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Welcome to this lesson. These are my concluding remarks for MasterClass! Adobe Photoshop CS4 HDRI. We've covered a lot of ground. And I'll go into my working folder and just quickly review what we've done. First we talked about Dynamic Range and HDR, took a look at several different examples of where lights and darks exist in a photograph and it's hard for the camera to capture both of them adequately. Here's an example of the horse stall where the outside is totally blown out whereas the inside is not. The next shot is the reverse. The inside is totally obscured by shadow whereas the exterior is properly exposed. HDR brings these together and allows us to shoot photographs, bracketed series of photographs, to capture the highs and the lows in this scene, merge those together, tone map them, and then post process them. So here are several brackets of the scene. You can use three brackets, several brackets, a single raw photograph, convert that into three different exposures using Adobe Camera Raw. We talked about Exposure Levels and how F number shutter speed create an exposure value and how you bracket up or down based on that, and also the limitations of Dynamic Range based on that. We took a look at creating TIFFs from our Camera Raw files using Presets, Clean, Artistic. For bracketed photos you would create each one of these on its own and then for one Raw photograph you would create that by adjusting exposure minus 2, zero plus 2, covered all that. Covered how to then take all of that information and go into Photomatix, generate the HDR and then once it's generated, Tone Map it. There's a lot to Tone Mapping. We covered all the different settings, how to use the program as a Plug-in versus Standalone, General settings, Tone, Color, Smoothing, so forth. You can open HDR files up after you've processed them and go straight to Tone Mapping and there you can see all the settings. You should have a good head start on experimenting and practicing with these settings on your own to create your own artistic visions. These are the tools you use. Now it's up to you to go create something fantastic. Following that, we finished up with Post Processing in Photoshop CS4. We did a lot of work with Noise, Lens Distortions, Dust, Cloning, Levels, Curves, basically the standard set of editing that you would do in normal photographs, only this time you're looking at it in terms of HDR and creating something artistic and using the power of Photoshop to help bring that out. And that was pretty much it. A lot of varied skills required to create good HDR photography, skills in Photomatix, skills with composition and eye and artistry, and then also technical skills in Photoshop in creating all the post processing. You've got different Layers, Adjustment Layers; you can convert to Black and White, create Duotones, Tritones, Clone, and so forth. So, this has been really fun and I hope you create the best art you can with Photoshop and HDR.