I won't be getting a hold of a newer version of Photoshop CS for a while, so I'm wondering how to reproduce this effect in Photoshop 7.
Any tippers?
HDR photos are not CREATED in Photoshop. They are done IN THE CAMERA. Photoshop is just used as a means of combining the various exposures into a single photo. The later versions of Photoshop have HDR tools to aid in manipulating the various exposures taken in the camera, but PS is NOT creating the HDR.
You have to mount your camera on a tripod and take exposures of the various tonal values in a scene. This is the basis for HDR photos. The software work afterward is just part of the process.
Possibly you mean you already have the shots in camera and want to use PS 7 to process them. If that is the case, then it is just a matter of using layers and erasing away parts of one photo that you don't want to reveal the part of the scene you do want. In other words, if you had your first photo exposed for the shadows and then layered a photo on top of that exposed for the highlights, you would erase away the shadow portion of the top photo. This would reveal the properly exposed highlights of the top photo and the properly exposed shadows in the bottom photo.
steve
#1 by Steve P - at
HDR photos are not CREATED in Photoshop. They are done IN THE CAMERA. Photoshop is just used as a means of combining the various exposures into a single photo. The later versions of Photoshop have HDR tools to aid in manipulating the various exposures taken in the camera, but PS is NOT creating the HDR.
You have to mount your camera on a tripod and take exposures of the various tonal values in a scene. This is the basis for HDR photos. The software work afterward is just part of the process.
Possibly you mean you already have the shots in camera and want to use PS 7 to process them. If that is the case, then it is just a matter of using layers and erasing away parts of one photo that you don't want to reveal the part of the scene you do want. In other words, if you had your first photo exposed for the shadows and then layered a photo on top of that exposed for the highlights, you would erase away the shadow portion of the top photo. This would reveal the properly exposed highlights of the top photo and the properly exposed shadows in the bottom photo.
steve
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#2 by fhotoace - at
I don't know if Photoshop 7 supports HDR merging
This is the work flow using Photoshop CS and up
File >Automate > Merge to HDR and then in the window, choose the three to five OE, NE and UE images.
Of course using a tripod is necessary
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proFotog
#3 by brian_rmsy - at
You can do a fake HDR in Camera Raw by cranking up the Recovery, Fill Light, and the clarity sliders all the way and play around with the others. Then open in the editor copy layer then add High Pass filter around 1.5 pixel.
Here is one I did that way.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikonn90s/3103622062/sizes/l/
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