HDR with Photoshop

There are a number of High Dynamic Range (HDR) software programs. The obvious choice for Photoshop users is to use it to make HDR images. But if you are anything like me, you may have got so far with the technique, looked at the results, and abandoned the process.

HDR techniques have been around quite a while now, and I am a late adopter.

The reason is partly because I hadn’t mastered how to use Photoshop to make HDR images. But it was also that in much the same way that digital images initially seemed odd or garish or unpleasant or artificial to me when I first saw them, so HDR images looked freaky to me.

Now some of them look more pleasant to me, and I want to learn how to get the look.

This first tutorial shows how to do it. The Photoshop part starts at page 8.

HDR Tutorial 1

And here is another, equally good tutorial: HDR Tutorial 2

I lay no claim to the following images being a good example of HDR: They just happen to be my first attempts. In fact the lower one is a blend of the original jpeg image over the HDR image and with the ceiling of the gazebo cut through to the HDR layer below.
 

 

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