PhotoShop CS5 addresses several of the needs expressed by its users, in the case of photographers one of them was the sound management of HDR images (High Dynamic Range), see this tutorial PhotoShop CS5 and HDR.
With PhotoShop CS5 comes covered the desire of many photographers, Who repeatedly complained of a suitable option management HDR image (High Dynamic Range), many saw the need to acquire external programs such as Photomatrix, which has greater power than earlier versions of photoshop.
In this new version CS5 are happy that the tools for management HDR images has improved significantly and there will be no need to use external programs then, with patience and some practice, you can create fabulous HDR images in Photoshop CS5.
Better yet is that Photoshop CS5 to create HDR images using just one image, that is not necessary to have multiple images with multiple exposures to achieve that purpose.
Recall that the original function was to reproduce the HDR zones are appropriately dark and light areas of an image, however a few years here, and the HDR is not only a means to achieve good lighting, but has become an end ie that the effect itself has become the ultimate goal of photo editing, thus continuously see pictures with HDR effects greatly exaggerated, and although for many of us seem inappropriate, for others it is just your goal.
Here’s a sample pair managed with a single image, in the first we use the HDR effect for better management lights and shadows and the second will use it to create an exaggerated effect of HDR that looks very intense, but it is be well.
Improving shadows and light to regain sharpness in a photograph
Open the image that will be used.
We see the image, despite being very beautiful as it is now, it looks rather poor in the clouds, in addition to the flowers and especially in the stems and leaves we see a marked dominant color, which does not allow adequate contrast and , last but not least, we clearly see a shortage of detail in the tree line, which looks very dark and almost no distinction between the trees.
We opened the new HDR option toning (not yet know how the call in Spanish), we do this from “Image> Adjustments> HDR toning.” Remember that is only available in Photoshop CS5.
In this case we use the method specifically “Local adaption” is that it provides more flexibility and better results. Then we see four blocks with options that can be edited, such as: Edge Glow (Glare border), and Tone Detail (Tone and detail), Color and Toning Curve and Histrogram (Tone Curve and Histogram), but that did not seem appropriate to use as the other options enough.
The first option we should edit each image in the Detail, which allows us to blur or sharpen the image. In my case, always started testing a 150 to 300% and according to what he looked like the picture fit the proportion. In this particular image the $ 150 seemed fair. The following options should move Shadow (Shadow) and Highlight (lights). If we increase the value we will gradually clarifying Shadow shadows. For this example the value of +51% seemed ideal. For Highlight if we increase the intensity of the lights, so I dropped a little, to -12, to retrieve the details of the illuminated areas of the image.
After that, I lowered the exposure a bit to lower the overall image lighting, a value of -. 10 is adequate. In the case of saturation, this machine starts with a value of +20, so it increases only slightly to +25% and 50% intensity.
One of the most important values is the Edge Glow (Brightness of the border) because we generate light classical HDR, which arises from the edges of the various forms of a photograph. This value must be tested much more than others, especially for the second example we’ll see, because an important part of the image appearance is due to this effect. In this case, after much change, I have made a value of 10 radio and 56 px in intensity.
In the next image we can view all settings:
And presto, this is our final result, which compared to the original we see a remarkable improvement.
HDR Effect
Well we’ll see an exaggerated HDR effect so that we can get the picture looks much sharper than the original. This is the beautiful picture that was taken to use http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1238390. A beautiful and quiet evening on a beach on the planet.
The aim is to intensify the shadows and highlights, as well as increased excessively, the sharpness of the image, but being careful not to underexpose or overexpose important areas landscape.
After a few minutes testing I found the following combination as the most suitable for what I want:
And this is our final image:
An extra result:
Hope you like it.