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Introducing HDR Toning

Introducing HDR Toning - Photoshop Tutorial

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Introducing HDR Toning

Photoshop CS5 provides two varieties of high dynamic range or HDR. One is HDR Pro, and this is a killer function, actually, extremely capable and powerful. And what it allows you to do is take multiple exposures of the same scene, like those featured inside the Barn exposures subfolder, inside the 33_HDR_pro folder, here inside the Bridge, and then merge them together to either create a perfectly exposed shot or a highly effective shot. Either way you're drawing every bit of luminance that was available to that original scene. The other command that's available to you is HDR Toning, and it applies a kind of fake HDR effect, using the same technology to a flat image that is a single exposure making it more useful, for example, portrait shots where it's basically impossible to get multiple exposures without having the portion slightly move. So we're going to start with HDR Toning because it's easier entry into this topic. I'll go out to the little boomerang icon and click on it, to…

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