Click Here to Download Essential HDR™ Community Edition

Community Edition is fully functional with one limitation: A large photo will be first be scaled down to a smaller version of no more than 1M pixels before tonemapping. Please note this version can not be upgraded to Standard Edition. Standard Edition is a different download and a different application.

Current feature set:

  • Create HDR image from one single camera raw file or linear TIFF file (16 bit per channel, 48 bit per pixel, integer RGB)
  • Merge 1 or many Jpeg, Bmp, Tif, or Camera Raw files (such as CRW, CR2, NEF, ARW, MRW, DNG) into one HDR image
  • Open existing RGBE HDR images (*.HDR)
  • Open existing OpenEXR HDR images (*.EXR) - (32 bit per channel, 96 bit per pixel, float piont, RGB)
  • Save tone-mapping result as Jpeg, Bmp, Tif, or copy to system clipboard
  • Drag and drop any file or files

 

Support information

Feedbacks? bug report? Visit the Product Support Forum

 

System Requirements

  • 32-bit Windows XP SP2 and above
  • or Windows Vista SP1 and above
  • 1GB main memory minimal, 2GB preferred
  • 1.6 GHz CPU minimal, Dual-Core CPU preferred
  • Screen resolution: 1024x768 minimal, 1280x1024 preferred

Essential HDR can run on 64-bit Windows XP or Vista. However, our current support effort focuses on 32-bit OS.

Supported image file format

Source image can be in the following formats

  • Jpeg: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • BMP: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • GIF: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • PNG: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • TIFF: 16-bit per channel linear RGB
  • Canon Raw file, *.CRW and *.CR2
  • Nikon Raw file, *.NEF
  • Pentax Raw file, *.PEF
  • Sony-Minolta Raw file, *.ARW and *.MRW
  • Adobe DNG
  • Radiance HDR
  • OpenEXR

Result image can be saved in the following formats

  • Jpeg: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • BMP: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • PNG: 8-bit per channel RGB
  • TIFF: 8-bit and 16-bit per channel RGB
  • Radiance HDR