New to HDR

crammy · 31st of March 2008 (Mon)

I just started experimenting with HDR imaging. I bought the photomatix which seems to be a good program, however, I am struggling a little with the details of it. How do you make an image look smooth? (almost like a painting). Also, once you combine your three images into the HDR image, should the image look enhanced or pretty close to the original. My tone mapping has 2 pages, tone enhancer and tone compressor which process separately. Should I be doing both ? I probably sound like a stumbling idiot but I'm very interested in HDR imaging and want to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I got lucky on my first try and made an ok image but now I can't reproduce whatever I did. Any tips would be helpful.. thx

Boucher · 1st of April 2008 (Tue)

I only use detail enhancer.

The main sliders you should look out for is Strength, Light smoothing, luminosity, micro smoothing and micro contrast. I also tweak the white and black point different for every image.

The way I learned was through this site:
http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/

and through trial and error. Have a muck around with the program and see what the different things do.

boucher.

Cody21 · 1st of April 2008 (Tue)

I keep reading about HDR .... does Photoshop CS2 provide this ability? or is a separate software package required?

31st of March 2008 (Mon)	#1
crammy Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 28	New to HDR I just started experimenting with HDR imaging. I bought the photomatix which seems to be a good program, however, I am struggling a little with the details of it. How do you make an image look smooth? (almost like a painting). Also, once you combine your three images into the HDR image, should the image look enhanced or pretty close to the original. My tone mapping has 2 pages, tone enhancer and tone compressor which process separately. Should I be doing both ? I probably sound like a stumbling idiot but I'm very interested in HDR imaging and want to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I got lucky on my first try and made an ok image but now I can't reproduce whatever I did. Any tips would be helpful.. thx

1st of April 2008 (Tue)	#2
Boucher Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Canberra, Australia Posts: 1,454 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: New to HDR I only use detail enhancer. The main sliders you should look out for is Strength, Light smoothing, luminosity, micro smoothing and micro contrast. I also tweak the white and black point different for every image. The way I learned was through this site: http://www.vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/ and through trial and error. Have a muck around with the program and see what the different things do. boucher. __________________ Josh Boucher \| Flickr \| DeviantArt Gear List

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