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Photomatix Essentials 4.0 User Manual
2.2.6 Exposure Fusion/Natural Settings
The following settings belong to the Exposure Fusion method, which is
used by these Presets: Natural, Painterly 5, Surreal 2, Soft 4, B&W Natural.
• Strength: Sets by how much local contrast is accentuated. Moving the
slider to the right tends to brighten the shadows and to show more details
in the highlights. Moving to the left produces a more ‘natural’ eect.
• Brightness: Controls the brightness of the fused image by adjusting the
inuence each of the input photos has on the nal result. Moving the slider to
the right gives the overexposed photos more inuence, resulting in a brighter
result. Moving to the left darkens the result by giving the underexposed
photos more inuence.
• Local Contrast: Increases the contrast and sharpness of details in the
image. Increasing local contrast may have the side eect of making noise
more visible and of creating thin halo eects around strong luminosity
edges. Values near the maximum tend to give a surreal look to the image.
The default value is 2.
• Color Saturation: Adjusts the color saturation of the image. The greater the saturation, the more
intense the color. Setting the slider to its lowest value (-10) produces a grayscale image.
• Midtones: Adjusts the brightness of the midtones, which also has an impact on the overall contrast.
Moving the slider to the right brightens the midtones and decreases contrast. Moving to the left
darkens the midtones and increases contrast.
Fusion/Natural Settings