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How to use HDR
HDR (high dynamic range) photos are very popular in the real estate photography industry as they provide the most dynamic images by merging multiple different exposures, creating a perfect picture with perfect lighting.
Because real estate photography is a volume business, the primary objective of all professional photographers is to reduce the manipulation of images. Our HDR image processing solution enables the reduction of image manipulation because it's fully integrated within our single website property, image delivery, and ordering processes.
HDR groups your exposures together and merges them into one single image using HDR techniques. You can run one free merging process per tour. Each merging process (called jobs) can process up to 50 final images. For example, if you took 7 exposures per frame and you took 50 scenes, it means that you can upload 350 images (exposures) in one single job and get 50 final images, saving you a ton of time!
HDR is also capable of merging panoramic images such as the ones generated from Ricoh Theta Z1. It will blend the start and the end of the image in order to avoid the line mark created from the 2 lenses.
The first step is to Edit Tour and click in the HDR tab then select HDR
To upload your images you can drop the files or click browse
Once your images are chosen and imported, click Upload
Now that your images are uploaded, you can click on Review Images
You can use the automatic grouping or manual grouping. To use the manual grouping you will need to indicate how many bracketing you are using.
You will see a little warning sign on the images you uploaded are not containing enough visual content information (too black or too light)Those images may affect the resulting image. We suggest removing them before confirming the job. You can select all the images with warnings at once.
Once your grouping is done. You have deleted the images you wished, you can click Continue
You can see the order's summary; this section informs you about the status of the order, the number of images to be merged, the estimated times, as well as the cost of the order.
When the job is ready you will be able to import the photos directly on the tour or to download them.
From this point, you can create your tour as usual. For more information to create a tour Click here
Here's an interactive tutorial for the visual learners