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Macfun software hdr review6/6/2023 So far I’ve looked at all the sliders in the context of global adjustments (adjustments that affect the entire image). Use it if you realize that you’ve overdone the processing. This does the same job as the Amount slider in the Presets panels. The Opacity slider lets you reduce the strength of the effect you’ve created. The final three sets of sliders let you make other adjustments, such as sharpening or adding a vignette. If the effect is too strong, you can move the Masking slider right to limit the areas affected. There is an additional Masking slider to help keep it under control. Like Structure, the Detail sliders require care as it is easy to overdo the effect. The tabs at the top let you apply it as a global adjustment, or to the shadows or highlights. The Large slider has the greatest effect on the image and the Small slider the least. The three sliders (Small, Medium and Large) control the size of the details affected. The Detail sliders are for enhancing detail. These enlargements show you the effect of the Structure sliders. Care is required, and I found that the Structure sliders worked best when I used the Pro Contrast sliders first. It is really easy to overdo the effect and create something that looks completely unnatural, similar to some of the presets I showed you at the beginning of the article. The Strength slider gives you control over the strength of the effect and Softness slider control over the crispness. There are three sliders, enabling you to target the highlights, mid-tones and shadows respectively. There are two levels: Global (targeting small areas) and Micro (targeting really small areas). The Structure sliders are for enhancing areas of low contrast, revealing texture and details. So, for example, if you increase Pro Contrast in the shadows and find that the image becomes too light, you can increase the Offset to make it darker. Under each of these is an Offset slider, which works in tandem with Pro Contrast sliders to control the brightness of the image. Pro Contrast increases contrast without losing detail, and there are three sliders so you can apply it to the highlights, mid-tones and shadows individually. The Pro Contrast panel is where Intensify Pro starts to get interesting. These allow you to much the same thing, but with far more control and versatility. It is replaced by the Pro Contrast, Structure and Detail panels. You’ll notice the absence of a Clarity slider. There’s nothing new here, these are for making adjustments to the photo before you get to the sliders that are unique to Intensify Pro. The first three Adjust panels echo the sliders found in Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw. This is where you take control and use sliders to apply adjustments and enhancements to your photo. All of them were applied to the original photo at full strength without any further adjustments.Īfter selecting (or perhaps not selecting) a preset you can move to Adjust mode. So if you like a preset, but feel the effect is too strong, you can adjust the strength until you are happy with the result. Each preset comes with an Amount slider that lets you adjust the strength of the preset on a scale from zero to 100, much like the Opacity slider in Photoshop layers. Intensify Pro provides a simple solution to this. One of the problems with presets, and indeed with any program that lets you make adjustments to contrast and detail like Intensify Pro, is that it is very easy to create an image that looks over-processed. There are 68 presets in total (yes, I counted them) and you can select any one of them to use as a starting point or click the Adjust button to go straight to Adjust mode. Your photo is displayed in the centre, there are various tool buttons along the top, and the controls for working with Presets and making adjustments are on the right. Now let’s open the photo in Intensify Pro and see what we can do with it in comparison to what is possible in Lightroom.įirst, the layout. Here’s a close-up so you can see the effect that increasing Contrast and Clarity has had on the texture and detail. The version on the right was created by increasing Exposure, Contrast and Clarity in Lightroom’s Basic panel, and adding a slight vignette in the Effects panel. The version on the left is more or less straight out of the camera. To demonstrate the power of Intensify Pro I’ve selected an image that is very flat but has a lot of texture in the image to work with. Indeed, this is the main reason to buy Intensify Pro because it allows you to do this quickly and easily and with far more functionality than is offered by Photoshop or Lightroom. One of the reasons that you buy plug-ins is to take advantage of the ways you can use them to increase mid-tone contrast and enhance detail. With apologies to Windows users (I really wish this software was available for PCs as well) let’s dive in and see what this software can do. Intensify Pro is a Mac only image editing program from MacPhun.
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