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
