![]() In early 2016, Aurora HDR was updated with support to run as an editing extension for Apple Photos for Mac. The software runs as a standalone or as a plug-in to host applications like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Apple Aperture. Versions, previous and current, include: Aurora HDR (optionally sold on the Mac App Store) Aurora HDR Pro Aurora HDR Pro + training, Aurora 2017 and Aurora 2018. ![]() A collection of editing and processing tools also allows layered compositions and targeted areas of photo and graphic processing.Īurora HDR comes in five different versions for two different operating systems. HDR image editing techniques are designed to overcome difficult lighting situations where highlights and shadows are prevalent in the same image, but have also been used to create highly processed images as well.īy automatically aligning and merging multiple exposures of photos, Aurora HDR can create a single tone-mapped image. It was made through a collaboration between Skylum and HDR photographer Trey Ratcliff. It attempted to create a powerful and simple yet fast HDR photo editing software.Īurora HDR is a High Dynamic Range (HDR) editing and processing tool released in November 2015. That is to say, it feels so comfortable that after a little while you’re already making your own choices unlike others where you’re trying to learn the UI.Īll in all, Affinity Photo is a great product, feels fast, comfortable, and has all the tools to quickly start enhancing your photos.Aurora HDR is photographic software developed by Skylum Software (formerly Macphun) for Mac OS X and Windows. I even throw a little of my own choice in Affinity Photo and tinted the shadows slightly purple. Since the former has everything there, you start getting lost touching here and there. Somehow the tools in the latter are more focused and lead you to a better overall workflow. ![]() While I could’ve spent more time perfecting the colorizing in Aurora HDR, this is what a total newbie got with it, just like in Affinity Photo. Affinity Photo can solve all these issues perfectly. Aurora HDR can bring the cloud details up quickly, but can’t remove the bush and fails to set color on the island in the center. You can see it could use some contrast and stronger colors, some areas are too dark, there’s a bush in the front, and lacks volume and details on clouds. The photo was taken with a Fujifilm X-T2 35mm f2 in Horseshoe bay in West Vancouver, while I was waiting for the Bowen island ferry. So, here’s the comparison from knowing zero to this on Aurora HDR and Affinity. ![]() My only concerns are that some operations seem to be too intensive on CPU and the MacBook Pro fan started going like crazy for a bit, and that sometimes adjustments lag for a millisecond on images like 6000 px wide. It has a dedicated UI to develop the photo, particularly interesting for RAW photos and another for tone mapping, very powerful, with more than enough options. It has layers, adjustment layers, layer styles so you can non-destructively edit the image. Its tools cover almost everything you would expect coming from Photoshop, selection, healing, brushes and more. It’s a very capable photo… editor? I guess it’s still an editor if you can transform the image, but for example, if you want to remove a wire, a bottle, or a bush in the photo, you have to buy a separate module called Snapheal for extra money.Īffinity Photo is a strong Photoshop alternative. The adjustments are nice and probably enough for many, but they don’t go too far.Īurora HDR, with a nice and wide array of adjustments applied to the overall image. Interesting software, however, the UI and the delay in re-render the image makes it hard to use.ĭxO OpticsPro, but actually I tested this “ essentials” completely free version. Much of the decision behind testing these were not to bow to Adobe and their ubiquitous Lightroom/Photoshop with the pay forever price model.Īlong with Affinity Photo and Aurora HDR, some of the photo editors I tested were: This is not a review, but rather, a side by side testing with Aurora HDR to see what I could achieve from knowing zero on both. It has a natural workflow and some nice intuitive tools to enhance images. I’ve been trying some photo editors recently, some free, others paid through the demo and I’m really liking Affinity Photo.
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