[Hervé]

this is here...

http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html

free trial... and a lot of infos about HDR manipulations...

[Micha]

Thank you for the link Hervé. Nice tool. The images of the web pages are to much compressed for my taste, but I have install the tool and test it - the tonemapping strength can be adjusted per simple slider.

[glypticmax]

Very interesting, Herve'.
Thanks for posting that.

[Hervé]

you're welcome...

[Micha]

Hmm, I have some problems with the tool here. For example: set intensity at 0% and move white point slider - the image looks darker but I can not move the slider so, that the previous shown bright image come back, only if I move the intensity slider a little. The preview has an "update preview" problem.

[Micha]

... today I have find a free tool to create HDRIs and to manipulate the tonemapping. The tool is in german, but the tonemapping tool "PP" looks good.

http://www.dslr-forum.de/showthread.php?t=61750

[tom]

Hervé, most of the results on their web seem weird to my eyes. They simply kill the contrast we naturally get used to. I didn't like that histogram trick, it's exactly like Shadow/Highight feature of PS. Sometimes good but mostly end up with unrealistic contrast depth.

[Hervé]

yes you're right... but it was more to help people with OSX macs...

Micha, I'll give a try to Picturenaut.. the tone mapping looks good...

Tom, what do you think of the link Micha pointed..
(don't worry I don't understand German either..)

[tom]

Tom, what do you think of the link Micha pointed..
(don't worry I don't understand German either..)

I can't read, I can't think

[Hervé]

oups.... hehe.. mmmm... maybe you think too much..?