How to Create Hdr With Photoshop
High Dynamic Range (HDR) images are images that capture large dynamic range of exposures. If you're shooting a scene that has something really bright and something really dark, you're going to lose details since you're either going to underexpose or overexpose. If you take three separate pictures of the same scene with different exposures and later stitch them together in Adobe Photoshop, you can create an image with everything properly exposed. HDR images are impressive and easy to make in Photoshop.
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Instructions
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Creating Your Images
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Find a scene with a high dynamic range. Pictures with bright blue skies in them are usually considered to be an image with high dynamic range.
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Make sure your camera is in manual mode and set the exposure for the scene manually. Make sure the exposure is as neutral as possible.
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Use your camera's AEB feature to do exposure bracketing. Set the AEB to one stop apart. This will allow you to take three images at the same time with one-stop exposure differences, such as -1, 0, +1.
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Set your camera on a tripod to make sure all of the subject images are in the same place. Take a picture of your scene. You should hear three shutter clicks.
Using Photoshop
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Take the three photos you have taken and transfer them onto your hard drive.
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Open Adobe Photoshop. Select "File" from the menu bar and then select "Automation". Click the "Merge" to HDR option.
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Select the three files that you have taken and click "OK" to merge the images into an HDR image.
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The next window will show you a preview of how your HDR image will look. Adjust the histogram by moving the two sliders underneath it until you are satisfied.
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Click the "OK" button and save your image by clicking "File" from the menu bar and selecting "Save".
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References
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