Easy-to-use standalone program to create HDR photos and adjust them to the look you want, from natural to artistic.

Features:

• Merge bracketed photos to HDR
• Tone Mapping with Details Enhancer
• Fusion / Natural
• Automatic alignment of hand-held photos
• Automatic ghost removal
• Thumbnails of built-in presets
• Saving and loading of user presets
• Automatic noise reduction

Limitations: When used in trial mode, Photomatix Light is fully functional and never expires, but adds a watermark to the saved images.

Photomatix comes in both Essentials and Pro versions, an Aperture plugin, and a Photoshop Plugin. See author's comparison page for details.

Requirements:
OS X 10.5+
Universal Binary