

It skips the HDR preview step and jumps right to the default Tonemapper preview, which simplifies the workflow for the newbie. However, the raw HDR is always in the background.

The Merge to HDR function combines the exposures based on an EXIF rip with floating point numbers to create a true HDR image.

I pried some information from senior Corel developers and they’ve done their homework. Is this even real HDR, or is it rather some sort of low-bit averaging or blending wrapped up in trendy language pretending to be HDR?Ībsolutely not! Corel’s Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is a powerful, intuitive Tonemapper wrapped in an ultra-simple package. Compared to Dynamic Photo HDR, with its amazing set of HDR adjustment tools, can the experienced HDR imager be happy with two simple sliders and no 32-bit save? In the slideshow tutorial, you’ll notice a couple of things missing, such as a HDR save option, and a Tonemapper that seems somehow lacking in a ton of sliders. In our article Easy Steps to Better Vacation Photos, we showed the High Dynamic Range (HDR) newbie how to use Corel’s Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 to easily improve vacation photos.
