![]() ![]() They were selling a turd as if it was the greatest pumpkin pie ever made.Īnyway, I bought 2017 reluctantly. And looking at all of the praise on the internet and feeling the hype, I thought “This is the Emperors New Clothes”. Particularly, because the first version was more of a Beta than an actual working tool. What? Do I have to buy a new version? Not just an update? All of my other tools for Photoshop come with free updates. ![]() It was far too slow and the results were not always satisfying. But, as soon as the smoke did clear I was not overly happy to work with the tool. I did make a couple of OK-ish images and I did a review while still biased by the hype. Whenever I did anything it took seconds and some operations took up to a minute. On my fully loaded, top of the line, all maxed out MacBook Pro I still found Aurora HDR was extremely slow. I then downscaled the images to about 12 megapixels and I was able to start the application, but I ended up waiting until I got a MacBook Pro. Not the fastest car on the highway, but certainly working.īut, starting the first version of Aurora HDR with a 36-megapixel image was impossible. Powerful enough to run Photoshop, Photomatix, and Lightroom. The biggest 2011 model, 4 Gb ram and i7 CPU. ![]() I am a software addict and I love to use new software. I did go into the software with a very open mind. But, after the first initial rush of interest, I was deeply disappointed. No doubt the makers of Aurora MacPhun have put themselves in a good position, by allying themselves with one of the HDR giants Trey Ratcliff. Initially, when Aurora HDR came out two years ago I was very intrigued by the software. ![]()
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