Editor: Simple HDRI is a utility for manipulating photographs with 'H'igh 'D'ynamic 'R'ange 'I'maging techniques. High Dynamic Range Images are photos created by superimposing multiple images of the same scene taken at different exposures to Create an image with... well... more dynamic range. Basically what this means is that there is more information in the resulting image than the camera is normally capable of capturing. This gives an image with detail in the shadows and highlights as well as in the mid-tones.
Now lets Get this out of the way right now. This software does not create images to be save in any special HDRI format to be used in high end 3D graphics applications. Nor can it create HDRI images from your old normal images. The images saved from Simple HDRI are normal JPEGs, TIFFs or PNGs. However, the beauty of HDRI is that The extra dynamic range allows you to manipulate images without worrying about losing data. Simple HDRI is designed for that purpose. You then can save the image with the HDRI colors mapped to regular 24 bit color. You get a final image that looks the way you want it, with detail in the shadows and highlights even after drastically adjusting the images color settings. If you do the same Things to a normal range image, you end up with something that looks like a cartoon, or a Sunset that has lines between the colors.
