

Hydra for macOS comes with a brand new tone mapper based on a new technique which is faster, more accurate, and gives more control for fine tuning the details. Full automatic alignment is also provided for simple cases. You can inspect alignment quality through various 1 to 1 image difference schemes (blue/red, overlay…) or even preview the whole merging result.

The app provides an advanced alignment tool to interactively align images against the reference one by locating feature points. Also, moving subjects in the scene may create ghosting artefacts that must be handled. It provides a high-precision 128-bit per pixel internal format with extremely fast 60 FPS previewing at full resolution.īecause multiple photos are merged, input pictures typically need alignment to compensate for camera motion if no tripod is used. The app comes with a completely rewritten computation and display architecture that is optimized for Metal from the ground up. This tool has been optimized for latest macOS enhancements and brings native Metal support for maximum performance. Hydra lets you easily create high-dynamic-range (HDR) images from a set of exposures, effectively capturing both dark and bright subjects to make it more natural or to enhance scene drama. The picture is either underexposed (too dark) or overexposed (too bright), or both at the same time. Very often, a single photo can’t represent the entire dynamic range of light in a scene due to the physical limitations of the sensor. Alternatively, Hydra also lets you artistically push contrasts to increase drama and emotions in your pictures beyond reality. Hydra for Mac allows you to overcome this limitation by merging a number of photos with different exposure settings and to create a natural image that is much closer to what your eyes actually see.
