Most people, when working with HDR images, choose to shoot bracketed photos where you have multiple exposures to combine. But there are times when you can use Photomatix to work with single exposures. Let's take a look at a handful of images. Some of them are flattened files already processed to a JPEG or a TIFF, and the others are actually raw files that will give us a bit more latitude. Let's start with those files that are already processed. I'll right click and choose to open those in the Photomatix. We'll open those as files only. And you see that they both open.
Let's close this one out. I'll put those side by side. With it open I could choose to actually process the image just under Edit, Tone Map. Now this particular image does not seem to have any noise problems so I'll choose No. It brings it in. And you can see that it's bringing out the detail, really nicely, in that bone texture of the skull. I like the intensification of the color. And those teeth look just fantastic with how they're bringing out the detail.
So that's just the default view there. With a quick apply, you'll see that its done, and we can even put a little bit of additional contrast in, and that looks great. I'll choose Done and there's the tone mapped image. Lets save that. File, Save As. And if you put those two images side-by-side, it's clear that that's a nice improvement to the single image. Let's see that again on a flattened file.
Edit, Tone Map. No noise reduction here. And in this case, I'm just going to go to a nice black and white image. I really like that look there. Nice drama, comes through really well. And I'm just going to put a little bit of color back in by bringing up the color saturation. I want it mostly black and white. That looks great. And if we toggle that off and on, you could see that, that just did a great job of making a compelling black and white image. I particularly like how it brought back some of the missing detail along the left edge.
Let's apply that. A little bit of contrast. And I'll save that so you could see the before and after.
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- Loading bracketed photos
- Aligning source images
- Reducing noise and chromatic aberration
- Tone mapping with methods
- Fusing a single image or multiple images
- Removing color cast
- Automating with batch processing
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 36s
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Using the exercise files1m 8s
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1. Loading Bracketed Photos
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Loading from a folder3m 42s
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Loading from Lightroom7m 13s
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Loading from Bridge5m 22s
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When to load raw files3m 2s
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2. Preprocessing Images with Photomatix
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Aligning source images4m 5s
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Reducing noise2m 36s
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Working with single files2m 53s
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3. An Overview of Tone Mapping and the Exposure Fusion Workflow
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When to use Tone Mapping3m 15s
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When to use Exposure Fusion2m 48s
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Adjusting the preview window2m 35s
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Working with presets4m 52s
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Add finishing touches4m 48s
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Saving the image3m 45s
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4. Tone Mapping in Depth
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The Tone Compressor workflow3m 53s
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The black-and-white workflow5m 58s
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The tone balancer workflow6m 29s
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5. Exposure Fusion in Depth
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The Fusion/Natural workflow4m 31s
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Fusing multiple images4m 5s
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Fusing a single image2m 22s
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Comparing methods3m 14s
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6. Advanced Options to Solve Problems
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Removing color casts5m 15s
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Removing tough ghosts2m 54s
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Post-process in Photoshop5m 28s
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Using the Adjustment Brush3m 54s
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7. Post-Processing Your Image with Finishing Touches
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Sharpening the final image3m 45s
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Cropping the final image2m 8s
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Conclusion
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Final thoughts1m 4s
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