HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual
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1. models including Canon Nikon Sony Olympus and Panasonic as RAW well as Adobe DNG etc New formats will be included in future releases once they become available Everimaging Ltd 7 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Export to Social Media We ve made it easy for you to share your amazing HDR images on all the popular social media and photo bond sharing websites like Facebook Twitter and Flickr With a single click you can upload your photos for all of your friends and family to see or put yourself out there and share your work with an even bigger audience Advanced features compared with HDR Darkroom 2 Light Color control at your fingertips HDR Darkroom 2 Pro gives you control over more than 30 parameters so you can fine tune and control your final results Many levels of adjustments are available on features such as Curve adjustment color balance color temperature and tint adjustment lens correction highlight shadow adjustment black white point adjustment and noise reduction With HDR Darkroom 2 Pro digital photography processing tasks can be done seamlessly and with results so good you will never need to use another application Fully Realized Color Space Management HDR Darkroom 2 Pro is the first HDR software with comprehensive color space management Our HDR Darkroom 2 Pro developers have created color space management tools with a short learning curve but without2. Cutting edge Local Global Tone Mapping Technology Using our Local Global Tone Mapping technology you will produce the most spectacular most realistic results in seconds We offer three types of Tone Mapping technology to suit your needs Local Global Alignment Technology Our powerful Alignment technology corrects problems with misalignment when your camera moves slightly between the bracketed frames Before After Everimaging Ltd 6 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Ghost Reduction Technology If an object moves through the scene while you are taking multiple shots our Ghost Reduction technology corrects the problem of ghosting when the images are combined e E Real Time Processing Before After Nearly all of the processing controls in HDR Darkroom 2 Pro are real time making HDR Darkroom 2 Pro the fastest processing HDR software on the market with real time processing as a standard feature Don t spend your real time time sitting in front of a computer Get back out there and take more great photos Powerful Batch Processing Our HDR Darkroom 2 Pro Batch Processing Engine automatically handles multiple sets of photos according to your unique preferences Let us do the work for you and harness the power of batch processing to save you countless hours of manual Camera RAW File Converter HDR Darkroom 2 Pro supports RAW files of more than 150 camera
3. Input only 1 photo per set Then select No Alignment and No Ghost Reduction from the menu options at the bottom of the dialog box Because there is only a single picture per set there is no need to use these tools Lastly indicate which tone mapping method you would like to use and then run the batch Everimaging Ltd 25 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 4 Settings Click the icon on the left hand side of the screen into setting window Save File Format JPEG Quality Middle Color Management Work Prone sRGB RERCERNO INtenc Perceptual Save File Format JPEG quality Adjust the output quality of JPEG images Low Smallest file size but relatively poorer image quality Middle Moderate image file size and better image quality Recommended for uploading and sharing High Maximum file size but the highest image quality Recommended for printing Color Mangagement Working profile Which working profile you choose depends very much on the later use of your image For highest compatibility use sRGB Use it also if you don t know what color management might be useful for If you only plan to show your images on your monitor or on the Internet this Everimaging Ltd 26 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual is also a good choice Because then no profile has to be embedded into a JPG as sRGB is always assumed as default If you plan to print your image Adobe
4. Amount This parameter controls the strength of smoothness and sharpening Move the slider to the left negative value is for the smoothness effect and move the slider to the right positive value is for sharpening effect Radius This parameter determines the effect of smoothness and sharpening Chromatic aberration is a common property of lenses and caused by the failure of the lens to evenly focus different colors evenly to the same spot on the camera sensor In one type of chromatic aberration the image from each color of light is in focus but each image is a slightly different size This type of aberration is seen as a complementary color fringing in areas away from the center of the image For example you may see a red fringe on the side of an object toward the center of the photo and a cyan fringe on the side of the object away from the center of the photo 15 28 www everimaging com Lens Adjustment Lens Adjustment Amount Midpoint Noise Reduction Noise Reduction strength Parameter Settings Everimaging Ltd HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual R C Adjusts the size of the red channel relative to the green channel This compensates for red cyan color fringing B Y Adjusts the size of the blue channel relative to the green channel This compensates for blue yellow color fringing Lens Adjustment makes the edges especially the corners of an image to be darker than the center A
