HDR in PSE 8

Does the current version of PSE support HDR?
Thank you.
David

HDR tools merge two or more images of the same scene taken at different exposures, producing a single image whose pixel values have a much larger range from white to black than you can get out of a normal camera.    This allows you to have images that have much more detail in the highlights and shadows.   Each pixel is represent by 32 bits per color (rather than 8 bits per color, as in JPEG).
HDR images can't be displayed on normal displays and can't be printed directly, since their range of whites to blacks is much larger than regular displays or prints can show.   You need to apply "tone mapping" to the HDR image to reduce the range to that of displays and printers.  HDR tools do smart tone mapping that doesn't throw away highlight or shadwo detail. 
HDR tools like Photomatix provide lots of manual controls over the merging and tone-mapping process.
PSE 8's Photomerge Exposure essentially does an HDR merge of the selected images followed by a tone mapping, producing an image with normal 8-bit-per-color pixels.  You have very limited control over the merging and tone mapping, and you can't save away the 32-bit HDR image, only the tone-mapped result.    But the output of Photomerge Exposure is what you'd get if you used a more sophisticated tool like Photomatix to produce a tone-mapped imae (but without all the manual control).

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