HDR images and tutorial


	HDR images and tutorial
n2sooners
5-27-2008 9:24 PM
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hdr, photography, photographs, photoshop, art
n2sooners says:
Tutorial is way to detailed to clip, so I clipped lots of images.
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5-28-2008 1:19 PM
BartendingBear
Super clip, n2. Thanks!
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There is no “right way” to set these sliders.  There is certainly a “wrong” way to do it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/">Below, I paste an example of how you can really make your image look too funkadelic.  Funkadelic is cool if that is what you want or you have a lot of druggie friends that like laser light shows and your mind-bending HDRs, but most people don’t like them</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/stuckincustoms.com/img/EE119246-3070-439D-9837-45287A03D039" alt="HDR Tutorial - BAD HDR example" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/stuckincustoms.com/img/BDAAD630-7B58-4381-8631-8FE88B3655A3" alt="HDR Tutorial - A decent tonemapping" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><STRONG>Step 6 - Photoshop fun</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/stuckincustoms.com/img/4CA9A628-7C2D-4E5E-9401-14AE5511660D" alt="HDR Tutorial - Beginning the Photoshop cleanup" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; 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background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/">Below, we can see the final image once again!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/stuckincustoms.com/img/D2309934-853E-425E-98F1-3437293F4B7E" alt="Times Square at Dusk" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/"><STRONG> Bonus Step -  Processing a single RAW file </STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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