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HDR (High Dynamic Range) images (a series of shots of the same subject taken
at different exposures to capture the full tonal range) have become really popular,
and you can take the images you shot for HDR straight from Lightroom over to
Photoshop's Merge to HDR Pro feature. You start by shooting bracketed on your
camera. Here, I set up my camera to shoot five bracketed shots with one stop
between each shot—one with the standard exposure, one 2 stops darker, one
1 stop darker, one 1 stop brighter, and one 2 stops brighter (for five shots total).
Creating
HDR Images
in Photoshop
Step One:
In Lightroom, select your bracketed shots.
Here, I've taken five bracketed shots (with
a 1-stop difference between each), but you
really only need three of these (the original,
the one that's 2 stops brighter, and the one
that's 2 stops darker—five takes much
longer to process and doesn't add to
the final effect), so here I selected just
those three in the Library module. Once
you've selected them, go under the Photo
menu, under Edit In, and choose Merge
to HDR Pro in Photoshop .
Step Two:
This launches Photoshop, and brings up
the Merge to HDR Pro dialog (shown here).
Chances are your image will look pretty
blah with just the Default preset settings,
but don't worry—it's about to take a wild
turn. For this image, we're going to push
the HDR effect quite a bit, so it looks more
surreal than realistic, but Merge to HDR Pro
will do both the real and the unreal. At the
bottom of the dialog, you'll see the images
used to create this one single HDR image
(it also shows the exposure difference
between each one listed below them,
and here you can see we have one that's
2 stops brighter than the regular exposure,
then one that's 2 stops darker).
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