Light Compressor App Reviews

once bought, can only be upgraded if the full OS is upgraded as well. A real downside for all users running any other version then Lion...

Purchased this last nite, set up my Canon XSi on a tripod, took three pictures of an ornament in my home with the three different exposure settings. Dragged the three pictures into Comprerssor and there was a beautyiful HDR picture. There are some adjustments to the curve but everything worked just great. What a nice picture when it is done. One thing, each picture was about 3.4megs so about ten Meg. in total. When I saved the HDR picture, it saved as a TIFF format and about 73Megs. A big file so one will want to be careful, otherwise will fill up your hard drive in no time flat. Well worth the $.99; I have a friend who paid over $200 for some software so he could do this on his PC - havent told him yet but he will be envious.

Cant process any HDR pictures as it freezes all the time. Takes forever to process only to freeze when you try to save the picture.

Have tried using Light Compressor for a while now. The Auto Alignment feature does not work on the images I tried. I’m happy to re-review the software once the problem is solved…until then, “it’s ok”.

アップデートをインストールしようとすると　Hash mismatchとなりインストール出来ません

Great for the price but limited on controls. It would be handy to have a before/after view and the ability to reset the settings to the default. Definately worth trying for .99 :)

Im not sure if I can make any use of this app professianly but so far Im having fun creating compositions from my photos. I also have Filterstorm application from this developer for my iPad and iPhone and use it daily. Very nice job....

crashed on save, cant handle large tifs ....basically a toy

Ended up with a blurry image because my test shots were handheld. Please add some code for basic image alignment since most of my bracketed photos are handheld! Otherwise very simple to use.

For 99 cents this is a fantastic little thing for HDR. Seeing as this is version 1.0, Im very excited to what may come in the future. Only complaint being that it most of the time freezes up towards the end of saving, though if you give it long enough the image will be saved, youll just have to force quit the program. Otherwise I have been coming up with some beautiful results!

This app shows a lot of promise. Its very lightweight, opens before the icon even bounces once. its also very simple, which i like, and its all in one step, unlike some other HDR software Ive used. I have no complaints except for the fact that theres no way to manually adjust the alignment of the photos. Thats all this program really needs for it to be an outstanding app, in my opinion.

Ok, so this app has limitations, but it is ridiculously fun and useful for the price. Ill break it down as follows: Pros: - with 2 or 3 pictures, you can get some really great results. Sometimes it doesnt work well for a paticular set of photos, but usually, I get good results. Keep in mind that you have to take pictures that are designed to be used for HDR (I do this manually rather than using bracketting). - Sometimes puts out professional results. Ok, sometimes it doesnt work well, but other times I get great results. For .99, can you really argue with that? Sometimes I run pics through this to see if I like the results. If I do, I might run it through a better application (i.e. Photoshop CS5), but I have actually had images turn out good enough that I just kept them the way they were! Limitations (Cons): -The pictures need to be pre-aligned. In other words, use a tripod. More expensive (much more expensive) applications can stitch together images that are slightly different. In this case, you cannot use handheld pics at all. I expected this, but I thought you should know. - Try using four or more photos (not a great idea) the shot will never turn out. However, three shots is a normal limitation for a lot of HDR programs. They just say any number of photos in the description, and I thought it was important to mention the limitation there. - If a picture doesnt turn out the way you want it, there isnt too much to tweak. You can tweak a little, but for the .99 it costs, dont expect to have a lot of control over the image. Conclusion: If you want it, just buy it. For the price, it is a lot of fun. If you only get one image out of it that you really like, isnt that worth it? None of the limitations deem less than 5 stars for the price. Enjoy!

I thought what could I lose for $0.99. Well .99. I performed merged images together and it did a reasonable job of blending the images but they take forever to save and for the life of me I cannot find the saved image on my computer. I saved to a selected folder and even when I do a spotlight search on the image name it doesnt show up on my computer. It just disappears.

Its a bit light on features, but being able to combine exposures and tonemap the results with results as high quality as what Im getting from this is unbelievable at the price of a buck. Automatic image alignment would be nice, but usually I work on a tripod anyway for bracketed shooting and even if you dont it does a pretty good job with single image tonemapping. Really, you cant go wrong with this software at this price.

Ive treid just about all the HDR applications and plug-ins. In the end, it is a matter of personal taste on the UI and how complicated you want to make it. This works as advertised and is plenty powerful and easy to use. OK and also very affordable. A great way to get into HDR without much in the way of limits. Not sure why the other reviewer had problems finding the saved files. Did not have that issue.

Im about to get a new computer but needed the abilty to edit HDR so I bought this. Best doller I ever spent.

Having no formal software that could handle HDR processing (I mainly use GIMP and iPhoto), I decided to take the miniscule plunge and drop a dollar for this app. Without a doubt in my mind, its completely worth $.99 even if all you can get is one useable photo out of it. The only thing Im seeing is that often the HDR effect you achieve with this program is either barely noticeable, or overly done. It takes a lot of finesse of the strength and radius sliders to get a useable effect that isnt insanely contrasted or overly fake looking. However, once you get the right combination of photos and get everything adjusted to your hearts content... this program does exactly as its supposed to and does it quite well. Also, its insanely fast and very, very simple to use. Bottom line: Its a dollar, its worth the purchase, and youll likely get a number of good HDR images out of this app.

Latest version…the update doesnt load. Get error message, "Hash mismatch."

I got the hash error when I tried to update. I followed the instructions in another review to uninstall the old version and then try downloading the new version. Now the App store doesnt recognize that I already bought the app and wants to charge me again. Well, it wasnt a very good app the first time and I have Photomatix now, so... Call me when you get this fixed.

Hash tag mismatch. … I tried deleting all references to a prior version, and it still will not install.