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Post by Peterj on Sept 16, 2016 11:00:34 GMT
I'm not always pleased with the results when I use PhotoMerge Exposure in PSE. I found a free offering from HRD labs - Picturenaut - which provides a bit more control especially for tonal adjustments. The final image produced probably will need further tweaks. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Sept 16, 2016 22:05:36 GMT
I use both Picturenaut and Luminance; both are excellent FREE HDR programs.
Picturenaut is very easy to master and achieves good results.
Luminance is a bit more involved, but if I can learn it, anyone probably can; Luminance has an excellent alignment feature for hand-held images and has more bells and whistles than Picturenaut.
I often use Elements 7 to merge different tone-mapped results from either or both of the HDR programs, often merging the tone-mapped HDR images with one of the original images, using various opacities and blend modes.
I also use layer masks to select the best portions of the various tone-mapped image layers to achieve the result I am after.
Maybe the sky looks best in one image, while the foreground looks better in another, and so forth and so on.
And, remember, both programs are FREE !!!
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