From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)

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Toning the HDR image

Toning the HDR image - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Layers: Working with Multiple Photos (2018)

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Toning the HDR image

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- If you've created a 32 bit depth image, it's not really possible to do a lot of work with that file. So temporarily, we're going to use Adobe Camera Raw to process that image, deciding which part of the shadows and highlights are going to be used in the final photo. This is called tone mapping, and we'll use Adobe Camera Raw to make those decisions. Now in this case, our highlights and recovery sliders are super flexible. I'm working in 32 bits per channel, so as I recover the highlights, you see a lot of details there in the sky that were clipped out to white are brought back, and that's great. I could also lift up the shadow substantially, and using clarity here, get a lot of great contrast in the image. Now if you take a look, you'll also notice that it automatically used content aware fill technology to try to generate some new pixels there at the edges where we had the gaps caused by the perspective correction. I'll have to clone that in a little bit later, but that didn't do a…

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