What is HDR Painting?

What is "HDR Painting"?

I'm looking into buying the Nikon D3300, but I first wanted to make sure it has built-in HDR, because that's an important feature to me.

I was confused by some of the information I'm finding. At least two reviewers said there was no HDR capability. Yet, Snapsort (which I understand is not always reliable) lists it as a feature, while the Nikon website lists "HDR Painting" as a feature.

So I concluded that HDR Painting must refer to something a little different from other cameras' built-in HDR. But what is it exactly? Does anyone know?

HDR painting is an exaggerated "fake" HDR effect. Your problem with this is, that if you decide to do anything with the photo later, you've already lost the original image and only have the distorted color version to work with!

If you are concerned about Dynamic Range, Nikon has an adjustment called Active D-Lighting. You can set the amount of dynamic range for the photo. Download a manual from Nikon and read about it on page 122.
http://download3.nikonimglib.com/archive1/eaKzy00nAL6s00eumhC85W0Jka82/D3300RM_%28En%2901.pdf