How to Create an HDR Image in Photoshop CS4

[0j9i1r8o5e2s]

@wtfisbehindyou sir when I merged all the photo's the manual VT didn't show up.

[toolutko]

aaa man, you have forgotten to say how to save hdri file. I want to use it in another programs.

can someone answer me how to do that?

[awiserbud]

I dont understand why ppl are bein so picky, firstly this is a great tutorial, explained simply and clearly, no fumbling around with the mouse, no repeating his words 10 times, no "oh hold on, let me just do this etc" as you see in lots of tut's, straight to the point and explains exactly what people want to know, 2ndly this is HDR, simply put: merging different exposure levels to create 1 shot, exactly what HDR is whichever way you go about it. Thanks for a refreshingly easy to understand vid.

[wtfisbehindyou]

@awiserbud That's really nice of you to say, I greatly greatly appreciate that.

[wtfisbehindyou]

@awiserbud Actually it's doubly complimentary, I only made this for a class assignment. Maybe I should consider an attempt at making more legit ones. Thank you again!

[rbdavisphoto]

Then call it what it is, Tone Mapping.The old process, or what you tried to show is called "Stacking", where 3 or more shots are layered or stacked @ 33% or less opacity. In fact, a true HDR, 32 bit files, can't been appreciated on a standard monitor. Only tone mapped images can.Ancel Adams did something close, creating multiple exposures then selective cropping and pasting, which is another method.

[rbdavisphoto]

THIS IS NOT HDR..HDR is created using 3 RAW (32 bit) files (not jpgs which are 8 bit) Drop your RAW files into Photoshop CS4 [merge to HDR], now you have a true 32 bit file. At this point you can make layer adjustments.

[wtfisbehindyou]

@rbdavisphoto You are correct in that RAW files will certainly allow you to produce better results with this process and I would recommend nothing less. For the purposes of this guide, I didn't have any applicable RAW shots that I could use to outline the demonstration so I simply created over and under exposed jpgs. The process however remains the same.

Thank you for your professionalism in pointing this out.

[jjohnstontv]

Excellent tutorial, saved it in my favorites, looking forward to giving it a try.

Thank you!!!

[shanykool]

would u like to tell us how to make it expose, over exposed and the third thing that u did

[jasper561996]

Brilliant!



[jildobaggins]

Oh brilliant tutorial!!! I love your subtlety, a lot of people go way over the top on hdr!!!

[acrylico21]

nice tutorial, thank's!

[tomstephens100]

lol my second name is stephens

[mqc09]

Very helpful thanks a lot man!

[1nektarios1]

wow great video very helpful.

[Mavoz]

Thanks for providing the video...much appreciated!

[hafidzmusa]

completely not understand wut r u humming...your VO not clear....

[starla175]

This is great! Thanks for sharing your tricks!

[zat1]

Great. Thanks, man.

[vincenttilman87]

thankksss!!!!

[Nforc3r7]

thank you so much, wonderful tutorial

[EYE50MM]

Very cool except for the 8-bit thing, I don't know anyone that has a monitor not running 32-bit color.

[piroclips]

exactly what i needed to know

very clear explanation too

thank you

[Myuzishin]

See, you're fulla shit too. TAKE THE 3 PICTURES you fukk. Why the hell would you spend the time to do a tutorial that teaches people how to do it wrong? You MUST take 3 or more SEPARATELY EXPOSED IMAGES in order for it to be HRD, other wise the raw data for each picture is the same. Fukkin cheater. FAKE. BOOOOO!

[sgit1]

Thanks for the CLEAR to understand tutorial.

[mislam13]

nice tut, loved it, and it helped me a lot.

[tsingh4]

thanks this is just what i was looking for, not too complicated and really nice looking results.

[wtfisbehindyou]

As this video was entirely about the process I do appreciate the compliment. I do apologize about the pictures, while I do have three separate ones taken at proper exposures the butterfly was moving which threw photoshop off; the wings were at slightly different positions. I didn't make that clear in the video as, again, it's just about the process. Again, I do apologize to everyone.

[aasa0076]

@wtfisbehindyou The same photo, change photo exposure by (image>exposure>preset=custom) and save good luck

[fastrocket]

Lame that you didn't actually use 3 different shots. Other than the process, this was fairly worthless in demonstrating actual HDR conversion.

[djungeltelegraf]

By decreasing it to 8 bit/channel you take away A LOT of digital information for post processing.

[RaZodE]

Hey I was just wondering what kind of camera did you use to take that picture?

[baileymoto]

Great tutorial.

[Saggmos95]

For me the window at 2:40 and 4:35 doesnt show up! How can i get them??

[un3asy]

Thank you very much. Now ill convert all my 25000 pictures to HDR. :))

[elLocoSancri77]

Very good job!!! Thanks man, the photo world needs more poeple like you...

[RyanPhotography]

Great Video very informative Thanks 

[Omnigrad]

Ty, so much! Great video, but that music is little bit annoying :)

[GamersPath]

my monitor is showing 32 bit XD

[oneyori79]

thanks a lot bro...

[SweetiePieBrown29]

photoshop isnt showing the Manual EV setting window, is there a way of getting around this?

[Jazza159]

8 bit... lol gr8 tut

[Dabalistic]

original 0 exposure looked better than the HDR, the sand looked better in my opinion. You should have masked the butterfly and kept the background as original and hdr on the mask.

[iskadobadsf]

what's the song at the beginning called?

[keifoo]

I tried to use CS4 to merge HDR in a same way with this guy, but i have no idea why CS4 ask my "these photos may not take with a same camera", actually, i just changed the light with CS4 with a same picture... and the merge HDR result always with an exposed lighting... but it's never happen to me with Photomatix... Can somebody help me here?? Thanks so much!!

[joshuarubio]

that was great! thanks for sharing

[TBxtruPG54]

What about Cartoon HD pictures, does it work the same?

[wtfisbehindyou]

Yes, you can save your rendered image just like any other creation you design in Photoshop. This includes jpeg, png, and all the other norms!

[014680]

first time i tried the manually set ev still there, but somehow it's dissapear, directly into merged result ..why? and do i need that?

[totyfotos]

@wtfisbehindyou i COULD NOT SAVE THE IMAGE IN JPEG.

WHY??

[seanscarmack]

@totyfotos it was probally 16bit, try changing it to 8bit

[totyfotos]

@seanscarmack

Thx!

[Tellatus]

Just what I was looking for, thanks!

[flsk8ter]

Hi, does this produce a usable jpeg file?

[SMB131R]

Thanks Bro! I love it man! Rated 5/5!

[yazeed8008]

thankyou

[OffRoadNorthEast]

where can i find those hdr conversion tools?? they didn't pop up after i merged the 3 images

[SpoonDawgMC]

very good,

thankyou so much!

[Flamer2203]

Wow, this was so SO helpful!

I've been looking everywhere for SIMPLE tutorials on this kind of HDR photo-making and I finally understand what I've been doing wrong.

Thank you so much!

Favorited!

[sanxnas]

muy buena explicación, gracias