MacPhun Aurora HDR named best MAC App of 2017

Aurora HDR

MacPhun Aurora HDR has been named best Mac OS X application of 2017. And that’s for a good reason.

Aurora HDR is a powerful editing software for your Mac. Aurora HDR is not just a tool for merging bracketed images, it also provides numerous tools and countless options to create perfect HDR photos for every taste – from one-click presets and advanced tone-mapping, to layers, noise reduction and powerful luminosity masking controls.

You can purchase both Luminar and Aurora HDR and and get a $10 discount with code WATCH.

The code does not expire.

What’s new in Aurora HDR 2018:

  • Next-generation Tone Mapping – A new smart Tone Mapping algorithm automatically reduces noise, and produces more realistic and natural initial results.
  • Mac and Windows versions – Aurora HDR 2018 is available both for Mac and PC users, enabling mixed-computer households to share the same product key.
  • Lens Correction Tool* – The new Lens Correction filter easily fixes all kinds of lens distortion, from barrel and pincushion to chromatic aberration and vignetting.
  • Transform Tool* – Easily scale, rotate and shift your image to better fit your vision.
  • Dodge & Burn Filter – Selectively lighten or darken specific areas of an image to artfully direct your viewer’s eye towards the key subject of your image, similar to a traditional darkroom technique.
  • HDR Enhance Filter – Adds details and clarity to an image, adjusting colors, details and contrast without creating artificial halos or other problems.
  • User Interface – A new, modern and responsive user interface brings a powerful, yet joyful experience to HDR photo editing.
  • History Panel – An easy-to-reference list of edits made to your image, the History panel allows you to click on any editing step to revert the photo to an earlier stage of editing.
  • Touch Bar support for Mac – Aurora HDR 2018 adds Touch Bar support to give new MacBook Pro users fast access to key editing features and speed up their workflow.
  • Image Flip and Rotate* – Perfect for correcting photos with incorrect horizons or making creative compositions or other stylistic changes to an image.
  • IMPROVED: New Structure Algorithm – The re-developed Structure tool allows you to adjust detail and clarity of an image to get a classic HDR effect with great detail or a smoother effect with less details.
  • IMPROVED: RAW handling – An improved RAW conversion brings out more details in shadows/highlights, displays colors more accurately and reduces noise in RAW files.
  • IMPROVED: Crop tool update – Now specify custom crop sizes for even more versatility.
  • IMPROVED: Speed – Faster merging and masking performance, improvement in RAW image processing.

MacPhun Aurora HDR 2018 Pre-Order Available (Mac and Windows)

MacPhun’s upcomig Aurora HDR 2018 software (Mac & Windows) can be pre-ordered.

There is a special $10 pre-order discount. Current users of Aurora HDR may upgrade at a special pre-order price of $49 ($59 MSRP), while new users can purchase Aurora HDR 2018 at a special pre-order price of $89 ($99 MSRP). A free trail is also available. 

What’s new in Aurora HDR 2018:

Next-generation Tone Mapping – A new smart Tone Mapping algorithm automatically reduces noise, and produces more realistic and natural initial results.

Mac and Windows versions – Aurora HDR 2018 is available both for Mac and PC users, enabling mixed-computer households to share the same product key.

Lens Correction Tool* – The new Lens Correction filter easily fixes all kinds of lens distortion, from barrel and pincushion to chromatic aberration and vignetting.

Transform Tool* – Easily scale, rotate and shift your image to better fit your vision.

Dodge & Burn Filter – Selectively lighten or darken specific areas of an image to artfully direct your viewer’s eye towards the key subject of your image, similar to a traditional darkroom technique.

HDR Enhance Filter – Adds details and clarity to an image, adjusting colors, details and contrast without creating artificial halos or other problems.

User Interface – A new, modern and responsive user interface brings a powerful, yet joyful experience to HDR photo editing.

History Panel – An easy-to-reference list of edits made to your image, the History panel allows you to click on any editing step to revert the photo to an earlier stage of editing.

Touch Bar support for Mac – Aurora HDR 2018 adds Touch Bar support to give new MacBook Pro users fast access to key editing features and speed up their workflow.

Image Flip and Rotate* – Perfect for correcting photos with incorrect horizons or making creative compositions or other stylistic changes to an image.

IMPROVED: New Structure Algorithm – The re-developed Structure tool allows you to adjust detail and clarity of an image to get a classic HDR effect with great detail or a smoother effect with less details.

IMPROVED: RAW handling – An improved RAW conversion brings out more details in shadows/highlights, displays colors more accurately and reduces noise in RAW files.

IMPROVED: Crop tool update – Now specify custom crop sizes for even more versatility.

IMPROVED: Speed – Faster merging and masking performance, improvement in RAW image processing.

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HDR-Franzis

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HDR projects 4 professional enables you to generate very precise lighting situations that are not possible with “normal” photography or photo editing. The newest process for super realistic images with unbeatable contrast and detail that you have never seen before.

Just seconds after uploading your original image, HDR projects 4 presents you with 82 versions of your photo. That’s 82 ideas, 82 tips, 82 sources of inspiration. Every image is individually analysed and with the best possible effects, no example is like any other.

  • Ultra HDR for photos that are even more impressive
  • Full-fledged  Lightroom plug-in included for free
  • Innovative & sensitive selective photo editing,
  • For Mac and Windows
  • Can be used in various ways: HDR projects 4 works as a plug-in to Adobe® Photoshop® and Lightroom®, and as a standalone application.
  • Real Lightroom Plugin for maximum comfort. Your advantage: Perfect integration in your personal workflow
  • 7 New Effects: Noise removal – color clouds, Noise removal – banding, exposure curve, rim light distribution, white and black correction, color gradients, aura
  • Algorithm Browser: Makes the HDR-Algorithm visible and assessable. Your advantage: No more guesswork – you’ll see how changes effect your photo immediately!
  • History-Browser: HDR projects never forgets, no work will be lost.No step in your workflow will be lost!
  • Expansion of the RAW-Module for white & black correction and additional noise removal methods
  • Selective Editing for Every Post-processing Effect. Each area of your photo can be edited with the effect that is best fitting!
  • Sensitive Selecting for 7 Effects with intelligent brushes and automatic edge recognition: Dodge, Burn, Saturation, Desaturation, Increase Detail, Decrease Detail, Sharpen
  • Fast-Optimization-Assistant: Set the image look with just one click. Your Advantage: The name says it all: Fast Optimization!
  • Up to 10 Times Faster: shorter waiting times while editing, even with large image series. Time is money, not only for professional photographers

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