5. every pixel in an image as a whole Keep in mind that global tone mapping does not take into consideration the position of each pixel or information about its surrounding pixels Therefore although the Compressor option will process the photos at a much faster rate than the other two engines described above the results will not be as impressive Strength Adjusts the global contrast of the image Tone Mapping Tone Balancer Tone Enhancer Lixa Tone Compressor Strength Local Lighting Tone Mapping Tone Balancer Tone Compressor Tone Enhancer Strength E Fill Light Tone Mapping o O um Tone Balancer Tone Enhancer Tone Compressor Strength HDR Darkroom 2 Pro also provides features like brightness contrast saturation black white point white balance color temp tint etc for color and light controls as well as smoothness sharpness color aberration and lens adjustment After adjusting these parameters you can save current settings in the Parameter Setting Log area Basic Adjustment This module provides the basic image adjustments Brightness Adjust the brightness of the image Everimaging Ltd 12 28 www everimaging com Basic Adjustment Brightness Contrast E Saturation E Tone Adjustment Tone Adjustment Exposure shadows Highlights White Black Curve Everimaging Ltd HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Contrast Adjust the contra
6. DR icon on the left hand side of your screen You can also create an HDR photo from the File menu and select Create HDR The merge dialog box will then appear Click on the Browse button to select the bracketed photos that you want to process otherwise click on the Remove button to remove photos from your workspace Step 4 Generate an HDR photo First select the HDR Merge options that you would like to use at the bottom of the dialog box Load Bracketed Photos Select image files taken under different exposures Browse Add Remove HOR Merge Option Alignment Ghost Reduction OK Cancel Alignment By selecting the Alignment option photos will be aligned using a feature matching method and then be merged into a digital negative 32 bit float point HDR radiance map The Alignment feature helps to compensate for both translational and rotational movement and even distortions during the capture process Otherwise photos will be merged without applying any alignment technology and may appear out of focus or fuzzy Alignment is selected by default De ghosting By selecting the Ghost Reduction option the problem of moving objects appearing ghost like in the final photo will be eliminated Everimaging Ltd 10 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Load Bracketed Photos Select image files taken under different exposures Ur focar pa Browse 04 5light jpg C Users Administrator Desktop HDR B
7. HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Ne a A 4 Everimaging Ltd 1 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Content TAMER OGUCTION ssa cosiccsscnetenccrecesovacnaeceed AULA E dia Rua Ca ni Dina 3 1 1 A Brief Introduction to HDR Photography cscsscscsssscscsceccccecscscccecsces 3 1 2 Introduction to HDR Darkroom 2 Pro csccscscecsccscsceccccscnceccccscsceccccecces 5 2 HDR Darkroom 2 Pro Workflow csccscsceccccscsccccccscsceccccscsceccccscncescececscesescess 9 2 1 HDR Composition WOrkflOW sccscsceccccscsccccccscsceccccscsceccccscsceccececscesees 9 2 2 RAW File Converter Workflow csccscscsccecscsccccccscsccccccscsceccccscsceseccecnces 21 3 Batch PROCESSING sanear sli boss ass ondaie ni iaci aaa aaa nd doa Ss nada Passage safa nisa da 24 3 1 Batch merging bracketed photos into HDR images cscscscsscscsceccecnces 24 3 2 Batch converting single 16 bit RAW files to 8 bit images 25 A SEINO S errira a 26 Everimaging Ltd 2 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 1 Introduction 1 1 A Brief Introduction to HDR Photography HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and HDR photography utilizes technology that allows you to capture a much wider range of lighting colors and details than is possible with a standard camera alone What are the benefits and uses of HDR photography HDR soft
8. RGB might be a better choice as it was developed to work best with CMYK devices such as printers But you could also change to ProPhoto But beware using a color profile with a big gamut may lead to problems or unwanted colors depending on the final use and colorimetric intent Adobe RGB ProPhoto Rendering intent When the gamut of the source color space exceeds that of the destination device a monitor or printer saturated colors are liable to become clipped inaccurately represented or burned The color management module can adjust the image to resolve this challenge in several ways Industry standards from the ICC specification include four different rendering intents Perceptual Relative Colorimetric Saturation and Absolute Colorimetric Absolute Colorimetric Perceptual If the color gamut of your image is higher than that of your device monitor or printer then it is compressed a bit to fit the gamut of your device as far as possible This might result in an image with reduced saturation but the hue is still kept as faithfully as possible While it might look a bit dull this effect is not really that as visible as the color relations stay the same This method is activated by default in most cases it is the recommended choice Relative Colorimetric The colors existing in the color gamut of both your image and your device monitor or printer are kept and displayed 100 perfect If the color does not exist w
