Dramatically increasing the detail in a photo

In this movie, I'll show you at least one way to achieve a highly detailed …photographic effect using HDR Pro. I'm going to start things off here by …switching my Preset back to Default, which will go ahead and wipe out most of …the values. And then I went ahead and zoomed in on …the upper left portion of the photograph and I start things off by cranking up the …detail value to an amount that shows off the rocks nicely without taking it up too …high. And I decided that happened at about …150%. And obviously, these are a group of …values that just happen to work best for this specific composition.…

Then I decided to increase the contrast of the image by taking up the Gamma value …to 2.0, which requires you to drag the slider triangle to the left in order to …create this effect right here. The exposure looks good to me, so I left …it set to zero. All right. …I’m going to zoom in a little farther here, so I can evaluate the edges inside …of the image. And, the first thing I did was to turn on …