HDR Tone Mapping

The original behind your brochure. Compare it with the print in your hand.

HDR original Horseshoe Bend at sunrise — the HDR original, as captured.
HDR check

If the sky looks like the Source SDR version below, you’re not seeing HDR.

Download the original file Open full size

JPEG with HDR gain map · 8.8 MB. On Android, open it in Google Photos.

Same photo. Why does it look different?

Many recent phones save photos as HDR by default. Paper, most apps and screens without HDR show a standard (SDR) version instead — and that’s the version your customer ends up holding. What matters is how it’s made.

Source SDR version The file’s built-in SDR version.
The file’s built-in SDR. The HDR data is ignored.
Viesus HDR-to-SDR The Viesus tone-mapped SDR version.
Tone mapped from the HDR data. Same format, more of what the camera captured.

Viesus reads the full HDR data and decides, image by image, which highlights to keep — automatically, at production volume.

Talk to us about HDR in your workflow →

Viesus at Visual 1st · KQED, San Francisco
Tue 29 Sept · 2:35 PM · Show & Tell

HDR to print

Why the same file looks right on a phone and wrong on paper.

Wed 30 Sept · 8:20 AM · Pub Hub, 2nd floor

Wake-Up Call: From Ten Images to Ten Million

Our morning session on keeping image quality consistent as production scales. Ten images are a demo. Ten million are an infrastructure decision.

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