La digital photography has made significant changes in this field, so more and more options are for saving, improving, correcting details in images. The HDR format, whose acronym in Spanish is high dynamic range, is an effect widely used in photography to improve the lighting of photos in general. In case you don't know much, can you know what the HDR effect is and how can I apply it to my photos with Gimp?
What is an HDR file?
They are photo or image files that focus on highlighting the different tones of light Furthermore, from different angles, the light parameters can be changed to give more or less brightness and improve the light in the photo.
The creation of these images is achieved by taking several photos of the same image, then a combination of at least three images is created and the best aspects of them are selected to create a single photo with the best of everything.
What you get with this is to have a photo with the correct shadows. Another interesting goal of using these HDR files is to want to have a photo that looks more like what we see with our eyes, with this we will get an image with very bright colors.
Through the images captured by the cameras, sometimes the colors are not captured with the same sharpness with which we see them, which is why we have tried to improve this image quality with this HDR format. Of course, in the same way you can convert a normal low-quality photo to HDR quickly and easily.
Some smartphones are equipped with an HDR mode that through software analyzes and combines the best of each finalized image, to show the best with its corrections, all this automatically.
The most suitable photos to use HDR are those that have color and light contrasts, in this way you can take good pictures.
Windows and MAC OS operating systems can work with HDR files without any problem, in the case of Windows this format has a lot of space within the operating system, so much so that you can activate and configure HDR color in Windows 10 to enhance your visual experience.
How to open HDR files?
HDR files are widely used in digital photography, that's why there are several software programs designed to work with these types of files, the important thing is to know the correct way to use these aids to access HDR.
Step 1
Find a compatible program to open these types of files, for example Photomatix. Now, with the program downloaded, you will position it to always do so by default.
Step 2
On the file with the mouse, press the right button, then select 'open with' from the menu. There you mark what you intend to use and then choose “Always use the selected application to open these types of files”.
With these practical tips you can quickly access this file, it is important to remember that sometimes there are problems to insert this type of file, sometimes caused by damage at the time of download, it can also happen that the program to be downloaded is not updated, among the others.
We must take into account that pixel quality increases in HDR files, also with this format it will be improved and it will be very close to what we are actually seeing live, this is very important and the main purpose of this type of formats.
In fact, this format is so specific that you can enable HDR video playback in Windows 10 and then play a video that is in HDR format, you just have to consider a few technical aspects.
