HDR Technique

[tokracro]

240P .. really.. and you are showing us HDR ??.. fail

[GTOOtt]

@tokracro Dude do you know what HDR is?

[xdmanx77]

Good Job Man Thanks.

[3deefilm]

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[mateopumba747]

question: what would be the output of: after merging several raws for an HDR image,then process that image at different luminance levels and then re-merge those 3 hdrs to a new HDR? would it be like a hdr (square)?

[mostroboi]

can you upload a HD version?

great video otherwise

[tekkenmastah]

is this CS4?

[Aom567]

you cant even see the fucking telephone poles.

[ISaidPhotoshop]

"and in photomatix what your gonna do is go to open"

google translate in "CC" box: "any politics i was going to do is you nigger open"

sorry thats just to funny

[meltdownman1]

Anyone having problems performing HDR using Photomatix and the clouds are coming out in details that are washed out, too blue in color, grainy etc.? This seems to be a problem with clouds.  I am not sure what is causing this effect. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The Meltdownman

[hdrdarkroom]

Why not try HDR Darkroom? It can achieve realistic HDR results.

[derek6678421]

It is not true HDR if you use one photo, Sorry but it is not

[orangejuicekidd]

Goodness, thank you so much!

[mrcontainvirus]

whatever the way u spell photomatix... it is just the same software dude...

[809cgi]

Daaaaaaaaazzzzzze!!!

[keanedeco115]

nice tutorial man! R u John C Riley?

[bayenne5b]

PNG is a better output-format than JPEG, it's lossless and it's just a little bit bigger in filesize.

[henrivanadorp]

Great Tutorial!!

[hansyapchan]

jeez ryan, your computer is on arabic or thai..

[Core404]

why dont you use photomatix to line your photos or is PS better?

[MrAutosale]

Please say in advance that you would use a different program!

[aarontekin]

I left your site because you don't know how to use a microphone. You've wasted my time.

[shutupho07]

where can i download photomatix???

[kitty3309]

@shutupho07 There is this magical thing called GOOGLE. You type in photomatix download and voila! XD

[71SPYROS]

You saw nothing about hdr, it is just a presentation with your work.

You do demostration nothing about the value you use in photomatix!

The only thing you learn from this video is how to use.......healing tool in photoshop.

Very sorry about this .....hdr video

[71SPYROS]

You saw nothing about hdr, it is just a presentation with your work.

You do demostration nothing about the value you use in photomatix!

The only thing you learn from this video is how to use.......healing tool in photoshop.

Very sorry about this .....hdr video

[dakoks77]

what software you were using....

[dakoks77]

what software you were using....

[toranagasan666]

thank you so much for this great video, i guess i have to get rid of my beloved nikon d60 because it has no bracketing-mode :(

[CSKforlifeee]

@toranagasan666 you dont have to, just keep the tripod steady and change the f. manually, or just take one picture and make it parker in photoshop then merge them (not as good at all) but u dont need to d60's are good cameras

[TERRANCIO]

@toranagasan666 That's a good camera, and has Bracketing, what it doesn't have is AUTO bracketing, anyways you can do it manually... - 5 or +5 using compensation button... i've done that with low range cameras and it works!

[pugppgug]

press the "transcribe audio" on the "cc" button in the youtube player.

the caption says "its too british and he tells and make it look like this"

as opposed to the real line "Its too bright, theres no details,and make it look like this"

 haha

[theFSXsimmer]

awsome picture :D

[canonisthebest]

can u do the tonemapping in photoshop?....i dont have photomatix

[fearlesssymmetry]

Hello there could provide low res copies of the 3 images you used for this hdr so i can take a go at it??

[joar93]

dose it works if I only use Photomatix=?

[x2k3MaxPayne]

I use also firts photoshop and after photomatix. Because sometimes photomatix can`t fit the diffrent photos good together. Specially when it was windy and your tripot moved a littlebit. Photoshop is bether to detect this movement! So i hope i could help you a littlebit enjoy doing your hdrs its a wunderfull thing

[040506keri]

Hey its another Mark Ryan here from Ireland. Just wondering why you used PS4 and Photomatix? Photomatix can do all this without PS4 right?

[zeek2001]

nice tutorial thanks

[TheTackSharp]

nice tut, thx..

can you please share your photomatrix default setting? Result was pretty cool.. :)

[Philosoph00]

Thank you for the video!

