

The names of the individual tonemapping operators may be different but the functionalities are much the same. The tutorial will concentrate on using Photomatix from HDRSoft but the techniques discussed for using PM apply to other HDR software programs as well. Continue reading “My Christmas Wishlist for Adobe” → Posted in Commentary, HDR Tagged 32 bit, adjustment layer, adobe, bit depth, HDR, HDR Pro, HDR Toning, hdri, Lightroom, lightroom plugin, Photoshop, plugin, smart object, soft proof, soft proofing, softproof, softprooring, tonemapĪfter completing the review series on various HDR software programs and talking about how well each could create realistic and grunge/surrealistic results, I figured it might be appropriate to put together a more in depth tutorial on how the results were obtained as well as some of my own, personal, approaches to shooting and editing for HDR. Yes, there’s a lot of HDR stuff in here but, hey, I do HDR and the rest of Photoshop is pretty damn good after 20 years. But if you use others in the Adobe product family, toss your wishes into the comments.

I’m only going to cover the two products I use – Photoshop and Lightroom.

So here, in this little piece of the blogoshphere is my Christmas Wishlist for Adobe. Now that we’re adults the wishes are different and more difficult to fulfill. When we were kids, it seemed that magic happened on Christmas day and most of our wishes came true. A lump of coal for some of the more naughty. The time of snow and presents under the tree.
