This HDR app gives photos a power polish [Deals]

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This app turns regular digital photos into gorgeous, feature rich HDR images.
This app turns regular digital photos into gorgeous, feature rich HDR images.
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These days, our phones ship with amazing cameras built in. But once the photo is taken, most people are more likely to edit it in Instagram than in Photoshop, if they edit it at all. And that’s no way to make the most of your mobile photos.

Hydra offers an easy way to take digital photos up a notch. It lets you create beautiful high-dynamic-range (HDR) images from any set of exposures. So the resulting images contain both the dark and bright range, meaning they look more like our eyes see them in person. Additionally, while Hydra is easy to use, it packs some serious power: high-precision, 128-bit per pixel internal format, 60 FPS preview at full resolution. So you can automatically line up photos, or use the included alignment tool to aligns images via key feature points. The new tone mapper allows for real-time previewing and fine tuning. Plus, compatibility with a variety of input and output formats make this a power app that’s perfect for non-power users.

Buy now: Get a copy of Hydra Pro 4 for $24.99. That’s half off the usual price.

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