lot of people but this is a joke. The pictures are too noisy and no matter what you do, you just know something is 'wrong' with the pictures after running them through the software. (1) I've shot HDR exposures and imported them in RAW files to Aurora and I simply can't get a decent usable photo from it. It's nothing personal against you Trey (well maybe I am pissed off at having paid so much for so little) but this software really is a bad rip off. I know Trey Ratcliff was on here when it launched and he'll probably see this post. I'm sorry but this software is an over hyped piece of crap. So I said I'd put up a brief review here after I had time to play around with it and here it is in one sentence. Okay, so the day Aurora HDR came out I put up a post asking people for their thoughts on it as I wasn't really impressed with it after an hour or so of playing around with jpegs (not HDR exposures).