User's Manual

Photomatix Pro 5.0 User Manual 6
Using the Workow Area or the File Menu
To load images using the Workow Shortcuts panel or the File
menu:
1� Click Load Bracketed Photos in the Workow Shortcuts panel
OR
Select Load Bracketed Photos from the File menu�
The Loading bracketed photos dialog displays�
2� Drag and drop the les into the Loading bracketed photos
dialog
OR
Click Browse� A dialog displays prompting for location of the les�
3� Select the les to load, using one of the following methods:
• Click the rst le, then press and hold the Control key (Windows)
or Command key (Mac)� While holding down the Control or
Command key, click each of the other les you wish to select�
• Click the rst le, then press and hold the Shift key� While holding
the Shift key down click the last le� This will select all the les
in-between the rst and last le�
4� Click Open (Windows) or Select (Mac)�
5� Click OK�
If you check the Show 32-bit unprocessed
image box, you will be able to save the
unprocessed merged imagein an HDR image
le format such as Radiance or OpenEXR.
Saving the 32-bit HDR image is useful
when you want to be able to process the
image with other tone mapping settings later
without having to pre-process and merge
your bracketed photos again. However, you
will still need to pre-process and merge the
photos if you want to use exposure fusion.
You will have to click the Tone Map / Fuse
button, in the Workow Shortcuts window, to
go to the next step if you choose to Show 32-
bit unprocessed image.
The order of the les in a bracketing
sequence does not matter.Photomatix Pro
automatically sorts the images based on
the exposure information
in the image les'
EXIF metadata. If exposure information is not
available in the EXIF data, Photomatix Pro
directly evaluates the relative brightness of
the photos.
Entering Exposure Values
If the exposure information cannot be located in the metadata of the image les, Photomatix Pro displays a
dialog prompting your input of the relative Exposure Values of the images� Photomatix Pro also displays this
dialog if two or more source images have the same exposure metadata�
Selecting bracketed photos to load
Note
Note