HDR Photoshop

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 1:57 pm

Hi this might be in the wrong forum, but here goes anyway. In the wake of the new HDR photo merge feature in Photoshop CS2, is there a way to replicate this feature in the normal CS1.

Thanks

Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 3:03 pm

this should have been posted to Image Editing Forum
Check this link It could give you some good tips
http://www.eyefetch.com/tutorial-white-balance-ps.aspx

BTW Welcome to Photo Takers!!!

edit* just to let you know I just realized I post in the wrong thread LOL

Premium Member Joined: 29 Oct 2004 Posts: 5758

There are techniques in CS1 that allow you to merge bracketed exposures (see my layer mask tutorial in the Image Editing section for one example).

But HDR is a whole different ball of wax. You're creating a 32-bit image, which is composed of multiple bracketed exposures. The 32-bit image has so much information in it, thanks to the number of source images, that there's no way to display it all at once. So you use the RAW tools, then the 32-bit tools, then the 16-bit conversion tools, and finally the normal editing tools to compress the important detail into an image that can be displayed in a single image or print. There's no way to emulate this in CS1 -- you just need to get there in a different way.