Found the link to the freebee HDR program

The link is,

Http://fdrtools.com

It's just a basic beta, but it's not bad for nothing.

Is this the one I was after ?

Yes. it's free, give it a go.

Cheers mate - not going to do it now as I've 3 dogs out in the field needing in.

Breagh and Fingal are still (see Dogsey) a bit 'twitchy' with each other after Fingal (quite rightly) decided Breagh (being a girl) should have holes in her ears,

I'm off to check it out now as I'm at home because Hannah is off school with a high temp and swollen glands.

Poor Hannah hope she feels better soon.

Looking forward to some HDR pics.

She seems to better although I suspect that's because she wants to go to the halloween disco tonight.

This HDR thingmabob.

I can't seem to fathom out what it's actually doing.

If you open a single image it just seems to be carrying out nothing more than an auto colour / contast.

I then thought perhaps I need multiple images so i picked one I'd already taken and saved 3 'brightness versions. One very dark (correct sky) One very light (correct foreground) and one in the middle (correct middle ground)

I then opened all 3 and did the HDRI creation thing.

I'm not really sure what it did but the result was nothing that I couldn't have done by adjusting a single image.

I'm not really sure if i'm doing the right thing.

I thought it would look at the three pictures and select what it thought was the 'best' pixel from each of the three images.

It takes an "average" of the three pics Phil, you still have to go into PS to tweak it a bit.

So you can't have say....the sky from one and the forefround from another etc

Ideally you should take three pics with your camera, but with a moving subject I don't see how that's possible.
What I do is alter the exposure factors of one image, +2, -2 stops then load the 3 pics and let the software do the business, anyways, where's K, she's the one to keep you right.