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Creative--Dragon — HDR Efex Pro In Depth Tutorial
Published: 2010-11-02 18:28:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 4491; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 428
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I put this tutorial together to try and showcase what HDR Efex Pro has to offer... Obviously I cannot hit everything in one tutorial, but I think I got the majority of the features.Please feel free to download, share, etc.
Comments and Critiques are welcome
Here is the final result for the image used in the tutorial:
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Comments: 20
Sweet I've been waiting for this. Aren't control points awesome! I use them in Viveza.
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I love control points... they make life wonderful...
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awesome does using 9 imagines make a difference?
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depends on the variance in light... my foreground was dark, and the sky was bright, so I wanted to be able to capture that full range... if I had done only 3 exposures, then the sky would have been much brighter, maybe over exposed
Even if there isn't a huge light variance, it still doesn't hurt... just takes up more hard drive space and memory when processing 
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i never liked efex but it is an interesting tool
i prefer photomatix pro
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I wasn't sure if I liked it at first or not... but the fact that I can do 99% of what I'd otherwise have to do in Photoshop makes it quite a nice tool to have. And now that I'm more familiar with all of the controls and what they do, I actually prefer it to Photomatix...
The one thing I still like Photomatix for is the batch processing feature. Can't do batch processing with HDR Efex 
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i pulled out my old CD with V1 of efex and pulled in to with lightroom and i cant find a way to align the image and reduce ghosting
in photomatix 4 you can select cirten parts of an image and reduce ghosting in those parts insted of the hole image making it very powerful for shooting with people without a tripod
i did this one [link] 3 exposures on a fisheye lens with no tripod with every one moving and it turned out nicely
ill play around with efex but im more comfortable with photomatix
and yes batch processing is a large help for panoramics XD
i like your photos btw
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I checked out the image you did with photomatix 4. I'm going to have to check it out now as well
Thanks for the info and the image to show what photomatix 4 can do
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yup
and thanks for showing me what efex can do
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So, you don't work with a RAW file in HDR Efex? Ever?
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You're most welcome 
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You're most welcome as well!!!
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Especially the control points are helpful! Kind of solves rendering 10 different HDR's you need to blend in photoshop to get all details right 
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haha...
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It's just that single one, the super dark one
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Ja, it was dark to begin with... got even darker when I processed it... all well, not my best work... but it's mainly for the tutorial
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