9. amp A picturefour2045normal jpg ce Remove HOR Merge Option to Alignment Ghost Reduction OK Once you have specified your preferences click OK to continue HDR Darkroom 2 Pro will then process the selected photos and merge them into an HDR photo Note that the Tone Balancer mapping engine is applied as the default setting at this stage In the next step you can specify the tone mapping settings you prefer ia HDR Darkroom 2 Pro vi OO a mme e e e e O ic OO VS File f fone Mapping Basic Adjustment duchon Step 5 The magic of Tone Mapping In order to obtain the highest quality HDR image adjust the tone mapping settings to suit your needs You can find three different tone mapping options in the Tone Mapping area on the right hand side of your workspace Everimaging Ltd 11 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Tone Balancer a patented Local Tone Mapping Engine aimed at balancing tones and revealing both the shadows and highlights of an image Strength Adjusts the local contrast levels Local Lighting Adjusts the local lighting levels Tone Enhancer a patented Local Tone Mapping Engine with the power to extract and enhance the details of an image Strength Adjusts the local contrast of the image Fill Light Used to reduce the contrast of a scene and illuminate the parts of an image that are cast in a shadow Tone Compressor a Global Tone Mapping engine that maps
10. an be used for 16 bit Camera Raw Conversion with our innovative HDR tone mapping technologies Step 1 Open HDR Darkroom 2 Pro Enter the workspace of HDR Darkroom 2 Pro by double clicking on the application s desktop icon or enter through the Windows Start menu and select HDR Darkroom 2 Pro from the list of installed programs The workspace of HDR Darkroom 2 Pro is shown as below Step 2 Open file First select the icon on the left hand side of the screen You can also select Open a file from the File menu Then choose the RAW file you want to process HDR Darkroom 2 Pro will use the demosaicing decoding local tone mapping Tone Balancer etc processes to convert the 16 bit Camera RAW file format to 8 bit integer values for display Everimaging Ltd 21 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual amp HDR Darkroom 2 Pro v1 0 0 g d PN a a gt e A qa le cessing Batch Help Tone Mapping Parameter Settings Step 3 The magic of Tone Mapping In order to obtain the highest quality HDR image adjust the tone mapping settings to suit your needs You can find three different tone mapping options in the Tone Mapping area on the right hand side of your workspace Tone Mapping Tone Balancer a patented Local Tone Mapping Engine aimed at balancing tones and revealing both the shadows and highlights of an Tone Balancer Tone Enhancer image Tone Compressor Strength Adjusts the local
11. cene with different exposure values like the photos above and import these photos into HDR software These photos will be merged into a single radiance map i e HDR negative Then Tone Mapping is used to convert the digital HDR negative into a Everimaging Ltd 3 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual displayable HDR image the merged photo with richer details and colors is shown below Our HDR Darkroom 2 Pro is an innovative HDR software that uses the above mentioned technology to help you to create gorgeous HDR photos with minimal effort Everimaging Ltd 4 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 1 2 Introduction to HDR Darkroom 2 Pro An all in one professional HDR application designed to help you rapidly and easily produce stellar results Sophisticated HDR Technology HDR Darkroom 2 Pro includes a range of advanced HDR technologies including Alignment technology Ghost Reduction technology Noise Reduction Local Global Tone Mapping technology and more to help you easily produce spectacular images at the fastest speeds available today E HDR Darkroom 2 Pro vi 0 0 B b Sua anon Processing Batch Help User friendly Interface By working with professional photographers to understand their workflow we designed HDR Darkroom 2 Pro specifically for ease of use but without compromising on control Everimaging Ltd 5 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual
12. compromising on professional level capability Click here to download the fully functional free trial version and see for yourself Visual Effects Ps Stretch your creativity further with a huge palette of effects that were designed with input from experienced graphic designers and photographers Everimaging Ltd 8 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 2 HDR Darkroom 2 Pro Workflow 2 1 HDR Composition Workflow Step 1 Taking HDR photos of a scene In order to create the best HDR images be sure to take enough photos at least 2 with different exposures Taking 3 5 differently exposed photos will ensure that you cover the full dynamic range of the scene Most digital cameras on the market offer an Auto Exposure Bracketing AEB function which makes capturing HDR photos easy Our HDR Darkroom 2 Pro software enables you to align images if the camera moves slightly between frames but it is best to use a tripod if possible Step 2 Open your HDR Darkroom 2 Pro workspace Enter the workspace of HDR Darkroom 2 Pro on your computer by double clicking on the application s desktop icon or enter through the Start menu and select HDR Darkroom 2 Pro from the list of installed programs The workspace of HDR Darkroom 2 Pro is shown below Basic Adjustment Everimaging Ltd 9 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Step 3 Import bracketed photos into your workspace Click the H
