A few days ago I "upgraded" PSP X to PSPX2, which has a simple HDR converter (or whatever it's called). I haven't had time to do tripod mounted experiments with actual bracketing, so tonight I picked out an image taken some time ago and adjusted exposure up and down about a stop and, using the feature on the new program, merged these two with the original exposure (RAW image was adjusted and converted to JPEG in each case). The merged image was saved, cropped, reduced in size and sharpened. Here is the result:
Here is the original unadjusted, unmerged image sharpened identically (but uncropped):
I'm not sure whether simply adjusting contrast might not produce the same result - still, I liked the outcome. What do Ya'll think?
Jer