HDR Processing Techniques with Rob Hanson - Part 2 of 5, includes Layering Tonemaps in Photoshop CS5, Image Cleanup. Originally posted on my blog site at http://robhanson.wordpress.com/
@peterrooney1974 Yes, the two programs produce completely different outputs. Any product by Unified Color creates a more realistic, true-color image than Photomatix. On this video series, I concentrated on Photomatix because that's what Konaflyer usually uses. If I were publishing this image for myself, I likely would have used HDR Express/32 Float much more prominently.
Each program has its strengths and weaknesses. Using layers, you can easily incorporate the best bits from each.
@danflexboy Layers is one of the most important and useful features in Photoshop, so it's probably good advice to learn about layers as soon as possible.
In these videos, I've layered one image on top of another in a simple way: Open the image, Select All, Copy, then go to your target image and Paste as a layer. The first image is copied to the second as a layer.
Nik software applies effects on an image by creating a new layer.
@peterrooney1974 Yes, the two programs produce completely different outputs. Any product by Unified Color creates a more realistic, true-color image than Photomatix. On this video series, I concentrated on Photomatix because that's what Konaflyer usually uses. If I were publishing this image for myself, I likely would have used HDR Express/32 Float much more prominently.
Each program has its strengths and weaknesses. Using layers, you can easily incorporate the best bits from each.
/Rob
RobHansonPhotography 3 days ago
Just wondering why you used HDR Express? Does it do something that Photomatix doesn't? Thanks for the great vids by the way.
peterrooney1974 3 days ago
@danflexboy Layers is one of the most important and useful features in Photoshop, so it's probably good advice to learn about layers as soon as possible.
In these videos, I've layered one image on top of another in a simple way: Open the image, Select All, Copy, then go to your target image and Paste as a layer. The first image is copied to the second as a layer.
Nik software applies effects on an image by creating a new layer.
And there are adjustment layers, too.
See first sentence.
Rob
RobHansonPhotography 3 days ago
how do you add the different layers on photoshop because am still new at it
danflexboy 4 days ago