[HDR-photo] Photomatix / HDR / Tonemapping Plugin For Lightroom

[Geraldine Joffre]

To come back to the original topic of this thread: In this a recent
interview <http://tinyurl.com/2ewrnh>, Adobe's Kevin Connor explains
the SDK challenge for Lightroom:

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A Lightroom SDK is thornier than one for Photoshop because the latter
can accept a filter that permanently changes an image, Connor said.
Image-processing plug-ins are "trickier in Lightroom because it's
nondestructive," and filters must be applied and reapplied in real
time as new adjustments are made.
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As I understand it, this means a tone mapping method that operates locally
would not really be possible in Lightroom, given that a local operator is
usually non-reversible, but I may be wrong.

The article also mentions HDR support in Lightroom, though not much
more than that.

Geraldine Joffre

On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 11:20:44 -0500, Dave Feltenberger wrote
> Geraldine or others -
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has given much thought to an HDR plugin for
> Adobe Lightroom.  Lightroom allows for such an incredibly streamlined
> workflow in comparison to the Photoshop/Bridge workflow (if you don't
> need to constantly jump into Photoshop anyway), and I know usage 
> among photographers is skyrocketing.  The first thing I do after 
> shooting is to "stack" all my bracketed, to-be-HDR'd images in 
> Lightroom (along with tagging/rating/etc.).  After stacking I export 
> anything I want to process in Photomatix to TIFF, then generate the 
> HDR, tonemap, save as TIFF, re-import into Lightroom, retag, add to 
> stack, etc.  I'm sure I'm not the only one who is experiencing this 
> stilted workflow.
> 
> There must be a relatively large market for a streamlined
> HDR/Tonemapping process.  Do any of you know of anything, or if there
> are plans to add it to e.g. Lightroom?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Dave
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