Creating An HDR Photo Effect In 3 Simple Steps
- October 8th, 2009
- Photoshop
Just a quick tip on how to create a HDR looking photo effect using Photoshop by making image adjustments and playing around with filters. The perfect tutorial for Photoshop beginners and even a great tutorial for a Photoshop expert.
Video Screen Cast Of The Tutorial
The Tutorial also comes with a video screen cast to compliment the text and image tutorial.
Materials
1. Applying Shadow And Highlight
Start off by opening up Stock Photo in Photoshop.
1. Then Select Image > Adjustments > Shadow/Highlight,
turn the shadow amount up to 50% and the Highlight amount to also 50% then select the OK button.
2. We Next Want To Desaturate The Photo
2. Duplicate the layer by right clicking on the layer and selecting the duplicate layer.
then select image > adjustment > Desaturate the image this will then turn the image black and white.
We then want to change the blending mode on that layer to overlay.
3. Applying An High Pass Filter
3. Next select the bottom Photoshop layer and duplicated it we then want to move that layer to the top of all other layers. Then select filter > other > High pass,
we then would like to change the radious to 66
once that’s been done select the OK button. All what’s left to do is change the blending mode for that layer to soft light.
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Fantastic!
great !
WoW :) Awesome tutorial. Thanks for sharing this nice post.
How can I save the photo effects to photoshop?
this isn’t really HDR. HDR contains zero shadows or hotspots. It’s supposed to flatten the image into one true exposure. If you look at this, it’s the exact opposite. It’s a cool processing that reminds me of dave hill/joey lawrence. But it isnt HDR.
coool stuffs !
Thank you very much!
I was looking for a way to get a “faux” HDR effect and you gave me exactly what I wanted! – TomJB
thanks a lot… quite simple but still awesome
This is Hyper-reality post processing. It’s not HDR.
i agree with clay .. great job though !
Yep not HDR at all, But it does look pretty good. If you were to do that upon a scenery/landscape shot it would not look any different colour wise. You need to know real HDR to call it an HDR effect
nice, i also use some ps actions to fake HDR. This one is pretty good: http://bit.ly/Q9v1x1
Really? Is it that simple to create an HDR photo? Thanks a ton, I am gonna try it. :)
This is the first time I seeing a little short simple but full tutorials.