From the course: Learning HDR Efex Pro 2.0
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Adjusting overall tonality - HDR Efex Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning HDR Efex Pro 2.0
Adjusting overall tonality
Total adjustments tend to be relatively important for a high dynamic range image. Since it's really all about tonality and the way we're processing the tonal information from our original captures. Much of those tonal adjustments can be taken care of in the tone compression section of the right panel in HDR Efex Pro. But to really fine-tune the overall tonality of the photo we'll want to work with the aptly named tonality section of adjustments. I'll go ahead and click on the header for tonality in order to expand those adjustments, and then we can take a look at the various controls that are available to us. We'll start off an exposure control and this adjusts overall brightness of the image but with an emphasis on the white points. I'll go ahead and increase exposure and you can see that the image is brightened but we're also losing some detail in the brightest highlights of the photo. I can back off that exposure if I'd like in order to maximize the amount of detail retained within…
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