Comments on: How to Create an HDR Image

By: Noah

Noah — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:47:54 +0000

What happens if I click “Tone Compressor”?

By: Angus Leigh

Angus Leigh — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:59:01 +0000

Excellent tutorial about post editing using HDR.

This is the post editing technique exactly handle the following situation that trouble me

Extreme Lighting Photography
http://www.phototipzone.com/photography/extreme-lighting-photography/

It may be useful to know the zone system for dynamic range issue

An Introduction to Zone System
http://www.phototipzone.com/photography/an-introduction-to-zone-system/

By: Johan

Johan — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:40:11 +0000

Helen

I think the image is quite flat and misses detail.

If there’s a chance in showing how HDR images in PS are produced in just a few click’s, (I really mean just a few click’s) I’m happy to give you a demonstration.

Kindest regards,

Johan

By: Mandy

Mandy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:00:13 +0000

Thanks for this tutorial always wondered how you did HDR.

By: Don Reeves

Don Reeves — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:34:43 +0000

I’ve tried all the HDR software out there and Photomatix is a great tool and much better than Adobe, but…
The easiest and most intuitive HDR editing software is contained within Nova Developments Photoimpact pro 13.
The software itself is very inexpensive and for the price it’s a very powerful program.
It doesn’t handle ORF files well but I use Olympus master 2 which is free software and works best with ORF files anyway.
Other than that, it really is awesome software and since using it I find myself using Adobe allot less.

http://www.novadevelopment.com/products/PhotoImpact_Pro_13/default.aspx?gclid=CM-T-J6amZwCFQebnAod0ULvig

By: Landscape Photography

Landscape Photography — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:49:48 +0000

Have not tried photomatix, however the few times i’ve tried HDR in Photoshop i’ve been really unhappy with the results.. might have to give Photomatix a run.

Thanks for posting.

By: Eric Magnuson

Eric Magnuson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:03:14 +0000

Photomatix for the win! It’s a great piece of software. I’ve also heard of people using Photoshop’s HDR feature to align the images and make an .HDR file, but then they use Photomatix to do the actual tone mapping.

By: Jerry Massey

Jerry Massey — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:43:56 +0000

Bring the raw images into Photoshop and run a noise reduction on them (I use Dfine) and save the images as TIFF files.

Bring the TIFF images into Photomatix and generate an HDR image. Tone map it to your liking and save that image as a TIFF file.

Bring the tone mapped image back into Photoshop and make any editing changes required and save your work.

This procedure gives you a relatively noise free HDR image.

By: Sean Mullins

Sean Mullins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:40:12 +0000

I just started using Qtpfsgui (yes, its a little tricky to say!) and I really like the tone mapping, which allows you to create quite artistic affects, though for me it seems a little buggy (eg its hopeless at guessing the initial exposure level) but the price is right :)
My first attempt using “real” pics is here: http://tinyurl.com/mcssk7

Is the photomatrix download time limited?

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:19:21 +0000

If you’re looking for a decent free/open-source alternative to Photomatix, you might give Qtpfsgui a try. Hard to pronounce, easier to use. There are some decent tutorials out there to get you started and have some good results from the beginning. I’ve used both Photomatix and Qtpfsgui, and I have to admit I like the latter.