AKVIS HDRFactory comparisons

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AKVIS HDRFactory is compared head-to-head with Luminance HDR, ColorForge and Photomatix Pro and more: 7 head-to-heads in HDR Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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AKVIS HDRFactory head-to-head

• LHAKVIS HDRFactory vs Luminance HDR
• AKVIS HDRFactory vs ColorForge
• PAKVIS HDRFactory vs Photomatix Pro
• AKVIS HDRFactory vs ON1 HDR
• PAKVIS HDRFactory vs PhotomatixCL
• AKVIS HDRFactory vs SNS-HDR
• AKVIS HDRFactory vs easyHDR

AKVIS HDRFactory vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	HDR merge mode	Tone mapping controls	Batch processing	RAW file support	HDR output formats	Score
5	AKVIS HDRFactory	No	$69one-time	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	TIFF, BMP, JPEG, WEBP, PNG	7.9
1	LHLuminance HDR	Yes	None	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	OpenEXR, Radiance RGBE, LogLuv TIFF, 16/32bpc TIFF, PFS, FITS	9.0
2	ColorForge	Yes	None	Both	Multiple	—	Yes	JPEG, PNG, 16-bit TIFF	8.6
3	PPhotomatix Pro	No	—	Both	Advanced	Yes	Yes	OpenEXR, DNG 32-bit, TIFF 32-bit, Radiance RGBE, PSB 32-bit	8.1
4	ON1 HDR	No	—	Both	Advanced	Yes	Yes	PSD, TIF, JPG, PNG, HEIC	8.0
6	PPhotomatixCL	Yes	—	Bracketed	Multiple	Yes	Yes	JPG, TIFF, EXR	7.7
7	SNS-HDR	Yes	—	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	JPEG, TIFF-8, TIFF-16, SNSX, HEIC, HEIC-10	7.6
8	easyHDR	No	—	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	OpenEXR, Radiance RGBE, 32-bit TIFF	6.9

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