Compare Product Features

  hdr express hdr expose hdr expose  
  Type of application Standalone, Lightroom and Aperture plug-in Standalone, Lightroom and Aperture plug-in Photoshop plug-in only re­quires Photoshop CS3, CS4 or CS5  
  HDR        
  HDR Brightness/Output range Histogram yes yes yes  
  One Click Automatic Dynamic Range Mapping tool n/a yes yes  
  Halo Reduction Settings no yes yes  
  Automatic Halo Elimination yes no no  
  Auto Tone Mapping Presets yes no no  
  HDR Merge Auto Deghosting yes yes no  
  Veiling Glare Correction no yes yes  
  Editing and Interface        
  RGB/Bch readout yes yes yes  
  Display Brightness Setting no yes yes  
  Style Presets yes no no  
  GPU accelerated (OpenGL) zooming and scrolling yes yes yes  
  Fixed/Free Rotate no yes no (via Photoshop)  
  Resize no yes no (via Photoshop)  
  Brightness/Contrast yes (Simplified) yes yes  
  Sharpening no yes yes  
  White Balance yes (Simplified) yes yes  
  Multi Channel Saturation Controls no yes yes  
  Noise Removal (Dark Noise, Brightness Noise, Color noise) no yes yes  
  Selective Color Tuning/Brightness Controls no yes yes  
  Tint no yes yes  
  Enhanced B/W conversion (color filters) no yes yes  
  Workflow        
  Batch Merge to HDR no yes no  
  Editable Recipies n/a yes yes  
  Aperture Merge & Edit Plug-in yes yes no  
  Lightroom Merge & Export Plug-in yes yes no  
  Multiple images open at once (tabbed document interface) yes yes n/a  
  File Management        
  Input File Types RAW, JPEG, TIFF, BEF yes yes no (via Photoshop)  
  Input File Types Radience, OpenEXR no yes no (via Photoshop)  
  Includes .bef File Format Plug-in For Photoshop no yes yes