Photomatix Pro 6

This CD comes from Amazon EU and is the German version of 6.0 Pro. No problem. Load it onto your machine, register the code from the User Manual, go to the Photomatix website and load version 6.3 update. If you are doing this from the UK it will update to the English version.I have used version 5.1 for years and carefully choose which photos I want to enhance using this software. As with all decent post process software, it is better to take the time to turn a few already good photos into something stunning rather than trying to enhance lots of so-so images.I often use 5 tripod mounted 48mp RAW images using exposures from -2 to +2 stops for landscape and industrial work. On a decent computer, this software is quick to process the image and always produces a great starting point for further work.If you have never used the software before, watch the simple Photomatix Tutorials online

Although on the web site it appears English, it is in fact a German CD with no option to change the language.

Despite saying 4.1 I received 4.2 and this was very easily updated to the latest variant.Excellent product with a real manual to explain how to use it. I won't reiterate what some of the other excellent reviews have said. If you are looking to buy this then download the demo and try it out first. If your camera can shoot in RAW then you will get the best out of it however mine only shoots jpg and the results are still excellent and make it worth buying.One final note. It is currently cheaper to buy this from amazon as even with special offer codes it can cost £90 to download, although I did find a way to get it for £79 direct. On reflection I decided that I could wait 24hrs to get the boxed product with CD.

Having experimented with a free download HDR software and having read several reviews I plumped for Photomatrix Pro. You can purchase it cheaper as a download from the HDR Soft website but I always prefer the comfort of a disk in a box! Version 4.2 supplied (not 4.1 as advertised) complete with a instructional brochure. Can be used straight away as is simple and fairly intuitive and comes set up with several pre-set option effects. (You can also save any of your own preferences). So you can have some great tone-mapped images with-in minutes of installing. If you have some suitably bracketed images, you might even have some good starter HDR images.Not cheap but versatile and easy to use.

Most things these days don't come with a printed handbook and you are left to either print out a costly PDF or try to work out how to use it on screen. Hopeless if its software and you have to keep switching between screens.I have used this program for a while now and finally decided to buy the latest version - and the small but well writen handbook was a very useful bonus as my previous copy was downloaded with on-line guidance. Having now read the booklet from cover to cover I know significantly more about it than from muddling through on-line.If you are in to HDR images and their processing - then this program handles the job well - from vey realistic to surreal with an almost infinite number of settings in between including a very good de-ghosting tool that is very effective at removing those inevitable movements.Overall an excellent program.

Very poor software. Probably get better off a free one. Doesn't do anything like what it's meant to. I wish I paid that little bit extra for a better software. This one wasn't cheap

still experimenting with this program not able to give a higher star at this time, but so far seems ok

This is a brilliant piece of kit. So easy to install alongside Photoshop and Lightroom and so easy to use. I have read so much on the internet about different hdr products and this one seemed to be the best. I can't imagine being without it now. Just load your three exposure shots and let the software do its thing, the results are stunning and, if you dont like what you see, it's so easy to tweak the colours and saturation etc. Plus, there are lots and lots of presets you can play around with.If you want to try hdr, get this, you won't regret it.I'd recommend this to anyone.