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The Big Day Is Here, HDR Expose Now Available!

Submitted by John Omvik on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 1:53am

We've received a tremendous amount of interest from the press and photographers since we officially announced the product last week. Many of the discussions I had leading up to the launch had a common theme. Photographers wanted HDR tools that produced natural looking, real HDR images. Most folks said that they had seen enough of the grunge, hyper realistic, Harry Potter movie (insert your own adjective here) look that has unfortunately become synonymous with the term HDR. While I admit there is a time and place for every special effect, I believe this "Look" has been over used, and achieved the same special effect status as the "Auto Tuner" in the music world.

Change Is Coming ...

Submitted by John Omvik on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 12:11am

Today, I am thrilled to announce the launch of our new website and HDR Expose™. HDR Expose is our latest 32-bit HDR Editing application. It builds on the proven features of HDR Photostudio and our patented Beyond RGB™ color technology, with improved features and a whole new UI. Our customers asked for better integration with Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture programs, so we've added seamless "round trip" support with all new export plug-ins. We've improved our RAW Image processing, included support for new camera RAW files and added three new ghost removal algorithms.

Only Angels Have Halos, or Just Because You Call It HDR, Doesn't Mean It Is

Submitted by admin on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 10:22am

Last Monday, Adobe rolled out Creative Suite 5 which included many significant upgrades to its flagship Photoshop product. One of the new and improved features of Photoshop CS5 was support for HDR, so after seeing the announcement on Adobe's site I anxiously scoured the web for more information and found some of the first videos on the NAPP site.

Matt Kloskowski kicked things off nicely with this honest assessment "Now Photoshop has had HDR in it for quite a while, but its not always been that good and we've used other tools for HDR, but Adobe has answered that because HDR is gaining in popularity, Adobe has answered it with a whole new set of tools inside of Photoshop CS5..."

Architectural HDR Photography

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 9:13pm

This Video Tutorial Demonstrates How To Balance Ambient Lighting Conditions In A Room With Outdoor Lighting Through A Large Window

Balancing Indoor And Exterior Lighting Conditions
For A Natural Look

Architectural photography is one of many compelling commercial applications for HDR. Large windows provide light and a sense of dimension and scale to any room, but they can also create difficult lighting conditions. The room is usually exposed correctly with the window detail being blown out, or the the windows are exposed properly and the room is too dark. Of course many photographers may balance the indoor exposure with an assortment of strobes and light shaping tools, but these can sometimes be difficult to arrange and manage. HDR techniques can be used to strike the right balance between indoor and outdoor lighting conditions while preserving the natural room lighting and color balance of the various ambient light sources.

Photographer David Palermo was kind enough to provide us one of his photographs to use for this video tutorial to see more of David's work visit www.davidpalermo.com

Using HDR For Winter Landscape Photography

Submitted by admin on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 10:27pm

Tahoe Blog ThumbnailWinter landscapes provide great opportunities for photographers, but they also pose a number of challenges. It is often difficult to balance the proper exposure for snow, highlights and shadows in a single image. HDR Photography offers one solution to this problem. In this article we explore how to create a memorable shot of a ski cabin just after sunset at dusk, balancing ambient lighting with warm tungsten interior lighting using the powerful tools of Unified Color Technologies' HDR PhotoStudio software. These examples were created using the new Macintosh version of HDR PhotoStudio, but the same tools and steps also apply to the Windows workflow as well.

Introduction to High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography

Nature abounds with colors and contrasts that the human eye and brain are exquisitely adapted to see and appreciate. Unfortunately, the pictures we take of these stunning scenes often appear flat and dull by comparison even when we use high-quality equipment.

7 new video tutorials have been posted

Submitted by admin on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 4:59pm

We have just finished creating new video tutorials where we introduce the features and operation of HDR PhotoStudio in great details.

Here's the complete list of current video tutorials:

  • Tutorial: Introduction to HDR PhotoStudio user interface
  • Tutorial: HDR Merge and Dynamic Range Mapping in HDR PhotoStudio
  • Tutorial: Image Editing in HDR PhotoStudio — Geometric Transformations
  • Tutorial: Image Editing in HDR PhotoStudio — Veiling Glare

Unified Color to present HDR PhotoStudio version 2.13 at ProPhoto Expo

Submitted by admin on Sat, 08/22/2009 - 1:46am

Unified Color will present a next version update to its flagship HDR imaging software application, HDR PhotoStudio, at the Professional Photographers of California 1st annual symposium in South San Francisco, CA on August 22-23, 2009. New features include the operation of Veiling Glare (replaces Whiteness), progress reporting and cancel capability, batch processing, as well as many bugfixes and other performance and functionality improvements.

Unified Color unveils an updated version of its HDR PhotoStudio™ image editing software

Submitted by admin on Tue, 06/09/2009 - 12:03am

Unified Color unveils an updated version of its HDR PhotoStudio™ image editing software
Improved workflow and new operations of color tone equalizer, color tuning, and white balance make HDR PhotoStudio the premier color management application.

South San Francisco, CA, (PRWEB) June 9, 2009 — Unified Color announced today an upgrade to its innovative digital imaging software, HDR PhotoStudio™. New color management and workflow features give the users more control over image editing.

New version of HDR PhotoStudio has been released

Submitted by admin on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 5:04pm

We've just released a minor version update – HDR PhotoStudio 2.11.17.

You can download the latest release from this page.

In this product update we've added few new features, as well as fixed many bugs. HDR PhotoStudio now offers more features, is more stable and runs faster!

Included below is a short summary for the most visible changes:

Unified Color Unveils Next Generation HDR PhotoStudio™ Today

Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/03/2009 - 10:42pm

New digital imaging software is the first to mimic human vision with full color gamut, high dynamic range (HDR) capabilities and industry-leading file compression format.

South San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 3, 2009 — Unified Color today introduced its innovative new digital imaging software, HDR PhotoStudio, at the Photographer's Marketing Association (PMA) conference and trade show.

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