by Blake Rudis | Sep 7, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
A newcomer to the blog, Larry, asked me to do a tutorial on HDR Toning in Photoshop. I have never shown this on EverydayHDR before because I don’t really care for it as a Tone Mapping engine. I do, however, use it in another interesting way. There are two ways...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 13, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial |
RAW vs JPEG JPEG If you are not shooting in RAW you should really consider it for several reasons. Let me first walk you through the adventurous life that a photograph travels when you shoot in JPEG. Every camera runs an image through several filters prior to...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 8, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Straightening images in Photoshop CS 6 is slightly different than Photoshop CS 5. Actually, Adobe made it much more logical! Imagine that a company that uses logic! In the past the straighten tool was lumped into the Ruler tool, kind of weird but it worked! In...
by Blake Rudis | Jun 1, 2012 | Beginner, HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
My newest most favorite feature of Photoshop CS 6.0, drum roll please (oh wait you probably read the title), Camera Raw 7.0! Adobe has done some serious work on Camera Raw 7.0, on the surface it looks very similar. However, they have revamped the sliders in the...
by Blake Rudis | May 18, 2012 | f64 Academy News, HDR 101: The Basics, Video Tutorial |
HDR Soft recently released version 4.2 of their critically acclaimed HDR software, Photomatix Pro. I have been processing photos with Photomatix Pro for countless years and have found it to be my “go to” HDR software. After processing thousands of HDR...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 24, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
There are several ways to create an HDR image. I prefer to shoot the 5 exposures from my camera and tone map them straight to Photomatix and retouch everything later. But what happens when you only have one RAW file, you can tone map it by itself but sometimes that...
by Blake Rudis | Feb 10, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
There is nothing I hate more with HDR photography than Shadow Noise and Highlight blowouts. These areas are especially common when tone mapping with Photomatix Pro. While they are very annoying, they are not worth throwing Photomatix out of my HDRsenal by any means....
by Blake Rudis | Feb 3, 2012 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
We have all fallen victim to the lazy HDRtist. You know, when you are processing an image in Photomatix and there are distracting highlight blow outs so you do everything in your power to fix them and in turn end up sacrificing the rest of the image. So you tell...
by Blake Rudis | Oct 7, 2011 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
I have found that it is very difficult to shoot a series of bracketed exposures with macro Photography. It is very difficult to worry about getting the perfect brackets when the object you are shooting could move in mere milliseconds depending on...
by Blake Rudis | Jul 29, 2011 | HDR 101: The Basics, Tutorial, Video Tutorial |
Wow, I am really surprised I have gone 150 blog posts without covering a tutorial on how to rid your life of pesky Chromatic Abberations and Color Noise. So here you are, your free advice on how to crush two of the most painful aspects of digital...
