HDR file sizes?
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Hello
I have been using ON1 for HDR shots for quite some time and have a question on file sizes.
When doing an HDR using 5, forty five mega pixel images the resulting image is typically 200mb+ in size.
what doesn’t make sense to me is why there isn’t a feature similar to layer merge to shrink the resulting image to the same as one of the original 45mp images. Or am I missing something?
is there a way to merge and shrink the resulting merge?
thanks
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No, there is no way to shrink the file size on an HDR image that I know of. As for why, that is some thing you will have to ask tech-support about so that they can ask the engineers.
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Well, you CAN shrink it when you export. The file that you're asking about is the intermediate file that is still being edited, it's a combination of many large files, so yes, it will be large too. When you're done editing it, you can reduce it in export.
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Sorry to be pedantic but that isn't shrinking the size of the file. It is creating a brand new file of smaller size thereby occupying even more disk space which I assume is the entire point of the question. 😉
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Which is how ON1 works. HDR did what you wanted, it combined the photos. You can use Resize internally if you want to and delete the intermediate photo, but that's not a fault with HDR.
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I’m sure there isn’t a way around it at this point. HDR does what I want, but the resulting image has the same dimensions and pixels any one of the individual files. There should be the ability for that one resulting image to be the same size, with the exception of export to TIFF.
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