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Working with single raw files - Photomatix Tutorial
From the course: Learning Photomatix Pro
Working with single raw files
Now I think I gave you two pretty good reasons there to run this on a processed image, if you're just looking a little bit of an extra push. And in fact Photomatix does make a plugin if you just want to invoke that from right inside of PhotoShop. But let's take a look at a couple of raw files and I'm going to explain why I don't have graphics. In this particular image, my subject was moving around too much. This iguana just did not want to sit still and it was impossible to get a good series of brackets that didn't have his body twisting too much. And then on this next shot, it's a long exposure. Now I shot for several seconds to get this streaking effect of the turning carousel. And it just did not work as an HDR but I'd like to take advantage of toning on those raw files. Let's start with the first one here. And I'm going to open that up. Notice, because it's a raw file I can take advantage of things like Noise Reduction. In this case, I'm going to uncheck Exposure Fusion, we'll…
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Aligning source images4m 5s
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Removing ghost images with automatic deghosting4m 20s
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Removing ghost images with selective deghosting6m 40s
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Reducing noise2m 36s
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Reducing chromatic aberration6m 16s
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Choosing the color primaries and white balance2m 57s
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Working with single files2m 53s
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Working with single raw files8m 15s
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Batch processing single photos for contrast and sharpening6m 31s
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