Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Okay, now that you've learned my “Down & Dirty” method, you probably want to
branch out a little further and get a feel for what all the sliders and controls in HDR
Pro actually do. Here, I'll take you through HDR Pro from start to finish and then you
can start to develop some of your own presets with the looks that you want to get.
Step One:
Go to Mini Bridge (or Big Bridge), press-
and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key, and
click on the images you want to combine
into a single HDR image. Once they're
selected, Right-click on any one of those
thumbnails and, from the pop-up menu
that appears, under Photoshop, choose
Merge to HDR Pro
(as shown here).
Step Two:
After a few moments, you'll see the Merge
to HDR Pro dialog appear (seen here) with
the default settings applied, but they are
so subtle (and lame) you may not notice
that anything's been done to your image
at all. At the bottom of the dialog, you'll
see thumbnails of the images it com-
bined to create the single HDR exposure,
and it shows the Exposure Value [EV] of
each one (so you can see which one is
the normal exposure and which are the
over- or underexposed ones. These actu-
ally come into play if you turn on the Auto
Ghosting feature—more on that later
in the chapter). Near the top right of the
dialog, you'll see a pop-up menu that
says
Local Adaptation
, and that's the
only option you want to use (the others
are holdovers from the “bad HDR” of CS4
and earlier. Yecch!).
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