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Masking Source Files with the Quick Selection Tool

Article written by Justin Brown If I could give one piece of advice to someone getting started in HDR, it would be to spend time masking source files.  Today’s HDR software tools keep getting better, but they still aren’t perfect.  There are a few conditions like blinking lights, moving objects, or cloudless blue skies that...

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Am I making progress with my tonemapping skills

Article by Andre Govia Well here we are, we have been working out all the little touches that a good Tonemapped ( HDR) image needs , anything from Movement and wind and ghosting in the sky. It’s simply not the case to take as many brackets as you can and hope it looks good because it won’t. When I look at any photo that...

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Monthly Download

Beginning this month we will no-longer be offering HDR One as a monthly download. I know that out of the 3,500+ people who download it each month there will be a few disappointed readers. I, too, take great pleasure from the monthly issues. After working each month on collecting, organising and editing articles, to have a finished...

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Selective High Pass Sharpening

Article by Giuseppe Sapori Sometimes it can happen that our image needs some more details in a selective and targeted area. The use of filters such as Topaz Adjust is very functional for this purpose but it is often characterized by full lights and strong contrasts that do not always give the desired effect. It can also happen that...

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Facebook Friday – Week 28

Welcome to week 28 of Facebook Friday. These shots are the editor’s choice from the awesome selection of photos uploaded to our HDR facebook page. These images were chosen not simply because they were well processed. Factors such as composition, use of light and colour, and simply the ability to make a person stop in their tracks...

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Painting with HDR

Mar 22, 13 Painting with HDR

Posted by in Featured Photo, Photoshop, Tutorials

Article by Chris Smith Often you’ll encounter a situation where part of the scene looks great in HDR, but the HDR process turns the rest of the image into something out-of-this-world. The grass becomes neon-yellow, the clouds become black, and halos outline your subject against the sky.  One way to handle this is to combine the...

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Dealing with noise in HDR photos

Article by Wojciech Toman In this article I will focus on dealing with noise in HDR photos. If you would like to learn more about HDR photography and about my HDR workflow read my comprehensive HDR tutorial describing each step of creating HDR photos. Noise is an inevitable part of digital photography and it is related to the modern...

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Dodging, Burning, and HDRing

Mar 18, 13 Dodging, Burning, and HDRing

Posted by in Contrast, Featured Photo, Tutorials

Article by Blake Rudis While many of you may know and many of you may be learning, the HDR process is great for opening up the detail in any given scene.  However, that strong dynamic range manipulation comes with some sacrifice in some very important areas in your HDR photographs.  Those areas in particular are your shadows and...

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