![]() OnOne – Once you start post-processing, you’ll want all the crayons in the box! Download onOne Software at this link.I often then sharpen using Topaz Adjust or onOne. For extreme night-time situations, be ready to violently move the sliders in all the Noiseware tabs to get rid of that mess!.I leave noise (as long as it is not too bad) in the textured areas of the shot because it adds even more texture.This requires me to duplicate the layer first and then mask through after the noise reduction so that only the sky has this effect. Oftentimes, I only do noise reduction on the sky. ![]() Download Noiseware for Windows or Download Noiseware for Mac. Noiseware Professional – This is the best noise reduction software.It’s the best program I have found for this sort of thing! I usually like to use Noiseware towards the end of the process to get rid of the noise. The HDR Process can sometimes add extra noise to the equation. If you have multiple layers, you can rinse and repeat this masking and merging as needed! Before and After, a final comparison You can do this by selecting Layers > Merge Layers from the menu or Command (Ctrl on windows) E. Once you have masked everything together, merge the layers together you have just completed. If you do enough strokes, you’ll poke 100% of the way through! Each brush will show you 50% more of what is underneath. Watch the quick mini-video or follow the steps:ġ) Click on the top layer to make sure it is activatedĢ) Click at the bottom of the layer panel to add the layer mask (looks like a Japanese flag)ģ) Press B to get your brush, make sure the white box is selected, and then set the brush opacity at the top to 50% (for example)Ĥ) Begin brushing on the photo itself. Now I will Frankenstein these two images together using masking. You can see that I have the Photomatix layer on top and the Lightroom layer on the bottom. You don’t need to understand ALL of Photoshop to do these few things I will teach you. Wait a second here… you’re not thinking, “Ohhhh crap, I suck at Photoshop” are you? I hope not! It’s nothing to be afraid of… This is what friends do, right? We push one another gently out of our comfort zones. I had to do that here, as you can see I had two different crops. This automagically loads them all into Photoshop in layers! Note you may need to Auto-Align them under the Edit menu after you get in. If you have Adobe Bridge, you can select all the photos, then go to Tools>Photoshop…>Load Files into Photoshop Layers…. So, let’s get back to the notion of “ideas.” I quite like each of these two images! But, I don’t have to choose. Below, you can see the two images side by side. By the way, that is the same temporary directory where I have my Photomatix file. As with all these, you can click to zoom in on the image above so you can deconstruct how the preset works.Īfter I create this image, I export it into a temporary directory. The most important sliders are shown there on the top left. I have tweaked the sliders on the right to do many of the things that HDR does. I started here with the “HDR-in-Lightroom Drama in the Center”. You can see that I have Trey’s Lightroom Presets open there on the right and there are many HDR-in-Lightroom presets visible. But, eventually, by using this system, you can come up with a style that is your very own. Maybe in the beginning your photos will look like mine. This ensures you will have a final look that is “different” than mine and uniquely your own. I believe that this method will allow you to create a style that is quintessentially your own! Since you have a unique personality and self, the way you choose to mix and match all the different layers will be inherently unpredictable. The final step, you will see, if you will let me jump ahead, is to layer them all in Photoshop and then combine them into something totally unique that speaks to your personality and your sense of art-self. In my actual day-to-day processing, I may make several Photomatix versions and several Lightroom versions. Today, we are going to use Lightroom to make another version of that image. So, I often prefer to use tools like Photomatix and Lightroom to create many “versions” of the image, each one just being a thought experiment. In that case, for example, I don’t like the fully saturated green shadow on the left. There are always some things I don’t love about the pure HDR result. That HDR image, to me, only informs the final image. Let’s think of that as an “idea” and we want to make more. That HDR image we just made is pretty cool, right? But let’s not think of that as the final image. You made it to page 3 of the Choose Your Own Adventure! You may go back to page 1 or page 2. HDR Tutorial Part 3 Navigating the HDR Tutorial ![]()
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