Photo Editing Software for HDR & Real Estate Photography

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Create stunning photos of high contrast scenes

Try High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography to capture the scene as you saw it.

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Interior created from bracketed exposures merged to HDR

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Learn how pros use HDR photography to photograph real estate interiors without lighting equipment.

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Photomatix Pro and Essentials are standalone programs running on Windows and Mac.

A license costs $99 for Photomatix Pro and $39 for Photomatix Essentials.
Photomatix Essentials focuses on simplicity. Photomatix Pro offers more options and includes advanced features such as batch processing and selective ghost removal.

The HDR Batch Plugin costs $49 and runs in Adobe Lightroom.

Photomatix Real Estate Camera runs on iPhone. Its in-app purchase option costs $9.99.

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Photomatix is by far the best HDR software out there, and I have tried them all!

Jeff Dean

Photomatix is too much fun!
I think I am averaging more than four hours a day using it.

Mr. Peter - Travel Author

I use Photomatix Pro every day in my architectural photography work. I could not live without it!

Johnny Stevens - CPP Photographer

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News

28-May-19: HDR Batch Plugin for Lightroom is released. The plugin lets you automatically merge multiple stacks of bracketed exposures in Lightroom, and process them with the HDR style of your choice.

5-Mar-19: Photomatix Real Estate Camera, an iPhone app for taking high-quality real estate pictures without photography expertise, now available on the App Store.

6-Aug-18: Photomatix Pro 6.1 released, adding a dark color scheme, dual white balance for HDR merge and improvements to the brush tool.

26-Mar-18: HDR Exposures Calculator now available in iOS. The free web version of the app is still available at HDRsoft.com/ev.

13-Aug-17: Q&A on using HDR for a solar eclipse based on the questions from a user preparing to photograph the August 21 eclipse.

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21-May-17: Photomatix Pro 6.0 released, adding a new HDR rendering method for realistic results, a Brush Tool, color adjustments, straightening, and more.

28-Jul-16: Winners of the Spring 2016 HDR Challenge announced in the Realistic HDR and Creative HDR categories.

21-Jul-16: Introducing Photomatix OneShot, an Extension for Apple Photos that adds the Photomatix magic to a single exposure.

10-Jul-16: Photomatix is now available on the Linux platform. Photomatix for Linux is released.

29-Jun-16: Photomatix Essentials upgraded to version 4.1.

8-Jun-16: Photomatix Pro upgraded to version 5.1.3.

2-Apr-16: The Spring 2016 HDR Challenge is now open: Accepting entries in the Realistic HDR and Creative HDR categories until the 30th of June.

30-Sep-14: Photomatix Essentials updated to version 4, adding realistic-looking Tone Mapping and Finishing Touch options among other updates. Photomatix Essentials is an easy-to-use program intended for photographers who are new to HDR.