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HDR Fusion lets you create real HDR photographs by merging two differently exposed pictures taken in rapid succession (bracketing). This way, highlights and shadows can be captured and thus fully detailed.

HDR Fusion 2.0 has just been released and is FREE for one day only in the App Store. It’s a straightforward two-exposure HDR app that’s fast and easy to use, but also has a lot of extra features that stay out of the way until you need them.

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HDR Fusion by Cogitap is a genuine HDR photo app similar to Pro HDR and True HDR. It shoots and merges bracketed exposures and has been very good reviews in the App Store. It’s FREE right now for the next day or so. This is for the full version of the app, and not the free, feature-limited version!

HDR Fusion is Cogitap’s foray into the third-party HDR market. It’s a full-blown HDR app which takes the two bracketed images and then merges and aligns them in-app. I haven’t reviewed the app, but the results are different than any other HDR app available. Color processing seems to be a little more vibrant than TrueHDR’s natural mode, but not at vibrant as ProHDR. Saves at full device resolution. It’s been averaging 4-star reader reviews in the App Store. Based on my initial tests, it’s fast, easy and solid and produces good HDR color.

At its normal price of $0.99, it’s inexpensive enough to warrant a look if you shoot HDR. It’s an excellent download for free and this is a great opportunity to try the full version of the app.

You also might want to check out Cogitap’s other HDR photo app, the excellent Bracket Mode ( ). All it does is quickly grab two bracketed images and saves them to your camera roll, letting you get back to shooting quicker.

HDR Fusion works on any iPhone or iPod Touch 4th Gen that’s running iOS 4.2 or newer.

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REXiG HDR Camera
Version 0.7.3
Price: Free until August 18, 2011

Bottom Line: I like it. It’s a good app. REXiG HDR Camera is one of the best single-image HDR apps I’ve tested and nicely enhances most images.

REXiG HDR Camera is a photo app that generates an HDR image from one image. It’s got multiple presets, but of the single-image HDR apps I’ve found, I think it’s definitely one of the better ones.

REXiG HDR Camera is FREE until August 18, but definitely worth a purchase after that date.

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Orasis
Version 1.0

Bottom Line: I didn’t like it. Images look more like single-photo fake-HDR apps than images corrected to be more visually accurate.

Even with the superior phone camera of the iPhone 4 (and hopefully and even better camera coming in the new iPhones later this year), a Dynamic Range Correction app is an essential component of my toolbox. For years, that app has been Perfectly Clear by Athentech.

New photo app Orasis by Orasis Imaging claims to “[capture] reality, not just light.” It attempts to make photos more realistic by simulating the sensation of appearance formed by our Visual System. While the sample image in the App Store looks good, the real world images that I tested it with didn’t look like reality, but more like the results from a single-image HDR app.

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iPhone photo app TrueHDR by Pictional is on sale for a limited time for only $0.99 — that’s $1 off the regular price.

TrueHDR is one of the few real HDR apps in the app Store. The camera takes three bracketed exposures — one normal, one slightly overexposed, and one slightly underexposed — and merges them together, keeping the best exposed areas of each capture. Other HDR apps only bracket two exposures — if that. You can read more about it in one of our previous reviews here.

High Dynamic Range iPhoneography can create some brilliant and highly saturated photos. If you don’t own TrueHDR but have been thinking about the app, this is a good price and a limited time sale. Grab it now!

TrueHDR is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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iPhone photo app TrueHDR by Pictional is on sale for a limited time for only $0.99 –that– $1 off the regular price.

TrueHDR is one of the few real HDR apps in the app Store. The camera takes three bracketed exposures — one normal, one slightly overexposed, and one slightly underexposed — and merges them together, keeping the best exposed areas of each capture. You can read more about it in one of our previous reviews here.

If you don’t own the app but have been looking at TrueHDR, this is a limited time sale, so grab it now!

TrueHDR is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.0 or later.

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True HDR (High Dynamic Range) photos require bracketed exposures. By combining the bracketed exposures, HDR photos can bring out the detail in shadows without blowing out the highlights in a photo. Colors are more vibrant and dynamic.

Dynamic Light By Mediachance is a fairly new app which brightens images, adds details to shadows, holds highlights, and pops color. It gives your single-exposure photos the look, saturation, and punch of a bracketed HDR photo. The new 1.5 update gives the app a UI facelift and adds (or adds back) a few new features.

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UPDATED: Glyn Evans from The iPhoneography Blog provided an additional fix to the app’s “Out of Memory” errors. It’s now included here and I’ve changed my recommendation. =M=

Perfectly Clear by Athentech has been one of my mainstay apps for several updates and two iPhones. On my older iPhone, it was my first step with nearly every image I processed. It’s fast, easy Dynamic Range Correction (DRC) that balances luminance and color, adds sharpness, and in more recent versions helps to reduce noise especially in processing images with a lot of darker areas. Perfectly Clear helps to overcome the deficiencies and limitations of the iPhone’s camera.

Perfectly Clear was recently updated. The 2.2 update fixes some lingering stability and reliability issues with the app, adds some high resolution graphics for retina displays, and limits the processed size of images. The new update still has memory issues. Read on for more info on what to expect from this new update.

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HDR Fix screenshot

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HDR Fix
Version 1.0
Price: $0.99

Bottom Line: Super-easy to use. It complements Apple’s HDR extremely well. It’s a great app to have for fine-tuning bracketed-exposure HDR photos.

I love the HDR function in Apple’s Camera app. I love the speed in which it takes an HDR photograph. No other HDR app available right now comes close. While not perfect, for some images, it saves the image by preserving the details in both the highlights and the shadows. It’s pretty dumb, though, in that there’s no variation on how it combines the exposures.

HDR Fix by SEB is a great utility for combining an original and HDR photos taken from your iPhone camera app (or a HDR app), giving you greater control over the HDR process and creating an optimized photo.

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UPDATE: You can now embiggen the images by clicking on them. =M=

iCamera HDR is a new HDR app by Everimaging Ltd. It’s a real HDR app, it supposedly works in a larger 32-bit color space, and can capture and merge two exposures. It’s got multiple settings — two exposure HDR auto and manual and single exposure HDR (which is really dynamic range correction — something the app’s description kind of bashes).

It’s good but not great and has the potential to be an excellent HDR app. Read on for my initial thoughts about the app.

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