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FDRCompressor Plug-In

Adobe Photoshop CS2 ® compatible Plug-In. Used to compress the tonal value range of an image (tone mapping). This method has some valuable applications:
  • with RAW images and JPEG images:
    • Illumination of shadowy areas
    • Contrast enhancement
  • with HDR (High Dynamic Range) images:
    • Dynamic range compression
    • Visualisation for normal output media like monitor or print
    • Contrast and detail conservation

FDRCompressor Plug-In augments the Photoshop CS2 ® HDR conversion methods by an alternative powerful algorithm that yields quite natural acting results.

Essential features:
  • natural scene illumination
  • excellent contrast and details
  • does not cause artefacts
  • adjustable parameters: Dynamic Compression, Image Contrast, Gamma Curve, Color Saturation, Black level, White level
  • supported Modes: RGB images with 8, 16 and 32 bit depth
  • scriptable

Remarks:
  • FDRCompressor Plug-In can't produce HDR images. Creation of HDR images from several, differently exposed photos can be done with a Photoshop method.
  • As an alternative we offer the software FDRTools Advanced that is capable of producing HDR images in high quality and comprises the FDRCompressor algorithm for HDR conversion.

System requirements:
Operating system: at least Windows 98 or Mac OS X 10.3
Main memory: at least 512 MB
Processor: at least Pentium 4, PowerPC G4

Download:
Here you can download a trial version of FDRCompressor Plug-In. The trial version is fully functional and usable without time limit, yet it applies a water mark to the resulting image.

Operating system Hardware Program approx. Size
Windows PC FDRCompressorPI22Trial.exe 344 KB
Mac OS X Mac PPC FDRCompressorPI22Trial.dmg 470 KB (Installer)
    FDRCompressorPI22TrialMC.dmg 499 KB (copy files by hand)

 
LATEST NEWS
FDRTools 2.2 released
18 Aug 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]
FDRTools 2.2beta3 released
08 Aug 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]
FDRTools 2.2beta2 released
04 Jun 2008
Version 2.2 extends HDRI creation possibilities, improves usability of HDRI creation and tone mapping functionality and fixes several minor problems of the previous version. [read more]