Aurora HDR 2017 Pre-ordering has begun with a $10 New Customer Pre-Order Discount, Upgrade Discounts, and Bonus items for all.
So what is it going to cost me and how long is the promotion:
Pre-order pricing is available from September 14 – September 29.
- New Customers can Pre-Order for $89 that is a $10 savings off of the regular price of $99 and is only available during pre-order, Includes Pre-Order Bonuses!
- Current Users of Aurora HDR Pro can Upgrade for $49 and get the Pre-Order Bonuses.
- Current Users of Aurora HDR can Upgrade for $69 and get the Pre-Order Bonuses.
So what are the Pre-Order Bonus Items:
Everyone who pre-orders Aurora HDR 2017 will get these bonus items.
- You get the Deep Dive video from Trey Ratcliff. Trey will go in Deep into Aurora HDR 2107 and I’m sure will point out all the new features.
- A 1 Year basic subscription to SmugMug for hosting the great Aurora HDR images you are going to create
- A 60-day KelbyOne membership so you can take advantage of some great photography courses from KelbyOne
- And 25 Square Prints from Parabo.press (free global shipping). So you can show off your Aurora HDR 2017 created photos
Aurora HDR 2017 Key Features:
- NEW: Polarize Filter
- NEW: Powerful Zone System for Luminosity masks
- NEW: Defringing Tool to remove chromatic aberration
- NEW: Batch Processing
- NEW: Radial Masking
- IMPROVED: Tone-mapping technology with reduced HDR noise, improved realism of initial result and faster performance
- IMPROVED: User Interface with a cleaner more modern style
Click Here to Order Aurora HDR 2017 or get your Upgrade to Aurora HDR 2017 Today
The total package with bonus items is worth up to $300 if sold separately. So don’t miss out on this great pre-order special.
Continue reading to get more into the nuts and bolts of the program including system requirements, and comparison of the different versions of Aurora are below.
System requirements:
This release of Aurora HDR 2017 is Mac Only (The Windows version is coming)
- Processor Core 2 Duo from late 2009 or newer
- Minimum 4 GB RAM
- OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks or newer
- 2 GB free space on hard drive
- Display resolution 1280 x 800 or higher
- Retina displays supported
Aurora HDR Versions compared.
A quick look at the new features included in Aurora HDR 2017 versus Aurora HDR
Click on the image to open it in a new tab to view a larger version.
Supported devices
- Magic mouse or multi-button mouse
- Magic trackpad, force touch trackpad or touchpad device
- Wacom tablet or tablets with pen
Language support
- Available on initial launch – English, German, Portuguese, Japanese
- Coming Spring 2017 – French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese
Image formats supported:
- PNG
- JPG
- TFF 8bit and 16bit
- GIF
- PSD
- Popular RAW formats such as .CR2, .NEF, .ORF, .RAF, .ERF, .ARW, .RW2, .PEF and more
- Color Profile settings supported
Open / Plugin/ Export options
- NEW Image Resize on export.
- NEW Sharpen on export.
- NEW Batch Processing, including automatic recognition of brackets, support for subfolders and Batch presets.
- IMPROVED Native RAW files support, including better DNG handling.
- IMPROVED Reduced color noise.
- IMPROVED Open HDR dialog. Added ability to remove images from exposure series prior to merging. Improved alignment. Increased speed of merging.
- Auto Alignment of images in HDR bracket
- Automatic Deghosting of images in HDR Brackets.
- Automatic Chromatic aberrations reduction.
- Preset export/import.
- Facebook sharing.
- Flickr sharing.
- SmugMug sharing.
- Export to email.
- Export to iMessage.
- Export to editing apps, including Photoshop.
- Export to Creative Kit
- Export to Photos
- Runs as Standalone software.
- Photoshop plugin.
- Lightroom plugin.
- Photos for Mac editing extension.
- Aperture/iPhoto plugin.
- Open/Export to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PSD file format support
- Adobe RGB wide color profile support.
- ProPhoto wide color profile support.
Comparison of the open dialog between Aurora HDR Pro and Aurora HDR 2017.
Aurora HDR Pro is on the left and Aurora HDR 2017 on the right. Slide the slider left and right to compare.
Not much of a change here other that it shows the EV values of the pictures you are importing. Personally, I rather like knowing that I selected the right set while importing.
Comparison of the Interface between Aurora HDR Pro and Aurora HDR 2017.
Aurora HDR Pro is on the left and Aurora HDR 2017 on the right. Slide the slider left and right to compare.
Some big changes here besides the new features. I will cover those in a later post. Just wanted to let you get a sense of the changes for those who will be upgrading.
Click Here to Order Aurora HDR 2017 or get your Upgrade to Aurora HDR 2017 Today
Or
You can show some love to Trey Ratcliff at Stuck in Customs who is the co-developer of Aurora HDR.
Click Here to Order Aurora HDR 2017 from Stuck in Customs
Trey Ratcliff from Stuck in Customs did webinar in which he shows us all the new features of Aurora HDR 2017. It is just below, but be patient, depending upon your connection it may take a moment to load.
Aurora HDR 2017 will go live on September 29th, 2016.
I”m in the process of learning the new features and hope to have several short tutorials created soon. As soon as they are ready I’ll have them posted here on my site.
If anyone has any questions or comments about the product, please leave it below. I will do my best to answer from what I know. And if I don’t know the answer, I’ll use my contacts at Macphun to find out for you.
Free trial downloads will not be available until the product ships later this month. But as soon as it is, I’ll let you all know and get the link for the download.
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