How To Apply Photoshop's HDR Toning To Improve Your Photography
https://www.shutterbuggs.com/ - Here’s an image that I photographed of Rainbow Beach up on Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, quite a few years ago and it was shot on a Canon 20D. Now the reason I’m using this photo is I want to demonstrate how you can implement HDR toning on a single exposure photograph such as this one. Now, it’s not a terribly great shot and it was taken just before dawn, but we’re going to see if we can improve it using this new feature in Photoshop.
Now, in order to use HDR toning we need to first actually flatten our images. So we need only have one layer and it needs to be completely flattened. In order to do that, if you do have multiple layers, you just go up to layer and you go down the bottom to flatten image. In this case it’s already flattened so I don’t need to actually go about and do that. So if we go to image, and then go to adjustments, you’ll find HDR toning just beneath shadow and highlights.
So we click on that, and that’ll bring HDR toning window. Now, HDR toning lets you apply full range of HDR contrast and exposure settings to your individual images. Now, if you don’t know HDR stands for, it simply stands for High Dynamic Range Imagery, and that’s where you take multiple exposures, at different exposure settings, and then combine them into one photograph.
So in some cases where you have a really high dynamic range scene that you’re shooting where you’ve got really extreme highlights and you’ve got extreme shadows where you’ve got a very high contrast ratio, by photographing and exposing correctly for the shadows and then exposing the mid-tones and exposing correctly for the highlights, you can combine all of those exposures in order to get a high dynamic range image which can look quite amazing when you actually piece it all together.
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