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Working with single raw files

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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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