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Combining HDR and LDR

Combining HDR and LDR

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Combining HDR and LDR

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There are times when I just love what HDR techniques do to one part of my image, and really hate what they do to another part of my image. There is a way out of this problem though. You can keep the HDR image and composite it with one of the original source files that you use to make that HDR. You'll get a result that has HDR in some parts of the image and just regular R in other parts of the image, so you get some original source file mixed with a nice HDR result, and that's what we're going to do in this movie. Go to the Exercise Files folder into the Chapter 6 folder and grab images 9933, 9934, and 9935 and do an HDR Merge in Photoshop. When you get to here, be sure that you're set for a 32-bit image and go ahead and check Remove ghosts. There was some wind blowing and my hand was a little shaky when I took this shot, so I think it's probably not a bad idea to have the ghost removal turned on. And when you're all done, you'll have this, a 32-bit file in Photoshop. And it'll look…

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