
Photomatix Pro 5.0 User Manual 23
3.6 Fusion Settings
3.6.1 Fusion/Natural Settings
• Strength: Sets by how much local contrast is accentuated� Moving
the slider to the right tends to brighten the shadows and to
show more details in the highlights� Moving to the left produces
a more 'natural' eect�
• Brightness: Controls the brightness of the fused image by
adjusting the inuence each of the input photos has on the
nal result� Moving the slider to the right gives the overexposed
photos more inuence, resulting in a brighter result� Moving to
the left darkens the result by giving the underexposed photos
more inuence�
• Local Contrast: Increases the contrast and sharpness of details
in the image� Increasing local contrast may have the side eect
of making noise more visible and of creating thin halo eects
around strong luminosity edges� Values near the maximum tend
to give a surreal look to the image� The default value is 2�
• Shadows Contrast: Increases the contrast of shadows in
the image by darkening the areas of heaviest shadow and
brightening the midtones, giving a more realistic eect�
• White Clip: Adjusts the amount of highlights clipping� Moving
the slider to the right brightens the image and increases global
contrast� Moving to the left decreases global contrast and
reduces highlights clipping�
• Black Clip: Adjusts the amount of shadows clipping� Moving the
slider to the right darkens the image and increases global contrast�
Moving to the left decreases global contrast and reduces shadows
clipping�
• Midtone: Adjusts the brightness of the midtones, which also has
an impact on the overall contrast� Moving the slider to the right
brightens the midtones and decreases contrast� Moving to the left
darkens the midtones and increases contrast�
• Color Saturation: Adjusts the color saturation of the image� The
greater the saturation, the more intense the color� Setting the
slider to its lowest value (-10) produces a grayscale image�
• 360º Image: Checking this option eliminates the seam between
the left and right sides of a panorama viewed in a 360 degree
panoramic viewer� This option is intended for a stitched panorama
- it should not be used for individual frames of a panorama that
have not yet been stitched�
Fusion/Natural Settings
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