Thursday, October 20, 2011

Bring images to life with "AMAZING" HDR effect


HDR stands for High Dynamic Range.Basically, it is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods.For more details refer this Wiki.
Now,the process below is for Adobe Photoshop,although it would easily be replicated for any other image editor of your choice,for instance GIMP.Now,let's quickly head to the process.
  • Open up the image file in Photoshop,using Ctrl+O or using the File menu.
  • Now,right-click the only layer in the layers pallete(named "Background"),and select "Duplicate Layer" option.Name it copy
  • Click and select the "copy" layer,and select "overlay" in the blending options
  • Now,go to Image=>Adjustment=>Desaturate and then Image=>Adjustment=>Invert
  • Go to Filter=>blur=>Gaussian blur,and set the value to 40 pixels.Click OK.
  • Now,click and select the "Background" layer,right click it,and chose "Duplicate layer" option.Name this layer as "copy1".
  • Drag this layer,moving it to the topmost position(above the "copy" layer).
  • Click and select the"copy1" layer,and chose "linear light" in the blending options.Set the opacity(initially 100) to 62%.Play around this value for best results.
This is the final result I obtained for this image
Hope you all enjoyed the tutorial :)

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