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HDR: NOT ONLY THE 'MAGIC' EFFECT PAULO - 08/25/2008

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Today we've got an awesome article about HDR and its applications. Andrea Pelizzardi, an italian designer, sent us an absolutily awesome tutorial on how to do 2 HDR effects... After checking this out, don't forget to visit his site! Cheers! ;) When someone says to you: "HDR", what do you think about? A big, weird, impossible picure you can't believe... no? Well, a lot of people think that HDR was created to have a weird effect like the posters of Harry Potter, but this is NOT the purpose of it. The High Dynamic Range is a technique that merges 3 photos (usually, but you can merge 20 photos also) and have the possibility to get every detail and every right lights from 'em, without having parts overexposed or underexposed. In fact, a HDR is just like a RAW file. You have a 32bit image, so you can work with higher ranges, expose the photo again, work on it without destroying any details, etc. Surfing on Flickr or checking several photos, you can find these two kinds of HDR. The greatest part of 'em is formed by the usual "Harry Potter" HDR, like these: Advertise Here

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Yeah, they're are very cool, wonderful and spectacular, but why did the photographer use the technique this

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way? To impress people? Because he loves it? It's a hard question... But I say that HDR was not created to do

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this, for another kind of work, like these:

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STEP 1 - (for both the methods)

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I know that do the actual HDR technique is harder than get the "Harry Potter" one. Now, I want to try these two

Open the 3 photos in Photoshop CS3 (best software to do this work). Go to File -> Automate -> Merge To HDR.

Now click in "Add Open Files" and select "Attempt to Automatically Align Source Images" ONLY IF if you took the photos without a tripod or something to stable it. Then click OK.

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Wait a few seconds, then click Ok again. Now you have a 32bit HDR file. Go to Image -> Mode -> 16bit.

Now you have the settings window for the 32 to 16 HDR conversion. Select "Local Adaptation" from the pop-up menu, then click "Toning curve and histogram".

STEP 2.A - 'Harry Potter' Effect Now go to -> Image -> Adjustament -> Shadows/Highlights.

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Set these values.

Now go to -> Image -> Adjustament -> Bightness/contrast and set these values.

Go again to Image -> Mode -> 8 bit (if you want to export a JPEG file).

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Save and export.

STEP 2.B - 'HDR was born to do this' Effect Set these values.

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Now go to -> Image -> Adjustment -> Shadows/Highlights.

Set these values.

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Go again to Image -> Mode -> 8bit (if you want to export a JPEG File).

Save and export.

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You may download the sample picture down here for this tutorial. Enjoy!

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I liked Nice Is it 3post, different the tutorial.. keepphotos it on... but with I've been different trying adjusment to achieve or just the effect duplicate Dave one Hillphoto achieved into 3indifferent his photographs.. photos? anyone??

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check him out www.davehillphoto.com Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. At Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you guys... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! Cheers!

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Very good tutorial. Thanks so much

Sim Pern Chong (Not Verified) 10/05/2008

i would like to ask when u say 3 same photos does that mean 1 photo that duplicates into 3 or 3 different photos?

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Anonymous (Not Verified) 09/10/2008

Awesome tutorial... with awesome results. Thanks for the tutorial. HDR is cool but i use it more for as environment map for 3D rendering.

HDR Mapper (Not Verified) 09/06/2008

Josia (Not Verified) 09/05/2008

There are no values for Bightness/Contrast given... Or am I blind? But nice results! Great!

Manuel (Not Verified) 09/01/2008

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Wooh, awesome dude... http://tropicalholidays.olympe-network.com

Anonymous (Not Verified) 09/01/2008

I'm the author of the post. I'm sorry for the english, I'm 17 and I'm italian. I try to do my best :) Andrea Pelizzardi

Andrea Pelizzardi 08/28/2008

wow, sorry about that, Joe. This post was actually not written by any of us, but by a visitor... I did read it before posting, but I think I've just assumed that the person would know who to write in good english since he/she is not Brazilian. Lol. Sorry again, and I'll read it all again to correct the grammar mistakes. Cheers!

Paulo 08/28/2008

I love the articles here at Abduzeedo. They have helped me greatly. Now that the site is becoming even more popular I have one constructive comment to make. I think new articles should be reviewed for grammatical errors before they are posted. Even though I still manage to understand the articles, grammatical mistakes are distracting and confusing. For example this sentence needs help in more ways than one: "I think and I know that do the "normal" HDR is harder than get the "Harry Potter" ones. Now I want to try this two methods with you with the same 3 photos." There other typos in this article that need to be corrected. Besides this though Abduzeedo is great. Keep up the good work!

Joe Pimentel (Not Verified) 08/27/2008

The HDR r nice indeed, but in many cases they tend to look unusual...a nice article.

Husac (Not Verified) 08/27/2008

good tutorial on HDR... however, some landscape photographers find it a bit un-realistic... they seem to tend to digital blending (tutorial: http://terrychay.com/blog/article/digital-blending-multipleexposures.sh...) some samples of digital blending: http://www.flickr.com/photos/montinola/2666497863/

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good tutorial. thx

Edi Inayat Muslaini (Not Verified) 08/26/2008

I like this post thanks andrea :]

Lorenzo (Not Verified) 08/26/2008

Excelent tutorial. The photo looks great, i wonder how many photos are needed to create one like the boat at the sunset above. That one looks awsome! Keep it coming. regards

Vasco Dias (Not Verified) 08/26/2008

Thanks!!! great post... HDR is awesome!!!

Bruno Gurgatz (Not Verified) 08/26/2008

Love this tutorial, the final product is fantastic on all images that I use it for!! Well done

Natty P (Not Verified) 08/25/2008

Hey there I'm the author of this tutorial. First of all thanks to abduzeedo's stuff for having published my tutorial. And... if you users have some question contact me following the link. :) Andrea Pelizzardi

Andrea Pelizzardi 08/25/2008

The Hostile Monkey is only familiar with the "normal" HDR technique mentioned. Can someone point The Hostile Monkey to the Harry Potter poster that spawned these faux-HDR monstrosities? The Hostile Monkey wondered why HDR didn't seem to mean HDR any more. Now he knows.

Hostile Monkey (Not Verified) 08/25/2008

Fantastic tutorial! But not every photo could use to do a great HDR image. The photo is run by the lights, objets, brightness and more, so you should prove to do a lot of HDR process to get a photo like the post.

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CAPTCHA awesome. Best uhh..nice regards!! post..i i didntlike know it.. that you can achieve an this good hdr effect with ps This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.

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