MasterClass! - Adobe Photoshop HDRI Tutorials
Introduction / Overview
Subtitles of the Movie (MasterClass! - Adobe Photoshop HDRI / Introduction / Overview)
Welcome to this lesson. This is an overview of MasterClass Adobe Photoshop CS4 HDRI. This MasterClass focuses on creating HDR in Photoshop CS4 but also we're going to use Photomatix Pro and we're going to create artistically interpreted HDR, not literal duplication of the scene at the hand, but something a little more artistic. Here is an example of a horse rounding a corner and running at me from behind a shed. This is an artistic turn from the actual photograph. A lot of drama, color, light, detail, texture, contrast, those terms I would use to describe artistically oriented HDR. From the same day here is a scene of the barn, the sun behind clouds, pretty blue sky, turning leaves, detail into the barn. Here's a motorcycle, now this may not look so outlandish to you now but if you compare the before and after which we will later you can see that this is not really the photograph. This looks pretty close and is sort of realistic but even if I zoom in, now this has been re-sampled down, so losing a little bit of clarity here. But it's more like a high quality artistic print or a graphic illustration. Subjects vary from scenic, landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, close-up shots of things like this truck. A lot of color, a lot of texture, a lot of tone and I'm bring those out on purpose in HDR. We'll cover things like what is HDR photography, Dynamic Range, look at a workflow, how we want to process all this information. How to select scenes, then we'll move on to preprocessing raw. Here I'm going to open up Photoshop, get that maximized and then arrange my windows so I can drag a raw file in there, going to preprocess raw using basic settings and presets so that we can quickly move through the process of processing the raw to 16 bit TIFFs and then we'll use that to create the HDR from. Following that we'll create the HDR in Photoshop or Photomatix. Here I've got Photomatix called up and here is a 32 bit HDR file loaded into Photomatix. This shot is actually merging several bracketed photos with different exposure values into one composite shot and then the next section is about Tone Mapping that photo using Photomatix settings and there are quite a few of them, to create something artistic, tasteful according to what you want to produce. This is not a literal rendering of the scene, there is a lot of creativity in all of different settings of Photomatix and cover each one of those, what they do, how to work with them. I'll contrast that with how to create HDR in Photoshop CS4 so that you can see the difference. We'll cover all of the details enhancer settings, the general settings, tone, color and smoothing settings. After this go back to Photoshop and we'll do post processing. Start out with things like noise reduction. We zoom in here to the sky in this photograph, you can see there is a lot of noise in the sky. We'll reduce that noise. Look at cloning out sensor dust which you can see here, very practical section, here we've got a finished HDR shot, talk about how to resize and sharpen these for publishing on the Internet. Take a look at converting them to black and white, how best to do that. Take a look at dodging and burning to bring out more details. We're going to burn areas on this boogie wheel and on the tank tracks and even dodge some areas to bring out more detail. Take a look at levels and curves adjustments for this photo, the garage door here I'm shooting into a reflective mirror on a garage door, its actual window, going to lighten this actual garage door up and add some contrast with the levels and curves adjustment. We'll use this photo to correct for lens distortion. You can see the vertical lines in this truck are not actually vertical, their pointing up and away. We'll use the lens correction filter to remove that distortion and talk about situations where you may not want to remove lens distortion. OK those are our post processing subjects and we'll work exclusively in Photoshop CS4 for those. I'm very excited about this, it's a subject I have a lot of passion about, Photoshop CS4 is a very powerful and will help you create the artistic vision that you have in your mind.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | MasterClass! - Adobe Photoshop HDRI |
| Author: | Robert Correll |
| SKU: | 33962 |
| ISBN: | |
| Release Date: | 2009-01-28 |
| Duration: | 2 hrs / 25 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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