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About / EasyHDR features and requirements

HDR photo processing software


Requirement Description
Operating system
Screen resolution At least 1024x600 (at standard dpi scaling, at higher DPI larger minimum screen resolution is required).

It is strongly advised to work with higher resolutions, including 4K with HighDPI (i.e. 200% scale).
Memory At least 4GB of RAM
CPU Intel CPU with SSE3 instruction set (basically all CPUs manufactured after 2006).
Multicore CPUs are required for better performance.
Apple M1 supported with Rosetta 2 on macOS.
Hard Disk EasyHDR uses temporary files that are created on the hard disk. The default storage location is the system's TEMP folder, but it can be selected in the Program Options. At least 1-2 GB of free space is recommended. SSD drive is also recommended for better performance.

Feature Description
Supported image formats
(read)
  • JPEG
  • HEIF/HEIC (macOS 10.13 or above, Windows 10 1709 or above with "HEVC Video Extensions" from Microsoft Store)
  • JPEG 2000 (JP2 and J2K, 8 and 16 bit)
  • TIFF (8, 16 and floating-point 32 bit)
  • PNG
  • OpenEXR
  • Radiance RGBE
  • FITS
JPEG, TIFF, OpenEXR and Radiance RGBE with color space support
Supported RAW image formats
(read) 		EasyHDR uses DCRAW and LibRAW to decode RAW photos.
Supported image formats
(write)
  • JPEG
  • JPEG 2000 (JP2 and J2K, 8 and 16 bit)
  • TIFF (8 and 16 bit)
  • HDR intermediate radiance map: OpenEXR, Radiance RGBE and 32-bit floating point TIFF
JPEG, TIFF, OpenEXR and Radiance RGBE with color space support
Lens correction EasyHDR uses LensFun database with lens distortion and chromatic aberration coefficients
Correction is automatic, but manual is also possible
Presets Yes (built-in and user configurable - with thumbnails; user presets can be grouped into folders)
Color management Yes (must be enabled in main menu)
Merging photo sets to HDR Methods: True HDR (generates a real HDR radiance map), Smart Merge (fusion of differently exposed images), Image Stacking (average of photos).
Ghost removal Yes (automatic and manual)
Tone mapping operators Global operator,
Local operator (two algorithms: "Local Contrast" and "Mask")
Tone mapping single photos Yes (feature is called: LDR enhancement)
Panoramic mapping Yes (correct left/right border mapping)
Layers Yes (each layer has its own, full set of tone mapping settings)
White balancing When decoding RAWs and later during tone mapping
3d LUT color grading Importing and applying 3d LUT cubes (at tone mapping step)
Alignment of hand-held photos Automatic & Manual
(compensation for shift, rotation and perspective)
Retouch options Clone/healing brush tool (works while in tone mapping mode)
Post processing Blur (Gaussian blur),
Sharpen (unsharp mask),
Noise reduction (median filter and bilateral filter)
Sample/Target balance (selective color adjustment),
Image transformations Free-hand rotate (90° left/right, 180° & free hand), flip, crop, distortion, perspective.
Resize when saving (JPEG)
Direct export to external editor Yes (8 or 16-bit image data)
Batch processing Yes (possibility to process each task several times,
with defined set of presets)
Plug-ins Plug-in for Adobe Lightroom (installed along with easyHDR)
Saving/loading projects Yes
Language versions English, Polish, German, Dutch, French, Norwegian, Greek, Slovak, Czech, Hungarian,
Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Swedish, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Romanian


EasyHDR uses additional programs and libraries: easyHDR license agreement


Current easyHDR version
3.16.2   (June 27th 2024)