Photoshop expert Ben Willmore reveals the tips, tricks and secrets behind creating amazing images using High Dynamic Range techniques.
Bert learns more about High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography with special guest, graphic designer and Photoshop Guru, Ben Willmore. Bert and Ben go through the Merge to HDR function found in Photoshop CS2 and CS3.
HDR enables photographers to capture the full brightness of a scene, creating an image that closely resembles how your eye would interpret.
Learn more about Ben Willmore's work and HDR by visiting The Best of Ben.com, Digital Mastery and Where is Ben.com
Visit Digital Mastery for the HDR DVD. And receive a 15% discount on Photomatrix at HDR Soft.com. Use "digitalmastery" as the coupon code.
Don't forget to design and e-mail Bert a background for our green screen! Please send a jpg design with size 1280x720 pixels.
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Posted by LadyLoquacious on 07/30/2008 at 11:11:56 am in Pixel Perfect
I'm very interested in HDR now that I have a good camera to work with and went so far as to buy software for this which isn't as easy to use as was hoped. For this reason I've been trying to learn more on performing this manually while reading a book by Vincent Versace named 'Welcome to OZ' which in part covers this concept in Chapter 2 called 'Image Harvesting'. It doesn't cover the photography process as much as post processing of multiple images for specific features which combined with HDR photography intrigues creative thought.
I've been offline over a week thanks to a dead Nvidia card which I've replaced and installed as of yesterday and came back to Pixelperfect to find these tutorials awaiting much to my delight. Thanks Bert! You gave me something wonderful to come home to. If you are reading this... I've answered my own questions as to if my graphic card was working right. 'NO' Now maybe my Cintiq and monitor will clone in tandem again! :) Probably why my images didn't look quite right too. It's great to be back and learning again.
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Posted by Johnosullivan on 07/27/2008 at 08:25:20 am in Pixel Perfect
Cool show this week.Wasnt expecting to like it as much as I did because I never really had much interest in HDR. Production was good as well, thank you. I liked where they had Bert and Ben in the bottom corner while they were talking.
PS: geofffox, nice work. It came out really well for ya
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Posted by silentspyder on 07/24/2008 at 05:20:34 pm in Pixel Perfect
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Without HDR it's just the sky or the trees/lake--not both.
Thanks for the tut."
I'm usally not a fan of HDR because it looks fake but I really like this one.
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Posted by recklessftw on 07/24/2008 at 12:52:36 pm in Pixel Perfect
Great episode! I know more about HDR... very cool and something I'm going to use for sure.
I like the production of this show. I liked how Bert and Ben were in the bottom right as the work was being done on the screen sometimes, nice touch.
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Posted by geofffox on 07/23/2008 at 12:19:28 am in Pixel Perfect
I had shot for HDR a few times, but never followed through with processing. Here's my finished product: *link*
Without HDR it's just the sky or the trees/lake--not both.
Thanks for the tut.
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Posted by nextgenxbox on 07/22/2008 at 12:25:20 pm in Pixel Perfect
Awesome episode! Was always curious about HDR and now I will try it! :)
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Posted by quantumfreak on 07/21/2008 at 02:05:33 pm in Pixel Perfect
Love the content. Didn't care for the distorted screen shot. Pillars > distortion.
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Posted by Shinigami052 on 07/21/2008 at 11:20:35 am in Pixel Perfect
Amazing episode! Great production quality and great content.
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Posted by mari1ee on 07/21/2008 at 09:19:36 am in Pixel Perfect
Photoshop expert Ben Willmore reveals the tips, tricks and secrets behind creating amazing images using High Dynamic Range techniques.
Watch or download the episode here.
p.s. I love this episode and will try it as soon as I get off work =P
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