HDR in PSE6

[candleman]

HEY,

Something I’m trying to figure out is how to create a HDR image in PSE6 ??

I took some great shots over the weekend at a local airfield and want to give them the HDR look.

If anyone has a tutorial or “step by step” instruction it would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
J

[wellingsk]

your not able to do HDR in PE6. I don't think the full version of photoshop does a great job. I think you will need something like Photomatix.

http://www.hdrsoft.com/download.html

[TonyW]

Although you can't do true HDR in PSE6 you can do pseudo or fake HDR to get an HDR look. And if you only took one shot, rather than the multiple exposure shots that true HDR requires then that's what you'd have to do. Check out this thread for some ways of doing it and there are a number of other ways that are doable in PSE6 - some more complex than others. Generally it works better if you shot RAW because you have more dynamic range to work with than jpegs but a good jpeg with no blown out areas can work well too.

http://www.elementsvillage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40042

Tony

[candleman]

thanks for the tips.
i'll have a look at both and see what i can do.

i've produced some which are close to HDR using the overlay/multiply filters.. and adjusting levels/saturations

:)