[mpksri]

thanks men

[MissJessicaGabriella]

My photoshop keeps crashing when it trys to aline the photos. Anyone know why? :(

[ilovecrap]

snow leopard?

[bradleypaul10]

Pho-to-MA-tix not Pho-to-ma-TIX

[Marsl2007]

@bradleypaul10

Pho-TO-ma-tix.

[bradleypaul10]

@Marsl2007 Erroneous. Pho-to-MA-tix.

[Marsl2007]

@bradleypaul10

Erronepenis. PHO-TO-MA-tix.

[bradleypaul10]

@Marsl2007 Either way asshole, we can both agree it's NOT pho-to-ma-TIX

[Marsl2007]

@bradleypaul10

Pho-to-ma-TIX.

[dewatandas]

i've bought cs4 yesterday. erm, is there any tone mapping setting in cs4? i cannot find one.

[3883624]

i dont think there is..

[julianic81]

sweet

[jaje67]

Photomatiks? Maaatiks? Maticks?

Cool whip. Coool whhip........

Nice tut btw

[3dmunirahijazi]

the best HDR tutorial on youtube! however i agree with some, horrible audio quality!

[talledu]

Nice tutorial. Your audio quality is nasty though, very distracting.

[edilops]

pq nao usa o ZOOM pra ver os detalhes

[baka15kun]

You should really save your images as a psd and not jpg. Your images are too beautiful to be ruined by artifacts in jpg.....

What I do is save as both and usually web friendly size too. Takes up a lot of room but it is well worth it in the end

[dewatandas]

what is psd format? y can i view my .cr2 (RAW) image in my comp? basically yes i lost my canon cd, but still if i connected to the pc via USB cable, i can browse my .cr2 (RAW) images :(

[mrbrunse]

umständlich und durchschnittliches Ergebnis.

[Tomelino]

Hmm.. i can't open the TIFF file in Photomatrix, i only have a black background :(

[alexriveronava]

removing the powerlines is kind of faking the pic. i only apply the least effect to still get a natural look. don't like the glow objects get in hdr

[135Weird531]

what were the settings of the preset you used at 2:32 ?

Thanks

[lukman11]

That was awesome. I gotta get me that other program you used. Seemed to really streamline the HDR process.

[lustforlife358]

Excellent tutorial!! Thanx Mark

[82n2]

i fuckn love u mark... i wish u cud see all the things ive done thanks to u!

[mentalholocaust]

Doing this with your pictures dont make them real anymore. Thats what I hate about photoshop.

[rod11815]

Great tutorial, it will be nice if you could slow it down a little. A lot of us are new to this. Thanks

[Macinabit]

Hi, I can't see how you get the gausin blur effect or misy effect. It is not in Photomatix?. Thanks

[kilamfihsak]

was your original photo a raw file or jpg? do you think its possible to create a panorama using this technique?

[Bolakl]

raw files are better than jpg it contains more details than jpg and it is easyer to edit without loosing any details. and yes you can make panoramas with this technique

[kilamfihsak]

cool thanks for the info

[shamrockisland2008]

Excellent Video, you know it and we now know it !!

Cheers

[nunnster06]

photo matix is the best

[karcrush]

This is great.. the most amazing thing, you briefly done... this is really amazing and thanx... Now you are watched by me

[FinalPiece]

not sure if 7 has photo merge. get 11 if can. better features

[FunnyBoysFilms]

Everything about this was great, shame you didn't put a hyperlink in your video comments to your blogsite, this would have saved us having to type all that in. lol. Apart from that, a flawless tutorial :)

[nicwilson89]

Wow, very helpful.

I've been mesing about with HDR for a while just using Photomatix, I never thought to use Photoshop with it too and waht not, thanks :D

[1050hooligan]

Thank you for "plain english" tutorial. It finaly makes sense to me.

[jezzmoto]

HDR tutorial by John C. Reilly : )

Thank you

[supercanadiandude]

hahahahahaha totally!!!

[jezzmoto]

totally!

[olive4naito]

Can you do this with photoshop 7?

[seth0923]

hey mark great vids 5/5 and also any one ever told u u sound like john c. reily from step brothers lol

[82n2]

Thanks a lot Mark, seriously you have no idea I've been looking to figure out how to reach those tones.. I even tried working with the burn tool for sooo long haha

Thanks Man!

