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I have been using photomatix pro and plug in with nice results. All of a sudden my photos are terrible. Very blurry and washed out and I have not changed a thing. As i work with the photo it starts looking better then it looks great.... for a while. As i process it is still sharp but when i save the photo it blurs while its rendering then the saved result is so bad.... anyone else going through this? Have I hit a setting that is wrong? The photos are sharp in raw and then terrible once completed.

{Corrected. Sorry.} There are three versions available for use on a Mac. The full version (Pro), a stripped-down version (Essentials), and the Plug-in. Their Web site does a good job explaining the difference (and why the Lightroom plug-in is free: it's just an exporter, not a plug-in).
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The Aperture plug-in is clever: it will create Masters of all of the selected Images (I tried a Stack of seven), but when you save your final result, all but one of the Masters are deleted, leaving you with your final edit as a new Image based on a new Master. Functionally, you select Images recorded at different exposure settings, edit them with the Photomatix Aperture plug-in, and you end up with one "combined" new Image.
For some reason the "add keyword" function did not work for me.
My standard workflow for things like this is to Stack all Images that will be used to create a new photo, apply a color label (I use Yellow), then move the newly created photo to the head of the stack and use my regular color-coding to indicate the degree of development. By "things like this" I mean any set of bracketed photographs, whether for HDR, panorama stitching, focus-stacking, or the like.
All you need is one of the three versions of the Photomatix program, and some bracketed-by-exposure photos. Give it a whirl.
Here's a quick and dirty test (most over- and under-exposed images from a stack of seven, and the HDR version returned from Photomatix using mostly default settings): (click for larger)
Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- there are three versions for the Mac, not just two. Sorry.

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