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 Images

• Images (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PSD, PDF, RAW, DNG, PEF and most other file formats)
• Exposure Value Calculator
• Input filters (contrast, sharpness, color temperature)

Output Formats

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

Aperture Support

• Import from Aperture Library
• Export to Aperture Projects
• Plug-In (processing within Aperture with the same interface as in the stand-alone version)

Application Support

• Real-Time Preview
• Document Saving (choice of the file name and directory)

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

User Experience

• Elegant and Intuitive Interface (the same in the stand-alone version as in the Aperture Plug-in)
• Zoom and Navigation for Images
• Switch Regular and HDR Viewing
• Fullscreen Mode with HUD
• Connection to iLife, input from and export to iPhoto library
• Saving/loading HDR Presets, for user-defined effects