HDR-LOOK EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP

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HDR Vivid colors looking Tutorial.

In this tutorial I will show you how to edit a photograph to
be a HDR with vivid colors look.
High Dynamic Range as well as HDR is very useful for
bracketing photograph, mostly with outdoors or a under
exposure photo. In this tutorial I will not merge them
(usually HDR need more than 1 photo) instead of just using
single image.
What we need : Photoshop and an outdoor photograph.
Thanks for viewing, I hope this tutorial can help you to edit
a photo with HDR feeling, but don’t hesitate to try the any
other HDR program like photomatix pro.
About the picture,
it is a national monument, if you search up in google, you
can type Monas. Located in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Required Files
 HDR TUT1.psd
Final Image

Step

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Open your file with Photoshop. In this tutorial, I use an

outdoor photographs with texture of clouds.

Step

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First of all, with the background layer selected, select
Image then Adjustment then Shadow/Highlight. A pop-up
screen will appear. Tick the ‘Show more options’. In this
photo I use the settings of : Shadows amount : 50% Tonal
width : 45% Radius : 41% High-light amount : 83% Tonal
width : 76% Radius : 1120-1124 px you can change the
settings as you like.

Step

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Duplicate background layer and select the blending option

to Color Dodge. This setting w ill pop the colors out.
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Do the same thing as in the third step, but blending option

is set up to Linear Burn now.
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Now set the Foreground color to Black. And open Select

then Color Range, tick off the invert option. Fuzziness
should be set up around 100. Click the Reds Icon, then
(optional) click the layer mask then apply Gaussian blur.
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Duplicate the Linear Burn layer, then set the blending

option to Overlay. Select the layer mask, then press Ctrl + I
(or Command + i) to invert.

Step

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Burn some parts of the image if you think its to bright
and/or play with other adjustment if your pic looks too
popped-out.

Step

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In this last step, you can play with the Opacity of the
layer. In this tutorial I reduced the Overlay and Linear Burn
to around 50% (but the amount is up to you).