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How to Turn Your Digital Photos into Artwork
If you want to make your digital photo look as though it’s the work of an artist, your image-editing program may offer artistic effects or filters. These art effects [more…]
How to Resize and Crop a Photo in Windows 7's New Paint Application
Windows Paint, Windows 7's improved drawing program, lets you resize or crop photos. Resizing photos makes them small enough for e-mails or size-specific for inclusion in a document. Many photos can also [more…]
How to Create a Panoramic Photo in Windows Live Photo Gallery
Have you ever taken a series of shots, side by side, trying to convey the vastness of a scene? Why show a series of little shots when you can create one big one? You can use Windows 7 Live Photo Gallery [more…]
Enhancing Your Macro and Close-Up Images in Postproduction
All is not lost if you don't get the perfect shot. Postproduction photo-editing software enables you to enhance your macro and close-up digital images, as well as to correct minor mistakes that took place [more…]
Compare Results for HDR Photography
The trickiest aspect of high dynamic range photography is the lack of consistency regarding what method (of the many) to use to achieve the best appearance in the final image. You can read about what methods [more…]
How to Tone Map an HDR Image
Everything else in high dynamic range (HDR) photography either leads up to or follows tone mapping. Tone mapping occurs when you convert a higher dynamic range image to one with a lower dynamic range, [more…]
Use Photomatix Pro to Edit HDR Images
To effectively use any high dynamic range (HDR) photography application, you must know what the controls do. They are the interface between you, the mathematical algorithms that define tone mapping, and [more…]
Tone Map HDR Images with Photomatix Tone Compressor
Tone Compressor, as shown in this figure, is another way to tone map your high dynamic range (HDR) images in Photomatix Pro. As the name suggests, dark and light tones on the extremes of the histogram [more…]
How to Tone Map HDR Images with Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop provides limited options for tone mapping your high dynamic range (HDR) images (and not just in Elements, where tone mapping options are nonexistent). The goal in Photoshop CS3 and CS4 [more…]
HDR Photography: Tone Mapping for Single Exposures
Technically, tone mapping single exposures (whether Raw or a Raw converted to brackets) is identical to tone mapping bracketed exposures for high dynamic range photography. The difference is that you probably [more…]
Reduce Noise in Single-Exposure HDR Photographs
This example of reducing noise in a single-exposure high dynamic range photograph shows the controls of a fire engine. It was a casual snapshot taken during an outing. [more…]
HDR Photography: Use a Raw Photo without Brackets
Single-exposure high dynamic range photography tends to involve shots of people, animals, action and other casual shots. You can use a single Raw photo without converting it to brackets to prepare a pseudo-HDR [more…]
HDR Photography: Adjust Settings in Photomatix Details Enhancer
Details Enhancer in Photomatix Pro enables you to tone map your high dynamic range (HDR) images. As you can see from this figure, there are a number of controls. Thankfully, they are well organized into [more…]
Process HDR Panoramas: Create a Master Frame
The most efficient way to proceed with HDR panoramas is to create a master, tone mapped frame and use that as the template to process the other frames of the panorama in HDR. After you create the master [more…]
How to Batch-Process HDR Panoramas
When you have your master frame completed, batch-process the rest of the panorama for HDR. Here’s how, in Photomatix Pro: after you process your Raw images [more…]
Stitch HDR Panoramas in Photoshop Elements
Stitching your high dynamic range panoramas together in Photoshop Elements isn’t that hard. You might need a few run-throughs before you get totally comfortable with it, but it’s mostly automated. [more…]
Blend Frames of an HDR Panorama
Blending allows you to tweak how Photoshop Elements masked the different layers of your HDR panorama and then stitched them to create the composite image. This process is useful if something looks better [more…]
Crop the Finalized HDR Panorama
Cropping is a final step in creating your high dynamic range panorama in Photoshop Elements, so you want to make sure you finish other edits first: Blend the transitions, sharpen, correct the color, improve [more…]
