Aurora HDR 2018 is the world’s ultimate HDR photo solution, chock full of new tools and capabilities that will exceed your expectations. As a one-stop tool kit for casual and pro photographers alike, it’s versatile interface features a faster, more powerful, more feature-rich and satisfying experience than any other HDR software or combination of tools. Perfect for single shots or multiple-exposure brackets, Aurora HDR 2018 gives you the ultimate freedom to create.
User Interface / Performance
- NEW: Redesigned from scratch User Interface
- NEW: History Panel
- NEW: Touch Bar support for Macbook Pro
- IMPROVED: up to 4x faster RAW image processing
- IMPROVED: up to 2x faster merging
- IMPROVED: 2x faster masking performance
- IMPROVED: Tone-mapping technology with reduced noise, improved realism of initial results and faster performance.
- Advanced high quality real-time image processing engine.
- Maximum zoom level of 3000%.
- Histogram.
- Color clipping preview (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Quick compare toggle.
- Side by side comparison.
- Built-in sample photos.
- Full Screen preview mode (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Single view tool panel mode.
- Choice of background colors.
- Online help
Editing
- NEW: Lens Correction tool (available for Mac, coming soon for PC)
- NEW: Transform Tool (available for Mac, coming soon for PC)
- NEW: Dodge & Burn Filter
- NEW: Image Flip & Rotate (available for Mac, coming soon for PC)
- NEW: Blend Modes
- NEW: HDR Details Boost tool
- IMPROVED: Tone Mapping Algorithm
- IMPROVED: RAW file handling (reveals more details in shadows/highlights, displays colors more accurately and reduces noise)
- IMPROVED: Custom Texture in any layer can now be a RAW file
- IMPROVED: Color Temperature
- IMPROVED: Image Radiance
- IMPROVED: HDR Structure
- IMPROVED: Crop tool
- IMPROVED: HDR Clarity for better sharpening.
- Fine-tuning sliders control.
- Single View Mode.
- Polarize Filter.
- Feather & Density brush parameters for layer masks ( available for Mac, coming soon for PC)
- Radial Masking tool.
- Top & Bottom Adjustment. Gradient Masking tool.
- Added Darken, Color Burn and Lighten Blend modes for Layers.
- Advanced, automatic and realistic Tone Mapping. Better recovery of „washed“ highlights.
- Color Temperature tool which produces more realistic results.
- Color Filter/Selective Color tool. Added Hue adjustments.
- Over 70 categorized HDR presets, including sets from Trey Ratcliff, Captain Kimo and Serge Ramelli.
- Multiple Layers.
- Luminosity Masking (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Custom Texture overlays.
- Smart Tone technology.
- Highlights / Midtones / Shadows adjustments.
- Whites & Blacks.
- HDR Denoise.
- Color Contrast tool.
- Glow effect.
- Brush presets.
- Tone curve tool.
- Color toning.
- Vignette.
- Rotate image (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Masking with brackets (coming soon)
- Custom presets
Open / Plug-in / Export
- IMPROVED: Native RAW file support, including better DNG handling
- IMPROVED: Sharpen on export.
- Image Resize on export (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Batch Processing, including automatic recognition of brackets, support for sub-folders and Batch presets (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Reduced color noise. Open HDR dialog. Added ability to remove images from exposure series prior to merging. Improved alignment.
- Increased speed of merging.
- Auto Alignment of images in HDR bracketAutomatic Deghosting of images in HDR Brackets.
- Automatic Chromatic aberrations reduction.
- Preset export/import.
- Facebook sharing .
- Flickr sharing (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- SmugMug sharing (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Twitter sharing.
- Export to email.
- Export to iMessage (Mac only)
- Export to editing apps, including Photoshop (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- Export to Creative Kit (Mac only)
- Export to Photos (Mac only)
- Runs as Standalone software.
- Photoshop plug-in.
- Lightroom plug-in.
- Photos for Mac editing extension (Mac only) Aperture extension (Mac only)
- Open/Export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD file format support
- Export to PSD (coming to Mac and PC by the end of the year)
- Export to HDR File formats .EXR, .HDR, fp-TIFF (coming to Mac and PC by the end of the year).
- Adobe RGB wide color profile support (available fo r Mac, coming soon for PC) .
- ProPhoto wide color profile support (available for Mac, coming soon for PC) .