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Tone mapping HDR images: Fine tuning

Tone mapping HDR images: Fine tuning - Affinity Photo Tutorial

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Tone mapping HDR images: Fine tuning

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- [Instructor] We could use the basics controls to fine tune the effects we got using the presets. So we could tap and increase the local contrast, and that increases the HDL effect. We could use tone compression to balance that by taking down the extra brightness that that produces. We could increase the whole exposure of the scene. We can set the black point darker and brighter, and we can change the brightness. We can also have a look at increasing the contrast, although this does tend to make it oversaturated and to darken the shadows too much. And we could play around with the saturation and the vibrance controls to get the effect we want. We can use the white balance to warm up the image or to cool it down. Let's make it a little bit warmer. And if we want, we could add some tint to this. So we could make it slightly magenta, or slightly green by dragging that slider. The shadows are looking too dark, well we can just boost them a little bit, and we could also take the…

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