System Requirements

• Minimum: Any Intel Mac or a PowerMac G5
• Highly recommended: Mac with Intel processor
• Not supported: Intel GMA and ATI X1600 graphic cards

• Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard or later
• 32-bit and 64-bit architectures supported

• Minimum: 128 MB of VRAM (GPU)

File Formats

• TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PDF, RAW, DNG, PEF Images and most other image file formats

• Hydra Documents (.hydra)
• JPEG Images (8-bit)
• TIFF (8-bit and 16-bit)
• OpenEXR (32-bit) only available in the stand-alone version

Input Options

• Exposure Value Calculator
• Input filters (contrast, sharpness, color temperature)
• Browsing of iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries

Output Options

• Document Saving (choice of the file name and directory)
• Export to iPhoto library and Aperture Projects

Alignment

• Advanced Automatic Image Matching Techniques (free form and homography)
• Multi-core acceleration
• Manual Matching with Visual Feedback
• Non-linear Warping based on Morph Age Technology (CeedMorph)
• Real-time Previewing
• Special image border handling (crop or mirror)

Merging

• Ultra-fast GPU accelerated HDR image merging
• Real-time Previewing
• Individual Image Influence Parameterization
• Output filters (saturation, sharpness, brightness, contrast)
• Smoothness Tuning
• Blending Tuning
• Navigation through exposure
• Loupe Tool with real time 1:1 preview

Tone Mapping

• Perceptive
• Highlights Compression
• Local Adaptation

Aperture Support

• Import from Aperture Library
• Export to Aperture Projects
• Plug-In for Aperture 2 and 3

Lightroom Support

• Plug-In for Lightroom 2

User Experience

• Elegant and Intuitive Interface
• Zoom and Navigation for Images
• Switch Regular and HDR Viewing
• Fullscreen Mode with HUD
• Saving/loading HDR Presets, for user-defined effects