Essential HDR Community Edition AlternativesImage Editors and other similar apps like Essential HDR Community Edition

Essential HDR Community Edition is described as 'Powerful tool for High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and tone mapping. It includes two tone mapping algorithms, namely Fast Tone Balancer (for global tone mapping) and Detail Revealer (for local tone mapping)' and is a Image Editor in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Essential HDR Community Edition for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone and iPad apps. The best Essential HDR Community Edition alternative is Luminance HDR, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Essential HDR Community Edition are Photomatix, Aurora HDR, Dynamic Photo-HDR and 360 Panorama.

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Essential HDR Community Edition is a powerful tool for High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and tone mapping. It includes...

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Essential HDR Community Edition alternatives page was last updated Mar 28, 2022
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  1. Luminance HDR icon

    Luminance HDR

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    Luminance HDR is a graphical user interface (based on the Qt5 toolkit) that provides a complete workflow for HDR imaging.

    33 Luminance HDR alternatives

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    • Free • Open Source

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    Discontinued

    Latest version 2.6.1.1 was released in 2021.https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtpfsgui/files/luminance/

    Luminance HDR Features

    1.  HDR Support

    Luminance HDR VS Essential HDR Community Edition

     

    • Luminance HDR is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Essential HDR Community Edition.

    • Luminance HDR is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Essential HDR Community Edition.

    • Luminance HDR is Free and Open SourceEssential HDR Community Edition is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Photomatix

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    Photomatix Pro is a photography software primarily designed to make the process of creating high dynamic range photos easier and more streamlined. By automatically blending multiple exposures of photos, it has the ability to create fully 32-bit images as well as tone mapped...

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    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

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    • Mac
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    Photomatix Features

    1.  HDR Support
    2.  Create composite HDR photos

    Photomatix VS Essential HDR Community Edition

     

    • Photomatix is the most popular commercial alternative to Essential HDR Community Edition.

    • Photomatix is Paid and ProprietaryEssential HDR Community Edition is Freemium and Proprietary
  4. Aurora HDR icon

    Aurora HDR

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    Aurora HDR is the world’s most advanced HDR photo editor, enjoyed by millions of photographers. And is the only HDR photo software, named “Best Mac App of the Year”.

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    • Mac
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    Discontinued

    Aurora HDR was merged by the company with Luminar Neo icon Luminar Neo

    Aurora HDR Features

    1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
    2.  RAW Photo Editors
    3.  HDR Support
    4.  Raw editing

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  6. Dynamic Photo-HDR icon

    Dynamic Photo-HDR

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    Dynamic-PHOTO HDR is a new generation of High Dynamic Range image software with many advanced features, such as Pin Warping and Anti-Ghosting. A High Dynamic Range photography can be created by taking few photos with different exposure, then combining them in the software into a...

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    • Windows
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    Dynamic Photo-HDR Features

    1.  HDR Support

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  7. 360 Panorama icon

    360 Panorama

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    Beautiful panoramas made easy.

    Take stunning 360 panoramas everywhere. 360 Panorama turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a full featured 360 degree panoramic camera. Easily capture immersive panoramas in seconds and instantly share your 360 view with the world. Simply pa.

    34 360 Panorama alternatives

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    • iPhone
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    360 Panorama Features

    1.  Share on Twitter

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    • 360 Panorama is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Essential HDR Community Edition.

    • 360 Panorama is Paid and ProprietaryEssential HDR Community Edition is Freemium and Proprietary
  8. WidsMob HDR icon

    WidsMob HDR

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    Simple and advanced HDR photo editor to recreate high dynamic range photos as eye-view. Advanced tone mapping algorithm, customize HDR parameters, auto align and adjustment, support both JPEG and RAW files.

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    • Mac
    align images and ghost suppression

    WidsMob HDR Features

    1.  HDR Support
    2.  Create composite HDR photos

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  10. Picturenaut icon

    Picturenaut

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    You want the accuracy of HDRShop, with all the low-level control to squeeze out the maximum on image quality. But you you also want all the modern convenience features like exposure detection from EXIF data, image alignment and ghost removal?

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    • Free Personal • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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    Picturenaut Features

    1.  HDR Support

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    FDRTools

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    Using a method called "Tone Mapping" FDRTools turns even unimposing photos into expressive works showing a degree of detail and contrast that was not considered possible until recently.

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    Initial Screens.

    FDRTools Features

    1.  HDR Support

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  12. Oloneo PhotoEngine icon

    Oloneo PhotoEngine

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    Oloneo® PhotoEngine™ is the only HDR and Raw processing software offering digital photographers full control over light and exposure in real-time, as if they were still behind the lens.

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    HDR ReLight (before)

    Oloneo PhotoEngine Features

    1.  Denoise
    2.  HDR Support

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  13. easyHDR icon

    easyHDR

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    Extend the dynamic range of images by blending digital photos and tone mapping. Apply automatic or manual alignment. Get the most realistic results. High Dynamic Range image processing software.

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    • Windows
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    easyHDR Features

    1.  HDR Support

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  14. HDR Light Studio icon

    HDR Light Studio

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    The lighting tool for 3D artists.

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    • GB flagUnited Kingdom

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    • Mac
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    HDR Light Studio Features

    1.  HDR Support

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    HDRMerge

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    HDRMerge combines two or more raw images into a single raw with an extended dynamic range. It can import any raw image supported by LibRaw, and outputs a DNG 1.4 image with floating point data. The output raw is built from the less noisy pixels of the input, so that shadows...

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    • Free • Open Source

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    • ES flagSpain
    • European Union flagEU

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    • Windows
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    Discontinued

    Latest version v0.5 was released in 2015. https://github.com/jcelaya/hdrmerge/releases

    HDRMerge Features

    1.  HDR Support
    2.  Image Processing

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