Full Dynamic Range Tools
Copyright © 2002-2008 Andreas Schömann

 
 



FDRTools Advanced

FDRTools Advanced are a collection of capable tools for professionals and ambitious shutterbugs alike.

This software allows you to overcome the technical limitations of your digital camera and produce images with a contrast and dynamik range not considered possible so far.

The dynamic range enrichment is handled comfortable and far easier than with traditional methods. The performance characteristics outclass these methods.

Essential features:
  • Combine several differently exposed photos of an exposure series into an HDR image
  • Master scenes with moving objects like foliage moved by the wind, flowing water, driving cars and so on
  • Prepare your HDR images for display or print with state-of-the-art tonal range compression (tone mapping)
  • Import the RAW images of your digital camera
  • Export and archive the optimised HDR image in a format of your choice

Characteristics in detail:
  • Automatic compensation of slight camera jiggling and vibration with tripod based photos
  • Specialised HDRI creation methods for static scenes and scenes with moving objects, both yielding optimal denoising
  • HDRI blending method "Creative" allows to blend virtually any kind of imagery. You can combine images with different exposure, aperture or focus settings or combinations of these, images taken under different lighting conditions like dusk and dawn photos, flashed images or even images with totally different content.
  • 3 different tone mapping methods, 2 global acting and one local acting state-of-the-art method
  • Histogram view of the HDR image and the tone mapped results
  • Control of blackpoint and whitepoint, saturation and gamma
  • Creation of camera specific profiles allowing to do photogrammetric HDR images
  • Automation by integration with external applications or scripts is possible
  • Supported import image formats:
    • JPEG, TIFF, Radiance RGBE, OpenEXR
    • Integrated RAW converter DCRAW for direct import of virtually all digital camera RAW formats
  • Supported export image formats:
    • Radiance RGBE, OpenEXR, TIFF, PNG, PPM, BMP, JPEG

System requirements:
Operating system: at least Windows 98 or OS X 10.3.9
Main memory: at least 512 MB
Processor: at least Pentium 4, PowerPC G4

Download:
Here you can download a trial version of FDRTools Advanced. The trial version is fully functional and usable without time limit, yet it applies a water mark to the resulting images.

Operating system Hardware Program approx. Size
Windows PC FDRToolsAdvanced22.msi 10 MB
OS X Mac Intel FDRToolsAdvanced22_i386.dmg 13 MB
OS X Mac PowerPC FDRToolsAdvanced22_PPC.dmg 13 MB

 
LATEST NEWS
FDRTools 2.2 released
18 Aug 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]
FDRTools 2.2beta3 released
08 Aug 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]
FDRTools 2.2beta2 released
04 Jun 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]