Let’s play a little bit with the Hue sliders to achieve the right tone for each color tone. So let’s increase the saturation of the typical colors. In this particular image, we see the autumn mood, and that is what we want to emphasize. You might have to desaturate sometimes also other near tones like Aquas or Purples to reach the final effect. So let’s switch to the Saturation tab in the HSL settings and decrease the Blue tone saturation. In the case I am working with dark skies, I don’t like it too saturated. In my case, I need to pull the Highlights slider almost all the way to the left. The first thing is to decrease Highlights to bring back the beautiful dark structure of the clouds. That means I need to make it a bit darker.

In my case, I want to make the sky even more dramatic. The sky is the most impactful part of the image when we are merging photos into one HDR image. In this particular image I would start with basic light enhancements.

So let’s start to make some retouching here. It is because we do not have blown out white parts of the sky anymore.

As you can see we have much more information here awe can work with it and enhance it even more. Most visible change is usually visible in the sky part of the image. All we wanted from the HDR Pro function is to collect all possible data from all three exposures and merge it together into one consolidated image. Enhance merged photo in Adobe Camera RAWĪs you can see the merged image is now prepared to be edited in Adobe Camera RAW. You will get to the Adobe Camera Raw settings and make all needed image enhancements as it was a standard RAW image. So do not change anything here and go down to the bottom right corner and press Tone in ACR. The menu changes and is quite simple with no more sliders and options. So instead of standard proposed 16bit mode option let’s select 32bit mode. You can even choose manually select which of three images will be used for removing the ghosts.īut I’d like to have more control over the merging process. By clicking Remove Ghosts ticker will be selected automatically the most appropriate image, and these moving objects (ghosts) will be taken from it without movement. So, for example, on each bracketed photo, you could have leaves or branches of a tree moved to different positions due to wind. What is it suitable for? You might have some objects on the image that could be moving while taking the bracketed photos. This feature fixes the problem of ghosts. In the top is a field named Remove Ghosts.

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