Simply HDR

Simply HDR is a comprehensive software application that enables you to manipulate images by applying dynamic effects.

It comes packed with many preset profiles, thus simplifying the user's task.

The installation procedure is rapid and uneventful, while the user-friendly GUI is modern and intuitive. Images can be opened using either the file browser or drag-and-drop function. The supported types are JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIF and TIFF.

A style browser is shown on the bottom part of the screen. It contains presets with HDR, contrasted light, black and shite, shadows and lights, along with contrasted HDR effects.

These settings can be manually tweaked for each profile, such as area, strength, smoothing, vignette face and strength, contrast and saturation, along with the brush size and opacity level.

It is possible to crop pictures, undo the last edit, zoom in and out, as well as to view the initial image to compare it to the currently modified one. Plus, you can hide Simply HDR's panels.

The application supports keyboard shortcuts, has a good response time and runs on a pretty low amount of CPU and RAM, so it does not affect the overall performance of the PC. We have not come across any kind of issues throughout our evaluation, since the tool did not hang, crash or display errors.

Simply HDR comes packed with a handy set of presets for modifying pictures.