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BracketMerge

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BracketMerge turns your bracketed exposures into one HDR photo, right on your iPhone or…

By Allen Blodgett · Photo and video
Debuts score 83NewRate it first

Why we expect it: Its detailed description makes the value clear, covering on-device HDR merging, flexible storage access, and Lightroom-ready exports for photographers.

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In short

BracketMerge combines bracketed exposures into a single HDR photo directly on iPhone or iPad, with alignment, optional ghost reduction and a deghost brush. It suits photographers who want to merge and check results in the field, and it can export a floating-point DNG that opens in Lightroom.

Summary by Debuts, based on the App Store listing.

About

BracketMerge turns your bracketed exposures into one HDR photo, right on your iPhone or iPad. No laptop, no waiting until you're home: merge in the field, check the result while you can still reshoot, and carry on.

YOUR CAMERA'S OWN COLOR BracketMerge starts from the color profile built into your RAW files, the same starting point desktop raw converters use, then lets you pick a look: Linear, Adobe-style, AgX-style, ACES-style or Khronos Neutral-style.

FROM ANY STORAGE Pick exposures from your Photos library, or open them through the Files app from an SD card, USB drive, NAS, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Nextcloud or ownCloud.

A MERGE YOU CAN TRUST • RAW/DNG, JPEG, HEIC, TIFF and PNG brackets • Exposures read from EXIF and refined from the pixels • Automatic alignment for handheld and drone brackets, with auto-crop • Optional ghost reduction, plus a deghost brush: paint over anything that moved and choose which exposure fills it

EDIT LIKE YOU'RE USED TO Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Temp and Tint, Vibrance, Saturation and color grading, tuned to behave like the sliders you know. Tap any value to type it. Crop to common aspect ratios, straighten, rotate and flip.

LIGHTROOM-READY DNG Export a floating-point DNG that opens in Lightroom with your crop and edits as normal, editable sliders, and the camera's color profile intact. Or export Adaptive HDR HEIC and JPEG, 10-bit HDR10 HEIC, OpenEXR or 32-bit TIFF.

MADE FOR EVERY SCREEN On iPad, exposures, preview and adjustments sit side by side. On iPhone Duo, half open, your photo takes one half and the tools the other, held like a book or propped up like a laptop.

FREE AND PRO Merging, editing and the deghost brush are always unlimited. The free version includes 3 full-quality exports every 7 days. BracketMerge Pro unlocks unlimited exports: yearly (with a 1-week free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase.

Terms of Use: https://allenjblodgett.com/apps/bracketmerge/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://allenjblodgett.com/apps/bracketmerge/privacy/ Apple's Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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