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About / The story behind easyHDR

HDR photo processing software

The very first version of easyHDR was written in January 2006 to process astrophotos, such as images of the Moon with a shining aureole, visible lunar seas, and clouds over Earth. The strong interest in the program encouraged me to further expand its capabilities and add new features. Many easyHDR users helped by reporting bugs, suggesting enhancements, writing tutorials, and translating the program into several languages. Editors of computer magazines also found it compelling enough to publish articles about it, such as in C'T and ComputerBild in Germany, and people from many countries have supported the project by purchasing licenses. The program is still under active development and continues to improve. I would like to mention a few people who have helped shape it:

• 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: Bartek). I was born in 1983 in Koszalin, in northern Poland, later moved to Leszno, and now live in Wrocław, where I work as a Software Engineer for a company that designs and produces high-tech data acquisition systems.

In July 2007, I graduated from Wrocław 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 the Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI), a European student project endorsed by the European Space Agency (ESA). One of my hobbies is astrophotography.

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