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Almost HDR? My Tut+peoples

Journal Entry: Sat May 10, 2008, 9:37 AM
  • Mood: Artistic
  • Listening to: "Sir Duke"--Stevie Wonder
  • Drinking: coffee




OK, here goes. This is not going to give you quite the otherworldly effect of actual HDR photography, but I think it's damn good for single-image fake in Photoshop.

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This tutorial is for intermediate/advanced users of Photoshop.

1.) Open the photo you want to "HDR"-up. Perform any tune-ups you normally would to a photo--Auto-Levels, Auto-Color, Shadow/Highlights, etc.


2.) If you are working with an extremely high-quality photo with little to no noise, you may wish to apply the Unsharp Mask filter at this time (Try a 90-7 ratio). This can really help with creating some HDR-type drama, but I found that on already noisy photos, this sometimes made the drama/noise trade-off not worth it.)
3.) Duplicate your image in the Layers palette.

4.) To this layer, do the following things:
Desaturate it.
Equalize it.
Invert it. (Or not...sometimes this makes it better, sometimes it looks better to leave as is.)
Apply a Gaussian blur of 10 to 20 (or more or less...experiment).

5.) Set the blend mode of this layer Overlay. (On some photos you may wish to try the blend mode of Color Burn, which can really make skies pop. Use a layer mask to clean up any areas that look icky.) Again, experiment. I find Overlay gave me a great effect on most photos, but you may find a more intense Color or Linear Burn or a softer Soft Light effect may look better.

6.) Flatten your image. Duplicate your flattened image.

7.) Apply a Gaussian blur of 10-20 (or more or less) to this layer. Set this layer's blend mode to Darken. Lower the opacity of this layer to 40 (or higher or lower...it's your photo--experiment, experiment, experiment.)

8.) Flatten image..

9.) Equalize. If desired, experiment with Fade Equalize blend modes. Overlay is really neat.

10.) Sharpen Edges if desired (especially if you've got a building exterior, etc.)

I find this gives me a pretty neat effect.

Hey...just tried this on people. It works great on them too. Just remember to avoid using most sharpening filters on people. ;)

I hope you enjoyed. Lemme know if you have any questions...and if you do something with this technique PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE show me. I'd love to see my tut in action.



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:giggle: Yeah! I'm gonna be slowly but surely moving all my stock over to this account, now that we can divide stuff up into folders and stuff... I hope yer likin' it--and use it! :D

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~scrawleDvisions:iconscrawleDvisions: 5 days 10 hours ago
Ahahaha! :rofl: I thought you were on some super-sonic artistic roll of PWN today. :wow: I was quite awed until I clicked on the deviations and realized they were stock. I really need to get used to all these deviation icons. :slow:

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What a lovely comment. I try really hard to make stuff that's original and has a sense of fun. I'm flattered you like. :aww:

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~Priyoti:iconPriyoti: May 2, 2008, 1:04:46 AM
awsome work, I'm always curious to see what people do with stock pictures and usually it's nice but rarely amazing but your collection of work is truely WOW :jawdrop:. You seem to see potential in stock pics others usually don't. :thumbsup:

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=vacuumslayer:iconvacuumslayer: May 1, 2008, 3:56:03 PM
Look forward to seeing. :D

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