• I made the sky lightblue myself (magic wand)
  • See the difference between the original and pimped wall textures
  • i love how this part looks! - Angel Morelos
  • what is this red "circle"? - pandabearmonster
  • <<< That's the remainings of some armoured concrete
  • very cool effect but i feel like you need some minor adjustment to help prevent all these blown out highlights, your loosing a lot of detail. - Sean Cameron Cooley

[ Tutorial ] How to easily fake an HDR effect in photoshop

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Easy photoshop manipulation to create a HDR photo without the actual (time-taking) HDR process.
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[ 1 ] We'll call the original layer "ORIGINAL", now duplicate ORIGINAL and place it above that layer. (We'll call this "BLACKWHITE")

[ 2 ] Change the Blending option of BLACKWHITE to "Overlay"

[ 3 ] Go to Image > Adjustements > Desaturate (SHIFT + CTRL + U)

[ 4 ] Now invert BLACKWHITE: Image > Adjustements > Invert (CTRL + I)

[ 5 ] And add a gaussian Blur to it (Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur) around 40 pixels (This causes the so called 'bleeding' of the edges, tweak the amount to personal likings)

[ 6 ] Now duplicate ORIGINAL and place it above BLACKWHITE, name this layer "LINEAR_LAYER"

[ 7 ] Change the blending type of LINEAR_LAYER to "Linear Light"

[ 8 ] Give LINEAR_LAYER an opacity around 62%. And you're done (For better results, tweak this percentage)

Download the Photoshop CS3 action here
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Some photo's that are photoshopped using this routine:

[ · ] Eiffel Tower #1

[ · ] Eiffel Tower #2

[ · ] Flower parade Zundert

[ · ] l'Arc de Triomphe

[ · ] l'Arc de Triomphe

[ · ] Sacre-Coeur

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  1. gracility_rare 27 months ago | reply

    love it, thanks a lot :)

  2. Matt Holmes Photies 27 months ago | reply

    this seems to be the most utterly pointless tutorial ever. Look here's how to make something which looks as though it's bomb or fire damaged and is being rebuilt, look like it is bomb or fired damaged and is being rebuilt, but with different colours. Well done, you utter fu*k wit.

  3. jonnyxbrainless 27 months ago | reply

    Really?
    Did you even read the tutorial? And do you take photos of anything other than pages of books?
    Go back under your bridge, troll.

  4. Photo--Graphy [deleted] 26 months ago | reply

    WoW...


  5. eddievk [deleted] 25 months ago | reply

    thank you so much dude! your tutorial is the best!! =)

  6. Teph Lacson 25 months ago | reply

    great tute..
    thank you..

  7. Lune Rambler 24 months ago | reply

    I see what you mean - adds depth of colour & detail

  8. Animation Degree 24 months ago | reply

    WOW THERE ALL SO NICE!!!
    thx a lot for sharing.

    Animation Degree

  9. kingsjd 20 months ago | reply

    Cool!

  10. Gerard Zegers 18 months ago | reply

    Great procedure. Big succes. Many Thanks Gerard.

  11. sdphoto35 17 months ago | reply

    this works ok I still prefer using light room and adjusting the colors one by one this will be a quick back up for when I am lazy and don't need as much quality

  12. <"_AmiraZ_"> 16 months ago | reply

    thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank yoooooooooooooooooou very much <3

  13. Stephanieleonidou 15 months ago | reply

    thank you! great tutorial!

  14. dietmarkohl 12 months ago | reply

    Thank You very for this Tutorial - It brings out the Best in my Pictures !

    Dietmar

  15. Rashme's Clickz 10 months ago | reply

    OMG your a genius!! than k you heaps

  16. shtoor 10 months ago | reply

    I developed ps actions for faking HDR without glowing edges, you can download it here: bit.ly/Q9v1x1

  17. RLWilsonPhotography 9 months ago | reply

    Oh my goodness.
    My photo's are looking much better now.
    I followed the first half only. Fpr best results (What i fancy)3
    Thanks so much!

  18. Edwin Peek 4 months ago | reply

    Thank you very much!

  19. blind dayze 3 months ago | reply

    thanks to you, now my simple point and shoot photos will be HDR.. here's one photo on which i tried the PS steps..

  20. blind dayze 3 months ago | reply

    Here's another in case the effect in the above photo was not apparent..

    Thanks again!!

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