
easyHDR is a professional HDR photo editing software for Windows and Mac that empowers photographers to create stunning, high-quality images by using advanced High Dynamic Range imaging techniques. Recognized as one of the top HDR photo editors for Windows, it removes overexposed, underexposed, and noisy areas, turning ordinary images into stunning, perfectly balanced photos. Whether you aim for realistic reproduction or dramatic artistic effects, easyHDR enhances every photograph with precise exposure control.
The software accommodates a wide variety of formats, including JPEG, 8/16-bit JPEG2000, HEIF/HEIC, TIFF, PNG, FITS, and nearly all RAW formats. Thanks to DCRAW and LibRAW integration, easyHDR can manage RAW files from leading camera brands, including Canon (CR3), Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Pentax, Olympus, Leica, Kodak, Samsung, GoPro, DJI, and smartphones, ensuring photographers face no format limitations.
easyHDR also supports importing OpenEXR (.exr), Radiance RGBE (.hdr), and 32-bit floating-point TIFF HDR images generated with other software. With this flexibility, users can continue editing current HDR projects without interruption or incorporate external HDR outputs into their process. Photographers can explore creative possibilities while maintaining full control over image quality and detail.
With robust lens correction features, the software corrects chromatic aberration and lens distortion and provides alignment tools for HDR sequences. Automatic or manual compensation of shift, scale, rotation, and perspective misalignments ensures that multi-exposure shots are perfectly combined. Additionally, easyHDR provides ghost removal tools that clear moving objects in HDR sequences and create clean, professional-quality images.
Thanks to its intuitive design and sophisticated editing capabilities, easyHDR allows photographers to tackle challenging lighting and consistently deliver outstanding images. The software handles everything from bright outdoor scenes to low-light interiors, delivering precise exposure adjustments, noise control, and detail enhancement, earning its place as a preferred HDR editing tool for professionals.
EasyHDR Features
- Merge several photos recorded with varied exposure adjustments. (JPEG, JPEG2000, HEIC, TIFF, FITS, or RAW) into an HDR image.
- Tone map to get the final result. easyHDR image processing tools help you produce HDR images with natural tones or expressive enhancement, supporting complete creative flexibility.
- Process RAW images from all types of cameras and generate high-quality HDR photos.
- Lens distortion and chromatic aberration correction.
- Enhance a single RAW or JPEG photograph.
- Free Adobe Lightroom plug-in (installed along with easyHDR).
- EasyHDR is a multiplatform HDR photo editor software that works on Windows and macOS.
- High DPI display support is designed for use with 4K and Retina screens.
- During tone mapping, you can correct white balance, and for RAW files, apply adjustments at the import step as well.
- Live preview is enabled when viewing or editing photos in full resolution.
- Work with layers and masks to apply separate tone parameters across various areas of the photo. This technique delivers unlimited flexibility and is ideal for an advanced photographer.
- Apply 3D LUT color grading, supported by easyHDR through full LUT file import.
- Automatic, but also a unique manual Image Alignment allows you to process photos taken without a tripod. It compensates not only for shift and rotation but also for perspective.
- With both automatic and manual Ghost Removal, moving elements such as cars, people, clouds, or trees are prevented from spoiling the final image.
- 360-degree support that provides accurate tone adjustments across the left and right edges of the image.
- You can improve quality by using noise removal filters. It can be done before and/or after the photo is tone-mapped.
- The software’s Advanced Batch Processing feature ensures fast and efficient processing of multiple photos. The HDR sequences are found automatically.
- Built-in and user thumbnail presets.
- History of tone mapping parameter changes – allows live undo/redo.
- The clone and healing brush tools help remove dust particles or unwanted objects from your photos.
- Fully supports Color management.
What’s New in easyHDR 3.17.0 :
New features
- MacOS: native support for Apple Silicon (Apple M, Arm CPUs). easyHDR is now a universal binary built for native performance on newer Apple-M devices and older Intel Macs. No more need for Rosetta 2. That also boosts easyHDR performance by 10-30% on Apple M computers. The minimum supported version is now macOS 11.5 Big Sur.
- Manual alignment; option to draw additional feature rejection mask, used for auto pin placement,
- A selection option for the OpenEXR pixel format has been added under Program Options. Earlier, only 16-bit float was available; now 32-bit is supported.
Improvements
- Improved noise filtering for Local Contrast,
- Auto alignment removes features found near image corners and edges, helping improve alignment in certain situations.
- Manual alignment; the auto pin placement option respects method selection (shift-only, shift-rotate, or shift-rotate-perspective),
- New command line parameters to allow HDR image output and skip tone mapping,
- Improved mouse cursors in the Ghost Removal tool.
Other changes
- Fixed crash when handling failed HEIF load,
- Fixed possible crash when switching Layers,
- Fixed issues with GUI scaling for various screen settings,
- Updated Qt framework to 5.15.17,
- Updated OpenEXR library for 32-bit format support,
- Updated LensFun database with new camera and lens definitions for lens correction.
- Updated LibRAW for new camera RAW support,
- Updated Exiftool,
- Updated OpenJPEG (support for jp2 and j2k formats).
Official Homepage – https://www.easyhdr.com
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 7/8/10/11 64-bit, including Wine on Linux
- macOS 10.12 or newer, including 10.15 Catalina, 11.0 Big Sur and above
- Intel (or Apple M1 with Rosetta 2)
