Creating a faux-HDR effect in Camera Raw

Now there's no disputing that HDR Pro is powerful, but it's not necessarily …Photoshop's most entertaining feature. The experience itself can be arduous, and …it requires multiple exposures, so there's a fair amount of overhead. …Which is why I'd be remiss if I didn't show you how you can simulate an HDR …effect, in Adobe Camera Raw, using a single exposure. …Now, we're not going to get an identical effect by any means. …But we can get about 50% the way there. So let me show you how it works. …We'll go up to the File menu and choose Browse and Bridge, in order to switch …over to Adobe Bridge. And once again I'm looking at the …contents of the Flagstaff photo subfolder.…

I'll select the image called Flagstaff Bracketed 3, which is the default …autoexposure. And, I'll press Control R, or Command R …on the Mac, in order to open that image inside Camera Raw. …Now the first thing we want to do, go ahead and zoom in a little bit here, is …increase the clarity. And the temptation is to go ahead and …