In this lesson I'm going to show you how you can merge together photos as an HDR photo.
Remember from earlier in the class that HDR or bracketing which is basically the same concept is taking
photos the same photo at different exposures and then combining them to get a properly balanced photo.
So I've included in the examples and HDR folder with the two HDR sort of photos that I took.
So we have one that's a little underexposed one that is overexposed to get the details in the rocks.
So in Photoshop if you go up to the File menu then go down to automate then choose merge to HDR Pro.
A window pops up where you choose the photos you want to merge.
Click browse find the photos you want to merge select all of them.
It could be two or even more click open it's going to appear there and then choose OK it's going to
process those photos and open up this sort of HDR menu.
So it's already gone ahead and processed both of these images together and you have several options
for adjusting how it looks here.
You also have presets up here that you can choose.
There's custom there's a real there's just different ones depending on the style you're looking for
and also depending on sort of what photos you took.
So if you start with the default which is makes really no adjustments you can go in and now in this
menu you can actually make adjustments to things like the exposure with the highlights and the shadows
adjusting the vibrance and the saturation.
You also have more adjustments up here like edge glow tone in detail which will make changes depending
on what your photo is of the radio is basically in the edge glow effects the edge of things and how
things are blended together for this image.
It doesn't do that much for tone in detail you can affect the overall exposure with exposure you can
increase the detail this detail slider to give you more of that sort of typical HDR look gamma is similar
to contrast in a sense whereas making things a little bit more contrast or flat so you can play around
with that and so go out and play around with your settings make it look how you want and then click
OK and it's going to open it up as a photoshop file.
This has been a little bit wonky for me in the past where it actually crashed photoshop so hopefully
with updates to photoshop this will work properly for you if it does crash or if it doesn't open.
Try saving the file as a photoshop project and then reopening it.
I'm gonna show you how to save the project in a couple lessons so you might have to go skip ahead to
that lesson if you don't know how to save a photoshop file.
But basically now you have your your HDR photo that you can continue to make edits to as you wish.
It's not a raw image it's a roster size image but you can go ahead and right click choose to convert
it to a smart object and open it up in Camera Raw using the filter camera filter.
If you're interested in making adjustments using camera raw so that's how you combine images into an
HDR photo.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Otherwise we'll see in the next lesson.