How to Finalize an HDR Image

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: Learn About HDR Digital Photography

Summary: Learn how to make an HDR image from multiple exposures in this free video on finalizing an HDR digital photography image.

Views: 855 | Tags: art, range, high, burn, low, photography, photoshop, merge, hdr, dynamic, photoediting, imaging, hdri, multiple, exposures, merging, ldr, digital photography


About the Expert

Brandon Sarkis Brandon Sarkis has been a professional chef for more than 12 years, and he has worked in Austin, Texas, Columbus, Ohio, and Atlanta, Ga. His specialties are A... read more

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

How to Finalize an HDR Image

My name is Brandon Sarkis, on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to give you an overview and introduction to HDR, or High Dynamic Range Photography. And you can also go to your gamma settings, which is your brightness settings, and get some really, really, really interesting effects out of this. So like here, we can turn the gamma all the way down from the white clip all the way out, and the black clip all the way back. Let's do it this way, and you'll see how you get this really interesting; it almost looks, it doesn't look like a photograph anymore. It looks almost like a drawing or a painting, or something even stranger. I'm going to go with it right here, and now what you can do is you can save this, or you can make a default, or whatever. This is just, there's two different methods to this, and this is the detail enhancer. If you go to the tone compressor, you'll get a completely different image. As you can see, we start off weirder, so we can adjust our brightness; go all the way out, and go all the way up. Somewhere in the middle is probably a good spot for it. We can adjust our tonal range compression all the way back, which is nothing but blacks; all the way this way, which is going to be nothing but whites for the most part. Our contrast adaption, or adaptation rather, see like you go this way you're going to get a lot more of your whites, and a lot less fine detail, but you'll get a lot of interesting color, like this photo will look really good when it's blown up full size. And of course, your white and black clip adjustments. So, let's let's do it this way. But, I'm going to actually going to go back to the detail enhancer, except that I came up with a much more interesting looking photograph, and let's see what happens. I kind of liked the darker looking photos. There we go, and so I'm just going to hit ok now, and it's going to generate a photo.

Art Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video

Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow