Pro photographer Partha says
I have been asked many times why I first build the HDR image in Photoshop and then Tone Map it in Photomatix, since it seems the logical thing is to do it all in one program.
I appreciate the image quality you can get from the full control of Camera Raw. You should always take a lot of care to set the white balance controls, the lens correction and the noise reduction to the optimum for the HDR image set.
You can then simply save all the images as Tiff files for processing in Photomatix Pro, but since the Remove Ghosts option in Photoshop is so good I find it better to build the HDR image directly in Photoshop CS6.
Turning off Align Images when building the HDR image in Photoshop is the best bet. It doesn’t appear quite pixel-accurate, because it will slightly blur my tripod shot images.
You can now save the HDR image as a 32-bit Tiff file in Photoshop CS6 for export to Photomatix.
I personally love the look you can get with Photomatix’s tone mapping. There are lots of adjustments to play with, allowing you to get just the look required for the subject.
The bottom line is that Photoshop offers a much better Raw converter – and it’s also really great at removing ghosting when required.
However, Photomatix offers a very specific look with its tone mapping adjustments that I find very attractive. I really do enjoy getting the best of both worlds.
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