Threshold HDR (Simple HDR) Test

Haloing around the buildings due to blurring of threshold mask

Amazing amount of detail recovered from the clouds with no loss of quality!

These bits used to be black! Don't ask me how it works, it just does!

Threshold HDR (Simple HDR) Test by KF 红相机.

Read about another method of compensating badly exposed pictures and achieving an almost 'HDR' effect. Make a layer, add a threshold layer to that, invert, blur and select 'soft light' from layer properties. Fiddle and adjust. Works a lot better than the 'highlight/shadow' tool in CS2- hardly any noise and you recover a lot more tonal information. Although this early attempt shows the dreaded 'halo' effect... need a lot more manual tweaking in future... though not bad considering the foreground was almost *black* in the original!

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marcelovale says:

Nice one!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

angela7dreams says:

great job! Well done!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

takekazu says:

Wow dramatic spectacle!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Jeff Clow says:

Wonderful HDR image....nicely done.....!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

spidrwegian_no_more [deleted] says:

Fab! Looks like one of those old painted postcards. Great shot(s)!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

jim_moore says:

Do have the original Gary!? Would be interested to see it!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

James Bob [deleted] says:

Wooo! Nicely done.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Duncan_Smith says:

Quite excellent, and quite unobtrusive. Halos a problem, sadly, but it seems to work much better with a 'busy' sky like this one than a flat grey or blue one.

Heavy on MIPS and memory unfortunately! Have you spent much time shouting at your computer lately? :)
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

Jim: Yeah here's the orignal
www.flickr.com/photos/garythegit/94567162/

Duncan: I'm lucky to have such a powerful computer :) Also this wasn't a 'true' HDR I suppose and just a bit of cunning masking procedures. But CS2 has even my 3Ghz beast churning away for a good while every now and again!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

digitalsmoke says:

nice !
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Scott Foy says:

Beautiful Glasgow shot!!
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

cripes! how did this shot become so popular?? It's really ironic how some shots which I laboured on never gets a look while ones I muck about with get all the attention!! :D
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

ok these two HDR images has generated more views than anything else I ever uploaded... can peeps tell me where you saw this?? Was it a group?
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

potatomato says:

It's featured on The Unofficial Photoshop Weblog site.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

Hmmm noone asked me! :)
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Bmaas says:

Nice pic! Funny how people take your pic and use it, huh? Oh well. It's a form of flattery I guess.
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

Duncan_Smith says:

You'd think they'd have the common decency to ask first before using your photo, wouldn't you?
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

I don't really know what to make of it... it's not the copyright issue, just a bit baffling!! I just thought there were rules about linking and posting other people's pictures on other sites?? But i'm not too bothered, it would have been nice to be notified though...
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

duncan says:

uh, your picture is licensed under Creative Commons which allows them to 'copy, distribute, display, and perform the work', under certain conditions. there are no rules, they don't need to ask or tell you, and it's not a copyright issue
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

KF 红相机  says:

Duncan like I said I'm not that bothered, and its certainly not a copyright issue!! I just thought that it would have been nice to be told as I thought it was kinda cool :) Just a person-to-person courtesy you know?
Posted 47 months ago. ( permalink )

J. Star says:

I keep trying this per your instructions there but I must be jacking something up, because I can't get it to work.

Dang cool shot though. :)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

macieklew says:

Looks really good. I'll give it a try, thanks for the tip!

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Seen in a discussion of Scotland. (?)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

fitaloonson says:

wow great shot

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Seen in a discussion of Scotland. (?)
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

guildhall kirky old skool says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called I love museums, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

~ Sunshinelady ~ says:

Beautiful capture seen in I love museums

Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

guildhall kirky old skool says:

Beautiful capture seen in I love museums

Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

_Dimitris_ says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Europe on Flickr, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
Posted 10 months ago. ( permalink )

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Threshold HDR (Simple HDR) Test

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