HDR Efex Pro – First Look

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I have been a little tied up with my book projects over the past few months and I’m trying to get caught up on some of the things I have had on the back burner. One of those things is taking the new Nik HDR Efex Pro for a test drive. I saw the demo [...]

Why I Use Photoshop to Create HDR Files

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When it comes to creating HDR images, most folks know that Photomatix renders much better results than Photoshop when it comes to tonemapping.  So if that’s the case, why would anyone need to use Photoshop as part of the process?  The simple fact is that, while Photoshop is pretty lame when it comes to any [...]

Single Image Processing for HDR…Again

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I received a comment on my past Single Image processing video from one of my subscribers.  He told me about a different method that he was using for processing single RAW images for HDR processing.  I gave it a try and it’s pretty darn cool.  So much so in fact that I made a tutorial [...]

Setting up Your Camera for Shooting HDR Images

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I had a little spare time this weekend so I ventured off to the deep dark recesses of my backyard with my video camera in tow so I could shoot a little tutorial.  I have spent a lot of time talking about processing HDR images but I’ve never really touched on one of the most [...]

Anatomy of a Lightroom Beta 2 Image Correction

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Yesterday I finished off my post with a couple of HDR images.  Today I want to run down exactly what I did to one of those images, post-tonemapping.  The image was tonemapped using Photomatix Pro 3.0.  For those that aren’t familiar with tonemapping, it is a process that is used to take a 32-bit High [...]