Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Merge to HDR Pro

In this tutorial, A.J. covers the changes made to the Merge to HDR command from Photoshop CS4 to CS5.

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• cs5
• new feature
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• education
• graphic design
• photography
• hdr
• high dynamic range
• hyper
• realism

[JAGcreation]

Hi, I will make a video showing you what i mean. Thanks for the help AJ.

[ajwood2001]

@JAGcreation - OK. I'll keep an eye out, and we'll get to the heart of the issue.

[JAGcreation]

Hi can anyone help me? This is my question:

I've been trying to do HDR , but I really don't know why Photoshop CS5 doesn't let me use Raw File. Every time i try to merge the 3 Raw pictures to HDR, Photoshop does the work of merging them but when it finalizes they disappear from Photoshop. The only photos Photoshop lets me merge to HDR are the JPG files. Thanks for the help!!!

[ajwood2001]

@JAGcreation - when you say the photo disappears, does Photoshop crash or are you seeing an error message? Have you tried searching for images shortly after running the merge function? The image might be on your hard drive and it didn't stay open in PS.

[skinialxb]

@ajwood2001 are you using raw or jpeg?!

[ajwood2001]

@skinialxb - in this demo I am using RAW files. I would use RAW or TIF and refrain from using JPEG for my HDR.

[ajwood2001]

@sharagim1 - I can appreciate that. Everyone has their own preference to how HDR should look. The key takeaway from this tutorial is knowing what the controls do in Merge to HDR Pro. I wasn't as concerned about creating a pretty HDR photo.

[domeee11]

hi thank you for the tut... I DIDNT know that PSCS can do HDR besides photomatix or 3rd party software.. thanks again

[Bigbawler11]

Is there anyway you can do this for gifs?

[pablosanroman0]

hey man the thing is that i dont know how to get my images on the icon MB? :(

[mdoyledesigns]

Great Job!!! Thanks for all your help!!

[harveyfenellere]

sir A.J i havent seen you using hdr tonign what happen??? is that it?? no hdr toning?

[tommyzDad]

Thanks, A.J.

[deltasuperprime]

thanks dude!



[patjulie76]

Great information! I had no idea how to process HDR in Photoshop. I definitely like the ease of having in PS5.

[melkiejosh]

hello.. I'd like to save the file into hdr format but when I tried to save no hdr format appeared.. only jpeg, tif, png, etc.. I want hdr format for my image based lighting for maya 2012.. thanks a lot.. more power..:)

[Troy5199]

hi there if i do HDR with a model does she need to be in all 3 photos thanks