Requirements

• Mac OS X 10.5.4 Leopard or later
• Any Intel Mac or a PowerMac G5 with at least 64MB of VRAM (GPU) required. Mac with Intel processor and at least 128 MB VRAM highly recommended

Input Formats

• Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PDF, RAW, DNG and most other file formats)

Output Formats

• Hydra Documents (.hydra)
• JPEG Images (8-bit)
• TIFF (8-bit)
• OpenEXR (32-bit)

Aperture Support

• Import from Aperture Library
• Export to Aperture Projects
• Plug-In (processing within Aperture)

Application Support

• Real-Time Preview
• Document Saving

Alignement

• Advanced Automatic Image Matching
• Multi-core acceleration
• Manual Matching with Visual Feedback
• Non-linear Warping based on Morph Age Technology (CeedMorph)
• Real-time Previewing

Merging

• Ultra-fast GPU accelerated HDR image merging
• Real-time Previewing
• Individual Image Influence Parameterization
• Smoothness Tuning
• Blending Tuning
• Navigation through exposure

Tone Mapping

• Highlights Compression
• Local Adaptation

User Experience

• Elegant and Intuitive Interface
• Zoom and Navigation for Images
• Switch Regular and HDR Viewing
• Animated Effects (3D)
• Fullscreen Mode with HUD
• Connection to iLife, input from and export to iPhoto library
• Saving/loading HDR Presets, for user-defined effects