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Using Tone Compressor in Photomatix
From the course: HDR Photography: Shooting and Processing
Using Tone Compressor in Photomatix
I am here in Photomatix. I still have my process set to Tone Mapping. I'm going to reset down here by hitting the default button to get my settings back to normal, because I want us to look at the other Tone Mapping method. I'm going to change this method pop- up menu from Details Enhancer to Tone Compressor, the other option, and right away my image changes. Now as I mentioned before, this is still a tone mapping process. It's still cherry picking tones from that big 32-bit mess of data and putting them down into a smaller 8 or 16 bit data space, but it's doing it in a way that yields and image that's a little less HD-yR and more like a normal photograph. I have got shadows that are punched in the darkness here. I don't have overexposed highlights, but my overall tonal relationships are a little more like a normal photo. So let's take a look at the controls that we have here and see how we can adjust this. Brightness, Tonal Range Compression and Contrast Adaptation, I am grouping…
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Creating an HDR image in Photoshop12m 15s
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Creating an HDR image in Photomatix22m 5s
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Creating an HDR in HDR Efex11m 47s
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Merging in Photoshop and processing elsewhere3m 51s
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Using Tone Compressor in Photomatix4m 25s
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Using Exposure Fusion in Photomatix7m 35s
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Single-shot HDR images in Photomatix4m 18s
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Single-shot HDR images in HDR Efex1m 3s
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Single-shot HDR images in Photoshop5m 32s
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Ghosting and Photoshop2m 51s
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Ghosting and HDR Efex2m 47s
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Ghosting and Photomatix6m 36s
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Batch processing in Photomatix10m 51s
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