13. contrast levels akan Strength Local Lighting Adjusts the local lighting levels Pa Lighting Tone Enhancer a patented Local Tone Mapping Engine with the power to extract and enhance the details of an image Tone Balancer Tone Enhancer Strength Adjusts the local contrast of the image Tone Compressor Fill Light Used to reduce the contrast of a scene and illuminate Strength A the parts of an image that are cast in a shadow Fill Light of Everimaging Ltd 22 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Tone Mapping Tone Compressor a Global Tone Mapping engine that maps every pixel in an image as a whole Keep in mind that global tone mapping does not take into consideration the position of each pixel or RR aa sae cased information about its surrounding pixels Therefore although the Tone Compresso Compressor option will process the photos at a much faster rate EM z than the other two engines described above the results will not be as impressive Strength Adjusts the global contrast of the image For post processing a RAW file you can also use the Basic Adjustment Color Adjustment Tone Adjustment Smoothness Sharpness Lens Adjustment and Noise Reduction features Once you are satisfied with your settings click to save or click Everimaging Ltd 23 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 3 Batch Processing 3 1 Batch merging bracketed photo
14. ithin the color gamut of your device the nearest possible value is taken This might lead to some banding effects especially visible in blue sky The white point will be corrected Saturation Very similar to Perceptual instead keeping the saturation and changing the hue Everimaging Ltd 27 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual instead This is very useful for screenshots and similar uses It could also be used when you do not care of some possible color shift as long the resultant image does not look dull Absolute Colorimetric Similar to Relative Colorimetric It tries to reproduce the exact colors recorded in the original scene The white point will not be corrected It is normally to be used when the gamut of your image and your output device are nearly the same Everimaging Ltd 28 28 www everimaging com
15. mount Move the slider to the left negative value to darken the corners of the image or move the slider to the right positive value to lighten the corners of the image Midpoint Move the slider to the left lower value to restrict the vignettes amount adjustment to an area closer to the corners or move the slider to the right higher value to apply the vignettes amount adjustment to a larger area away from the corners Reduces the noise in the image You can save your satisfied adjustment parameters here specify a name and you can apply this setting or edit next time 16 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Parameter settings Specify name Remove Remove All Crop feature is also integrated into HDR Darkroom 2 Pro which can be tailored to suit your needs The following screenshots demonstrate how to use the Crop feature Click the at the bottom of your workspace and the Crop box will pop up immediately Cancel Preset ratios will appear in the right hand corner You can select a preset cropping ratio here or customize a ratio based on your preferences For instance select the preset ratio 1 1 and then apply cropping by clicking on the Crop button that appears at the bottom of the photo Everimaging Ltd 17 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Cancel After the boundaries of the photo are exactly where you would like them to be click on
16. s at a time for batch processing Each set of photos that are processed within the same batch must consist of the same number of photos You cannot for example place one set of photos consisting of four differently exposed photos and another set of photos consisting of five differently exposed photos in the Input folder to be processed in the same batch Step 3 Select the file location for processed photos For the Output field select Browse to locate the folder where you would like your processed photos to be saved Then select the format you would like to use Save as JPG in order to view the processed photos on any device for printing photos and to share your photos with friends Save as radiance map hdr format for further editing on any HDR software Step 4 Specify alignment ghost reduction and tone mapping preferences For further explanation of these tools please see HDR Darkroom 2 Pro Workflow in section 2 of the user guide Step 5 Run batch processing After you have specified your preferences click Run to start batch processing There may be a delay before processing begins depending on the number of photos you have input 3 2 Batch converting single 16 bit RAW files to 8 bit images You can also use batch processing to convert the 16 bit Camera RAW file format to 8 bit integer values that can be displayed on your monitor Select 1 in the Bracketed image number field to indicate that you will
17. s into HDR images If you have a large amount of photos to be processed you can use our batch processing mode This feature allows you to process large quantities of images without the need to make manual adjustments for each new set Step 1 Open the Batch Processing tool To use the batch processing mode click the icon on the left hand side of the screen or select Batch from the menu at the top of the workspace The following window will be displayed Input Output Select number of images per set Save as radiance map Cher format Alignment Ghost Reduction Tone Mapping Tone Balancer Setting Alignment Ghost Reduction Tone Enhancer setting Mo Alignment Mo Ghost Reduction lt Tone Compressor Setting Step 2 Select photos for batch processing For the Input field select Browse to locate the folder with the images you would like to batch process Then select the number of images per set Important Note You must specify the number of photos for each set If you merge 3 photos to produce a single HDR photo in the first set for example there must be only 3 photos for each set in the batch Let s Everimaging Ltd 24 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual say you have two sets of photos The first set consists of A1 A2 and A3 and the second set consists of B1 B2 B3 You can then place both sets in the same folder as Input and indicate that you would like to select 3 image