[8sim6]

hey great tutorial :) i tried doing this for the first time and when i opened my tiff file in photomatix 3.0 after i merged to HDR in Ps cs4...and when i open the tiff file in photmatix it was just a solid black image.. ne advice or help for me? :)

thanks :)

[mikongo]

8sim6 I think I know what you're doing wrong - go to file, open merge histiogram striation tool, merge at 3.5 not 6.4 at  .1 hst per pixel, repeat this process in layers and it shouldn't give you any more trouble.( if you do it at 6.4 you will blend all future software paths and thats a whole heap of trouble).

[asdhokker]

duuuuuude! very nice!

thanks

[Izakokomarixyz]

Ok so photoshop is only needed for alignment? If I don't need to align it can I skip to the photmatix?

[rammsteinforlife]

yes you can

[Izakokomarixyz]

I always get some purple and/or green things around the pic wtf?

[PyroJesusFreak]

Nice work man!

What camera did you use to capture that image?

[Joona992]

Great tutorial, thanks. 5*

[mikongo]

A very clear and informative lesson, thankyou. I do think however this particular technique produces some really sickly images. Photoshop is responsible for a whole generation of over-edited,vulgar,sentimental­ized images. Just a brief look on Flickr will show you thousands of examples. They make me sick to my stomach!

[Izakokomarixyz]

Then don't look at them, duh...

[mikongo]

You like this shit you moron

[Izakokomarixyz]

Look you fool, If you don't like some HDR, why look at it? It's like eating olives, would you eat them if you don't like them? NO... Dumbass... >_>

[luckyazian13]

@Izakokomarixyz

If I had a gun pointed at my head, I would eat the olives.

:)

[GrandMasterJun]

i have the same problem, its also black

[LionCome]

Thanks for the lesson. Why do you save in jpg I thought it was lossy. Is there something about tif that you don't like? Thanks

[NosNo2]

when i open the tiff in photomatix its black pls help!!

[denebuff]

Thanks!! Great tutorial

[bradtwo]

love the tutorial and all.. but good god man.. JPG.. its all about the PNG

[xxhotelcrazyxx]

Simply amazing, thank you!

[Transporter33]

good tutorial man thx

[sk8ndogy]

lol your so pro stat

i just downloaded photomatix pro trial version or whatever lol

time to take some peecturess

[tit0martinez]

what version of photomatix did u use. I have the photomatix pro 3.0 and the TIF image is black when i try to open it

[mrkoosees]

it's cs3 extended

[BassmanRoots]

i have the same problem.. did u solve it? i havn't

[tit0martinez]

no, i do the merging on photomatix

[imbadimba]

save as a 16bit file

[davidimon]

hi mate, i have the same problem, you ever figure it out?

[asmogan]

thank you, very nice tutorial !

[69dodgerunner]

Is it possible to do this with photoshop 7.0? Thanks.

[BassmanRoots]

it doesnt work.. the TIF image is black in photomatix

[wilkjames]

have you not seen Photomatix Pro?

[doublebondprod]

thanks mark for sharing this with everyone :)

[esze001]

excellent tutorial .... I've been searching around for a while now and this tutorial is the best one around. Cheers !

[AwesomeGameVideo]

thanks!

[GaM3rDarriN]

You have to shoot in raw right? aha

[mserebreny]

you don't HAVE to, but you tend to have a little more control over the image - as RAW lacks some of the adjustments (aka: potentially quality degrading) that your camera applies

[Apokalipsz42]

where am I supposed to get photomatix from?

[mmascheri]

great tut thanks for sharing!

[EthernetKid]

lucis art does it automatically. FAKE HDR look.

[orgthingy]

nah, GIMP did the job as well

[abhi1985singh]

I heard so much about HDR, and always thought it to be professional's cup of tea. but after your video, i think i can try my luck too with HDR. hope it comes out good.

[aaron2luc]

does the photoshop elements 6 has the hdr feature i can used for hdr?or does it just come only on the CS3?

[sphiney]

none.

[blesavost]

daaamn!!! I always wondered how to make such awesome HDR! tnx for million times! can you just tell me what exposers did You used? +1 -1 ? thanks a lot! Gonna try this as soon as i get my new 40d ;)

[danielkoolno]

Got a 40D too ;D

[jesp3r]

+2, 0 and -2 are fine values :)

[zoimz401]

AMAZING

[sharpshark28]

Love your work, and thanks for the HDR tips!

[tomspen100]

My tif files on Photomatix just show a percent when I open them and black, but doesnt load :/

[damookie]

great stuff, thanks. super clear and knowledgeable.

