Originally posted by Monique64:
Hijacking this thread. Has anyone done a tutorial about how to do HDR on CS3? I've tried but with no success. What I have been trying to do is to get three photos that I have manually changed the levels on (due to the fact that I dont know how to do bracketed exposures yet), then I have tried merging them in HDR. I just end up with a washed out looking photo.
If there is no tutorial woulod someone like to do one or to make a small step by step procedure in this thread. Ta |
The only way to go for HDR is bracketing exposures so I suggest you practice that first. Keep in mind that you should "bracket in the right direction". If the scene has primarily dark details you should bracket more to overexpose. If the scene has more highlight detail, bracket to underexpose. If the scene has both, bracket both ways.
A real 32-bit HDR will always look washed out. That's because our computers and screens can only reproduce 8-bit images.
So after you've merged your bracketed raw files into a 32-bit HDR using CS3, you will need to "compress" the information contained in the image back to an image that can be displayed. This is typically referred to as "tone mapping" and can be accomplished with commercially available software such as Photomatix Pro (which also has a tone mapping plugin).
It's the tone mapping that gives the image that 'HDR-look'.
In CS3 you can also change the image mode from 32-bit to 8-bit which will give you a dialog allowing control over the tone-mapping process.
Hope this helps.
Tom.
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