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Merging raw images in Lightroom Classic

Merging raw images in Lightroom Classic - Lightroom Tutorial

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Merging raw images in Lightroom Classic

If we look at the Develop module here, take a look at what happens with the basic slider. As I drag the Exposure, you see it has huge range. There's the very underexposed image and the very overexposed image. Even as we brighten that up, you see with five stops there that there's details in the shadows. This is one of the main benefits of HDR, is the huge range within the image. All right, let's reset that, and now, with all of the images selected, I'll just choose Reset so they go back to default value. Let's use a keyboard shortcut. To create the merge, I'll press Control + M. This'll hand them off to the Panorama Merge Preview and start to build the file. I'll choose Auto Select to let it guess on the best merge method. There we go, and you see, it's a pretty quick process. Looks good, and for now, I'll click Merge, and you see it creates the new file. While that's rolling, let's go on and fix a few more things.…

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