I made a note of this in the last post about the free Photomatix export plugin for Lightroom but I thought it would be important enough to break it out to its own post.

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HDR-Soft has released a Photomatix Pro export plugin for Lightroom. The idea is to streamline the work-flow by allowing you to send the images selected in Lightroom directly into Photomatix Pro. The plugin uses the Lightroom engine to render your RAWs to 16-bit TIFFs on their way to Photomatix, a recommended step as Lightroom is the best place (acording to HDR-Soft) to do the RAW interpretation and rendering prior to external processing by 3rd party software. Plugin installation was streightforward and using it was just as easy, definitely a useful add-on for your HDR workflow.