HDR Previewer?

[JHuman]

Does anyone know of a way to preview your HDRI's other than inside of vRay? That is very time consuming. Photoshop will open them but that takes longer than vRay. Any help
Thanks
Joe

[thomthom]

Re: HDR Previewer?

I often use Adobe Bridge.

[Jackson_cg]

Re: HDR Previewer?

I just convert all my HDRIs to 8 bit in PS and save copies as jpgs with the same name so I have a Windows viewable thumbnail right next to each of my HDRIs in the same folder. They can also be handy as backgrounds when the HDRI isn't quite producing the right effect.

[JHuman]

Re: HDR Previewer?

Thanks! I will give those a try.

[dalomar_cg]

Re: HDR Previewer?

I just convert all my HDRIs to 8 bit in PS

Be very careful not to accidentally save over the original hdri. It will look the same, but there will be a drastic difference in the amount of info in the file and all of the dynamic range will be shot. I've lost quite a number of HDRIs that way

[stefanq]

Re: HDR Previewer?

I have a HDRI viewer, but I have to get home to upload. If you can wait @ 8 hours, I'll be happy to share it.

[david murphy]

Re: HDR Previewer?

Joe,

You can download a HDRI Viewer from this site, just download the file HDRViewzip.

http://www.debevec.org/FiatLux/hdrview/

zzzSPUDzzz

PS. thanks for the help on the jpeg to avi converter virtual dub works a treat....

[JHuman]

Re: HDR Previewer?

Thanks you guys, these will help out a lot! I will give them a shot and let you know how they work.

Thanks,
Joe