In the first way, I represent.as an affiliate, some of the companies reviewed here.

So if I say something is good, how do you know its not just me pushing something I possibly could make money on Secondly, Its a conflict of interest to myself since photography and this website are my only means of making a living.

But the truth of the matter is, affiliate deals are not what they were at one time and I make far more of my living selling Prints now.

And I thought a good way to do this was to do the head to head, Give some opinions on how they performed but in the end NOT TELL YOU, This one is the best or even give you a Top 3 Ill give you the info and the results.

YOU make that choice, and it WILL be different for different people since HDR styles are very spread apart from Mild to Wild and not all, do all.

The alignment settings (perspective correction option and maximum alignment shift) can be pre-selected via an Alignment Preset pull-down menu.

Enfuse will then blend these images together and create a final image where everything is properly exposed.

Enfuse can also be used for other purposes like night photography and focus stacking.

Enfuse Hdr Software Like Google

Compared to dedicated HDR software like Google NIC HDR Efex autoalignment is hit or miss for handheld HDR. Anti-ghosting is quite weak.

So, last week I had Real Estate photographer Thomas Grubba as my guest on The Grid (our life weekly talk show for photographers), and he was talking about how he uses a Lightroom plug-in called: Enfuse Its from a developer in the UK, and its what Thomas uses to take his bracketed real estate photography images and merge them into a single image with a realistic look.

He was really raving about it, so I tried it myself and its pretty amazing (most of the time).

Best of all, its Donationware (theres no set price you give what you want to the developer).

Heres a few quick results (no toning was done to any of these just the initial merge, so you can do a lot to these examples.

The first one will be Lightrooms built-in Merge to HDR followed by the Enfuse plug-in.

Note: Ignore the ghosting I didnt address it in any of these examples.

Above: Lightrooms Merge to HDR feature Above: Same images merged using the Enfuse plug-in Above: The same image with Lightroom Merge to HDR but with the AUTO TONE turned on.

Above: the same images merged in Enfuse Above: Heres what the plug-in looks like when it opens in Lightroom.

Most of the time, I seem to like the results from Enfuse better than Lightrooms built-in (which Ive been quite fond of, so thats saying something), but there were a couple of images I merged where I liked the Lightroom native version better, but not many.

Thomas recommended added 20 Clarity and 10 Contrast two your HDR bracketed images before you Enfuse them, and hes right I think it produces a better result.

The only downside Ive experienced thus far is that its quite a bit slower than Lightrooms Merge to HDR, so you wait longer to see your result, especially with larger brackets of 5 or 7 images.

Enfuse Hdr Download Enfuse From

Heres a link to download Enfuse from the developer (be generous).

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By Scott Kelby November 24, 2014 14 comments carlos 8 December, 2016 at 17:40 Reply thanks Jc 23 October, 2016 at 10:55 Reply This seems to display a lack of understanding for how LRs merge to hdr works.

Its going to look like a non-HDR photo because it just adds the extra range into the image, boosting your exposure slider from 5 to 10 stops.

It gives you substantially more room to work as you normally would.

Walking Dread 21 October, 2016 at 18:48 Reply Been using Enfuse since 2013.

Great natural looking HDR.

More Realistic HDR Images Using Enfuse - InternetPhotographyClasses.com 21 October, 2016 at 10:16 Reply Posted By Scott Kelby on Monday, October 17, 2016 in Develop, Featured, HDR 4 comments Val 19 October, 2016 at 09:06 Reply Last update was April 2015.

When will Enfuse provide a more up to date version MW 20 October, 2016 at 15:31 Reply Ive used Enfuse for a while.

Compared to dedicated HDR software like Google NIC HDR Efex autoalignment is hit or miss for handheld HDR.

Anti-ghosting is quite weak.