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Easily create an HDR image

HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE (or HDR) is enjoying something of a renaissance, thanks to a growing number of HDR-compatible displays that can display a wider range of brightness levels and colours than standard screens.

Mobile phones have been creating HDR images for years, with varying degrees of success, often looking like the first few seconds after a nuclear blast with hugely oversaturated colours and lighting that’s just too bright. To make something more realistic – that captures both the brightness of the sky and the lushness of the grass without losing either in highlights or shadows – you can

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