Creating an HDR image with Lightroom and Photoshop

In this movie, I'm going to show you a technique for using Photoshop and…Lightroom together to process an HDR image, or high dynamic range image, one…that's made from a number of different exposures of the same scene.…I'll be making a realistic type of HDR image, the purpose of which is to get the…maximum detail in the highlights and in the shadows, and that's a bit different…from that kind of over saturated HDR images that are so popular these days.…But you could use the techniques that I show you here to get that sort of a look as well.…What I think is so great about this technique is that it lets you use the…familiar controls right in Lightroom to process your HDR image.…

So I'm starting here in Lightroom with five exposures of the same scene.…I'll select them all in the film strip, in the Develop module, or in the Library module.…And then I'll go up to the Photo menu and I'll choose Edit In > Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop.…That passes the five images over to Photoshop, and what Photoshop is doing is…