Introducing Aura 360 Pro RAW: Professional HDR Fusion on Your Desktop
If you shoot real estate, virtual tours, or immersive landscapes, you already know the biggest enemy of a great 360° photo: high-contrast lighting. Balancing bright exterior windows with dark interior shadows usually means shooting bracketed exposures, followed by a tedious, time-consuming editing process.
We wanted to fix that.
Today, we are thrilled to introduce Aura 360 Pro RAW—a high-performance, fully offline desktop application engineered specifically to merge, tone-map, and export flawless high-dynamic-range panoramas.
The Digital Darkroom for 360° Photography
Aura 360 Pro RAW is built around a hardware-accelerated WebGL rendering engine that takes the heavy lifting off your shoulders. Whether you are shooting 3, 5, or 7 bracketed exposures, the software automatically aligns and merges them into a single, perfectly balanced equirectangular image.
Here is what makes Aura 360 Pro RAW an essential part of your workflow:
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Format Freedom: Drop in your RAW (DNG), TIFF, PNG, or JPG files. The engine handles them seamlessly. Export as lossless TIFF, PNG or JPG.
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Interactive 3D Viewport: Don’t guess what your flat image will look like wrapped. Click and drag to inspect your stitch lines, nadir, and zenith from any angle before you export.
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Massive Resolutions: Need extreme detail? Export your final files in original resolution, 4K, 8K, 12K, or up to 16K resolution.
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Auto-Metadata Injection: Forget the days of Facebook or Kuula failing to recognize your panorama. Aura automatically injects the exact XMP/Exif spatial metadata required for instant 360° recognition.
Privacy First, Cloud Second
Like all tools in the Aura Suite, Aura 360 Pro RAW operates 100% offline. Your unreleased virtual tours, client interiors, and raw files are processed locally on your machine’s GPU. We believe your photos belong to you, which means zero cloud uploads, zero wait times for server rendering, and zero privacy concerns.
Maximize Your Workflow: The Aura 360 Pro Bundle
While Aura 360 Pro RAW handles the heavy lifting of HDR fusion, a truly polished virtual tour often requires stylistic color grading and localized adjustments.
To give you the ultimate desktop toolkit, we are also launching the Aura 360 Pro Bundle.
This bundle pairs our new HDR fusion engine with the offline color grading power of Aura 360 Pro. By grabbing the bundle, you get a seamless, end-to-end workflow:
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Merge your raw brackets to recover perfect highlights and shadows with Pro RAW.
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Take that merged file into Aura 360 Pro to apply Smart Masks, Split Toning, and custom HSL presets for your signature look.
Try It Before You Buy It
We believe software should prove its worth on your machine. Fully functional demo versions of Aura 360 Pro RAW and the rest of our suite are available right now.
Head over to the Demo Versions Page to download the installer, test it against your toughest high-contrast brackets, and see the difference a dedicated 360° HDR engine can make.