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HDR photo creation app from exposure brackets

Started Jul 7, 2021 | Discussions
Sugasmune Senior Member • Posts: 1,519
HDR photo creation app from exposure brackets

My phone is limited to 3 exposures in HDR mode, but it can do 5 exposure bracket to 5 separate photos. Is there professional app for Android that can merge that bracket high quality way, none of that radioactive look.

I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: HDR photo creation app from exposure brackets
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I'm not familiar with Adobe's products but quite like Photo Mate R3, which does this (I personally haven't tried stacking with it). Not sure if this functionality is included in the free trial version. Most HDR algorithms have dropped the old radioactive look in favor of more naturalism.

I'd also suggest you look at the app Snap Camera HDR which has a lot of configurable settings for multi-shot HDR, depending on the device's Camera2 API and support for Zero Shutter Lag. The Play Store trial version is badly out of date and I think limited to 7 shot HDR without ZSL, but paying upgrades it to recently updated version 10.10.4 which boosts HDR capability to 15 shots and granular control of exposures and shutter lag.

Several of the Pixel GCam mods also let users under the hood for HDR+ Enhanced and Night Sight tweaks that are natural look and very fast multishot.  Finding a mod for a particular phone can be a chore.

OP Sugasmune Senior Member • Posts: 1,519
Re: HDR photo creation app from exposure brackets

Snap Camera app seems to fail saving the hdr. Maybe I need the pro version.

Edit

Sorry, I found where it saved.

I2K4
I2K4 Senior Member • Posts: 1,441
Re: HDR photo creation app from exposure brackets

Sugasmune wrote:

Snap Camera app seems to fail saving the hdr. Maybe I need the pro version.

Edit

Sorry, I found where it saved.

The old free version in the Play Store is pretty fully functional, but there was a big jump in HDR capability in the later updates - if it works for you the paid can be worth it.

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