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I did not have to do any color correcting for the Photomatix image, only had to push the saturation a few points. The processing in CS3 is where I noticed the big differences. Once settings were applied the blending took about the same amount of time as the Enfuse blend. Like Enfuse I have a Photomatix plug-in for Lightroom (I donвЂ™t use LR in my normal workflow but used it for the purposes of this comparison) but unlike the Enfuse plug-in youвЂ™re taken to the Photomatix program where you can adjust your settings and see previews of the final image. (Note: I tone map in Photomatix for a true HDR). IвЂ™m pretty comfortable with my Photomatix settings and have them saved as a preset. It took a bit of futzing to get the color vibrancy and contrast where I wanted it and worked the curves and saturation pretty hard.

The exterior/window pull was pretty amazing, color accuracy-wise, and if window pulls are important to you, Enfuse does a pretty good job with them. The 40D вЂ“ and all Canons from what I understand вЂ“ shoots heavy on the reds and I had to color balance pretty heavily for the reds in the image. The final blend, taken into Photoshop CS3 for the processing, required more color correction than I anticipated. IвЂ™m not sure how you know what adjustments you need to make вЂ“ it only gives you two options anyway вЂ“ without having a preview. I didnвЂ™t care for the fact that it doesnвЂ™t give you a preview of the final image. The plug-in for Lightroom makes the process very easy вЂ“ took under a minute for the final image to be blended. Both images also got a quick dodge on the ceiling and around the french doors. Each image was composed of three bracketed images +/- 2 stops.Д«oth images were run through Noise Ninja and Shadows/Highlights with the same settings and as close to the same settings as I could get for rotation and vertical correction. I canвЂ™t say IвЂ™m an expert at Enfuse (or Photomatix for that matter) but thought IвЂ™d post a comparison between images for you.ДЇor the test,to make it a more honest comparison, I spent only ten minutes on each image.

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I recently acquired a new computer (thatвЂ™s a whole other post) and decided to download the Enfuse plug-in for Lightroom, just to see.

IвЂ™ve always been a Photomatix girl вЂ“ I just prefer the user interface and the simplicity of the program over Enfuse. There are two popular programs to create HDR and Exposure Blend images: Photomatix and Enfuse.