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Toning the HDR image

Toning the HDR image - Photoshop Tutorial

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Toning the HDR image

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- If you've created a 32-bit depth image, it's not really possible to do a lot of work with that file. So temporarily, we're going to use Adobe Camera Raw to process that image, deciding which part of the shadows and highlights are going to be used in the final photo. This is called tone mapping, and we'll use Adobe Camera Raw to make those decisions. Let's take a look here at some of the options. There's a lot of presets here, just to kind of jumpstart you: photorealistic, low contrast photorealistic, and that did a really good job of merging it all together. But what I want to actually do is create a 32-bit image. Now, you could adjust the toning here or check the box to use Adobe Camera Raw, which is actually ideal. When I'm ready, I can click Tone and ACR. And it will send the file into Adobe Camera Raw. Now we could apply additional transformations. Let's recover a little more highlights and lift the shadows a bit,…

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