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There’s an App for that! Bracket Mode from Cogitap Software (iTunes Link) Enables a form of Auto Exposure Bracketing on your iPhone. Put simply, you point and shoot and it’ll capture two exposures, one covering the dark ranges and one covering the light ranges.

Why would you want to?
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With HDR gaining more and more traction, a common question we receive is what camera should someone buy for HDR photography. If you look around online, you’ll find many different answers, mostly depending on each persons preference for brand and type of camera. However that’s all down to personal taste, I can sum up the one feature in a single sentence. Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) that covers a total range of 4 or more stops.
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Aperture is the class leading Image organizing program for the Mac. While for the most part it’s incredibly intuitive, there’s one thing that could be done better and that’s getting images from it and into HDRtist Pro. Aperture seems to palm off a low resolution JPEG image when trying to get images from Aperture into HDRtist Pro. You can of course, set up HDRtist Pro as the External Editor in Aperture, but this only works for a single image. A solution that’s been given to us by a customer follows. This solution works for both HDRtist & HDRtist Pro.

A commonly asked question involves people wanting to know if they can use the RAW images from their cameras with our software.

We don’t do the RAW conversion ourself, Apple does it for us. So in all honesty, I don’t know. I do know how to find out however. In the Apple support sections, they list what RAW images are compatible with what version of the OS you’re using. I’ve grouped them together below to make it easier.

Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3825

Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1475

As for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger…. I cannot find one nice complete list, instead it seems like every update adds a little more.

One of the most requested features for Fun Photos is the ability to add an inside message to your greetings card. For Fun Photos 2.0 we’ve a whole new printing system and we’ve taken this into consideration. Until 2.0 is available, we’ve a tutorial that’ll show you how you can print an inside message to your card using only Funtastic Photos.
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