High dynamic range (HDR) art
photography includes shooting a scene with different exposure settings and
combining with each other in order to result in an image with greater
brightness than normal. Several multi-purpose editors have special tools for
this task, but dedicated HDR processing helps you to deliver the result beyond
your expectation.
Oloneo
HDRengine Software Informer
HDRengine of Oleneo gets started in the
Browse mode for you to locate your images. It will be better with folder
browsing but resizable previews, EXIF data presentation and Recent Projects
keep your stuffs neat and tidy. Raw files are well supported, with its ability
of light and shadow restoration which is often stored in these files but
abandoned in JPEG. Raw files from recent cameras like PowerShot S100 of Canon
and GX1 of Panasonic still doesn’t include, but their supports are quite
comprehensive. However, the adjustment in the lens correction data is embedded
into raw files of Micro Four Thirds camera, which receives inadequate notice.
As soon as the source image is chosen, there are plenty of options to align
them automatically and completely remove shadows made by movement in the scene.
And next is the HDR processing.
The very first thing impresses us in the
editing environment is the fast performance. The preview windows kept up-to-date
regularly when we moved the sliders, and this would help us easily edit the
settings. When we zoom the image to 1:1 magnification, the preview resolution
reduced in the moment the changes were made, but the sharp preview image
appeared in less than a second after our mouse button release. Once images are
resized to fit with screen, the preview update seemed to be sharp and
immediate. It was such a tremendous improvement in comparison with performance
of HDRSoft Photomatix or even greater than standard HDR features in Adobe
Photoshop Elements as well as Corel Paint Shop Pro.
Oloneo
HDRengine starts in the Browse module to help you
locate your photos
Its fast performance means you can scroll
your mouse over Timeline – the name that Oleneo gives for its editing history –
and immediately has plenty of notifications. The Add Version button saves a
marker in Timeline for easier tracking. Scrolling mouse over Presets brings the
same result.
The quality of what we get is high class.
This software can recover the elegant light and shadow, impressive image with
clear HDR, strange image effect and several other stuffs. The controls are
quite responsive and visual, and we particularly like the special highlight
control to deal with creative and recovery separately.
The presets consist of plenty of various
toning effects, such as make blue hint shadow or yellow hint highlight.
Nevertheless, there is no control to customize these effects. HDRengine still
has the lack of noise reduction, which tremendously helpful in dealing with raw
images. With these features, curve-based editing and more, you have to pay
approximately $155 for PhotoEngine of Oleneo.
HDRengine gave strong argumentation to back
up the statement that a software should do its job well. Its controls are much
more premium than HDR function of Photoshop Elements, and nearly closed with
Photomatix Pro ($124) more than Photomatix Essentials ($49); besides, its like
lightning performance means it faster any version of Photomatix. A trial for 30
days is already available to persuade the hesitated customers; we recommend you
to give it a go.
Summary
Comments:
Attractive HDR processing with elegant and quick response interface.
Image editing software: Require Windows XP (SP3)/Vista/7, 1.6GHz processor, 1.5GB RAM, 200MB
disk capacity.
http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/software/1289626/oloneo-hdrengine
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Ratings
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Price
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$61
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Website
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www.oloneo.com
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