HDR Darkroom

Photography can yield you outstanding results, if you complement your gear with matching skills. But high quality utensils can be a little overpriced and, by comparison, regular ones lack several important functions.

For instance, not every camera features integrated HDR support, therefore, if you want to add the aforementioned effect to your pictures, you might need to resort to image processing software. You can count HDR Darkroom as one of the suitable applications.

The program comes with a modern layout that is visually appealing and useful, in terms of user accessibility. HDR Darkroom's functions are intuitive and users can access them easily, regardless of their computer skills. More so, HDR Darkroom provides support for a huge variety of file types, including many RAW formats.

However, despite of its fashionable looks, this application provides you with no drag and drop support. Resizing the window might prove to be quite tricky, as the mouse pointer does not change to the specific double-headed arrow unless you move it to a certain tiny spot.

The lower part of the window includes various functions, such as crop, CW and CCW rotation, undo and redo, which may prove useful if you prefer not to access the traditional menu.

You can modify your image by choosing from a list of preset effects, or defining your own style. When selecting a filter, it is possible to customize certain attributes, including tone, color, smoothness, saturation and exposure. You can also view a histogram of your image.

HDR Darkroom allows you to create original HDR content without applying preset styles, by combining picture sequences with different exposure values into a single item.

You can specify source and destination folders and all the supported files inside the input directory are simultaneously processed, using pre-defined settings and transferred to the output location.

In conclusion, this application can prove itself to be a reliable asset by providing you with multiple HDR filters you can apply on your photos and batch processing functions. However, you should be aware that it lacks drag and drop support and resizing the window can quickly get frustrating.