I can not agree more with this post. Many people think Tonemapper is the mysterious and ultimate photo-beautifier that always change your photo into something exciting if you are lucky. But we consider it as one of the steps in the entire workflow. So, our product was designed to do tonemapping while keeping everything else unchanged. This is the major difference between us and PS/PM that EHDR adds very little flavor of itself other than revealing the details already in your photo set.
We hope this "individual function" approach give users more predicable and controllable results when you combine different single-purpose tools in your toolbox in any way you want.
As you can see, HDR tonemapping is nothing special. We expect our users to run EHDR on original raw files, on already tonemapped TIFF files, on intermediate outputs out of Photoshop, on anything that you like to get more details out of your photos with confidence that no other artifacts (halo, haze) would be introduced in the process. Don't limit your imagination with the tonemapper software you choose.
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Originally Posted by tamlin
Alignment is always going to be a tricky issue - especially in extreme conditions.
I think overall you've got a very good product in Essential HDR. I will certainly be adding it to my toolbox when it is officially released - I tend to rely on a small number of tried-and-trusted tools for jobs like tone-mapping (as well as noise reduction and sharpening), but I also like to have a couple of alternative options available too. After all, a mechanic doesn't rely on just one spanner or a chef on just one knife. Good luck with Essential HDR.
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