Comments on: Brief HDR bits

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:42:53 +0000

Yeah, this HDR thing gets way overused. Almost everyone who uses it abuses it. Kind of like Flash! (flinch)
But hey — Flash and HDR can yield good things in the right hands.

By: Robert Barnett

Robert Barnett — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:37:48 +0000

Also, don't forget the Photoshop plug-in from Topaz Labs called Topaz Adjust. Besides having presets that give a very nice HDR look the plug-in is also useful for "normal" exposure and color adjustments as well as noise reduction. http://www.topazlabs.com

By: Roger Howard

Roger Howard — Wed, 20 May 2009 08:04:41 +0000

I’m not a fan, at all, of the overly tonemapped “look” in most cases – sometimes it can be used to a nice artistic effect… anyway… what HDR always promised was delivering better dynamic range from a stack of exposures – but what’s been tough has been getting a natural look. I don’t know if your engineers and product folks have looked at what tools based on “enfuse” can do – it’s like manually compositing exposures for a natural look, but without the work. On the Mac check out Bracketeer for an example – enfuse is open source and the algorithms are patent free (I believe) – I’d love to see this kind of exposure blending available in Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom.

By: Daniele di stanio

Daniele di stanio — Wed, 20 May 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Hi John and everybody, Photoshop Italia Adobe User Group will join Worldwidephotowalk, starting with me in Rome. So if any of you will be in Rome July 18th please register yourself or drop me a line here: http://groups.adobe.com/groups/acf1bb2cb0/summary Also, John, I started translations for members who do not speak english. Last post in our blog is, in fact, this one, if you would like to change something please let me know. And thank you for everything!