[colmv123]

Wow, thats amazing. The transormation is a massive leap. The final image looks like something out of a fairy tale, from another world. From now on I'm auto-bracketing on my 400D with 17-55IS f/2.8 lens. Its a shame that our own eyes don't see HDR in real-time out there :(

[whenthesunsleeps777]

me too, my picture comes up black. I use CS3 btw.

[rendybullseye]

what photoshop do you use..cs2 or cs3?

[chadcodyvids]

ok i did everythig untill when i open it in photomatix my pic is just black.. is it casue i shoot raw?

[timelapseforum]

No, you are supposed to shoot raw when doing HDR. Not sure why that is happening.

good luck.

[mserebreny]

Number one, I think you should use a lot more exposures, I use anywhere from 10 to 15 or more. Two, you're getting those 'halos' because the almighty photoshop didn't align them as well as you thought, and three, why don't you 'mess around' with the white balance? you'll get nicer results

[timelapseforum]

1) I've never heard anyone using that many exposures. Does it really make a difference?

2) Halos happen in Photomatix too, trust me.

3) I agree with the white balance. But ideally, we should learn them by heart so we can shoot properly in the camera to begin with, instead dealing with it in post.

[mserebreny]

1) It tends to make a difference with the sky, I've found I get much more detail taking that many shots.

2) I know Photomatix does it too, as I use it on a daily basis. I didn't mean to bash Photoshop specifically, as I use it on a daily basis, too. I meant that in a joking manner.

3) I tend to get my white balance set correctly in-camera. It's still good to play with it in post though, as you can achieve some nice artistic impressions, and isn't that what HDR is really about? :) :)

[turnonmee]

i dont understand everything (i dont great speak english :D), but it's great

[Polarskates]

Thanks Mark...worked very well!

[2of6]

This tutorial didn't work for me for some reason. When I tried to open the tif with photomatix, it would only open 18% of the the tif which would show up as a black image. When I would reduce the size of the tif, more of it would open in photomatix, but I never could get it to open completely. Bummer

[knickers1]

I had the same problem

[knickers1]

Hi I found the solution.You need to save your tiff file in photoshop as 16bit not 32

[anselmej]

not bad but the tree is far too dark

[jkrawr]

watch?v=4BZDpvttyPo

[evolution3030]

man, when i go to file, i cant find no HDR thing, what can i do?

[martijnbraat]

Thanks!! Really cool video!

[strangelilrebel]

Great job :)

[punkdude1668]

ok wut do u mean "shoose two pictures? like to completely different pics or like two of the same or wut?

[neowondertwilight]

you take at least two images of the same scene - one overexposed and one underexposed, some people (incl. myself) prefer to take more images, some take up to seven images - each with different exposure values (one of them exposed correctly), the point is to capture as much light information in the scene as possible (esp. highlights and shadows), it's always recommended to use tripod, so the images line up perfectly to achieve best final results... I hope this helps...

[punkdude1668]

yeai know all that and i've made a bunch i guess it's the type of photography that has to be done out door huh cus like i 've tried a lot of different things i've even tried up to 9 images lol but i can't really get the effect

[goldenboi24k]

What do you think about "Artizen HDR" ???

I found it to be easier and more effective that Photomatrix. (Message Me)

[Krmelj]

Do you have an explanation as to why there are artifacts coming from Photomatix software? I was dealing with 16bit HDRs and thought something went wrong every time I did it, but you have the same problem so I guess it's normal.

[markryanphotography]

I think it is one of the quirks of tone mapping. When we play with bits artifacts happen.

[gabriete]

great tutorial ;)

[MilkYAY101]

pakjaeyoung, if youi are shoting in raw, you r'hdr images will turn out a little bit better then jpeg. play with the sliders in photomatix. and for the person who made this video your pronouncing photomatix wrong. pronounce your A's

[pakjaeyoung]

my 3 raw images does not even open in Adobe CS3. are you using jpeg files? i need help ive tried photomatix to merge HDR and it turns out purple. CS3 doesnt even open my three images. WHY?

[mrchams]

If you have raw file, use them. If not you can use JPG or Tif's.

If you can't open your raw files in Photoshop's Camera Raw by drag and dropping into Photoshop, make sure you have the latest updates from Adobe's website. I think the latest is Camera Raw is 4.3.1

[gfxp]

When you remove the power lines with the healing brush, you need to start with the shift key down, click at the beginning of the line, shift click at the end of a straight segment.

Voila, power line gone with two clicks, that is..if it's straight, otherwise you have to repeat the steps 1 or 2 times.