1. Non PS Tools Photomatix http://www.hdrsoft.com/ http://www.hdrsoft.com/ FDRTools http://www.fdrtools.com/front_e.php http://www.fdrtools.com/front_e.php Picturenaut http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/index.html http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/index.html

2. Photomatix

3. HDR Generate

4. Basic settings.

5. This is an HDR image displayed on a LDR device

6. HDR Tone Mapping Maps the HDR image to a low dynamic range space.

7. Details Enhancer is the best starting point. Better adjusted in PS Some fine tuning possible but defaults are usually ok

8. Sample with Tone Compressor

9. Save as

10. In PS

11. Final is PS

12. Using PS Local Adaptation HDR.

13. PS LA HDR version.

14. FDRTools http://www.fdrtools.com/front_e.php

15. Note: HDR is technically not required for this series – there is no clipping at either end.

16. Click Images and select the images to combine

17. Click Align

18. Click HDRI Creation then Creative – defaults are usually ok.

19. Click Tone Mapping Adjust sliders, other defaults are OK.

20. Click Save

21. Image in PS Magenta lines are trial version Adjustment layers are off

22. PS adj layers on, final version.

23. Picturenaut: Freeware! File Generate HDRI Add

24. For this series the Automatic image alignment didnt work, so I used PS to align the images then exported the layers separately. Unfortunately this loses the EXIF, which Picturenaut (and PS HDR) needs to generate the HDR. As shown, with the same time, this will not process.

25. Using the exif information from Bridge I manually entered the time

26. Heres the HDR image.

27. Image Tone Mapping Photoreceptor gives the best results

28. Tweak the exposure, dynamic compression and histogram. In this case based on the preview I did not adjust the white point. File Save as then open in PS.

29. In PS

30. Using Shadow/Highlights to recover highlight detail. Notice how the histogram previews the change. This is a good example of why you cant just pull the white point all the way to the right.

31. Final version. Note the motion issue was dealt with automatically.