18. st of the image Saturation Adjust the color saturation of the image This module uses different approaches to adjust the tones of the images Exposure Adjust the exposure of the image Highlights Shadows With this feature it is possible to brighten the shadows while leaving the bright areas in the image as they are This is done with the slider shadows The opposite thing darkening the highlights while leaving the shadow areas in the image as they are This is done by the highlights slider White Black Point White Point Specifies which image values map to white Moving the slider to the right increases the areas that become white sometimes creating the impression of increased image contrast The greatest effect is in the shadows with much less change in the midtones and highlights Black Point Specifies which image values map to black Moving the slider to the right increases the areas that become black sometimes creating the impression of increased image contrast The greatest 13 28 www everimaging com Color Adjustment Color Adjustment White Balance Temperature Everimaging Ltd Auto HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual effect is in the highlights with much less change in the midtones and shadows Curve With the Curve you can create a custom curve You can use as many defining points as you like up to 24 If a point on the curve moves up it becomes a lighter tone if it moves down i
19. t becomes darker A straight 45 degree line indicates no changes to the tonal scale the original input values exactly match the output values This module uses different approaches to adjust the color of the images White Balance White balance WB is the process of removing unrealistic color casts so that objects which appear white in person are rendered white in your photo B white Balance pointer Use the pointer selection to pick any area in the image you shot of the neutral gray to remove color cast Auto Apply an automatic white balance technology to remove color cast Temp Fine tunes the white balance using the Kelvin Color temperature scale Move the slider to the left negative value to make the photo appear cooler and right positive value to warm the photo colors Tint Fine tunes the white balance to compensate for a green or magenta tint Move the slider to the 14 28 www everimaging com Smoothness Sharpness umoothness sharpness Amount amp Radius Chromatic Aberration Chromatic Aberration Everimaging Ltd HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual left negative value to add magenta to the photo move it to the right positive value to add green Red Increase or decrease the component of red color Green Increase or decrease the component of green color Blue Increase or decrease the component of blue color Adjust the level of smoothness or sharpening
20. the OK button to complete the process Cancel You may then view the cropped image before saving and sharing Everimaging Ltd 18 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual HDR Darkroom 2 Pro vi 0 0 File Processing Ba New in HDR Darkroom 2 Pro you can now add a range of special effects to your photos Just select the FX Effect button in the lower left hand corner of the workspace and select the effect you d like to apply You will instantly see the effect applied to your image and can select whether or not keep it by clicking either Apply or Cancel If you d like to try a different style of effect you can choose from one of four categories at the upper right hand corner of the FX Effects HDR Darkroom 2 Pro v1 0 0 na E a SR File Processing Batch Tone Mapping Basic Adjustment Parameter Settings Everimaging Ltd 19 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual Once you are satisfied with your creation click on the Save button to save current image or Save as button to save the image in any number of formats You can also click on the Share button to upload your edited photos to popular social network sites such as Facebook Twitter and Flickr sign in to your accounts before uploading Facebook Everimaging Ltd 20 28 www everimaging com HDR Darkroom 2 Pro User Manual 2 2 RAW File Converter Workflow HDR Darkroom 2 Pro c
21. ware combines three or more differently exposed photos of the same scene into a single photo that accurately captures the details and vivid colors of the world as scene by the naked eye The advantage of HDR technology is that it retains details that are lost with standard digital cameras and it reproduces vivid colors in both the light and dark areas of a photo simultaneously What is Tone Mapping Usually the first step of HDR software is to merge photos with different exposures into a digital HDR negative which is also called a 32 bit float point radiance map Compared with conventional 8 bit image formats like JPEG or BMP the 32 bit float point format has the capability to record a much wider range of values and can thus more accurately capture the full dynamic range of the real world However a 32 bit float point value cannot be displayed or printed on current 8 bit monitors or printers Therefore although a 32 bit float point radiance map records extremely accurate values at this stage they are just meaningless numbers from the user s perspective because the results cannot be seen Tone Mapping is the technology used to convert a 32 bit float point format to 8 bit images for display or print Since 32 bit a float point radiance map is also referred to as the digital HDR negative Tone Mapping can be regarded as a kind of photo development but for digital photos A brief introduction to making HDR photos Take three photos of the same s
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