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Both of these are totally optional (but very popular) finishing moves for HDR images.
I actually briefly covered these two effects earlier in this chapter when I applied
them to our projects as finishing moves. But, I wanted to put them here separately,
so if you wanted to just add one of these finishing techniques, you wouldn't have to
go fishing through all those steps to find them. Plus, I'm going to show an alternate
way to apply vignettes that keeps you from having to go back to Camera Raw.
Techniques (Vignet-
t
HDR Finishing
ing & Soft Glow)
Step One:
Once you've processed your bracketed
photos in HDR Pro, you'll usually be re-
opening your HDR image in Camera Raw
for a second round of tweaking (see page
184 in this chapter for how to open it in
Camera Raw). We'll start with our first fin-
ishing move: adding a dark edge vignette.
There are actually two different places to
apply vignettes in Camera Raw, and they
both produce different looks, but the one
I think looks the best (and gives you the
most control) is Post Crop Vignetting (de-
signed to be used after you've cropped
the image, but you can apply it to an
uncropped image, no problem). To get
to this feature, in Camera Raw, click on
the Effects icon (the fourth icon from the
right) at the top of the Panel area.
Step Two:
In the Post Crop Vignetting section, first
make sure Highlight Priority is the se-
lected Style (it's the only one that actually
looks good), then drag the Amount slider
to the left to darken the edges all the way
around your image (as seen here). The
Midpoint slider determines how far that
darkening extends in toward the center of
your photo (so I dragged it just a little to
the left to make the dark edge bigger).
If you want the edges extending inward
to be softer, you can increase the Feather
amount (although I normally don't).
 
 
 
 
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