Fun with HDR

I've been looking around the HDR photos available on FlickR, and a lot of them are really cool and addicting to look at. Since I didn't know much about HDR (or HDRI - High Dynamic Range Imaging) to begin with, I took a look through the Wikipedia entry and around at some of the tools and methods for messing with it. 

It turns out that making an HDR image is basically a process of compiling several different exposures to get a large range on shadows and highlights - in other words getting a High Dynamic Range. I was disappointed to note that compiling the image exposure was a feature not present in CS1 - the version of Photoshop I'm usuing. I'm too honest to download CS2 for free and too cheap to buy myself a new copy, so for now I'll have to do without it.

Regardless, the images I've seen look very cool, and I wish I had more of the tools to play around with it.

Comments

[ricky]

Hi,
you can check the following web sites, regarding a couple of tools available and several literature and techniques to understand better and obtain HDR images
- http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~reinhard/
- http://www.anyhere.com/
- http://www.gregdowning.com/

bye_ricky

[tikal26]

you can also check cinepaint. Take a look at this tutorial on how to make them.
http://people.freenet.de/hsbosny/HDR_Tutorial/HDR_Tutorial-en.html

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