The digital photography has made significant changes in this field, so more and many options are to save, improve, correct details in the pictures. The HDR format, which its acronym in Spanish is high dynamic range, is an effect widely used in photography to generally improve the lighting of the photos.
What is an HDR file?
They are files of photos or images that focus on highlighting the different tones of light from different angles, in addition, 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 made and the best aspects of them are selected to create a single photo with the best of everything.
What is achieved with this is to have a photo with corrected shadows. Another interesting objective 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 obtain an image with very bright colors.
Through the images captured by the cameras, sometimes the colors are not captured with the same sharpness that we see them, that is why we have tried to improve this quality of images with this HDR format. Of course, a normal photo can be passed to HDR easily and quickly.
Some smartphones come with an HDR mode that through software analyzes and combines the best of each finalized image, to show the best one with its corrections, all this automatically.
The most suitable photos to use HDR are those that have color and light contrasts, in this way good images can be taken.
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 scope within the operating system, so much so that it is possible to activate and configure HDR color in Windows 10 to improve your viewing experience. view.
How to open HDR files?
HDR files are widely used in digital photography, so 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
Locate a program that is compatible to open these types of files, for example Photomatix. Now, with the program downloaded, you are going to place it so that it always does it by default.
Step 2
In the file with the mouse press the right button, then select ‘open with’ from the menu. There you mark what you are going to use and then choose ‘Always use the selected application to open this type of files’.
With these practical suggestions you can quickly access this file, it is important to remember that sometimes there are problems to enter this type of files, sometimes caused by damage at the time of downloading, it may also happen that the program to download is not updated, among others.
It must be taken into account that the quality in pixels increases in HDR files, also with this format it will be improved and will be very close to what we are really seeing live, this is very important and the main purpose of this type of formats.
In fact, this format is so specific that if you need to play a video that is in HDR format on the Windows 10 operating system, you must consider some technical aspects.