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About / The story behind easyHDR

HDR photo processing software

The very first version of easyHDR was written in January 2006 in order to process astrophotos like the Moon with a shining aureole, visible lunar seas and Earth's clouds. High interest in the program pushed me to further enhance its abilities and add new features. Many easyHDR users helped me debug the program, suggested many new enhancements, committed their time to write tutorials and to translate the program to many language versions. Also the editors of computer magazines found it interesting enough to publish articles (like C'T and ComputerBild in Germany), as well as people from many countries, who purchased the license. The program is still under development and is getting better and better. I'd like to mention a couple of people who helped me with the program:

• Arnt Richard Rørvik - for translating the program to Norwegian and help with testing,
• Robert Asano - for translating the program to German, help with testing and some sample photos,
• Burak Baş - for translating the program to Turkish,
• Luke Bellani - for permission to use in the tutorial his photos of the Orion Nebula (M42),
• Christian Carneiro - for preparing the Spanish and Portugiese (Brazil) tutorials, program and website translations,
• Jörg Gravenhorst - for translating the program to German (first translations),
• József Tamás Herczeg - for translating the program to Hungarian,
• Lou Haskell and Allan Haskell - for help with the tutorial, testing, development and sample photos,
• Alexandr V. Ivanov - for translating the short version of the website to Russian,
• Miroslav Jelinek - for help with Mac OS X version testing,
• Katerina Karvouni & Frank Pentarakis - for program translation to Greek,
• Miroslav Kotasek - for translation to Czech,
• Klaas Kroeze - for translation to Dutch,
• Alexander Kublitsky - for the Russian translation,
• Rui M. Leal - for translating the program to Portuguese and help with Mac OS X version testing,
• Maciej B. Markiewicz - for translating the program to French (untill version 3.1),
• Frank Milissen - for translating the program to French,
• Francis Monzée - for updating the program's French translation and translating web page summary to French,
• Drew Myers - for setting up a mirror download server,
• Oprea Nicolae - for translating the program to Romanian,
• Börje Persson - for translating the program to Swedish,
• Kamil Polner - for translating the program to Slovak,
• Alessandro de Simone - for translating the program to Italian and writing an Italian version of the tutorial,
• Rohn Stacks - for help with testing and development,
• Anna Urbańska - for preparing the first translation to German,
• Raffaele Valobra - for helping me understand color management,
• Hartmut Wilhelm - for writing the German version of the tutorial,
• All others who purchased the license, submitted bug reports and suggestions of further development as well as those who add photos into the easyHDR Flickr Group Pool.

My name is Bartłomiej Okonek (short form of the name is Bartek). I was born in 1983 in Koszalin, in the north of Poland, later moved to Leszno and now I live in Wrocław, where I also work as Software Engineer for a company that designs and produces high tech data acquisition systems.

In July, 2007 I graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology with a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. The subject of my Master's Thesis was: Effective implementation of High Dynamic Range image generation and tone mapping algorithms in FPGA circuits. During my studies I was also involved in Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI), an European students' project endorsed by the European Space Agency (ESA). One of my hobbies is astrophotography, but recently I do not have many possibilities to do anything in that field.

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