Using Photoshop’s Camera Raw also seems to give us finer control over the end image. When viewed at 200% the Photoshop merge seems obviously sharper than the Lightroom merge.
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While the Merge in HDR Pro route is slightly longer, it really does seem to produce sharper final images and better control of ghosting. There is a noticeable difference in sharpness between Lightroom HDR (left) and Photoshop HDR Pro (right) In my image, I am raising the shadows very slightly and making the water a slightly different hue with greater saturation. To edit it further click on the Develop Module at the top. Returning to Lightroom you will see the newly merged HDR as the only selected image in the Library Module. You can now close the image in Photoshop if you require.
To return it to Lightroom simply click File – Save. I will make a couple of minor adjustments in Lightroom. You can now choose to make any final adjustments in Photoshop or in Lightroom. Once you click OK, the final image will be opened in Photoshop as a PSD file. Final Adjustments and Return To Lightroom. Once you are happy with the final RAW edits, click OK on the bottom right of the screen. You can see the difference the edit will make. Using the Before/After icon bottom right of the screen, we can see the effect the RAW adjustments have made. This adds further definition to the sky region. I also added a narrow Graduated Filter to the top with reduced exposure and increased clarity. I added some Dehaze to punch out the mid-tone contrast. In my image, I have pulled the Exposure up a little, raised the Blacks to reduce shadow clipping, pulled up Shadows to bring some definition into the shaded parts of the town. You can adjust the HDR as if it were a RAW file You should try to get the image as close to final as you can using ACR as when you finally click ok, the image will be output to Photoshop as a PSD. Once in Adobe RAW you can make all the adjustments we would normally make to any RAW file.
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Photoshop will process and merge the files into one 32 bit RAW. When you are happy with the selected images, click on Tone in ACR on the bottom right. You can select or deselect images to be in the HDR merge You can check or uncheck them to see how they will make a visual difference to your HDR merge. To the bottom left of the screen, you can also see thumbnails of the images you have selected. If you have not shot from a tripod, you should also check the Remove Ghost box. The HDR editing controls disappear and we see an option to “Complete Toning in Adobe Raw” This is checked by default, and we leave it on. However, if you click at the top right of the HDR Pro window and change 8/16 bit to 32 bit, something interesting happens. HDR Pro usually defaults to 8 or 16-bit files. In Photoshop the files are usually merged into a Photoshop PSD file. This gives you more dynamic range to play with than if the HDR was merged down to a different format. As most of you know, latest editions of Lightroom will merge RAW files into an HDR RAW. Here is the interesting thing that Scott Kelby found. Select the images to merge and open them in HDR Pro Once open you will see something like this. This will automatically open Photoshop, load the images and open HDR Pro. Right click on any of the selected images and click Edit In – Merge to HDR Pro in Photoshop. The first thing we need to do is select the images that we wish to merge in Lightroom’s Library grid view. I am using a 5 image auto exposure bracket shot taken from my Phantom 4 Pro drone in Cornwall earlier this year. Today I am going to talk you through the process of taking Lightroom images through Photoshop’s HDR Pro. The end result is much sharper as Scott Kelby had suggested but also I found that the removing ghosts also seems much more efficient and accurate. I was very happy to find that HDR Pro does indeed give a much better result. Recently, he posted an article about why it’s better to move from Lightroom to Photoshop’s HDR Pro when creating High Dynamic Range images.Īs someone that brackets virtually everything, I was keen to try this out. His tutorials, posts, and discoveries often inspire me to push my Adobe boundaries. I am a big fan of Lightroom and Photoshop guru, Scott Kelby.
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