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Just recently I tried the new Aurora HDR 19 program from Skylum.
I had a few problems with it including crashing on large images - but that seems to have been my fault since I had a RamDrive created on startup which used 32GB of my 48GB RAM.
And having 2 other VMs opened at the same time left me with very little RAM.
Then I decided to test my usual HDR program - Easy HDR 3 - and 2 others - Aurora HDR 2019 and Oloneo HDR.
I used a photo of a bird I took some time ago where I just missed focus on it.
I cropped just the bird:
Then put it through the 3 HDR programs - all at their default settings.
This one is from Easy HDR 3 - and it can be seen that noise is quite prominent - a common problem with all HDR programs and which I usually cure by running it through Neat Image 8 to reduce or eliminate the noise.
The next on is Oloneo HDR and as you can see the noise is vastly reduced even without using an external NR program:
Finally Aurora HDR 2019 where the background noise is extremely well controlled:
So it looks as if my usual HDR program has lost out - not really a surprise since it is now a few years old and the 2 newer ones - oloneo and Aurora HDR 2019 are brand new.
If I was going to upgrade it, which I may well do then Aurora HDR 2019 looks like the choice - apart from the price of £92.
But Aurora has a huge set of adjustments, including the ability to recover details in 3 different ways, fine, medium or large, all of which allow a load of tweaking to get the best results.
I did find a website supposedly giving a £35 discount - which makes it a much better proposition.
Both Aurora HDR 2019 and Oloneo HDR use AI which certainly does seem to be going from strength to strength.
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I had a few problems with it including crashing on large images - but that seems to have been my fault since I had a RamDrive created on startup which used 32GB of my 48GB RAM.
And having 2 other VMs opened at the same time left me with very little RAM.
Then I decided to test my usual HDR program - Easy HDR 3 - and 2 others - Aurora HDR 2019 and Oloneo HDR.
I used a photo of a bird I took some time ago where I just missed focus on it.
I cropped just the bird:
Then put it through the 3 HDR programs - all at their default settings.
This one is from Easy HDR 3 - and it can be seen that noise is quite prominent - a common problem with all HDR programs and which I usually cure by running it through Neat Image 8 to reduce or eliminate the noise.
The next on is Oloneo HDR and as you can see the noise is vastly reduced even without using an external NR program:
Finally Aurora HDR 2019 where the background noise is extremely well controlled:
So it looks as if my usual HDR program has lost out - not really a surprise since it is now a few years old and the 2 newer ones - oloneo and Aurora HDR 2019 are brand new.
If I was going to upgrade it, which I may well do then Aurora HDR 2019 looks like the choice - apart from the price of £92.
But Aurora has a huge set of adjustments, including the ability to recover details in 3 different ways, fine, medium or large, all of which allow a load of tweaking to get the best results.
I did find a website supposedly giving a £35 discount - which makes it a much better proposition.
Both Aurora HDR 2019 and Oloneo HDR use AI which certainly does seem to be going from strength to strength.
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