HDR software

[Anthony]

I added the path of SNS-HDR to my enviromental variable path and so I use a batch file containing:

SNS-HDR.exe -jpeg -dramatic %1 %2 %3

If you do not do that give the full path to the SNS-HDR exe program.

"C:\Program Files\SNS-HDR Lite\SNS-HDR.exe" -jpeg -dramatic %1 %2 %3

Yes a batch file is just a text file where you save as a .bat not .txt

Just add the options to the command in the batch file as above.

e.g to save as a tif file with the default setting use:

"C:\Program Files\SNS-HDR Lite\SNS-HDR.exe" -tiff16 %1 %2 %3

To use 5 photos instead of 3 you need to add an extra couple of variables:

"C:\Program Files\SNS-HDR Lite\SNS-HDR.exe" -tiff16 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5

To recap in a notepad file you will have one line:

"C:\Program Files\SNS-HDR Lite\SNS-HDR.exe" -tiff16 %1 %2 %3

You will save this as something like sns.bat
To make your HDR file you will sellect 3 photos and drag and drop them over the batch file icon - I usualy put it on my desktop.
The image will be created in the folder the 3 images came from.

[Light-twister]

Call me silly, but I just use bracketing and Photoshop Elements to produce HDR frames.

[Anthony]

You are silly Light-twister

Seriously though I do not have Elements or any other software to produce HDR thats why I use SNS-HDR.

[raven15]

How do you do it? I have the full photoshop (old student version), but so far haven't been able to get a result I liked with it. I haven't had time to play with HDR in the last week though.

[kgosden]

Raven,

If your Photoshop is pre-CS4 the HDR is not worth much. It really got passable in CS5.

[K1W1]

Nik HDR Efex Pro - best toy ever and the results are far better than I have ever achieved in any other HDR software.