ColorForge comparisons

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ColorForge is compared head-to-head with Luminance HDR, Photomatix Pro and ON1 HDR and more: 7 head-to-heads in HDR Software, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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ColorForge head-to-head

• LHColorForge vs Luminance HDR
• PColorForge vs Photomatix Pro
• ColorForge vs ON1 HDR
• ColorForge vs AKVIS HDRFactory
• PColorForge vs PhotomatixCL
• ColorForge vs SNS-HDR
• ColorForge vs easyHDR

ColorForge vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	HDR merge mode	Tone mapping controls	Batch processing	RAW file support	HDR output formats	Score
2	ColorForge	Yes	None	Both	Multiple	—	Yes	JPEG, PNG, 16-bit TIFF	8.6
1	LHLuminance HDR	Yes	None	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	OpenEXR, Radiance RGBE, LogLuv TIFF, 16/32bpc TIFF, PFS, FITS	9.0
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
5	AKVIS HDRFactory	No	$69one-time	Both	Multiple	Yes	Yes	TIFF, BMP, JPEG, WEBP, PNG	7.9
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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