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Is it any good?Īlthough it will work with single RAW files, Aurora HDR delivers its best results with bracketed exposure sets, either JPEGs or RAW files. You can use the Adjustable Gradient filter to recover detail and darken bright skies, with separate adjustments for the top and bottom parts of the picture. Skylum says it’s also improved its HDR Details Boost and Adjustable Gradient filters, adding Shadow and Highlight controls for the latter. (See this interesting What is a LUT Q&A with ) Other new features in this version include an HDR Smart Structure tool, some all-new Aurora HDR Looks and a LUT Mapping filter that can apply cinematic, analog and other LUTs (lookup tables) for instant colour effects. These have always been thorny technical issues in HDR photography, so if they’ve been eliminated here that’s a major technical breakthrough. The key new feature in Aurora HDR (as of its launch in 2019, anyway) is Skylum’s new Quantum HDR engine, which is ‘powered by AI’ and, Skylum claims, offers spectacular colour enhancements without halos, noisy artefacts and chromatic aberration (colour fringing). It’s now possible to apply perspective corrections to fix converging verticals or horizontal keystoning in merged HDR images.
You can apply lens and perspective corrections, add local adjustments via adjustment layers and masks, and even create image composites with more than one image layer. It’s actually a very powerful program, going far beyond regular HDR adjustment tools to include many of the features you’d expect in a full-blown photo-editing application like Photoshop.
You can apply HDR effects and filters manually or start from one of Aurora HDR’s many preset ‘Looks’. You’d probably work on your HDR images individually, but Aurora HDR also offers batch processing, and can even recognise bracketed exposure sets automatically.
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You can modify the Looks that come with the software, download more from the Skylum website and create and save your own Looks. You can add these adjustments manually, one by one, but Aurora HDR also comes with more than 80 preset ‘Looks’, or combinations of adjustments, which you can apply with a single click. Tone mapping on its own is not usually enough to product a satisfying HDR image, so Aurora HDR offers a wide range of more than 20 additional tools and filters to add colour, drama, detail and other effects to your HDR images. Lightroom Classic and Lightroom CC both have an HDR merge option and Affinity Photo has an excellent Tone Mapping Persona, for example, but Aurora HDR is designed just for HDR and offers more filters, more preset Looks and far greater depth of control. Increasingly, HDR merge tools are being built into general purpose photo editing programs.
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Sometimes, it’s possible to capture a scene’s full brightness range with a single RAW file, and Aurora HDR can use the extended dynamic (brightness) range within the RAW date to produce an HDR image.
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Usually HDR images are captured by shooting the same scene at a series of different exposures that between them capture the full brightness range, and then merging them together and using ‘tone mapping’ to bring the extremes of shadow and highlight detail within the visible tonal range.
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Download Aurora HDR: Save $10/£10 with coupon code “LAWTON”Īurora HDR can merge a series of exposure brackets (RAW or JPEG) to make an HDR image, or it can work with a single file (RAW, preferably).It’s available in both Mac and Windows versions. It can be used from with Photoshop and Lightroom, and also as an Extension for Apple Photos on the Mac.
Some HDR programs work as standalone programs or as plug-ins, but Aurora HDR does both. This requires a combination of camera technique and special software. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, a style of photography that captures scenes with an extremely high brightness range that would normally be outside the range of the camera sensor.
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See also: Best image editing software – what to look for, how to choose.Skylum is probably best known for its Luminar all-in-one photo browsing, editing and effects program. Aurora HDR is the latest version of an HDR application developed by Skylum software in conjunction with travel photographer and HDR specialist Trey Ratcliff.
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