Pro HDR Free: Experience How Good Your Photos Can Look At No Cost
January 24, 2011
Pro HDR has become a valuable app in the photography toolbox for those iOS users with an artistic vision. The minds behind Pro HDR, eyeApps, are now offering a great way for prospective buyers to try everything the app has to offer with the new Pro HDR Free.
Pro HDR Free offers all of the standard features of the paid version, with two limitations. Photos saved with Pro HDR Free will be reduced to a VGA resolution (640 x 480) and contain a small watermark: "Captured with Pro HDR for iPhone." The full Pro HDR has no artificial resolution restrictions and no watermark.
What is HDR? High dynamic range imaging is a very useful set of techniques that allows a photograph to have an improved range of luminosity. In layman’s terms, a handful of small adjustments help reduce the amount of excessive light, removing a "washed out" effect.
Pro HDR Free features:
• Automatic in-app HDR capture, where all you have to do is tap to capture
• Manual in-app photo capture, where you get to choose the exposure of each image in your HDR
• Photo library support, where you can make HDRs from your saved images
• Support for front and rear cameras, if your device has both
• Proprietary image alignment algorithm that precisely aligns full-size images in seconds
• Seamless image blending creates one beautiful output image nearly instantly
• Live-updating image adjustment sliders to perfect your HDR: choose the perfect brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and tint, or let Pro HDR automatically select the best settings
• Full-screen image preview in portrait and landscape orientation
• Geotagging / GPS / EXIF data saved to your camera roll (requires iOS 4.1 or newer)
• Share your HDRs with the world with built-in email support
Many iPhone 4 owners may be wondering why they need Pro HDR, if Apple already includes such a feature. Pro HDR offers both front and back camera support, compatibility with the iPhone 3GS, and fine tuning that Apple's purely automatic feature does not.
Pro HDR's automatic mode works just like Apple's Camera app, taking one over-saturated photo and one under-saturated one, then using data from both to create a final 'balanced' photo. Manual mode takes things a step further, where the user creates the dark and light versions to be combined. Both modes offer fine tuning of brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, and tint. The "one more thing" feature is a handy optional alignment grid, making photo centering and horizon leveling that much easier.
Pro HDR Free and Pro HDR are compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and 4th generation iPod touch running iOS 4.0 or later. Pro HDR Free is available in the App Store now at no cost. Pro HDR is available in the App Store at $1.99.
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